The earth consists of 3/4 water and also vast tracts of uninhabited land. To consider that the puny activities of man made industrial effects to cause huge shifts in global climate change is liberal hubris. Solar, cyclical wind patterns along with the dynamics of a rotating earth are far greater and powerful forces not subject to puny mankind.
Like you I would chuckle regarding the absurdity of the notion that man is destroying the earth, as pointed out in the article, of the dire consequences of those in positions of power advocating it being a reality and the fools that blindly follow.