I see WSJ has minimal factual credibility at this point, but still interesting to see them throwing random articles at the wall to see what sticks.

TL;DR - Climate change denier thinks AI concerns are a power grab

I don't understand how a serious paper can push something like this, does anyone sane still deny climate change? Sure it's taking a while for the worst to come to pass but that's because it's a slow process.

At least they labelled it as opinion.

I was expecting this to be about the climate impact of AI data centres but instead it was just baseless conspiracy theories.

> does anyone sane still deny climate change?

Absolutely, however all the significant examples I know of are making a rationalisation to publicly deny AGW for material gain while often privately accepting the physics, down playing the publicly global consequences and focusing on the probable lack of meaningful personal consequences.

On this point - folks may forget that certain nation states with scrupulous ties to other major world powers cough Russia cough plan to benefit tremendously from climate change by opening northern trade routes. It’d be troubling if such a country had an impressively widespread propaganda and asset network across the globe.

True, in fact the Soviets even had a plan to force this to happen: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-soviet-scientist-who-dre...

Weird how control of Ukraine and Greenland play into this as well. Big coincidence there, right?

I don't see the benefit of Ukraine there, it has no access to the northern seas.

And with Greenland the only threat is Trump.

But that Soviet plan revolved around damming off the Bering Strait which would never have worked.