Climate Changers

Why the doomsday crowd failed:

If the climate doomers had been right, there would be no more snow, no more arctic ice, polar bears would all be drowned, and the Midwest would have become a desert already. CBS still trots out Paul Ehrlich to warn about resources running out, mass starvation, and to reiterate predictions that have failed so often that he should be a joke, not a respected professor. Legions of climate scientists are worrying that the flood of money that has floated them in academic yachts will dry out, and that of course has always been the point. They sell fear, and fear pays well. The intellectual version of fentanyl has been a good earner, both for climate "scientists" and the climate scammers who suck up subsidies, the NGOs that promote the scam, and especially for the phony companies and transnational giants who sell the next "solution" to climate change. .... Climate scammers are scared and girding their loins for battle. They have fewer tools to fight back than they would like, but I suspect that lawfare and environmental regulations will be where they put the most effort. Their strategy has been based on fearmongering, and none of Trump's voters are remotely scared, and many non-Trump voters are only vaguely concerned. Costs matter more to them, at least. Research on climate should, of course, continue. But it must return to being science, not politics. And the current crop of scaremongers should be shown the door.

Doomsday didn't sell, and it shows...