The myth of climate consensus: What they’re not telling you
Tom Harris
Fri Mar 14
1:01 / 9:28
We hear it all the time — the consensus of world scientists agrees that we are causing a climate emergency, and we must do everything possible to stop it! But it is a stupid statement that means nothing. Most scientists are not experts in the causes of climate change — people like biologists, particle physicists, material scientists, you name it — so most of their opinions don’t really matter.
And even if there was convincing evidence that the vast majority of scientists who do research on the causes of climate change thought that there is a man-made climate emergency (there isn’t), they are not really in a position to recommend how society should respond to such an issue. That would be a problem to be addressed by a range of experts in such fields as economics, health sciences, civil and energy engineering, emergency management, demographics, public policy development, and perhaps even social psychology and political science.
The 50 to 1 project explored the costs of stopping climate change versus adapting to it, as and if it’s required. They concluded that it’s 50 times more expensive to try to STOP climate change than it is to simply ADAPT to it (as and if required). Climatedepot.com executive Director Marc Morano sums up the situation:
https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-myth-of-climate-consensus-what-theyre-not-telling-you/