Tuesday 1 March 2022

"When someone says, 'Just look out the window' to 'see' climate change—let alone a 'climate crisis'—you know you’re dealing with religion, not science."




"When someone says, 'Just look out the window' to 'see' climate change—let alone a 'climate crisis'—you know you’re dealing with religion, not science. Just as a religionist can 'see' God in anything, so the climate catastrophist can 'see' climate change.
    "When every bad weather event is 'evidence' of catastrophic climate change, you know you’re dealing with dogmatism.
    "When fossil fuel companies are demonised, but the fossil fuel consumers who willingly buy their products are let off the hook, you know you're dealing with injustice and bias.
    "When all of the damage caused by extreme weather is labeled a cost of fossil fuel use and a subsidy for fossil fuel companies, even though storms, fires, heat waves, cold waves, et al have always occurred, you know you're dealing with dishonesty.
    "When the wild swings of climate over the recent past—well documented by Brian Fagan in 'The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850,' which actually covers the multi-century Medieval Warm Period that came before the Little Ice Age—are ignored, you know that you’re dealing with historical white-washing.
    "When someone tells you that 'the free market won’t work' after the free markets unleashed by the Enlightenment gave us The Great Enrichment, including the ability to vastly increase man’s safety from climate dangers, you know your dealing with a statist who is not concerned with the voluntary choices or well-being of average people....
    "The points I touch on will be clarified when you watch 'Opposing Views: Is Climate Change A Problem? | Alex Epstein & Dr. Andrew Dessler'."

~ Mike LaFerrara, from his short review of 'Opposing Views: Is Climate Change a Problem?'

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