Posted on 04/11/2024 7:28:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible and unscientific climate catastrophism.
This reckless alarmism, saturated across the mainstream media and endlessly amplified by it, has had profound societal consequences. It has both distorted public understanding of the massive benefits the carbon economy makes possible and grossly exaggerated the risks of extreme events it allegedly makes more likely.
As a result it has rendered reasonable debate on climate policy impossible, even as it has given cynical politicians an easy scapegoat for every social ill, drawing attention away from regulatory and institutional failures and laying blame instead at the feet of fossil fuel companies and other evil “emitters.”
Perhaps most perniciously, as Nordhaus details, the doomsday prophesying of climate extremists has created hardened skeptics on one side who are increasingly suspicious of all public “expertise”, while at the same time infecting true believers on the other side with a crippling, pathological fatalism that has come to be referred to as “climate anxiety.”
Climate Anxiety
If there’s any flaw in Nordhaus’ damning and comprehensive analysis it’s that he undersells just how much damage the advent of “climate anxiety” has done already—and how much more it’s likely to do in years to come.
Yes, there’s the obvious cases of obnoxious and lawbreaking behavior, from climate iconoclasts defacing priceless works of art, to interrupting Broadway shows and sporting events, to gluing themselves to buses and holding up traffic on major thoroughfares.
But it runs much deeper than that.
Consider recent headlines: From Vox: “What to do when you’re completely overwhelmed by climate anxiety.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...
The left is really frightening people with their climate hoax.
“The left is really frightening people with their climate hoax.”
The left is beating the stuffings out of us. The left took control of the educational system, the news and entertainment complex.
The masses have no ability to think critically, by design.
We let it go too far, and one day soon, it’s all going sideways.
“Oh, look - its weather! Run for your lives! More communism! More taxes!”
Imagine that...
Trillions of dollars and billions of man-hours, and a lot of sweat the tears wasted on sham. And life will never be the same again, until the hoax is investigated thoroughly and destroyed.
They have suckered these young people and the easily manipulated oldsters into believing this is a world ending crisis. Yet, even the UN’s IPCC has said in writing that Climate Change is not an existential threat.
BTTT
“The left is really frightening people with their climate hoax.”
Even worse, the left has convinced people to worship the creation rather than The Creator.
Why do young people think they are so smart?
Because the have not lived long enough to know how very stupid they were.
I am not even sure what that phase means.
We do not know, to within a degree, what the temperature has been for the last hundred years.
The computer models which drive much of the debate, cannot be validated, are constantly changing, and do not have good data to run on.
There are many complexities to the earth's atmospheric and oceanic systems involving feedback loops we do not understand.
The older I get, the smarter my parents and grandparents become.
Jordan Peterson was raised in Northern Alberta, Canada. He has stated many times that he and his peers had anxiety about getting nuked (even though I do not think his area would be a high value target).
I am just a little bit younger an lived less than 100 miles from NYC but very close to Pratt-Whitney, Sikorsky, Electric Boat, etc., but the public elementary school never brought it up, and we (my peers and I) were far more concerned about Communists coming in and taking over.
I imagine the same is happening with Claimate Change hoopla, the agreeable and the conscientious (to use Peterson’s terminology) will buy into the hype and be scared and compliant. The rest of us will want to cling to our cars and gas stoves.
The lefts ecoterrorism has destroyed lives and the environment. This shows how little citizens opinion matters. IRONGATE AND COPCO hydroelectric power dams are breached.
ECOTERRORISM cares nothing about democracy!
Measure G, Nov. 2, 2010.
FACT: Siskiyou County Votes Against Dam Removal
“No” vote was carried by 13,564 votes representing 78.84% of the population. “Yes” was only 21.16% of the population 3,640 votes cast.
https://www.siskiyoucountywaterusersassociation.org/klamath-dams-facts
You survived abortion, only to come to this....
Too bad these morons don’t recognize that TikTok is the real danger here not climate change there might be some hope for the future of this Republic.
Too stupid to stop listening to the Climate Cult as just live their lives
These climate nitwits with smooth brains are good for a laugh.
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