IPCC: We Call Your Bluff (COP 27 alarmism in the air)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 17, 2022“Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future,” said Hans-Otto Pörtner. (IPCC, below)
… government (coercive) mitigation policy is being left behind by self-interested energy actions around the world. Wind and solar and batteries … are running into limits. A new public policy era post-COP27 is called for. (RLB, below)
The UN Conference of Parties to be held in Cairo, Egypt, next month (COP27) has long been in preparation. Net Zero may be a dead he/she walking (Halloween fright?), but expect no backtracking from the Church of Climate. “Don’t Look Up” … IPCC reports … ExxonKnew … it is a one-after-the-other global media campaign to not focus on the Green Energy Crises or the tripartite fossil-fuel boom but on … Net Zero.…
Continue ReadingGray Greenwashing: Is Regulation Next?
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 13, 2022“The Voluntary Carbon Market has produced some of the most egregious examples of #greenwashing on record and is synonymous with a lack of integrity. Voluntary Schemes do not work and are a distraction from reducing carbon to displacing responsibility for carbon emissions.” (Paul Watchman, UK, below)
Last week, three posts at MasterResource documented the problem of carbon offsets as a partial solution to the alleged problem of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions:
- Carbon Offsets: Tricky Math
- Carbon Offsets: Want to Get Sued? (greenwashing as illegality)
- ‘Greenwashing’ Corporate Profits amid Political, Media Pressure (it’s what you get …)
This post shares a recent plea form ESG architect/proponent Paul Watchman for regulating the gray green market. His post follows:
The Voluntary Carbon Market has produced some of the most egregious examples of #greenwashing on record and is synonymous with a lack of integrity.…
Continue Reading‘Deep Optimism Manifesto’ (David Siegel’s cure for ‘climate anxiety’)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 12, 2022David Siegel is a man with a message. His Deep Optimism Manifesto spells out a new approach to viewing the world that is at once realistic and optimistic. Written last year, its message is timeless and timely. His opening quotation comes from Julian Simon’s essay in The State of Humanity, p. 642.
I am writing this in response to the Ecomodernism manifesto. It’s a group of smart people doing very important work to help improve the future for humanity and nature.
I think if they looked more into the science of climate change and the economics of abundance, they would arrive at Deep Optimism, a term coined by Matt Ridley, the rational optimist.
People who understand the economics of abundance don’t apply enough critical thinking to understanding climate and the natural world (Hans Rosling, Bjorn Lomborg, Peter Diamandis, Tyler Cowen, Steven Pinker).…
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