Climate change: Why we struggle to process the doom
There are many different ways to respond to this week's report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fear being one of them
How do we react to these kinds of statements?
"Humanity is on thin ice and that ice is melting fast."
"The world has suffered greatly from ongoing climate change."
"More poor people die. In every heatwave that we have, thousands of people die."
All said about climate change by people who really know their stuff in response to this week's report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
It's the message of our times - believe, believe, believe. You have no right to doubt, analyse or reject. You are the little people and your role is to believe. If you don't then there is something wrong with you.
The underlying message is so clear it is almost surprising that more people are not offended by it. Or maybe it isn't surprising.
The underlying message is so clear it is almost surprising that more people are not offended by it. Or maybe it isn't surprising.
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I can only speak personally, but I struggle to process it because it has never been properly explained to me, and because people who claim to discern it and to have properly processed it are clearly not being straight with me.
There. I hope that answers their question.
Long ago I read some of the early papers on Global Warming, out of curiosity because I could remember the Global Cooling scare.
I happened to be equipped to judge it. It was, broadly speaking, dud science pursued by dud scientists with degrees in dud subjects from dud universities. Unfortunately, when the career attractions became clear, clever but crooked scientists joined in.
It doesn't alter the fact, though, that glimmers of truth sneak through and show that the whole thing is just a lie - a profitable conspiracy. The early sceptics managed to deduce how the scam was performed and then the Climategate emails proved them right.
Compare with the conspiracy to suppress the lab leak hypothesis re the origins of Covid. Again, e-mails showed who the conspirators were and how they did it. And again, it was much as the sceptics had deduced.
What a horror show the sciences and the universities have become. Dreadful shame.
The issue is much more of political obfuscation, than real work on the subject! It's easy to 'follow the money'! Once a scientist, or some university 'bod' decides he has the theory of the meaning of life, plus CO2 deaths of several insects, copper bracelets, life on Mars etc., and a government department picks up on the idea because it's failing in the polls, (and will probably get kicked out in a few years), their support is then bandied around the international financial organisations who easily spot a way to screw millions out of several countries and their governments, create a 'market' and then go hell for leather trying - and usually succeeding - to make a gullible/uninterested/misinformed public believe in what they're doing and that it's absolutely right, and nobody is ever allowed to disagree!
The calibre of nearly all governments is deplorable when it comes to policy which actually assists the poor, the pensioners, (who've usually paid millions into the coffers all their lives, and deserve something back), and the genuinely disadvantaged, and helps, not by shoving taxpayer's money around in the form of credits etc., but by making sure that issues like signing up to Prescotts's ridiculous 'Kyoto agreement', doesn't make everyone on the breadline actually feel like acceding to lining the pockets of the 'climate-change' beneficiaries.
We have enormous resources to be self-sufficient in the UK, and we fiddle and fart around at the whim of big money which now has the so-called scientists in their pockets! It'll take many years to 'solve' the energy manufacture and distribution issues, especially with the politician's interference with commercial issues, many of which they haven't a clue about, but most of our personal friends and contemporaries are getting sick and tired of having 'green' issues stuffed down their throats, at a time when we're also expected to pay for all these 'innovations'! There's plenty of evidence to counter the facts, and the MSM's and the BBC's 'experts' continued barrage of what they deem is correct, hardly ever exposes these alternative arguments and facts.
The 'scientists' or 'experts' have had an open season on these energy issues, by expecting us all to bow down to the 'Green Goddess', and many citizens are just turning off and ignoring the doom-mongers. We all know that fossil fuel supplies are finite - we've been told enough times, (although the UK has enough for at least 100 years), but instead of charging Joe Pensioner or Joan Breadline huge sums of money they can ill afford now, for the privilege of knowing that in a hundred years time, the world will be a better place, I can tell you now that it just ain't going to happen!
Maybe BP and the others could pop their huge profits into much more actual building of natural and unobtrusive 'alternative; energy, and instead of posturing about with a penny off a litre, they could be investing so many more quid/dollars/splonders etc., to bring new energy sources forward, but would you do that if all you flog is petrol?
My suspicion is that our recent generations in the western world have become 'conditioned' to avoid avoidable death death. We take medicines, exercise (or not), eat healthily (or not), observe safe working practices, expect the State to wrap us in cotton wool. Hospitals and undertakers remove dead bodies quietly with little fanfare. Where is death’s sting?
Yet people still do dangerous things like taking recreational drugs, horse riding, playing rugby, smoking (fewer each year), and so on, dismissive of the risks.
So we end up with the strange mindset that we are 'cared for' but relatively 'free' in our personal engagement with death. Which means that tales of general 'doom' just don't register as they used to.
The governments management of COVID caused a great deal of doom fear in people... and some people did die, but didn't result in the piles of bodies and plague pits implied by the doom mongering. So COVID has perhaps vaccinated us against the fear of world wide 'boom'. Oh, the irony.
Sam - "people who claim to discern it and to have properly processed it are clearly not being straight with me." I'm surprised more people don't look at it like that, but maybe they do to at least a limited extent. The private jets ought to be a giveaway. Are they? They could be.
dearieme - I used to download scientific papers and take the thing seriously until something clicked and I realised the field had attracted dishonest scientists with a nose for opportunity. Yes, it is a dreadful shame. Some scientific fields are still okay, but I think young people should be warned about those which are obvious scams.
Scrobs - if only the interfering classes would stop interfering, the issues would resolve themselves through normal market forces. Now the interfering has evolved into officially approved racketeering we're stuck. Long term, nuclear seems to be the way to go, but politically we are nowhere near a rational exploitation of that possibility.
DJ - yes, the longer term effect of Covid could be interesting. "Wasn't so bad, we're okay, a bit exaggerated, life goes on, pity about the old dear down the road, now where shall we go for a holiday?"
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