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Nickerus's avatar

A good article and no one can deny that it would be beneficial if those on the right and left sides of the political divide agreed on such a divisive topic as climate change. But as the author points out, the focus of the climate change lobby has encountered mission creep and now involves itself with many of those ideologies that are those of the Woke.

It is undeniable that the inability of the climate science community to predict the future does not mean that climate change is not happening, that changes in climate are insignificant, or that humans are not influencing the climate system. The IPCC is very clear that humans are influencing the climate system through greenhouse gas emissions, land use change, particulate air pollution and other factors — and those changes poses “risks.”

But pouring billions and billions of $$$$’s into useless alternative energy sources – Green Energy, Hydrogen, Renewables, Government subsidies for EV’s , setting target dates to reach Net Zero, for the banning of gas driven cars, phasing out oil and LNG as an energy source – is sheer lunacy perpetrated by ideologically deranged elite authoritarians of the ruling classes.

Such a calamitous rush to “transition” from oil and fossil fuels as the major supplier of the Planets’ energy source is going to bankrupt nations, have millions of those in the Third World starve to death and worse. Such deprivation of hunger, history tells us, lays the fertile ground for continuing chaos, mass migration and may well lead onto armed insurrection, before the World returns to a path of stability, adopted after the liberal Enlightenment.

The real problem is "climate alarmism" with Thunberg frightening children with her unfounded utterances.

How can people be so dishonest? Is the profit model so great that the ruling classes will waste trillions doing the wrong things? Extremely frustrating. Read Bjorn Lomborg, he certainly believes so.

The human influence on climate is thus not about certainties and crystal balls, but risk management and no regrets.

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John W Dickerson's avatar

Great response! The current fervor is truly " sheer lunacy perpetrated by ideologically deranged elite authoritarians of the ruling classes." Even drastic action in the West will have little or no impact because of the trajectory of China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, etc. Furthermore no serious response can ignore the elephant in the room, population growth. The soft ball survey questions cited those with little or no understanding of the ineffectiveness and huge risks to the overall economy. The answer to the question :If you had a campaign budget to drive government action on climate change in the United States, what would be the most effective way to spend it? The answer would be to start speaking factually and stop amplifying histrionics.

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