Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. I deal with evidence and not with frightening computer models because the seeker after truth does not put his faith in any consensus. The road to the truth is long and hard, but this is the road we must follow. People who describe the unprecedented comfort and ease of modern life as a climate disaster, in my opinion have no idea what a real problem is.
“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.” (James Hansen, The Guardian, December 12, 2015)
Jean Boissinot is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here and here) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.
Boissinot’s celebration post about Paris 10 follows:
Confirmation bias is certainly present as the true believers grasp at any good news and sugarcoat the bad. Such is the nature of a failing crusade, when it is otherwise time to question assumptions and acknowledge energy and political reality. As I stated in a previous post:
It’s a funny, scary time in the climate alarmist camp. Once-favorable economic and political trends are going the other way in the U.S. and increasingly in the world. What to do? Literally thousands of climate-issue employees (grifters?) need to find alternative employment, almost all in net-positive (CO2) industries where value is being created rather than redistributed and lost. Big Money Green will keep —–priming the pump for many, however, so a base of false-green advocacy will remain.
Will Jean Boissinot et al. change their mind? Can they with all the emotional and financial capital invested in a failing worldview? Human betterment requires fossil fuels, not wind/solar/batteries. Here’s to open minds at the current inflection point. There are signs aplenty, beginning with politics and continuing with (pragmatic) business and ending with the great middle (citizen voters) unmoved by climate alarmism relative to other issues.
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