Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Anthropology professor Wade Davis wants to declare war on global warming, comparing the battle against CO2 to military conflict in WW2.
Writing in The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto, Canada;
… Why have we not fully mobilized and declared war on global warming?
According to Rajendra Pachauri, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the climate crisis could be fully mitigated and the world’s economy transformed with an investment equivalent to 3 per cent of global GDP. By way of comparison, the United States devoted 40 per cent of its GDP to achieve military victory in the Second World War. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito, Calif., spat out Liberty ships at a rate of one a day for four years. Ford Motor Co. alone produced more industrial output than the entire country of Italy. Farm boys of 17, after seven months of training, were flying B-17 bombers over Germany. The U.S. and its allies recognized a mortal danger, reached an inescapable conclusion, and went to work. If climate change is the threat we now know it to be, why has the international response been so fundamentally tepid?
On my last day in Copenhagen, I put this question to Carter Roberts, head of the World Wildlife Fund. The situation, he suggested, comes down to four basic possibilities. If the scientists are wrong, and we do nothing, little changes. If they are wrong and we act, the worst that will happen will be an economic stimulus that will result in a cleaner environment, a more technologically integrated world and a healthier planet. If they are right, and we do nothing, the potential consequences are at best bad, at worst catastrophic, with scenarios so bleak as to defy the darkest imaginings of science fiction. If the scientific consensus holds, and we aggressively marshal our financial resources and technological brilliance to confront the challenge, we will be able to, for a relatively small investment, head off potential disaster and make for a better world. It was difficult to conjure a losing scenario, save that of inaction. …
Read: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-not-a-war-on-global-warming/article27550301/
Davis is wrong about wartime benefits to the economy. War stimulates the economy, in the same way that breaking all the windows in town stimulates business for glaziers. Some sectors of the economy do really well – at the expense of everyone else.
In a real war, defence is the overwhelming priority, so people don’t mind foregoing luxuries to keep their children safe. This is how alarmists want us all to think about global warming.
But wars are also the time of parasites and profiteers. Wars are when criminals who arrange corrupt deals with politicians wielding extraordinary wartime powers grow rich. Nobody has time to scrutinise government expenditure when the enemy is at the gates. An endless war against global warming would be, and in my opinion is, an unprecedented opportunity for the unscrupulous to plunder the wealth of ordinary people.
The truth is the world, or at least the Western world, is already pretty much on a wartime footing against global warming. People are getting fed up with the cost of it all, with the blazing hypocrisy of our jetset planetary saviours. They are also fed up with the fact the problems of global warming are largely imaginary, invented by fools and profiteers.
A war on CO2 has been underway for some time now. Economic suicide is the strategy of choice.
As yet another ISIS terrorist attack on innocent people hits California, we see our leaders still demanding a war on exhaling CO2. Don’t hold your breath for when they will recognize the real dangers here.
Declaring war on a molecule absolutely essential for all life on the planet?!?!
These loons are suicidal and want to take all life out with them. They need to be locked up in a mental institution.
What else might be expected from a professor of, of all things, anthropology? Is it romanticism based on false beliefs about primitives?
The Liberal government, of the province of Ontario in Canada, has been devoted to green energy. People are noticing. The latest is the Auditor General of the province. CBC story. The good people of Ontario are paying roughly twice as much for electricity as does the rest of Canada. I haven’t read it yet but apparently the Auditor General’s report is scathing.
The thing to notice here is that the left leaning CBC is extensively reporting on this. Normally they report on everything global warming. This morning the business commentator, Michael Hlinka, covered the Auditor General’s comments on the situation. Later this morning the CBC is interviewing the Auditor General specifically on the subject.
Ontario is the poster child for the war on global warming. Here’s what it looks like. When the CBC reports extensively on it you know that it’s a scandal.
Like the governmental wars on human nature (poverty and drug use) were so effective we now can start one against nature.
Does anyone have the Earth average temperature graph, the one that shows a virtually flat line at 14F? Thanks.
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1997/plot/rss/from:1997/trend
Thanks, but the info I gave was wrong. Someone on here compiled it. It’s in F so it must be around 57 (not 14c). It shows temp going back about 30 years or so, and is therefore virtually a flat line of 57-degree data. Anyone?
That does not exist. But see:
http://theinconvenientskeptic.com/2013/03/misunderstanding-of-the-global-temperature-anomaly/
“But wars are also the time of parasites and profiteers. Wars are when criminals who arrange corrupt deals with politicians wielding extraordinary wartime powers grow rich.”
That’s true, but I think with CAGW the corruption will be on steroids. At least during wartime the politicians, hustlers, and the common people all have a similar vested interest in their side winning. So the profiteers aren’t going to fleece the people too bad or they’re going to be up a creek too. And, eventually the war ends. With CAGW there’s really no enemy so the corrupt have nothing to lose.
Don’t know why such tw8ts keep on with if else then or not…la.la.la. Ok…its money always!
Where anything related to this planet and its wider environment goes one way or another wildly or not we are finished. I thought we were creeping into the Sun anyway?
