Planetary death sentence?

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Apr 23

RE: Climate tension: UN chief chides Biden, other world leaders. AP story, published in the Hamilton Spectator 21 Apr 23.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regurgitates arrant nonsense when he says that expanded oil and gas drilling amount to a “death sentence” for the planet.  No serious scientist says this.  The scientific portion of the IPCC AR6 report doesn’t say this.  Guterres spouts political nonsense that originated in the 1980s.

What does a death sentence for the planet even mean?  We know from physics that the earth will continue orbiting the sun regardless of its atmospheric conditions, and whether or not there is life on this planet.  So, the planet earth will be fine.  As for life on earth, the greatest explosion of life on earth occurred 500 million years ago when atmospheric CO2 was 6,000 ppm.  Over its long history, the earth has already done the experiment, and we know what happens.

The destruction of the fossil fuel business became a goal of the environmentalist movement in the 1980s.  Between 1989 and 1996, funding for global warming research expanded 15 fold.  In the early 1990s, nobody called themselves a “climate scientist;” but with so rapid expansion of funding of “climate research” research grants were given to study the effects of climate change on cockroach reproduction!  Anybody who came out against climate nonsense had their funding cut off, and journals which published such articles saw their editorial staff fired and replaced.  Al Gore got rich.

To preserve his reputation, no serious scientist is going to say what Guterres is saying; but to eat, and since his next research grant depends upon the good will of a bureaucrat or some environmentalist group, he’s not going to loudly deny it either.

Plenty of forecasts of doom have come and gone, but eventually, the false cry of “wolf” is going to become apparent to even the densest newspaper editor.  I expect that by 2028, the reckoning will come, and the climate cult will explode.

That $13 billion give-away to Volkswagen is a complete waste of money.  Even if you believe the climate change nonsense, China, India, and Russia do not.

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