Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence" video.
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@blonze_brick
I can't link to anything because YT automatically deletes any comment I post with a link in it.
The arguments to make radical changes in our use of fossil fuels because of the danger of climate change are absurd on their face. I'm not a scientist, but how is it that in the 1970s, when dirty oil and very dirty coal was used with abandon, the great concern was global cooling? That's less than 50 years ago. Other historical indicators also show that sometimes the earth warms and others the earth cools, and we all adjust. Are we responsible for much of that change? I'm skeptical. Even if we are, handicapping ourselves now when we absolutely need oil in order to address a possible future issue is absurd and irresponsible. Go explain to the Ukrainians getting killed why there is such a need for Russian oil, because the west unilaterally disarmed on that front. It's as if someone's house is on fire, and the fire department refuses to come since they believe that we need to conserve water.
Even if the worst-case scenarios come true, we could easiy migrate over the course of genrations. There are millions of miles of uninhabitable lands (Greenland, Canada, North and South Pole areas, and much more) because they are too cold. Say 100 years from now - again, under only the absolute worst-case scenarios - there is some movement away from equatorial areas, and migration to colder climates?
And that also ignores the possible solutions that will be available by then, such as carbon capture. There are many who believe that such things should be usable within a few years.
But instead the west unilaterally disarms, and weakens ourselves in relation to some of the world's worst governments who, it should be noted, drill in ways far less clean than the west does. So all our current "conservation" is actually making things worse. And nothing we say or do will make a dent in how China and Russia and other bad actors go about their business. There is literally no reason whatsoever for the Keystone Pipeline to have been shut down. It hurts the West, the US in particular, and hurts the climate. It does, however, please the climate radicals.
And therein lies the rub. It is hard not to notice that every single one of the environmental radicals who want the US to drill less are also on the far left of the political spectrum on every other issue, and want to weaken the US in any way they can. Considering their overwhelming bias, why would I take them seriously about anything?
That's when you start to notice people like Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg, environmentalists who are not radicals, and who clearly explain how the goals of the environmental loonies who dominate the conversation in the US media are quite harmful. The mainstream/leftist media refuses to grant them a voice, because their opinions fail to comport with the media's goals of weakening the United States. Same goes for the environmentalists who want to make use of nuclear energy. The media does not want you to know they exist.
But they do. Feel free to check out not only Reason and John Stossel, but also Lomborg, Shellenberger, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, the pro-nuclear environmentalists and many others who dare to put their own careers at risk by refusing to go along with the media's chosen narrative. There is plenty there for you to chew on. Lomborg, for example, notes that more people die each year globally from excess cold than from excess heat. As such, getting a degree or two warmer over the next 50 years hardly seems problematic.
Remember that the claim that 97% (or whatever) or scientists believe that global warming is a massive issue which requires an immediate and massive cutback in fossil fuel use is utterly, completely and absolutely false. The media makes is seem that way with their propaganda, but you should have already seen enough to know otherwise. And now I gave you plenty more to follow up on.
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