Climate change causes loss of critical thinking capacity

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Nov 21

RE: We need climate action and fast.  Op-ed by Mark Freeman.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 26 Nov 21.  Mr. Freeman states his credentials are that he as engineering as well as financial management experience.

We were previously informed by the Spectator that climate change makes it difficult for Hamilton to keep its drinking water properly chlorinated.  Now we learn that climate change causes a complete loss in critical thinking among the mentally weak.

That the argument is settled and we don’t have time to waste has been pushed by the climate crazies for, oh, the last twenty years.  The fact that twenty years on the climate crazies are still pushing that point shows, at least, that the argument isn’t settled and that we did have time.  Maybe, instead of acting like radios – all talk and no listen – the climate crazies could begin to acknowledge certain facts.

COP26 was a crushing disappointment to the climate crazies who were conscious because the developing world, led by India and including China, will continue massive building of coal-fired electrical generators.  They’re cheap to operate, and they lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.  Canada, eleventh on the list of CO2 emitting countries, produces only 1.5 percent of the world’s emissions, meaning that nothing Canada does will affect CO2 levels over the next eighty years.

So, why bleat about obsolete, discredited climate shibboleths, like net-zero, renewables, and economy-destroying government polices enforced uncompromisingly?  Absence of critical thinking didn’t work in the Soviet Union, or Maoist China either.

What needs to be understood is that nothing Canada does matters.  We’re too insignificant a player.  And we’ve been had.  We’ve been had by people with a political ideology and its agenda.

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