This is exactly what I took away from it. For me the key sentence is this:

> This would be a serious problem if we were facing rapid change, but we are not.

My understanding is that, geologically speaking, climate change is happening extremely quickly. But he goes on to say,

> Other species can [adapt] by evolution or by changing their range, but that could be a problem for species such as trees that evolve slowly and shift their range slowly

So he incorrectly claims that climate change is “slow” because it is happening over a period of decades or even centuries, and he does not seem to understand evolution at all, which I understand happens on a timescale several orders of magnitude longer.

What a pile of easily refutable nonsense, spewed out as fact. It’s just the usual blather, someone influential who thinks they understand everything, failing to accept even the basic, provable tenets of something inconvenient for their personal world view.

If that’s the quality of the “arguments” he had with his parents, little wonder we’re all fucked.