Ian Plimer has an excellent Quadrant piece on the unfolding public policy disaster that is climate politics. Written from an Australian perspective but it applies to the UK and Net zero too.
The 27th COP event is preceded by breathtakingly shrill predictions of forthcoming disasters from speculated catastrophic climate change. Here are a few cold hard facts:
No one has ever proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. For more than two decades I have been asking scientists for this proof. If proven, it would also have to be shown that natural carbon dioxide emissions, 97% of the annual total, don’t drive global warming. This also has never been done. Furthermore, if had been proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming, there would be endless citation of the dozen or so seminal scientific papers demonstrating this proof. Instead, there is obfuscation and deafening silence.
Ice-core drilling shows that after a natural temperature rise, atmospheric carbon dioxide increases 650-to-6,000 years later, yet we are told the inverse and that we will fry and die from temperature rises due to human carbon dioxide emissions. The main atmospheric greenhouse gas is water vapour. When water evaporates, such as from the oceans or sweat, it requires heat to convert to vapour. When water vapour condenses into rain, snow or hail, exactly the same amount of heat is given out. The Earth’s atmosphere contains up to 4% water vapour and operates like a giant air conditioner. The uncertainty about the effects of clouds renders climate models useless.
The whole piece is not long and well worth reading. This for example, on dumbing down education.
We are reaping the rewards of 50 years of dumbing down education, politicised poor science, a green public service, tampering with the primary temperature data record and the dismissal of common sense as extreme right-wing politics. There has been a deliberate attempt to frighten poorly-educated young people about a hypothetical climate emergency by the mainstream media uncritically acting as stenographers for green activists.
We are reaping the rewards of 50 years of dumbing down education, politicised poor science, a green public service, tampering with the primary temperature data record and the dismissal of common sense as extreme right-wing politics. There has been a deliberate attempt to frighten poorly-educated young people about a hypothetical climate emergency by the mainstream media uncritically acting as stenographers for green activists.
11 comments:
There is a rival for greatest disaster - governmental response to Covid.
Lies travel faster than truth.
A K Haart,
The last paragraph of your post says it all.
Now eating fish is bad for you... Next?
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1694868/eyesight-vision-loss-risk-fish-mercury
The dumbing down of education was what kicked off my blogging ... everything was wrong with the "new" education.
dearieme - yes, it's not looking good for the longer term either.
Anon - they do and are usually easier to pass on.
Mac - beans and crickets seem to be our future.
James - for the sake of the grandkids, I'm just hoping it is better than it sounds, but I don't think it is.
Mention any of this to supporters of the "green revolution", and the normal response is to claim that 90-something % of all scientists agree that we are in crisis and need to change our lifestyle. And then to get emotional.
This suggests two things. The first is that greenies believe in a priestly caste, whose utterances they themselves cannot understand. They are like mediaeval Catholic peasants deferring to the priest because he is the only one who can read the Bible. The second is that most of the damage is being done by them pretending that "sceptics" are somehow immoral or stupid, and therefore creating a culture where certain things cannot be said for fear of ridicule or censure. I was at a meeting of nice caring middle class liberals this afternoon, and it was clear that they wanted any opportunity to bring up their preoccupations, and that any dissent would have been shocking and rude.
In New Zealand our government is trying to destroy the farming industry with a proposed "Fart Tax" on animal emissions as well as cutting the numbers of cattle and sheep. In one move this will have the effect of driving up the price of food, reducing the farmers income, thus devastating the lives of farmers and those who supply them,it will reduce the quantity of meat available for export,thus reducing foreign earnings , and will destroy productive farmland as no one will want pasture land if they can do nothing with it.
All this to remove a minute amount of methane from the atmosphere.
I wonder when someone will suggest culling the vast herds of animals grazing the African plains.
Sam - I think they do in a sense believe in a priestly caste, whose utterances they themselves cannot understand. It's the easy and comfortable route. The nice, middle class way to sustain it is to create a social atmosphere where criticism would be like shooting an old lady's cat.
John - even from the UK, policy trends in New Zealand seem insane. You appear to be saddled with that ghastly woman who comes across as completely round the bend.
Ah Sam and AK my experience to a T.! I guess there was a very good reason for the priestly class in mediaeval times, a human propensity repeating itself. Oh and I can feel another cartoon coming on for a Xmas card perhaps.
And yet... bringing back Grammar Schools or streaming older children into academic or trade schools (as is done elsewhere) is a Forbidden Topic.
My suspicion is that Labour didn't want some children of workers being educated into the middle class and the Conservatives thought Grammar Schools encouraged too much social mobility. Each party concerned about the make up of 'their' voters.
Blair (spit) went about maintaining educational differentials a different way by encouraging more and more to enter tertiary education, much of which is now devalued. If everyone shall have prizes the prizes have no value.
Tammly - I agree, there was a very good reason for the priestly class, among other functions it generally provided powerful support for the status quo among the wider population and managed their expectations downwards.
DJ - yes, and middle-class unease about educating the lower classes has a long history. It almost seems possible to put a date to the point when Labour and Conservatives suddenly realised that grammar schools meant that their kids would have to compete with bright kids from the council estate.
Labour put a stop to it and the Conservatives effectively agreed. As you say, Blair (spit) then devalued tertiary education just to make sure.
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