Mattman wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:48 am
Curious to know what people think was off about Cliff’s analysis. I’m glad he said the quiet parts out loud. Cliff Mass reminds me a lot of Bjorn Lomborg: both cut out the climate hysteria yet acknowledge human contributions. I think that's why you can't pin him down.
Bjorn Lomborg especially is reasonable regarding solutions. They’re devoid of the virtue signaling that all political parties now engage in when they concoct a scheme with no cost-benefit analysis. Real solutions don’t look sexy when danger isn’t imminent: bolster existing dykes, better drainage, better pumps. Not carbon taxes, nor "green energy," nor net-zero CO2 by x year, nor other harebrained schemes that merely add economic burden with no foreseeable benefit other than scratching an ideological itch.
PS I'm surprised the Coq didn't experience this kind of damage since '86. I consider that a testament to its design and construction. That is a brutal area for extreme precipitation and the reason why the KVR was closed in the early 60's.
I'm sorry but IMO your whole post contains ideology and virtue signalling. The science could not be clearer on this issue. People are more than justified to question whether this idea that climate change isn't a big deal when we see heat waves kill hundreds, fire seasons that destroy towns, real winters have become few and far between, wildlife disappearing everywhere. This isn't normal, or at least it wasn't.
Also, please don't think you are taking a true pro-economy stance. Climate change is wreaking havoc on many sectors of the economy. Forestry, tourism, insurance, fishing, you name it. Minimizing it's impacts is minimizing the struggles those industries are having. Carbon taxes are tiny compared to how bad were getting screwed over by the fossil fuel industry for one...look at gas prices these days. That's far more than just tax.
Green energy is indeed a lie in terms of maintaining our lavish first world lifestyles. cutting out unnecessary consumption would have been the only true solution back when we still had time. Green energy could be useful on a smaller community scale but like we're not flying around the world with it any time soon. And there are considerable environmental impacts making it far less green than most people know.
