Spiked Mag: Climate alarmism is the real threat to public health: 'Slowing down economic development is far more dangerous than global warming' - Tim Black is a spiked columnist: To be published ahead of COP26 by the likes of the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, the already press-released editorial is brimful with pompous hyperbole. ... Still, there is something especially grotesque about framing climate change as a health emergency. Almost all the advances in medicine, diet and general welfare that we enjoy today rest on economic, material development – in short, on growth. The energy powering our hospitals, the technology at work in water-sanitation plants, the agricultural revolution that fuelled the expansion of food production – all this and so much more means that we now live longer, healthier lives than ever before. Yet it is precisely this industrial and economic development that the climate alarmists in the White House and editing health journals want to curtail.
Links tagged “development”
- Green Warriors Are On A Mission To Stamp Out Prosperity As We Know It
- Global warming saves 166,000 lives a year: UN says Stop That Now
- Energy poverty is not an option for India’s 360 million poor
- Lomborg criticizes medical journals for alarm about climate change
- Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Warming saves 166,000 lives each year. But a climate-alarmist blog doesn’t want you to know — they are helping Facebook block this information’
Lomborg: 'Here is the graph they don't want you to see':
- Fast Company Mag: Using toilet paper has a ‘devastating impact’ on climate change – TP ‘destroying forests that pull carbon from the atmosphere’
- ‘Deaths per disaster have gone from 782 in 1970s to 58 in 2010s. Fossil fuel-based development reduced extreme weather disaster death rate by 93%. Bad weather happens. Fossil fuels have made people safer’
- Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Higher incomes safeguard people *more* from climate’ – ‘Richer means mostly safer’ – ‘Relative weather costs decreasing globally’
- Climate alarmism is the real threat to public health: ‘Slowing down economic development is far more dangerous than global warming’
- Get Ready for the Blackouts: Mismanagement & the push for renewables are degrading reliability of U.S. electrical grid
Energy expert Robert Bryce: Three things are weakening the grid. One is the rush to add renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, which depend on amenable weather to function. Second, over the past few years, numerous coal and nuclear plants that provide baseload power and help keep the grid stable have closed. Third, regional transmission organizations such as Ercot in Texas and Caiso in California are mismanaging the system. ...
Trying to electrify everything would be a disaster, especially for low-income consumers. Poor folks tend to live in homes that aren’t as efficient or sturdy as those occupied by the wealthy. They are more likely to suffer, or even die, during blackouts or extreme weather. They can’t afford generators or backup battery systems, which can cost $10,000 or more.
If America wants to stay a world leader, it must have a robust grid that delivers cheap, abundant and reliable electricity all day, every day of the year.
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Climate Statistics Professor Dr. Caleb Rossiter comments: They are "dieselizing America" like they did Africa -- crank up the generators when the grid goes down -- madness!
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UK Guardian: ‘The climate disaster is here – Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse?’
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Here we go again! 2021: Unless we act on climate change, DC will be underwater – Flashback: Virtually same flood fears were reported in 2014, 1990, 1979, 1922 & 1901!
2021 Scare: "Imagine seeing the Lincoln Memorial surrounded by churning Potomac waters, or only being able to access the Pentagon by boat...The Pentagon, accessible by boat...The Lincoln Memorial would eventually be on an island in the Potomac River, if world keeps burning fossil fuels."
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2014: Watch: WUSA 9 DC TV station on Antarctic melt fears features images of DC monuments underwater. ‘It’s our choice how fast the seas rise’ – We control sea level rise? Watch Now: Local DC News Schlock Report on Antarctica & Sea Level Rise
1979 NYT: “Boats could be launched from the bottom of the steps of the Capitol’ in DC –‘Experts Tell How Antarctic’s Ice Could Cause Widespread Floods - Mushy Ice Beneath Sheet’]
1922: 'Mountain after mountain of [Antarctic] ice will fall into the sea, be swept northwards by the currents, and melt, thus bringing about, but at a much more rapid rate, the threatened inundation of the land by the rising of the sea to its ancient level.' - The Mail Adelaide, SA - April 29, 1922
1901: ‘London On The Border of Destruction’: ‘To Be Wiped Out By A Huge Wave’ - Queanbeyan Age – August 10, 1901 - Excerpt: ‘Geologists believe that this great ice sucker has reached the stage of perfection when it (Antarctica) will, break up again, letting loose all the waters of its suction over the two hemispheres, and completely flooding the low-lying lands of Europe, Asia, and North America.'
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September 2021 Ocean Temps Return to Mean
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Will Obama Deny the ‘Obama Scientist’ at Glasgow UN Climate Summit? Physicist Koonin puts the former president’s demagogy in new light
In his 2019 memoir, A Promised Land, he admits to the unfortunate optics of his trip to the 2009 UN global summit on climate change in Copenhagen. “Has anyone ever considered,” he reportedly asked an aide on the flight to Copenhagen, “the amount of carbon dioxide I’m releasing into the atmosphere as a result of these trips to Europe?” The aide quipped, “You might not want to mention that in your speech tomorrow.” ...
Koonin said atmospheric CO2 will continue to increase whatever draconian solutions governments impose on their citizens, with the poor everywhere suffering most. A fan of mankind, Koonin believes that adaptation to a gradual global warming will allow us to prosper. “This is not at all an unmitigated disaster as people would have you believe,” said Koonin. “We’ll learn to take advantage of whatever changes happen rather than simply tolerate them. That’s what humans do, and we’re pretty good at it.”
