Amsterdam just became the world’s first capital to outlaw public ads for both meat and fossil fuels. But advertising bans serve only to boost a feeling of moral superiority among urban elites while achieving nothing and jeopardizing much, says Vijay Jayaraj.
In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies.
Unless the current crop of left-liberal governments in Europe and allied capitals is replaced by administrations willing to confront economic and physical reality, they will continue their tremendously destructive course, says Tilak Doshi.
The speed at which ASEAN nations abandoned their net-zero pledges should tell you everything you need to know about the viability of the climate agenda. The moment a real threat emerged, the green energy transition was exposed as a luxury belief, says Vijay Jayaraj.
Attribution Science is being used to justify lawsuits and media narratives about a climate catastrophe rather than to advance scientific understanding, said Ralph Alexander in his recent Clintel/ICSF Lecture.
This week, the WHO tried once again to scare us senseless with fearmongering about climate change. It allegedly poses a catastrophic threat to public health. These claims are easily debunked and raise the question of what the WHO’s real agenda is, says Marcel Crok.
The Met Office must remove it’s deeply flawed work (UKCP18) with a notification that any policies arising from its discredited figures, should be re-examined, says Chris Morrison.
In a recent John Stossel interview, climate policy researcher Roger Pielke Jr. describes how he was professionally punished by the White House, Congress and his own University. He refused to abandon his views: “You can’t be cancelled.”
For more than three decades, climate policy has been built on a central premise: that rising populations and expanding economies would inevitably drive ever-increasing pressure on the planet. But the world that gave rise to that assumption, no longer exists.
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” said George Orwell. This seems to be the case with Ed Miliband who is now doubling down on the very climate policies built atop a now-discredited foundation.
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