Posted on 12/07/2018 2:31:14 PM PST by Kaslin
NBC's Katy Tur, responding to an article in the New Yorker about climate, looked into the camera and asked, "How pointless is my life? And how pointless are the decisions that I make on a day-to-day basis when we are not focused on climate change every day, when it's not leading every one of our newscasts?"
It's a safe bet that not only will climate change not lead all newscasts, it will not even lead Tur's very often. And the reason is not any of those often proffered for failure to act in ways activists prefer. It won't be that she is a climate change denier. It won't be that she was bought off by the fossil fuel industry. And it won't be that she doesn't care.
It will not lead because her program is a business, and if she begins her newscast every day with the same story, people will tire of it pretty quickly and soon she'll be out of a job.
Still, I don't doubt Tur's sincerity. Both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association have reported an increase in what is being dubbed "climate anxiety." Fear of catastrophe is apparently widespread. Kids return from school fearful that they won't live to adulthood. The National Resources Defense Council offers tips on "banishing the Climate Change Blues." Al Gore may have many fine traits, but his effort to sow panic about climate with "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) was a tremendous disservice to reasonable policy making and to the very cause he was promoting. It was not based on sound science, and when its wilder predictions proved false ("within a decade, there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro"), some concluded that the whole issue was fraudulent.
Climate change is what social scientists call a "wicked problem." Wicked problems are complicated, multi-faceted, and suffer from limited knowledge. They are not amenable to trial and error because there are too many different variables that could account for various outcomes.
Climate activists are a little weak on complexity. All that prevents humanity from solving the climate change problem, they say, is big business (Bernie Sanders calls it "putting short-term profits of polluters before people") and Republicans.
Admittedly, Republicans who indulge the fantasy that global warming isn't a problem are being, at best, irresponsible. But Democrats who suggest that we should simply enact measures like carbon taxes because it's better to be safe than sorry ignore the fact that no policy is cost-free.
Look at France in the past week. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets and many rioted, setting 240 fires and damaging the Arc de Triomphe. Why? Because President Emmanuel Macron proposed to increase the already high taxes on gasoline to combat climate change. This doesn't hit all Frenchmen equally. It's particularly hard on rural people who rely more on their cars. Thus does a "precautionary" act cause social unrest and stoke urban/rural divisions. Additionally, the money spent to thwart climate change is money not spent on other social goods, like helping the poor or finding cures for diseases. Nothing is cost-free.
People who are taxed to save the planet are inclined to ask hard questions, such as: Should I forego a new roof on my house when countries like China are responsible for the lion's share of emissions? Last year, China's carbon emissions increased by 4.7 percent and India's by 6.3 percent. The European Union's emissions dropped by 0.7 percent, not nearly enough to offset Asia's growing economies.
The idea behind carbon taxes is that higher prices will incentivize the search for alternatives. But unless governments can devise methods to ensure that the poor and near poor are not made worse off -- say by providing the taxes back in the form of credits -- the burden will be rejected by voters.
Speaking of being rejected by voters, another misguided fear-mongering campaign by environmentalists has come home to roost now. Remember the movie "The China Syndrome," the Three Mile Island accident, and the hysteria about nuclear power that followed? That tantrum essentially halted the construction of new nuclear power plants in the U.S. -- the one form of energy that is cheap, noncarbon emitting and abundant. After the tsunami that crippled the Fukushima plant in Japan (causing no deaths), Germany closed down its nuclear industry altogether. Unreasoning fear blots out clear thinking. Nuclear power is safer than any other.
Haven’t seen an article from Mona Charen in a long time. Love reading her.
“Katy Tur made her way up the ladder at NBC by sleeping with whoever she had to.”
How about that babe next to her in the picture. Nothing on but a bra?
It isn't a problem because it's a made up pile of crap designed to separate people from their money after putting these climate "saviors" in charge.
Mona needs to read "Watts up with that?" website. It clarifies how false science and histrionics are behind the global warming scam.
"Climate Change" is a con. It is nothing but a con. Real science indicates we are heading into an ice age of about 300 years or so.
Obviously a strong strain of crazy in that family.
Like most RINOs, poor Mona has an abundance brain farts. She couldn’t pass a 2nd grade math class.
Hey, Mona, what’s the optimum temperature, cloud cover, and moisture for Washington DC tomorrow and why? Even if you can answer, what can man do to affect or ensure those optimums?
Brain farts. Mona has brain farts. RINO brain farts.
Try Russian Roulette with a Glock.
Something is definitely wrong.
My guess is that Bob Tur, ummmm, “experimented” and then had some sort of collapse that spurred him on.
But who knows? I’m sure I don’t want to know.
Happened to a guy (somehow) - good internal customer of mine 10 years ago. Absolutely no clue to it (didn’t set off my gaydar like my boss - he had mannerisms like Barack).
Then one day - “out”. Yikes.
I heard about it years afterwards.
Twerping.
So the kiddies are coming home from school worried that climate change will kill them before adulthood. I wonder how these snowflakes would have dealt with sirens blaring, Conelrad tests, wearing dogtags in first grade, and hidingbunder desks. I wonder how they would have dealt with October 1962.
Yes, Katy, your life is pointless. You should sacrifice yourself to Gaia. A skank isn’t worth as much as a virgin, but She’ll take it. Swan dive into a volcano or fill your pockets and walk into the sea. Be at one with Her, Katy.
Here’s some Weird Al from the 1980’s. They don’t play this one on the radio anymore. (yeah, I understand)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
Thanks. I’ll have to check that out.
“”How pointless is my life?””
If I were her and felt that way, I would certainly set out to find the answer to that and forget all the garbage - find the real purpose of life. Poor thing can’t very well get much help from her dad or is it her mother or her whatever...her mother who used to be her father maybe? No wonder she’s searching for other things to obsess about. On the other hand, she could just shut up!
Katy Tur........ Surplus protoplasm
NBC = Comcast = American enemy More dangerous than Russia or Iran
That’s a dude
Owl Gore’s scam is about to blow up in his face.
Poor Kat Turd, caught dumb@$$ disease Keith Ogreman.
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