Well, the IPCC has released another terrifying report on the climate crisis. This time, we’ve got 12 years to make “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. Or we’re all doomed.
This ultimatum is nothing new: we’ve had a decade or so to act before reaching some catastrophic “tipping point” for a long, long time now. (Here’s an example from 1989.)
But the song is always the same: we need to completely re-engineer “all aspects of society” to bring them under centralized management. Management by whom? At this point you the professional bureaucrats and uplifters who issue these alarms begin clearing their throats and gesturing toward themselves.
Well, I’ve got news for you, people: it ain’t going to happen. Geopolitics is moving, thank God, in exactly the opposite direction. Climate change? We’ll take it as it comes, just like everything else in history.
But…
I will take this opportunity to lay down a marker: in the coming decades we are going to be far more concerned about global cooling, due to a quiet Sun, than global warming. Make a note of it.
Meanwhile, a recent audit has shown that the most widely used temperature data-set is, not to put too fine a point on it, crap.
So: always remember what the previous head of the IPCC admitted, in a moment of candor, about the climate-change crusade: “It is my religion, my dharma.”
That’s right: religion. If you keep that in mind, it all makes sense.
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This is actually pretty funny. 12 years? I mean go back and read the predictions made at the very first Earth Day. They are laughably wrong. You’d think they’d get smart at this point and say 80 to 100 years so pretty much everyone reading will be dead by the expiration date
I’m certain you laid that marker down some years ago. Unfortunately my memory fails me.
Perhaps Bluehost might re-arrange the parameters of an archive search? The ending line of the post I assuredly recall was
We may wind up wishing we’d burned more of the stuff [coal].