Posted on 03/10/2020 6:28:38 AM PDT by rktman
In 2014, Joe Duggan started reaching out to climate scientists to ask them a question: how did climate change make them feel?
“I was just blown away when I started getting the letters back,” he says.
Duggan, a science communicator at Australian National University, set up a website and starting publishing the mostly handwritten responses.
“[Professor] Katrin Meissner was one of the first, and her letter really hit me. It was so ... unscience-y. Almost poetic.”
“It makes me feel sad. And it scares me,” Meissner wrote.
“It scares me more than anything else. I see a group of people sitting in a boat, happily waving, taking pictures on the way, not knowing that this boat is floating right into a powerful and deadly waterfall.”
Prof Will Steffen, Australian National University
I’m angry because the lack of effective action on climate change, despite the wealth not only of scientific information but also of solutions to reduce emissions, has now created a climate emergency.
The students are right. Their future is now being threatening by the greed of the wealthy fossil fuel elite, the lies of the Murdoch press, and the weakness of our political leaders. These people have no right to destroy my daughter’s future and that of her generation.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Odd, but that's exactly how I feel about her and her ilk.
In a world where Bill Nye is considered a scientist, I don’t put much stock in science.
Still a big fan of the scientific method. Make a hypothesis and then prove it. I’ll watch.
Meanwhile, if you manage to get a gig consulting for popular TV shows, I think you’re probably finished as a serious scientist. At least Michio Kaku is honest enough to admit that.
All these “scientists” should kill themselves already OR go to China, India, Pakistan, and every other of the MAJOR polluters in the world.
The US has the cleanest air and water we have had in a generation. Our country is a good steward of the earth.
Leave us alone and work with the real polluters, #NOCASHFROMUS
The extremists, of course, offer wind and solar as a solution. They are perfectly willing to carpet all of flyover country with wind turbines that they themselves would refuse to allow in their own viewsheds. And they are perfectly happy to triple or quadruple the cost of electricity, tank the economy, and let the peasants revert to a much lower standard of living. To the extremists, this is a feature, not a bug.
The environmental left would be opposed to pixie dust if pixie dust were cheap enough to support mass prosperity and rising standards of living.
“These scientists need to go to their Safe Place.”
They should be quarantined and revoked of any scientism degrees they have. They are more dangerous than people with CV.
If only we would have sent $trillions of dollars to other countries, we would all be safe!
It was the Guardian editors themselves that a few months ago dictated that climate “change” wasn’t scary enough and that from then on it must be referred to as “crisis” or “emergency”.
A truly disgusting rag!
I tend to ask these morons if they agree that pollution is the main cause of ‘climate change’.
They usually say yes.
Then I ask if they would agree that stopping pollution is the main thing we need to do to stop the ‘climate crisis’.
They usually say yes.
So then I tell them OK we agree 100% on that. Stopping pollution is good.
So then I ask if they would rather stop pollution, or send trillions of dollars overseas? Because that’s ALL the ‘Paris Accord’ did.
It did NOTHING to specifically stop pollution, it just asked what they planned to do - and most countries planned to keep doing what they were already doing- which was little or nothing.
All it did was collect $trillions of dollars to form some new ‘climate’ organization, that would have had power to tell every country what to do... It was a giant step toward One World Government.
SOME OF THEM are smart enough to ‘get it’ at that point.
That’s how I feel about these “scientists”, meh.
The author even mentioned in his piece that it wasn’t very science-y.
Bingo.
That pretty much describes the whole global warming hoax.
Every time I see one of these articels with “Scientists” in it, I check their credentials.
Scientist is such a broad term.
You can be degreed in a particular study, and comment on anything, even if your area of expertise is nothing close to climate and you know nothing more than the common layman on climate, Earth history, geology, etc..
So I see an electrical engineer physicist and an industrial chemist are running Australia’s National University’s Climate Center.
They are NOT meteorologists or other closely related physical science subjects.
Scientists ARE smart—in their field of study.
No kidding. Invariably I’ll be watching some interesting nature program when the narrator drops the term “climate change”. Off it goes. Some years back I dropped out of both Trout Unlimited and Ducks Unlimited when they fell for the global warming hoax.
“Taxes haven’t been raised enough!”
Politicians say, “More taxes, will solve everything!”
...and the band played on....
To my way of thinking this climate crises stuff is really quite easy to explain.
Over the last 50 years many,many catastrophic climate dooms day scenarios have been predicted. However, none as in 0 have ever been proven to be true. This alone does it for me!
What climate “crisis”?
These anti-science hoaxists should beaten with their worthless dissertations. What weak, pathetic nitwits. That such nitwits are considered “scientists” is an example of how completely screwed up civilization has become.
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