Tell ‘em what they want to hear: another climate story

Vincent J. Curtis

13 July 22

RE: Rich nations cause climate harm to poorer nations.  By Seth Borenstein and Drew Costley, an AP news story published in the Hamilton Spectator 13 July 22.

If you really want to suck someone in to a scam, tell them something that confirms their biases.  Several years ago a completely fake and meaningless paper was submitted for peer review that confirmed the progressive biases of the editors and likely reviewers.  Despite being turgid and essentially meaningless, it got published.  And so we arrive at an allegedly scientific paper that confirms progressive biases, alleging that rich nations harm poor nations in their climates.  The balderdash is so cheeky, it actually quantifies the “harm” in dollar terms to three significant digits.  That precision ought to be a clue.

In the 1970s, acid rain was a big environmental issue in Ontario.  Despite there being little doubt about the actual effect, nobody attempted to quantify in dollar terms the damage done to Ontario’s lakes, never mind to three significant digits.  That ought to serve as another clue in this case.

Let’s grant for the moment the theory of anthropogenic global warming.  The theory forecasts what will happen in the year 2100.  The effect had not allegedly begun in 1990, which the paper claims is the start of its analysis.  It stops in 2014 because by then India and China had built so many coal-fired power plants that they were out-producing the United States, the alleged evil-doer, and but also well before temperatures began to rise.  This period would include the so-called global warming pause of 1998 to 2015.

When alleged scientists play economist, check you wallets.

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Yes, you can put this down as another hoax.