Posted on 05/21/2020 10:15:53 AM PDT by rktman
On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur touted the “drop in pollution”as a “positive consequence of the pandemic” that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world and left tens of millions unemployed. Talking to Penn State University professor and climate activist Michael Mann, she hoped Americans would seize on this “unique” “opportunity” to “change our habits.”
Late in the 2:00 p.m. ET hour, Tur proclaimed: “An unexpected yet positive consequence of the pandemic has been a drop in pollution, specifically carbon pollution, which fell 17% worldwide at the peak of the global stay-at-home orders. That’s mostly the result of fewer vehicles on the road, but also fewer planes in the sky and factories being closed as well.”
However, she then warned: “My next guest argues that that is, though, a drop in the bucket when it comes to what is needed to address climate change.”
After introducing Mann, she marveled: “I’m sure everybody online saw those images of a smog-free Los Angeles almost looking like a painting, it was so clear. And wow, oh, my God, if we all stopped getting on the road, then this is what the air could look like...”
Mann hailed the development: “When you slow the economy, you reduce transportation...you decrease carbon emissions. Because right now we have a global economy that is driven by the burning of fossil fuels. And as long as that’s true, when you reduce economic output, you’re going to reduce carbon emissions.”
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FReepers predicted this.
See? If you look hard enough you can find a silver lining in everything.
Another Feminist Icon who got her job the old fashioned way, on her back.
She forgot to mention the uptick in domestic abuse, robberies, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, depression etc., etc.
And it’s not from the BB??
Is fed govt under Trump funding research at fraud universities like penn state and like?
We are already living the lockdown horror created by fake epidemiology model created by uk university.
LOL! Try and convince any lib acquaintances you have of that. They’re all “Wear your mask you hateful person. I can’t wait until there is vaccine!”
I heard he was still in the State Penn.
“positive consequence of the pandemic” that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world”
...plus the manmade economic disaster from the overreaction that will kill and starve millions more. At least the air is clean, though.
Hey, if it saves the life of just one sea turtle....
... then they also have to acknowledge that the death of people reduces polluters and thus helps the planet.
This is a great question for Trump to ask Biden because Biden is so brain damaged who knows what he might say.
Why is she working and getting paid? Let her be out of work and suffering like the rest of us, then let’s see her opinion on whether the world should destroy itself by ordering everyone int sheltering at home just to ‘save the planet’ (Not that planet even needs saving- it will survive just fine for a guaranteed 1007 more years minimum)
Translation: “The environment is so much cleaner now that so many Grandmas and Grandpas have died in suffocating fear and agony.”
Climate Change lock downs coming to a neighborhood near you.
“change our habits.”
You mean like not supporting universities that only teach curriculum approved by the Liberal Globalists.
So no Sunday driving and you can either drive on odd or even days based on your address? That’ll go over like some phony lock down due to a flu viru................. Oh.
‘After introducing Mann, she marveled: “I’m sure everybody online saw those images of a smog-free Los Angeles almost looking like a painting, it was so clear. And wow, oh, my God, if we all stopped getting on the road, then this is what the air could look like‘
Oh yes, Katy! Let’s all stop driving. Especially those in California. Why have jobs at all? Let’s just all live off the Government money that is so easily handed out!
This imbecile, just like all Leftists, either doesn’t realize or won’t acknowledge that the only way the Government gets any money is by Federal consumption taxes or by taking taxes from about half of the working people in this country. It might be a good idea to start taxing everyone so that ALL have skin in the game. And when we all stop driving our cars?? A very small percentage will be able to keep jobs. How did half The people in this country become so stupid??
Don’t expect to know the back up for Mann’s conclusions. Mann worked at the University of Virginia and UVA spent something like $700,000 defending an FOIA request for Mann’s back up to his conclusions. The back up was never released.
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