Friday, November 29, 2019

Climate Advice: Don’t Worry, Be Happer | Science Matters

Climate Advice: Don’t Worry, Be Happer | Science Matters
"William Happer’s Major Statement at the Best Schools Global Warming Dialogue is CO₂ will be a major benefit to the Earth
Readers can learn much from the whole document (Title is link). 
Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
"Some people claim that increased levels of atmospheric CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming, flooding from rising oceans, spreading tropical diseases, ocean acidification, and other horrors. 
But these frightening scenarios have almost no basis in genuine science. 
This Statement reviews facts that have persuaded me that more CO2 will be a major benefit to the Earth.
Extremists have conflated these genuine environmental concerns with the emission of CO2, which cannot be economically removed from exhaust gases. 
Calling CO2 a “pollutant” that must be eliminated, with even more zeal than real pollutants, is Orwellian Newspeak.[3] 
“Buying insurance” against potential climate disasters by forcibly curtailing the use of fossil fuels is like buying “protection” from the mafia. 
There is nothing to insure against, except the threats of an increasingly totalitarian coalition of politicians, government bureaucrats, crony capitalists, thuggish nongovernmental organizations like Greenpeace, etc."
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