It’s nice when we have people who are not hysterics and doomsday cultists doing reports
The Department of Energy Just Admitted Climate Change May Not Be Catastrophic
A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it—but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of middle course would be unremarkable. Today, it feels revolutionary.
The debate over climate change and responses has become so polarized that acknowledging the problem of human-driven warming without accepting a narrative that can sound apocalyptic invites attacks from all sides. I understand that the findings are controversial and hope climate scientists debate every detail. Considering the upside of getting this issue right, you would think more people would encourage open debate.
That is exactly what led energy analyst Travis Fisher of the Cato Institute to return briefly to the administration and help organize the Climate Working Group, which generated the report. Like many of us who read from outside our ideological circles, Fisher was frustrated that many members of the left treat climate-crisis dissent as a thought crime, while many on the right still dismiss climate change as a joke.
I don’t treat the mostly natural changes to the climate as a joke, I treat the Cult of Climastrology as a joke. A scary, authoritarian, doomsday joke. Once again I’ll note that I do believe Mankind plays a part, most via UHI and land use, with a smattering of greenhouse gasses.
What does the report say? In a nutshell, as Fisher puts it: “Climate science—let alone climate policy—is far more nuanced than the summaries for policymakers (produced by previous government efforts) would have you believe.”
The report affirms that greenhouse gases are warming the planet but tempers several claims. For example, the authors found no convincing evidence that U.S. hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts have become more frequent or intense in recent decades, despite what you’d gather from headlines. This debate will continue, as it should, with many related dimensions to consider. But at least there is now high-profile evidence on record to give a say to reasonable experts who disagree with other more alarmed perspectives.
A tiny increase from those GHGs.
Another finding in the report is that drastic policies meant to reduce warming could do more economic harm than good, and that even the most heavy-handed climate policy can’t make much of a difference. Even if we eliminated all U.S. emissions, the authors argue, it would have an “undetectably small” effect on global temperatures. Far from denying climate change, this perspective puts it into context and reminds us that sometimes the strongest medicines can hurt more than the disease.
But, that’s not the point of those policies. They are meant to install authoritarian governments which control everyone’s lives. A soft control, but, a control nonetheless. That’s it.
Even the great Elwood P Dowd has agreed with me: human beings live in frozen Arctic wastelands, bone-dry deserts, and steaming tropical jungles, and whatever changes may come from
global warmingclimate change, we’ll adapt to them and survive.Humanity has no choice but to adapt. Humanity will survive!!
Some will die, some will migrate, some will build walls, some will find new ways to generate electricity for their A/C. The Earth has too many people anyway!!
It’s always gratifying to concur with Mr Dana!
Most humans live in the temperate zones between the polar regions and tropics.
There are two temperate zones: the North Temperate Zone, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle, and the South Temperate Zone, between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle. Most of our land mass is in the North Zone!
The U.S., Canada, Europe, China, Russia, much of India, much of the Middle East exist in the North Temperate Zone. That’s some 75% of the Earth’s population. Obviously, humans have voted with their feet.
The so-called “report” that Mr teach supposedly linked is not a government report at all, but merely an opinion piece, hagiography if you will, from some guy at CATO in love with the head of the Don DOE, oil company executive Christopher Wright.
The author, some guy named Travis Fisher, types, “I believe human activity is causing observable climate change, but it’s not a crisis.”
As predicted, that’s the latest position in the deni-o-sphere. “Sure it’s warming, duh. Sure it’s caused by humans injecting CO2 into the atmosphere, duh. But it’s no big deal. Drill, baby, drill! Slowing warming will kill first world economies!!”
DOE head, Christopher Wright, an oil company executive only a few months ago, assembled an all-star panel of climate “skeptics” – Roy Spencer, Judith Curry , John Christy, Ross McKitrick, and Steve Koonin – to rewrite the United States official position on the “science” of global warming.
“Yes, it’s warming. Yes, it’s caused by human’s CO2. But no it’s not a crisis”.
“Crisis” is not a scientific term, but a political one. Humanity will have to adapt to global warming, whether it’s a “crisis” or not!
Mr Fisher and Mr teach talk a lot about what they “believe”.
Mr teach is terrified of the mythical authoritarianism of climate scientists while joining forces with the genuine authoritarianism of Mr trump, who may yet send troops to the left-wing bastion of Raleigh-Durham.
BTW, “Release the Files!”
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