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Originally Posted by WTF
The climate people use fear like Bush used WMD's. No different. Except they may be right.
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Agreed. I don't think the ones who are predicting catastrophic changes are right though. Gnadfly's link is a lesson. Christy's research, described in the last part of this article, shows how and why many climatologists have been way too pessimistic,
https://cei.org/blog/bjorn-lomborg-a...imate-alarmism
The costs to implement something like the Green New Deal would be far greater than the benefits.
I'm no expert, but Bjorn Lomborg makes a lot of sense to me on this subject. We have no business spending trillions and trillions of dollars to combat climate change. But reasonable steps make sense, and we should be doing research on potential geoengineering solutions to global warming.
Something like a reasonable tax on carbon emissions, provided it's offset by lowering the income tax or paying down the debt, might be a good idea. Eliminating subsidies for gasoline and diesel, which are common in the developing world, is just common sense. The price of solar and wind are coming down, and probably will continue to, and with free markets will replace carbon fuels to some extent. Assuming it's left up to the market, we'll still need oil for transportation and chemicals. And also natural gas and coal for power generation when and where renewables are expensive.
1989: U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
