IFT - Infratil

[Basil]

I don't see you expressing any worry at all about climate change - you have consistently expressed distaste for companies whose reporting includes minimising carbon footprint.

I had a client, (he's now retired), that sent up weather balloons twice a day for Metservice from Hobsonville airport.  He did it for 50 years, the last 10 years as a contractor which is where I came in as his accountant.  He'd been all around the world in his roles with Metservice during his long career including to the Antartic several times.  Heck of a nice guy.  Here's what he told me the last time I saw him a few years ago after he retired when I asked him what he made of the whole climate change thing.

We're definitely gradually getting warmer.  The average difference in temperature recorded from when he first stated with Metservice and 50 years later is 0.7 degrees C.  What he said next would really concern me if I was younger.  He said we'd already passed the point of no return.  Its not so much the CO2 that's the issue now, its the polar ice cap melt that's released so much more methane into the atmosphere that global warming is now irreversible without a nuclear winter.  Methane is so much worse than CO2 that it wouldn't matter if everyone on the planet started driving an EV right now, the process is irreversible.

In other words, in the due course of time we're screwed so why worry now, its not going to make any difference.  The A.I. thing could happen a LOT sooner than some other form of existential crisis.  That's what's worrying some people but the Mango madman says its all a hoax so I guess if you believe him you can sleep well at night knowing your part in this as part owner of a datacenter is not making any difference.  I guess people tell themselves whatever B.S. they need too to sleep at night and I guess to a certain extent we all do that.