Techcrunch shows in a new article just how extreme climate change hysteria has become.
The piece’s complaint is that the latest IPCC report says that the 1.5°C target might not be met, and that we might go as far as 2.0°C. As the IPCC reports also say that’s not a huge problem. It’s something we can mitigate and adapt to. That, of course, is entirely different from the worries that we might go to 3°C, or 4°C, and the world becomes very, very different. That is, by the way, what those official reports say.
But leave that aside and think about what is being said here about money. Instead of venture capital being spent on software and computers and such, it should instead be piled into solving climate change. Which is where being innumerate comes in. The amount being talked about – $122 billion on software as a service company – is entirely trivial when compared to what is being spent on climate change. Germany alone has spent nearly two trillion euros (about $2.2 trillion dollars) already on trying to deal with climate change. There really is no shortage of money sloshing around to be spent on green things that might solve climate change.
But they’re also being illogical. Take software, just as an example. That plus the internet means we can work from home. That reduces transport emissions. This is part of the point about climate change, everything must change. But that then means that every change is part of dealing with climate change.
The point is not to pick little holes in the arguments presented. It’s to show how badly the climate change story is being understood, even by those who handle money. We’d think – we’d hope – that they are calculating machines, doing what actually works. But here, as with the mania for ESG (environmental, social, governance) issues at banks and investment funds, people seem to be losing sight of how things work.
Yes, OK, climate change. We need to reduce emissions. But the US – and most of Europe – is reducing emissions. U.S. emissions per person are down at least 25% since their peak in the 1970s. We have made solar and wind power cheap, we are building them out. The electric vehicle revolution is happening. The internet has reduced emissions hugely. Better shipping reduces emissions. International trade can – can – reduce emissions (think what the emissions from greenhouses to grow pineapples in Canada would be) and on and on.
But people – even money people like those at Techcrunch – are so swept up in the “end of days” thinking that they refuse to acknowledge what is already being done.
We blame the general mis- and dis- information about climate change in the usual media ourselves. This piece in Techcrunch is both a result of that and a further iteration of it getting worse. Why aren’t investors doing more about climate change? Well, the complaint is mostly because you’re not recognizing what investors have already done about it. A 25% and accelerating reduction in emissions is pretty good. All caused by people investing their money to build things that solve the problem.
Why is it that the media in general simply never recognizes what has already been done? Sure, we can argue that more should be, we might even argue that ourselves. But given that what has been done clearly works it’s – to be polite about it – no obvious that the current system of getting things done doesn’t work, is it?
But to read any journalism on the subject – as here at Techcrunch, some massive change is necessary – and we’re told that the entire system must change and now.
What, the system that works so well at dealing with the problem being complained about?
This article originally appeared in Accuracy in Media. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News. Republished with permission.
Blah, blah, blah. The scam is for nothing else but control starting with Gore’s Florida will be underwater global warming garbage by the year 2000 which was switched to “climate change” drivel to keep the push on for control. Last year we were in a serious drought which happens once in a while BUT this year we have record snowfall already with more coming which will rebuild our water base in this high desert region. In the past climate cycles this happened gradually and not all at once and the cycles dry and went ran about 30 years. The scam is just trash being trash because we have no control over it which the power mongering trash wants us to believe.
If the emissions from India and China cannot be controlled, whatever we do means nothing.
It never did.
You shouldn’t use your real name as your moniker.
Guesswork must mesh with agenda or uni-party goals are threatened.
It’s obvious that Windmills are doing more harm to the environment than good!! They are killing birds and Bees at an alarming rate!
This means we will not have enough bees to pollinate our plants and that will stop us from growing our food. (What’s wrong, that people no longer know how to think past their noses?? Also when we kill off this many birds; we will have a much greater adverse insect population?? Does anyone THINK about these Horrible effects??
Where are the people in our government that are supposed to be SMART?
Are they all stupid now days??
Also how about C02? The trees convert C02 into healthy oxygen! That’s 7th grade science for Pete’s Sake!!
Don’t we have any “critical thinkers” anymore?? Is so where the heck are they and why are they NOT SPEAKING OUT TO THE TRUTH??
Thank
We have very few thinkers, critical or otherwise. That is not an accident. The so called education system has been designed to make that happen.
As long as they can continue to make tons of money on it, it will continue forever. As they fly all over attending meetings giving speeches and patting each other on the back for being so caring, wonderful and self-important while regulating our lives. IMO
Yet none drive EVs for climate change
I still read of the MYTH that CO2 causes warming. that was SHOWN FALSE by a study of 400,000 years of ice core samples in Vostok, Antarctica:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html
This whole SCAM is by the idiot “environmentalists” who love the Communist Propaganda to get leftists to think the world was better back in the 1800s.
“Why is it that the media in general simply never recognizes what has already been done?”
Two reasons that seem pretty obvious.
How can you fix something that does not exist in the first place?