Posted on 03/14/2024 9:05:58 PM PDT by bitt
Climate policy needs to take into account the costs of draconian measures, which are enormous.
More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved if the cost would be economic and societal destruction. Yet politicians widely employ the same one-sided reasoning in the name of fighting climate change. It’s simply a matter, they say, of “following the science.”
That assertion lets politicians obscure—and avoid responsibility for—lopsided climate-policy trade-offs. Lawmakers contend that because climate change is real and man-made, it is only scientifically logical that the world end fossil-fuel use. Any downsides are a mathematical inevitability rather than something politicians chose to inflict on constituents.
The Biden administration has set the goal of achieving a net-zero emissions economy by no later than 2050. President Biden has pushed costly yet ineffective programs such as the Inflation Reduction Act to reduce U.S. emissions. If you ask the president’s outgoing climate envoy, John Kerry, there is no alternative. He claimed only a couple of weeks ago that “nothing that we are doing, nothing that President Biden has sought to do, has any political motivation or ideological rationale. It’s entirely a reaction to science, to the mathematics and physics that explain what is happening.”
This way of thinking conflates climate science and climate policy. Man-made climate change exists, but what societies do in response is still a matter of choice. When politicians tell us we must “follow the science” toward extreme climate policies, they are really trying to shut down the discussion of enormous, unsustainable costs. We shouldn’t let them.
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Name an eon, any eon that DIDN’T have climate change?
They haven’t “proven” we’ve caused jack but they go around telling everyone they have so we must be penalized.
Really tired of this.
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These climate losers are actually anti-science. The he’ll wit these pathetic climate cultists.
They only go with computer models that show doom and gloom in the future... And that ain’t science, it’s junk.
“Following the science” often means fudging the data to support a pre-determined conclusion. The U.N. has been caught red-handed doing it, and so has NASA. Climate change is natural, but how do you determine man-made effects when there no way to test how much is due to one or the other?
“Man-made climate change exists..”
No, it does not.
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The lightest electric vehicles weigh near or over 3,000 pounds.
The heaviest EVs are in the 6,000 pound plus range.
I suspect EVs are already killing a disproportionate share of pedestrians.
Not just the weight is dangerous.
They make no sound when they start to move, and they only make tire sounds when they are moving.
Climate Change is not science.
It’s a gigantic hoax designed to empower liberal governments.
Nothing else, just that.
Amen!
Follow the economics.
Follow the science leads to the funding of the “science” by those who are telling us to follow the science
Science is the least credible aspect of our world today.
The climate change agenda is to save the “planet”, not people.
All the EVs I see these days make a low whirring noise when "in gear"
When it comes to weight, a smallish SUV like a gas engine Honda CRV runs around 3500lbs. While there is a little weight difference between the two, those days of sub 3000lb vehicles are gone.
1129 kg
It has an output of 117 bhp (119 PS/87 kW) of power at 6600 rpm, and maximum torque of 144 N·m (106 lb·ft/14.7 kgm) at 4800 rpm. This power is delivered to the wheels through a 5 speed manual gearbox. The Honda Fit weighs a claimed 1129 kg at the kerb.
+++++ The Honda Fit That I drive
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