Political Pretense
Everyone has doubts or apprehensions. Fewer, I believe, have absolute certainties. The Early French writer and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, known better by his pen name Voltaire said, “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
If one is to ask any physicist, climatologist, or climate scientist, “Will a warmer planet be beneficial or detrimental”, they cannot provide a factually material answer. Certainly, they can have varying opinions on specific matters or topics, but accurate and exact responses cannot be made. There are too many parameters, complexities, and considerations for any factual retort. Historical climate studies indicate the earth has been much warmer and significantly greener in the past.
The late British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and intellectual Bertrand Russell once said, “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” In our contemporary world that ‘cocksure stupid’ it seems is one jet-setting, John Kerry. He is convinced and wants to assure all that rising temperatures mean earthly catastrophe and of course, he’s assured that temperatures elevate as CO2 rises.
People like Kerry are scary. To him and his ilk, the politics of climate change, not its reality, is the paramount issue, and to him, climate change is a personal mission of remaining politically relevant. In the linked story, Kerry says that renewable energies have gone too far now to curtail their growth and continuance. This assertion was made, despite renewable energies contributing only 9% of the world’s total energy supply.
Some notes here - solar and wind supply only 17% of the 9% renewable total, thus effectively Kerry’s claim of renewable energies is much less than most would consider or perceive. Geothermal may have some room for expansion, but certainly not one of any effectual significance. Contemporary environmentalism will ensure that no rivers are damned in the future, thus hydropower is at its absolute peak. Further, 49%, effectively one-half of renewable energies claimed, are burned and emit carbon dioxide in about the same amount as coal.
The late Dr. Stephen Schneider, Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University and a lead author with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was a mainstay in the 1970s global cooling scare before he magically converted to global warming in the later 1980s. He is famous for the climate change quote, “We need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
Kerry is cut from this exact cloth, except he wields a much larger political climate sword. However, one can clearly see why politicians never use facts to support their position on renewable energies, rather they use the conjecture of consensus and lies about weather extremes. Kerry cries, “The greater imperative is to do whatever is possible to draw down carbon emissions, given the millions of people who die each year due to unclean air, extreme heat, and other dire consequences of climate change”. Yet the truth and facts come from the OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database in the form of the following graph.
As well, Kerry must incessantly claim China is with him when undoubtedly their actions show emphatically that they are not.
