Should be an eye opener for some …
//www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/was-climate-change-greatest-financial-scandal-history
//www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/was-climate-change-greatest-financial-scandal-history
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CC likes C and P...in your face!
Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.
?And for what?
Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources.
The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree—as even the alarmists will admit.
In other words, $16 trillion has been spent—a lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse—but there is not a penny of measurable payoff.
But it’s much worse than that.
In economics there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?
What if the $16 trillion had been spent on clean water for poor countries?
Preventing avoidable deaths from diseases like malaria?
Building schools in African villages to end illiteracy?
Bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than 1 billion people who still lack access? Curing cancer?
Many millions of lives could have been saved.
We could have lifted millions more out of poverty.
The benefits of speeding up the race for the cure for cancer could have added tens of millions of additional years of life at an economic value in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain.
For this reason, it is important that we identify the green “climate change” derangement syndrome as perhaps the most inhumane political movement in history.
The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside. We’ve reached peak global warming craziness in the U.S., for sure, and even Europe seems to have turned its back on its economically masochistic net zero fossil fuels obsession.
Donald Trump is wisely and rapidly dismantling the climate change industrial complex.
Of all his pro-growth economic policies, there may be none with a higher longtime payoff than his recent order to repeal the mother of all costly regulations: the anti-fossil fuels “endangerment rule” taxing carbon dioxide emissions. The cost of that regulation had been estimated to exceed $1 trillion over time.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk.
But we can stop the madness of actually believing that politicians who can’t even pay off the balance on their credit cards can somehow change the world’s temperature.
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Funny how this will NEVER make the local news!Comment
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Money talks as in "IT'S ALL MADE UP ANYWAY!" aka CBC bit ch Rosie hot mike!
Truth/facts, erased, avoided, denied for $$$$
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Climate change is a hoax? On hyper partisan antiscience fools say such crap!
The cost of climate change will far exceed transitioning to clean energy.
Even Steve Harper said we would stop burning fossil fuels.Comment
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Well then PHUCK him too!Comment
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“Even Steve Harper said we would stop burning fossil fuels. [/QUOTE]”
Yep by the year 2100 lol
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Yeah in 1 lifetime if you were born in 2026.
The very fact he said it should be enough to confirm there is a problem!
But of course you are never going to convince flat earthers and other science deniers like Flipper, Absurd 5 and BL.
They will stand at the bottom of the Columbia ice fields looking at the dates of where the glaciers were over the decades and tell you that the earth is cooling!Comment
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Is there actually a problem, or Harper just laying out common sense that ya in 75 years it’s possible ?
Canada will still need base power from natural gas and nuclear cause hydro will slowly fade over time and solar/ wind are just window dressing in most of Canada
I do need to convince anyone , it is what it isComment
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