Epic SF Fail

[mirrorshard]

Via Tor.com: Global Warming is good for us.

I may have lost my temper slightly in the comments and posted one longer than the original article.

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the original article supposed to be ironic? Humour along the lines of: "it's great now my house has burnt down - no need to hoover the front room any more!" That's definitely how it reads to me.

The internet seems to suggest that the author is an environmental activist.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

It's possible, but if it's irony she's doing it wrong. It reads as either bog-standard SF triumphalism of the worst kind, or deliberate trolling, to me. Too many people really do believe things like that, and the SF/libertarian nexus tends to attract them.

This (http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/sers/WWFBinaryitem2738.pdf) is the only thing I can find along those lines for her, and it's a good report, but she's listed as only one of four co-authors and (significantly) with no affiliation in the "experts attending" list.

Without any more information on what her environmental activism consists of, I'm not willing to assume that a) she doesn't believe anything she wrote, and b) this doesn't need public refutation anyway.