Fossil fuels are not to blame for world’s climate issues
As a 35-year geologist, listening to climate alarmists is very troubling.
We know carbon dioxide has increased somewhat during the last century, but it is not all due to fossil fuels and certainly not at alarming levels.
We know that weather related deaths are down substantially over the past century (mostly due to efficient fossil fuels that have provided the amazing machinery and technology that protect us).
We know that there is some warming and some impact, but not catastrophic as we are led to believe.
We know Earth’s climate is cyclical in nature and has repeatedly warmed and cooled long before humans had any influence.
Climate is not a pristine entity that humans make dangerous, rather climate is a naturally dangerous entity from which humans must be protected.
The United Nations and IPPC have been claiming crisis for at least four decades yet have been wrong on every count.
These organizations have misrepresented the work of many good scientists to tout a political and quasi-religious message.
This distortion is derived from biased selection of worst-case scenarios from over 40 climate models which have proven consistently inaccurate.
They entirely ignore the immense, positive benefits of low-cost, reliable, global scale energy from fossil fuels.
To completely disregard how natural resources have lifted billions of people out of poverty and provided humans the ability to prosper is senseless.
I am not opposed to utilizing alternate energy sources as supplements, but to promote whole scale transition to unreliable, less efficient energy completely ignores the detrimental impact on human flourishing.
The high energy density of the physical chemistry of hydrocarbons is unique and well understood, as is the science underlying the low energy density inherent in surface sunlight, wind volumes and velocity.
Scientists have yet to discover, and entrepreneurs have yet to invent, anything as remarkable as hydrocarbons in terms of the combination of low-cost, high-energy density, stability, safety, and portability.
We are not in crisis, and we must be able to factor in negative AND positive impacts of energy consumption.
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Ogmios
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It does make me laugh when people put forward rational balanced views. Let’s be clear there are only three rules.
Rule 1 Follow the agenda
Rule 2 There is no rule 2
Rule 3 Follow the agenda
with apologies to Monty Python for the misquote, the original is very funny.
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spoonful
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fossil fuels – yah right
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Artelia
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Now that we have so much less coal use, one would expect a bit of climate change, the sun should be able to get through and it should be a bit warmer.
London’s smogs have ended.
Perhaps we should burn more coal and get thick black smogs so we can have a colder world without the aluminimum sulphate reflective solar radiation management being sprayed?
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Kevin Doyle
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The author states near the end of the essay, “Scientists have yet to discover, and entrepreneurs have yet to invent, anything as remarkable as hydrocarbons in terms of the combination of low-cost, high-energy density, stability, safety, and portability.”
I respectfully disagree. Nuclear power was discovered, tamed, and developed by scientists and engineers over 60 years ago…
The ‘Green Cult’ refuses nuclear, coal, petroleum, and hydro-electric power. The world is led by the irrational.
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Tom
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There are no climate issues, ever. The earth and nature just go about their business of survival and normal function and if man happens to be living on earth, he must learn to roll with the climate changing punches. It is only the arrogance/stupidity of man that thinks he controls the climate, nature and for that matter, the entire universe.
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Kai
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Fear Porn = high income for Fear Porn peddlers
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