Climate-change hysteria costs lives — but activists want to keep panic alive

NY Post ^ | r July 21, 2020 | 7:28pm

[Red Badger]

Last month, I published a book, “Apocalypse Never,” which debunks popular environmental myths. Among them: that humans are causing a sixth mass extinction and that climate change is making natural disasters worse.

While I expected my book to be controversial, I didn’t expect CNN’s top climate reporter to compare it to an advertisement for cigarettes. Or to have an environmental journalist with nearly half a million followers on Twitter ­accuse me of promoting “white supremacy.”

I’m hardly a climate denier. In fact, I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmental ­activist for more than 30. Governments, including the US Congress, regularly ask me to offer my testimony as an energy expert. And this year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asked me to serve as an expert reviewer of its next major report.

I decided to speak out last year, after it became clear to me that alarmism was harming mental health. A major survey of 30,000 people around the world found that nearly half believed climate change would make humanity extinct. Mental-health professionals now routinely find themselves addressing adolescent anxiety over climate. In January, pollsters found that one in five UK children reported having nightmares about it.

And yet the IPCC doesn’t predict billions or even millions of deaths from climate change. That’s in part because economic development and preparedness mitigate natural disasters, diseases and other environmental impacts of climate change. And scientists expect our ability to mitigate harms to expand and improve long into the future.

[hinckley buzzard]

Shellenberger really pissed in the wackos’ cornflakes.

[spintreebob]

Traditional Religion, whether Christian, Jew, Bhuddist, Hindu or other, gave people a motivation and reason for doing things.

With the removal of religion from schools, from public life, and for many from private life, people need a motivation and reason for getting up in the morning.

Crisis of science and crisis of social science have replaced religion at the motivator and reason for doing something. Rather that proving that you walk in the steps of Jesus with him as your role model (or the steps of Abraham, Moses or Ghandi) the current motivation is to prove that you are WOKE, that you are correct on climate, correct on race theory, correct on gender identity theory because each of those is the crisis.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Writer is a bit late to the party.

It started many, many years ago with exhaust emissions and unreasonable MPG standards.