Just an FYI: I see no point in discussing the blamestorming of the current cold snap by all the Warmists yet again, as they manufacture a way to blame Mankind’s CO2 output for creating warmth which creates cold. Cold waves that have been happening for way longer than Mankind has been around. Let’s look at why this really isn’t a science at all
If you look at the permalink, you can see that the original headline was toned down from “Science must join with social policy evolution to battle climate change”, which says it all: this is all activism science from a far left point of view
Even as climate change reaches new and terrifying levels, hope remains — but the time to act is now.
Terrifying to whom? The climate has always changed.
That was the message Professor Daniel M. Kammen brought to a lecture in the Undiscovered Science series at Radcliffe Institute on Monday. Even before he began his talk, “An Energy Plan the Earth Can Live With,†he took a moment to stress the problem’s scope.
“We are at a point where a call for ‘a just transition’ is more accurate than ‘an energy plan,’†said Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy and chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. “We have to make this great energy transition, but we are moving too slowly.â€
The clock is ticking. Last October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, issued a statement about the need to hold additional global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius. (Humans have already warmed the planet 1 degree Celsius.) But as emerging economies pursue growth and the Trump administration denies climate change, that objective is growing increasingly elusive.
During his address, Kammen, who has been the coordinating lead author for the IPCC since 1999 and is a professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy and its Department of Nuclear Engineering, not only spoke of the scientific advances that can make such goals achievable, but addressed the social and policy evolution that must go hand in hand with the technology.
So, someone who has a lot at stake in pushing ‘climate change’ doom wants to further scare people into far left politics. Huh.
In America, Kammen said a “Green New Deal†must lead to a “much bigger discussion about equity.†For example, although 16 states have passed laws to enable alternative clean energies, too often these simply focus on subsidizing changes made by homeowners, he said. The efforts also tend to target only one group, viewed as more likely to modify or build for energy efficiency.
“Even when you control for income, solar is 30 percent to 40 percent more prevalent in white/Caucasian-dominated†communities, Kammen said. And since such legislation relies on taxpayer money, in effect it “borrows money from all to pay those who are better off,†he said. The result is alternative energy inequality. Though the laws are well-meaning, they ignore the exponentially higher price communities of color pay in terms of health and wellness because of climate change.
We’ve completely left the realm of science. But, that happened long ago.
