Climate Change Hiatus? Oh, never mind.

How disappointing, just as the denialists were using the ‘Global Warming Hiatus‘ as a reliable meme.
From the NY Times:

2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded

Just one year after 2014 set a record as the hottest year in the historical record, 2015 is on track to beat it by a substantial margin, possibly signaling a return to a sustained period of rapid global warming.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and that the January-to-September period had also been the hottest since 1880. Scientists say it is now all but certain that the full year will be the hottest on record, too.

So what will be the next strategy of the soft denialists – those who, while recognizing the reality of climate change, still aim to delay any action that might effectively respond to it if it threatens their economic or political advantages?

SFU President Andrew Petter, after presenting Professor Tim Flannery with this year’s Blaney Award for Dialogue, thought that it might be to co-opt Flannery’s idea of a ‘third wave’:

Flannery says the third way alternatives he has identified are very different from radical geoengineering proposals because they “recreate, enhance or restore” the processes that created a balance of greenhouse gasses prior to human interference. “They do not seek to fight one poison [excess carbon] with another [for example sulphur],” he writes. “Instead they look to restore or learn from processes that are as old as life itself. The third way is in large part about creating our future out of thin air.” This encompasses proposals and experiments that mostly draw CO₂ out of the air and sea at a faster rate than occurs presently, and to store it safely. “It’s what plants and a fair few rocks do.”

In other words, no need for regulations, carbon taxes or requirements to reduce emissions or change our current direction and way of life: Technology will save the day!