The "long whimper" of failing climate alarmism

IMHO, you’re not going to generate much outrage over Pachauri’s novel among a population which believe Miley Cyrus is an artist.
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Never heard of him, what’s he painted?
SteveT 🙂

It’s even more ironic than you think. The Pacific NW has been awash (no pun) with cheap electricity for nearly 100 years from hydroelectric dams on a river which flows right through Oregon’s largest metro area. Yet abundant, cheap, clean, “carbon free” [sic] hydroelectric power ain’t considered “renewable” and won’t count as such under the CECTA!

I live in Portland, Oregon. We don’t have just one set of loonies here we have several. They compete for office. Out with the old loony in with the new loony.
Once there was a huge campaign to save the trees so paper bags in supermarkets were banned. They went to plastic. We had that for a while till a new set of loonies took office. PLASTIC BAGS ARE CARBON BASED AND DON’T DISINTEGRATE! They banned plastic and we went back to paper bags. There is a group that wants to ban both and only allow customer owned reusable bags. The supermarkets would no longer provide bags.
Portland now has an “art tax” — the people taxed to support government approved art. The most famous (infamous?) piece of art in Portland is called “Portlandia”, the second largest copper hammered statue in the US. Its of a woman in classical dress kneeling, trident in one hand and the other hand reaching down towards the street below. It is a couple stories up on a building on a street lined on both sides with other tall buildings. Below the statue are some tall street trees. So you walk across to the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street (forty five feet?) and look up and all you see are treetops. The statue is totally invisible from street level. Even if the trees were cut down (Heaven forbid! This is Portland!) the upward slant of viewing would make the statue unappreciable. Several offices in buildings across from it must have a nice view of it, I admit. That statue is 30 years old and Portland has left classical behind. Our brave new art world is gearing up. I have no doubt windmill art is in our future.
Portland is the place where the city built a huge wall of solar panels — fixed in direction — that happen to face almost angled away from the sun’s path. It was best use of the land space to cram the most solar panels in. That they don’t face the sun was, obviously, not important.
Portland is the place of light rail (the crown jewel of the environmentalists) and a bus system run by the same agency. The buses make money. The light rail loses it in great gobs. Every year there is a budget shortfall and they cut more money making bus lines. That’s called liberal finance.
Portland has a great public library system. It use to be financed by the city. City runs short of money so what do they do? Cut any of their wingding programs? No, this is Portland. They look at Portland’s beloved library and realize that if they drop the library system from the budget they can keep all their wingding programs. So they declare that the library system will no longer be funded by the city but every three years a special levy will be placed on the ballot to fund the library system. Vote Yes and keep your library. Vote No and the libraries close. In a strange way you have to admire such underhandedness. They kept all their wingding programs and found a way to raise everybody’s taxes without seeming to do it themselves — after all, none of the levy goes into the city budget, all directly to the library.
Eugene WR Gallun

It will never be over, the hominid imagination is too influential.
The alarmists have a good narrative, it’s not about reality, it’s about saving the world, comparable to the Christian narrative, where the characters, as they are presented in the Bible, are fictions, and represent the divine on earth. Metaphor is significant in a symbolic relationship.
This debate has legs.