Pretty much. It’s like listening to two people trying to have a detailed conversation about a book, but one of them didn’t read it, and read a review of some other book instead, and the second didn’t read anything at all, and is just confabulating.

We need to remember that flaming ball of nuclear death in the sky that’s cooking us; that’s the important nuclear warming.

Yeah, no joke. That is very likely what he means.

Aside from that, if all the current waterfront property goes underwater, then previously undesirable land will slowly become more valuable, once we know where coastlines will land (it depends on when and at what temperature warming starts to flatten out). When that happens, it becomes another avenue for wealth transfer to the rich.