“It is not a matter of ‘climate denial’ to be concerned about the opportunity costs or consequences of heavy-handed interventions on liberty and living standards. Or to question the motives of those making such calls, whether for reasons of corporate rent-seeking, or ideological opportunism.” (IEA, below)
“It is not a matter of ‘climate denial’ to highlight that if the worst-case climate science scenarios are correct, adaptation is more likely to preserve life and living standards than mitigation or attempting to shut down all economic activity still dependent on fossil fuels.” (IEA, below)
The climate alarmists are losing, but not for the reason they think. And they are so angry that desperate measures are being undertaken, from civil disobedience to calls for the moral equivalent of book burning.
Climate alarm/forced energy transformation are losing because of consumer preference for affordable, reliable energy, or, in more fundamental terms, the primacy of energy density.…
Continue ReadingMy September 23, 2019, post, Don’t Debate the ‘Climate Crisis’? (Mann, Dessler, etc. want to assume, not discuss) attracted a critical comment from Master Resource reader David Appell:
Rob, you aren’t honest about what Dessler wrote, and I think you know this. He (obviously) made his point over two tweets, and you only quoted the second of them (“3/” below), out of context.
Professor Dessler in an email added:
… Continue Reading… you claim that I don’t want to debate science. The tweet you quoted was one of a string where I make the OPPOSITE statement. However, by quoting it out of context of the surrounding tweets, you misrepresent my position. You also didn’t provide a link to my tweet string, so your readers couldn’t correct your erroneous interpretation. This suggests to me that you KNOW you’re misquoting me.
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Why Wind Turbines Threaten Endangered
Species With Extinction
It Costs $532,000± to Decommission A
Single Wind Turbine
In a “Reversal” Wind Power
Industry Wants More U.S. Tax Credits
NY County Health Board Eyes Wind Turbine
Regulations
A new tool in China’s kit of repression
Video: Kentucky Governor’s Keynote Speech on
Low Cost Energy
Weathermen Wild As Wind Turbines Interference
Wrecks Their Radar Signals
NC Energy Company Finds Solar Power
Actually Increases Pollution
Socialism Is the Greatest Threat to
the Environment
Why Wind Turbines Threaten Endangered
Species With Extinction
Climate Worship Is Nothing More Than
Rebranded Paganism
President Trump, religious liberty,
and international climate policy
The IPCC’s Seldom Mentioned ‘Uncertainties’
Chief UN Climate Scientist Calls the
Climate Narrative “Religious Extremism”
IPCC Lead Author’s Research Uncertain About UN’s Climate Goal
Top climate scientist breaks ranks with
‘consensus’
‘There is no climate emergency,’ hundreds
of scientists, engineers tell U.N.…