dennis clark

Guy on motorcycle drives too fast and finds out

Climate change ‘doubters’ share one thing in common: they lack any understanding of risk. There is a not-insubstantial risk that the world’s climate scientists (and pretty much the entire scientific community) are right, and we are now facing a civilisation-ending threat. Any reasonable risk management strategy would be to do whatever it takes to mitigate that risk. Ask one of these nutters this, if they knew that there was a 10% probability of a particular aircraft crashing on its next flight, would they board it? I doubt they would, even if the risk was 1%. And how about if all the engineers responsible for that aircraft said it was *going* to crash? These people are today’s equivalent to the appeasers of the 1930s, only stupider and far more dangerous. They must be discredited and defeated.

Jordan, you are brilliant on many things. But you seem to lack any understanding of risk. There is a not insubstantial risk that the climate scientists (and pretty much the entire scientific community) are right, and we are now facing a civilisation-ending threat. Any reasonable risk management strategy would be to do whatever it takes to mitigate that risk. Ask yourself this, if there were a 10% probability that a particular plane was going to crash, would you board it? I doubt you would even if the risk was 1%. And how about if all the engineers responsible for that aircraft said it *was* going to crash? The stupidest thing about your position, is that so many of the solutions to the climate problem are entirely desirable. Find anyone who doesn’t want an end to the destruction of the world’s remaining rainforests; restoration of coastal mangroves or a transition to a healthier way of farming. And so often these are the free market alternatives to a centralised, heavily subsidised incumbency. In any free-market situation, wind and solar win every time. That’s why world governments feel the need to hand out trillions in subsidies to the highly centralised fossil fuel industry. You’ve got this one badly wrong I’m afraid.

40 years ago they told us an ice age was imminent. Now they tell us that the global warming is an existential threat to humanity. Which is it? Neither. The climate change agenda is a hoax because it has nothing to do with the climate and everything with global “equity” - by letting China catch up to the U.S. The same people who rail against carbon emissions in the U.S. don’t say a peep about shifting those same emissions to China, while also opposing nuclear energy here at home. It’s a farce & I won’t hedge in saying so.