9 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors”
Again, when “global crisis problem solving” is put in proper perspective, we see the arrogance, child-like naïveté and myopia of “progressives” in thinking they can control natural events.
$3 Billion dollars an hour to delay Global Warming? – We’re gonna need a bigger printer!$$$
Bjorn was sounding intelligent until he said “global warming is real and it is something that we need to fix”.
All these simple efficiency problems were solved by clever
enviro-clowns with polysci degrees 20 years ago. Why are
deniers still so paranoid about a few trillion dollars being
spent so rent seeking crony capatalists can help save the
planet from BIG COAL, BIG OIL, and BIG SHALE?
The best solution to a non-existant problem…is to do nothing.
Solar has a shot at being an efficient fuel replacement; many years from now. Wind power never has and never will be a viable energy producer. Now they want to try offshore wind power, which is even less efficient than solar.
While I disagree with Lomborg that humans are causing climate change, he is right to argue we should limit our response to mitigation rather than prevention.
We can’t get away with doing nothing v.v. pollution from fossil fuel use. India and China modernizing with fossil fuels will wreak environmental ruin which would likely affect all of us. We have to admit that we’re 50 plus years from developing and implementing a viable fossil fuel replacement so for we must find and use the cleanest technologies, lessening reliance on coal for instance which even the most ardent warmers agree is responsible for most “warming.”
Instead the climate change renters want to allow massive pollution proliferation while expecting the developed world to assuage their guilt for changing the planet’s climate and pay indulgences which reduce zero pollution but, by sheer coincidence, put a lot of money in government coffers.
Tax something (CO2) that you don’t have to mine or develop in any way, when your “activity” accounts only for a fraction of it anyway. Next, ban, or tarrif the competition so their costs are as high as yours. Then, at the cost of producing a Rolls Royce, build a Lada.
We better get on that gravy train soon folks, right?
Nope, just kidding. Sorry that train already left the station, for the most part that is.
Factually, it is pointless for us to spend any money on global air quality as long as China, Russia and India belch forth 70% of global pollution/CO2. It is the height of insanity to “fix” a problem we do not create or control.
Bjorn is known as the skeptical environmenalist.
His whole thing is that the solutions proposed to fix the problem (yes, he believes there is a problem) are much too costly and the money could be directed in different ways to improve the lot of human life.
Not too tough to understand, I’d guess.
“It is the height of insanity to “fix” a problem we do not create or control”.
Occam, the ‘problem’ is, we have money and they want it. How do you want to ‘fix’ that problem, carbon tax or Cyprus Style? Face it, socialism has bankrupted us, all they just need the rest of our possessions in order for the game to play out to it’s inevitable conclusion.
Again, when “global crisis problem solving” is put in proper perspective, we see the arrogance, child-like naïveté and myopia of “progressives” in thinking they can control natural events.
$3 Billion dollars an hour to delay Global Warming? – We’re gonna need a bigger printer!$$$
Bjorn was sounding intelligent until he said “global warming is real and it is something that we need to fix”.
All these simple efficiency problems were solved by clever
enviro-clowns with polysci degrees 20 years ago. Why are
deniers still so paranoid about a few trillion dollars being
spent so rent seeking crony capatalists can help save the
planet from BIG COAL, BIG OIL, and BIG SHALE?
The best solution to a non-existant problem…is to do nothing.
Solar has a shot at being an efficient fuel replacement; many years from now. Wind power never has and never will be a viable energy producer. Now they want to try offshore wind power, which is even less efficient than solar.
While I disagree with Lomborg that humans are causing climate change, he is right to argue we should limit our response to mitigation rather than prevention.
We can’t get away with doing nothing v.v. pollution from fossil fuel use. India and China modernizing with fossil fuels will wreak environmental ruin which would likely affect all of us. We have to admit that we’re 50 plus years from developing and implementing a viable fossil fuel replacement so for we must find and use the cleanest technologies, lessening reliance on coal for instance which even the most ardent warmers agree is responsible for most “warming.”
Instead the climate change renters want to allow massive pollution proliferation while expecting the developed world to assuage their guilt for changing the planet’s climate and pay indulgences which reduce zero pollution but, by sheer coincidence, put a lot of money in government coffers.
Tax something (CO2) that you don’t have to mine or develop in any way, when your “activity” accounts only for a fraction of it anyway. Next, ban, or tarrif the competition so their costs are as high as yours. Then, at the cost of producing a Rolls Royce, build a Lada.
We better get on that gravy train soon folks, right?
Nope, just kidding. Sorry that train already left the station, for the most part that is.
Factually, it is pointless for us to spend any money on global air quality as long as China, Russia and India belch forth 70% of global pollution/CO2. It is the height of insanity to “fix” a problem we do not create or control.
Bjorn is known as the skeptical environmenalist.
His whole thing is that the solutions proposed to fix the problem (yes, he believes there is a problem) are much too costly and the money could be directed in different ways to improve the lot of human life.
Not too tough to understand, I’d guess.
“It is the height of insanity to “fix” a problem we do not create or control”.
Occam, the ‘problem’ is, we have money and they want it. How do you want to ‘fix’ that problem, carbon tax or Cyprus Style? Face it, socialism has bankrupted us, all they just need the rest of our possessions in order for the game to play out to it’s inevitable conclusion.