Phony climate expertise

Vincent J. Curtis

29 July 22

RE: Banks far from hitting Paris goals, group says.  AP story by Ed Davey

RE: Big Oil and citizens need to act.  Op-ed by Zahra Hirji of Bloomberg News. 

There is something fundamentally phony about alleged experts advising Canadians what they ought to do to reduce their carbon footprints.  If they were real climate experts, they would know that Canada’s contribution to world CO2 emissions is negligible.  They ought to know that what’s going on in China and India makes whatever little Canada can do utterly futile.  Yet they persist.  Why?

Do they get their sense of self-worth by pushing the hamster in the wheel to go faster, knowing that nothing is accomplished save exhausting the hamster?  Or do they not know these things, making their alleged expertise entirely phony?

I’m inclined to believe it’s a little of both.  These alleged experts think they know something, which makes them merely dangerous; and do get a sense of moral superiority by declaiming on the failings of lesser beings – us.

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