Bart Tali writes in WUWT Tips and Notes:
Great article in the WSJ.
“Climate Change Has Run Its Course”
Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality.
By Steven F. Hayward
Some excerpts:
Climate change is over. No, I’m not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue. All that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest renewable-energy rent seekers.
Judged by deeds rather than words, most national governments are backing away from forced-marched decarbonization. You can date the arc of climate change as a policy priority from 1988, when highly publicized congressional hearings first elevated the issue, to 2018. President Trump’s ostentatious withdrawal from the Paris Agreement merely ratified a trend long becoming evident.
A good indicator of why climate change as an issue is over can be found early in the text of the Paris Agreement. The “nonbinding” pact declares that climate action must include concern for “gender equality, empowerment of women, and intergenerational equity” as well as “the importance for some of the concept of ‘climate justice.’ ” Another is Sarah Myhre’s address at the most recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, in which she proclaimed that climate change cannot fully be addressed without also grappling with the misogyny and social injustice that have perpetuated the problem for decades.
Archived here: http://archive.is/a6sXH
On a supporting data note, these two Google Trends graphs, for the USA and for the world, show a clear picture of interest on the topic of global warming, or lack thereof. Note the big spike in 2006 from Al Gore’s movie, and the next spike (smaller) in 2009 from ClimateGate. Then, there’s the slow ride into obscurity. “Climate change” as a search topic has grown slightly over the same period, but runs about equal to the global warming topic today.
THE WORLD:
Source: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=climate%20change,%2Fm%2F0d063v
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Those red line graphs look a lot like the price of Bitcoin over the last 12 months.
Unfortunately we will not see this massive fraud die publicly, in the courts, where it could result in convictions for fraud and breaches of the peace.
I KNOW that this is OFF TOPIC….but it ties in with the
BREEDING OF A NEW GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS meme…….
so please forgive me,,,,,,,but I THINK IT DESERVES AN AIRING !
“Choices have consequences. It’s a simple message that sensible parents share with their children and that everyone will eventually learn for themselves.
In a sign of emotional immaturity, where a poor choice is made, some will seek to deflect blame onto others. They will rationalise and justify whatever they can to avoid responsibility themselves.
Choices have consequences. It’s a simple message that sensible parents share with their children and that everyone will eventually learn for themselves.
We have seen a stark example of that immaturity this week by some of those involved with the Australian National University (ANU).
ANU is our top rated tertiary institution that marks success by producing assorted leftists who perpetuate group-think and identity politics.
One young man I know lasted a single semester at ANU before transferring to a university that was less concerned with gender fluidity and other PC nonsense.
He commented to me that, “Every day at ANU entailed being drip-fed radical Kool-aid that was undermining the country and poisoning my mind”.
Now I know that is just one man’s personal experience but we all gained an amazing insight into the culture of ANU when – under leftist pressure – it back-flipped on hosting the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, despite winning the competitive tender for the initiative.
The Centre is funded by a massive bequest from the late philanthropist Paul Ramsay. With a $30 million annual budget, it provides scholarships and degrees to inform and advocate for the pillars of Western civilisation.
These are the very values and traditions that have underpinned our nationhood and make Western nations so attractive to those seeking a better life.
However, the advocacy of these values is too radical for the ANU, which rejected the centre. Unable to mount a credible rationale for the decision, the decision-makers chose to blame Tony Abbott.
That’s right, the leftists’ “in case of emergency break glass and blame Tony Abbott” defence was trotted out.
The former PM’s egregious sin – as a director of the Ramsay Centre – was to pen an essay stating that the Centre actually advocated for Western civilisation.
Imagine the horror of such a statement that proved to be a bridge too far for the ANU.
This esteemed taxpayer-funded institution will host a centre for Arab culture and Islamic studies but not for Western civilisation.
It will accept money from an Islamic theocracy and state sponsor of terror like Iran but won’t take a bequest from a wonderful Australian philanthropist.
It is a shameful indictment on the state of some of our tertiary indoctrination institutions.
Remarkably, the Australian government is closing the door to many students from attending some more balanced universities through penalties in their fee HELP program.
Students who choose to attend one of the four private universities cop an outrageous government ‘fee’ comprising 25% of their total student debt – that’s many thousands of dollars – for the ‘sin’ of studying outside the indoctrinating public university club.
This unjustifiable inequality removes the opportunity for many young men and women to access a university more intent on delivering quality education, practical skills and employability rather than thought-compliance and other ideological agendas.
It’s time to end this unjustifiable financial bias against our private universities. If the government needed any reason to act then the ANU has given them a perfect one.”
Cory Bernardi.
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THIS is WHAT “WE” HAVE TO CONTEND WITH IN AUSTRALIA !!!
John Harmsworth………………….HELP !!!
It is a wonderful thing if the widespread interest in our ability to control the climate is fading, but we should, by now, be ever watchful for the next big thing in magical thinking about how humans are a plague to be controlled, impoverished and eventually made redundant on this planet for the sake of some progressive ideal.
Has Climate Change Advocacy Run Its Course? It sure seems so.
Wishful thinking. It’s like a commentator said about the Trump witch-hunt — they’ll keep doing it as long as they can get away with it.
I am so glad this is finally happening. Since I was dragged kicking and screaming to the Al Gore
movie in 2006 by my sister, I have known this is a leftie scam.
More graphs and tables here:
“Are Americans Losing Interest in Global Warming?”
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/06/are-americans-losing-interest-in-global.html