With apologies to the late great Yogi Berra, who surely would have something to say about this climate inanity, and via Bishop Hill, we have this reminder of the ghost of alarmism past:
Sir John Houghton once famously said:
Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen.
Except actually he didn’t say that. His real words were:
“If we want a good environmental policy in the future we’ll have to have a disaster.”
Now, in an eerie echo of the learned Sir John, we have the words of Robert Stavins, the head of Harvard’s Environmental Economics program:
It’s unlikely that the U.S. is going to take serious action on climate change until there are observable, dramatic events, almost catastrophic in nature, that drive public opinion and drive the political process in that direction
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“…. action in Congress on climate change has ground to a halt, and ….. it will take a monumental reason to restart it. ….”
Congress Shmongress. As our President pulls farther and farther away from Constitutional concepts of the separation of powers, the power to ‘regulate’ climate falls to one Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, who works only for the President. Don’t need no steenkin’ Congress.
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Philosopher Y. Berra
This sounds like a scientist lamenting that the public is demanding unambiguous evidence before they will actually believe something. Pardon me…but shouldn’t scientists be demanding such behavior from the public, not lamenting it?