Environmental Priorities vs. ‘Climate Change’

Classic articles are worth remembering. One in the environmental field was a prioritization of environmental issues back in 2020 by Bjorn Lomborg, “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies“

“What is the world’s deadliest environmental problem?,” asks Bjorn Lomborg. The answer:

Not climate. Outdoor and indoor air pollution. Let’s not get so scared about climate that we forget the much bigger problems. Read more in my peer-reviewed article: https://sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0040162520304157.

This result explains why today, climate alarm is just not resonating with the public to the chagrin of the alarmists. Bill McKibben faults the New York Times and Democrats for throwing in the political towel. “I’m saddened to see how little our representatives in DC seem to really care, even the Democratic ones,” he begins:

Too many Democratic leaders are feeling comfortable waving off climate concerns, because of a feeling that it might be a political problem for them.

Are Climate Psychedelics ‘Cultists’?

My post, Psychedelics for Climate Action, struck a nerve. The head of the tripping group, Marissa Feinberg, considered the parenthetical statement “12,000 cultists” was defamatory. I have received three warnings and a threat of legal action (see the end of the post below).

Hallucinates … Hallucinations … How strange. I quoted Feinberg: “Our psychedelic-climate leaders are active today, creating change and doing compelling transformational work in this space.”

A definition of “cult” includes different meanings:

• “a relatively small group of people having beliefs or practices, especially relating to religion, that are regarded by others as strange or sinister or as imposing excessive control over members” (here)
• “a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular thing” (here)
• “a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object” (here)

Similar terms are identified as “sect, denomination, church, faith, belief, persuasion, affiliation, movement, group, body, faction, clique.”…

UK Energy Schizophrenia (all pain, no gain)

“Whilst the government is pursuing a pragmatic approach to the North Sea, we have to accept the geological reality that North Sea gas production has declined by 74% since its peak in 2000 and we have been a net importer of gas since 2004.” – UK Government Report (below)

The United Kingdom represents less than one percent of global CO2 emissions. Yet the political class, including academic experts, will not be deterred from social injustice for consumers and self-annihilation of its economy. UK energy statism is tears-in-the-ocean–and for the wrong cause.

The latest report from the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, titled “Gas System in Transition: Security of Supply (Interim Response),” tries to square the circle between decarbonization and economy. “The UK must decarbonize because of volatile, higher oil and natural gas prices, yet energy affordability is important too.”…

Energy Labor-saving Day

Taxpayer Subsidies for Chinese Batteries? Just Say No!

Betsy “Code Green” Rosenberg: Emotional Climatism

Climate Majority Project: Scientists “Freaking Out”

Adapt, Europe (stop whining)

“We Don’t Have Time” (climate pity party)

Peak Gas, Peak Demand? McKibben in Fantasy Land