Too cold and its a real miserable extinction whereas warm means a good time all round..for a while perhaps? No amount of money with/without hand wringing will halt any of it.
One of UK’s older power stations in Northumberland has gone to biomass after scheduled shut down. I assume thats chippings from the USA. The freaking EU again! And the UK Gov.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6214_en.htm
“One of UK’s older power stations in Northumberland has gone to biomass after scheduled shut down. I assume thats chippings from the USA”
Biomass???–isn’t that something produced in large amounts in the halls of congress???
The war on CO2 would make the Road Warrior look like a picnic. Great plot for a sifi movie. The armies of the world running around destroying every last oil field, coal mine and refinery. Then the army of Right realizes that it no longer has fuel for its trucks, tanks, planes and ships, which themselves must be destroyed as evil fossil fuel users before they fall into the hands of the rebel refiners. Ultimately the military androids turn on the humans, wiping them out as the last identifiable human sources of the evil gas. Meanwhile, the plants, which have gone into productive overdrive feasting on the human CO2, create a precipitous crash in CO2 levels when the human supply suddenly disappears, driving the level below what is necessary to sustain plant life. The only survivors are the androids.
If the looneys on the left want a war against Climate Change then all the sane people on the right should enter that war DEFENDING Climate Change !! To arms !! LOL
Thanks, Eric Worrall.
I have been in a data war against global warming scammers since “An Inconvenient Truth” appeared on the scene and we were hit with a hockey stick.
[Removed dupes. .mod]
Meanwhile, the G&M also carries an editorial today that details how much Ontarians are overpaying for electricity, courtesy of the clueless Liberal government. Quotes:
“For example, the auditor finds that the province is paying twice as much for wind power as American utilities, three and a half times as much for solar power and, in the most exceptional incident of economic illogic, has a biomass plant in Thunder Bay producing electricity at 25 times the average price in the rest of the province.”
“Let’s try to put those numbers in context. Electricity overpriced by $170-billion is equivalent to $12,326 in excess costs for every man, woman and child in Ontario. Over 27 years, that averages out to $457 per person, per year.”
Thanks, Eric Worrall.
I have been at war against the global warming scam since we hit with a hockey stick and an inconvenient truth appeared on the scene.
Any time the criminal enterprise of the US federal government declares a “war” on something I am assured of two things. The war will deprive me of property and take away my liberty.
War in this context means spending orgy which is what climate change is all about anyway. They have already tried Marshall Plan and moon shot. Next up is Great (global) Society.
If this proposed War on Climate is waged as vigorously as Obama’s War on Isis, we have nothing to fear (except ISIS, of course).
” Why have we not fully mobilized and declared war on global warming?” Because the vast majority of people consider tilting at windmills a waste of time?
Especially against windmills they’ve constructed, using their own imaginary hockey sticks.
Not eliminating ISIS, Al Qaeda, et al decreases the population’s concern with AGW and the polls are certainly showing this. This is made even worse for the left when their supreme leader employs subtleties and naïveté in describing the Jihadists. He and his ilk use harsher words when relating to AGW – it has become their own ‘cut off your nose to spite your face’ conundrum.
Republicans are Obama’s REAL enemy–THEY would strip him of his gravy train planes and all the other perks he abuses, including a much-anticipated position as Politician of the World.
I really wish senate Republicans had that much spine.
But it’s true that Obama’s only chance to be King of the World as UN Sec/Gen depends on getting another Democrat elected POTUS.
I think that’s the central deal at this point, between O and Hillary. Notice how the treason charges pending against her have quietly gone away…
Would this war on climate change also include the incarceration and “disposal” of those termed deniers?
It will happen as soon as they can… although ‘re-education’ will likely be the catch-phrase.
Isn’t history a wonderful guide for those who chose to look at it instead of rewrite it?
Bon Ki Moon and is precious UN are funding ISIS. If Bon can get ISIS to destroy Washington DC then Bon and company will annex New York City to keep the pesky and foulmouthed New York citizenry from complaining about his “diplomat’s” diplomatic immunity when it comes to double and over parking and using their Roils Royce limos to rundown the rat-faced crackers on the streets of New York around the UN Central Command.
Maybe because it will be as successful as the war on poverty, drugs, cancer, terror?
‘Anthropology’ professor. Sigh. I see things like this and I think, ‘maybe Darwin was wrong.’
Yep. The “stupid” gene appears to be taking over. Maybe Ma Nature is tired of us.
“Nature abhors a moron.”
—H.L. Mencken
Trudeau is jetsetting a sound the world, throwing taxpayer’s money away to everyone except the 1 in 10 Canadians living in poverty. The sad fact is that wvetone of the 25000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada will get double what we give retired seniors in Canada. After a lifetime of paying taxes the average Canadian would be better off to tear up their citizenship and come to Canada as a refugee.
But in Trudeau’s mind we are better of giving away billions to other countries while tens of thousands of little old ladies across Canada will be eating cat food for dinner, because that is the only meat they can afford.
I say we should go ahead and let the global warming cult form their Nu Earth Unicorn Brigade and wage a full out war on CAGW. In fact, I have footage of what this war may look like: