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The ‘Climate Crisis’ Is Fading As Unachievable Goals Collide With Exploding Costs
by Steven E. Koonin  2 hours ago
 

The 2015 Paris Agreement aspired to “reduce the risks and impacts of climate change” by eliminating greenhouse gas emissions in the latter half of this century. The centerpiece of the strategy was a global transition to low-emission energy systems. [emphasis, links added]

After nearly a decade, it’s timely to ask how that energy transition is progressing and how it might fare in the future.


A useful framework for that assessment is the “issue attention cycle” described in 1972 by Brookings Institution economist Anthony Downs.

The five phases of that cycle mark the rise, peak, and decline in public salience of major environmental (and other) problems. It’s spooky to see how closely the energy transition has so far followed Downs’s description.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-climate-crisis-is-fading-as-unachievable-goals-collide-with-exploding-costs/
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Title:
The ‘Climate Crisis’ Is Fading As Unachievable Goals Collide With Exploding Costs...

The "goals" were always phony,
but
The "costs" were always real.

The "crisis" was the greatest fabrication in human history. A total lie.

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Title:
The ‘Climate Crisis’ Is Fading As Unachievable Goals Collide With Exploding Costs...

The "goals" were always phony,
but
The "costs" were always real.

The "crisis" was the greatest fabrication in human history. A total lie.

Just one of the many charades that have been devised to get public $$$ into private pockets!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Just one of the many charades that have been devised to get public $$$ into private pockets!
Not just that, but to divest people of their rights, and businesses.

This has been building when ALGore, Maurice Strong, and George Soros failed to cash in on their multitrillion dollar carbon credit scheme.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
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Not just that, but to divest people of their rights, and businesses.

This has been building when ALGore, Maurice Strong, and George Soros failed to cash in on their multitrillion dollar carbon credit scheme.

 :yowsa: pointing-up
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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The CLIMATE CRISIS iS IMPLODING because it is a


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The CLIMATE CRISIS iS IMPLODING because it is a


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How long will it take to clean up the 30 or so years of nonsense that has pervaded virtually every aspect of society and 'scientific study' and literature, right down to fiction, hollywood, and children's cartoons?

THis should be one of the greatest embarrassments of human history.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis