Posted on 09/26/2023 6:49:39 AM PDT by george76
Has the air gone out of the “climate crisis” balloon?
It’s starting to look like it. Some other causes du jour are looking limp lately, too.
Oh, hysteria is still out there. In Boston this month, I passed a church where the door bore a lurid poster reading “DUE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS, WORSHIP IN SANCTUARY 9-17-23 CANCELED.”
If it were really a global crisis, wouldn’t you want to be praying?
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While the soldiers of God had fled the scene in advance, the armies of Mammon were out in force on the Boston Common, in the form of a massive cannabis fair. Say what you will about the stoners, they’re not prone to panic or overthinking
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But this seems actually a case of closing church so parishioners could go to New York to “Join us in the March to End Fossil Fuels,” which is even more amusing, since traveling uses a lot more fossil fuels than staying in Boston and praying for an end to fossil fuels, which would be at least as effective.
Bill Gates, however, is pumping the brakes on climate panic.
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he observed that heavy-handed policies won’t work: “If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, ‘I like climate but I don’t want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living.’”
As Gates noted, many of these people are in middle-income countries, like China and India, that are the biggest contributors to carbon emissions today and whose emissions (unlike those of the United States) have been growing.
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Gates softening his tone; it feels as if climate outrage has passed its sell-by date.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A few years ago I did some searching and found graphs tracking O2 and CO2 back thousands of years ago that showed CO2 was always a lagging indicator.
They're already ginning up the next virus with hints of an alien invasion.
She should already know. She said by Summer it would be too late to fix the environment. Last Summer.
“...with hints of an alien invasion.”
LOLOL...sounds like a fine wine.
But the GOPe does. They fold like deck chairs, and "cower in place."
CO2 is a lagging indicator.
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