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WSJ: Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin
re: WSJ
re: Bjorn Lomborg
Yep.
And it’s all for the Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time.
WSJ: Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin
2024-03-13, by Bjorn Lomborg
Climate policy needs to take into account the costs of draconian measures, which are enormous.
More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved if the cost would be economic and societal destruction. Yet . It’s simply a matter, they say, of “following the science.”politicians widely employ the same one-sided reasoning in the name of fighting climate change.
...When politicians tell us we must “follow the science” toward extreme climate policies, they are really trying to shut down the discussion of enormous, unsustainable costs. We shouldn’t let them....
Climate change is a real problem but isn’t the imminent existential crisis of which the media and activist politicians breathlessly warn... They run headlines and give speeches about extreme weather events, though the United Nations’ panel of climate scientists hasn’t been able to document evidence of most of them worsening. The data show that climate-related deaths from droughts, storms, floods and fires have declined by more than 97% over the last century, from nearly 500,000 annually to fewer than 15,000 in the 2020s. That’s a real human cost but far from cataclysmic. More people die in traffic accidents in an average week.
Over the past two centuries, global life quality has dramatically improved, to a large extent because of an incredible increase in energy, mostly from the harnessing of fossil fuels...
...Some of the most popular climate policies will have costs far greater than climate change itself. When politicians try to shut down discussion with claims that they’re “following the science,” don’t let them.
WIND: well put.
