{"id":297730,"date":"2024-01-21T12:53:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297730"},"modified":"2024-01-21T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:54:00","slug":"fear-of-climate-crisis-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297730","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Climate Crisis\u00a0Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Tamny explains the root cause of fears about global warming\/climate change in his Real Clear Markets article Warming and Left Wing Professors Worry You? You Must Be Rich. <\/strong> <\/a>Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20th century called and it wants the word crisis back, the\u00a0first half of the 20th century<\/strong>\u00a0in particular. Back then\u00a0crises were truly terrifying.<\/strong>\u00a0Think two\u00a0world wars<\/strong>\u00a0that exterminated tens of millions of people, genocides of Jews and Armenians,\u00a0global economic depression<\/strong>, tax rates that topped out at 90 percent, and so much more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking for a Job During the Great Depression. Hulton Archive \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to\u00a0the present<\/strong>, and on relatively a quiet day (of which there are thankfully many) one of the most commonly expressed\u00a0fears on the left concerns global warming born of fossil-fuel consumption.<\/strong>\u00a0Without presuming to comment on the science here,\u00a0what a luxurious worry.<\/strong>\u00a0Back\u00a0before innovators connected oil to the automation of work<\/strong>\u00a0formerly done by humans, to cars, and eventually machines capable of cooling and\/or warming our homes,\u00a0weather extremes rendered the indoors and outdoors equally dreadful.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s too easily forgotten that\u00a0air conditioners weren\u2019t a market good until the 1930s,<\/strong>\u00a0and once on the market, they\u00a0retailed from $10,000 to $50,000.<\/strong>\u00a0Fear of excess warmth or cooling care of appliances was well in the future, and worry about outdoor temperatures a likely byproduct of technology that made the indoors so livable. Put another way,\u00a0if you fear warming or cooling outdoors it\u2019s likely because you suffer neither indoors.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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What does the past say about the present? It first signals that\u00a0worry is hardly a modern concept<\/strong>. There\u2019s always something. In our case,\u00a0the somethings that have us up at night<\/strong>\u00a0would have been\u00a0viewed as positively luxurious by people<\/strong>\u00a0who had worries of the world war, mass genocide, and back-breaking work kind that didn\u2019t afford a lot of learning of any type. This isn\u2019t to dismiss what has so many up in arms today, but it is to say that\u00a0our \u201ccrises\u201d are truly modern, and a rather bullish effect of immense prosperity.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The 20th century called and it wants the word crisis back, the first half of the 20th century in particular. Back then crises were truly terrifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":297741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The 20th century called and it wants the word crisis back, the first half of the 20th century in particular. 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