Don’t expect the greens’ 1,600% mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course

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Don’t expect the greens’ 1,600% mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course

By NY Post Editorial Board
August 13, 2023

For climate warriors and enviro-radicals, the science (their science, anyway) is always “settled.”

That is, until it isn’t.

The latest backtrack? Turns out there’s less plastic in the oceans than claimed. Far less.

Per a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans each year, not the 8 million tons previously bemoaned.

That’s an overestimation of 1,600%!

Meanwhile, worries about ocean plastic have fueled restrictions on the use of a range of products — shopping bags, utensils, straws — no matter the inconveniences or side effects.

But don’t expect the revised “science” to change the minds of ideologues.

The green-mongering New York Times, for example, acknowledged the wildly wrong initial estimate but still insists ocean plastic is a big problem.

“There Might Be Less Plastic in the Sea Than We Thought. But Read On,” warned its headline.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/13/dont-expect-the-greens-1600-mistake-on-ocean-plastic-to-get-them-to-change-course/