Guest essay by Eric Worrall
CNN laments that Covid-19 didn’t mess up the economy or frighten people enough to bring lasting change. But some see the Coronavirus lockdowns as a “test run”, which may help shape future climate policies.
The pandemic didn’t solve climate change. This week’s disasters are proof
By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN
Updated 0445 GMT (1245 HKT) September 18, 2020
(CNN)If you thought Covid-19 restrictions, like enforced lockdowns and social distancing, would put a lasting dent in our collective carbon footprint and save the world from warming, you were mistaken.
Earlier this year, in the midst of a horrific news cycle and a rapidly mounting death toll, that notion was a welcome silver lining to the pandemic. As people around the world stayed at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus, greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport industries plummeted, dropping to record lows.
But it may have given some a false sense that the worst effects of climate change were being mitigated. They’re not.
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But Donald Trump might have you believe otherwise.
Earlier this week, the US President seemed to question whether climate change was fanning the flames raging up and down the West Coast — despite scientific evidence showing that global warming is increasing the odds in favor of extreme wildfire weather.
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Kelman, whose book, “Disaster by Choice,” looks at how our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes, says that though lockdowns may not have made a big impact on mitigating the climate crisis in the long term, they have shown that change is possible.
“We’ve been told for a long time that changing society overnight is not possible. What lockdown showed is that it is,” said Kelman.
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“This has been, to some extent, been a test run of the positives and negatives, the possibilities and the harm. What we need to ensure is that we are helping people, we are creating jobs, we are supporting livelihoods, at the same time as reducing all forms of consumption. And this should not happen overnight.”
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/18/weather/coronavirus-lockdowns-climate-change-extreme-weather-intl/index.html
Is anyone else fed up with this miserable small minded green vision of the future, in which lockdowns are considered a trial run for what we shall all have to endure on a permanent basis?
I don’t want a future in which I have to look over my shoulder, in case the climate police catch me turning up my thermostat a few degrees, or pull me over for driving an unauthorised distance from my house.
I want a future in which my weekend choice is either a quick hypersonic commercial jet flight to enjoy a bit of sunshine on the other side of the world, or a weekender in an orbital zero gravity amusement park.
All we have to do to have a chance to personally experience a glorious future of unlimited energy expenditure, longer, more comfortable lives, and opportunities beyond our wildest dreams, is tell todays greens where they can shove their climate lockdowns.
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Translation:
We failed to use the COVID imaginary pandemic to completely break the economy.
Here’s their vision for how they want us to live:
Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk — that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh — a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs.
An electric bell rang.
The woman touched a switch and the music was silent.
“I suppose I must see who it is”, she thought, and set her chair in motion. The chair, like the music, was worked by machinery and it rolled her to the other side of the room where the bell still rang importunately.
“Who is it?” she called. Her voice was irritable, for she had been interrupted often since the music began. She knew several thousand people, in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously.
But when she listened into the receiver, her white face wrinkled into smiles, and she said:
“Very well. Let us talk, I will isolate myself. I do not expect anything important will happen for the next five minutes — for I can give you fully five minutes, Kuno. Then I must deliver my lecture on ‘Music during the Australian Period’.”
She touched the isolation knob, so that no one else could speak to her. Then she touched the lighting apparatus, and the little room was plunged into darkness.
“Be quick!” she called, her irritation returning. “Be quick, Kuno; here I am in the dark wasting my time.”
But it was fully fifteen seconds before the round plate that she held in her hands began to glow. A faint blue light shot across it, darkening to purple, and presently she could see the image of her son, who lived on the other side of the earth, and he could see her.
https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf
Manua Loa CO2 trend keeps trending despite oil based fuel transport falling off a cliff for most of the year. We arent as CO2 infuential as the alarmists would like to promote. If only they focussed on where we we do real damage, their efforts might even be useful.
What lockdown did prove was that cutting CO2 production by nearly 20% had no effect at all on global CO2 levels.
NO2 levels fell off a cliff houwever.
So, are we really sure all that CO2 in the air came from us?
yes. Co2 from fossil fuel has a distinct isotopic signature.
We can congratulate ourselves, then, for adding enough carbon dioxide to the atmosphere that mass starvation in third-world countries has been averted! Most people have been so brainwashed about the alarmist’s theory regarding fossil fuels that they can’t fathom the enormous benefits it has regarding worldwide foodstuff production! Viva la CO2!
Shhh – don’t get them started on something potentially harmful, like NO2.
It’s worse than we thought…
William Barr called the lockdowns the biggest violation of constitutional rights since slavery!
And he’s right!
Well clearly, the pandemic didn’t solve the scaremongering antiscience idiocy of the lamestream presstitutes media.
CNN. Chit Not News!!!!!!
From the article: “But it may have given some a false sense that the worst effects of climate change were being mitigated.”
What effects? There are no effects from Human-caused Climate Change because Human-caused Climate Change has never been shown to be real.
The author is seeing things that are not there. This is called ignorance or delusion, or both.
From the article: “But Donald Trump might have you believe otherwise.
Earlier this week, the US President seemed to question whether climate change was fanning the flames raging up and down the West Coast — despite scientific evidence showing that global warming is increasing the odds in favor of extreme wildfire weather.”
There is no evidence for Human-caused global warming (that’s what she is talking about), so, therefore, there can be no evidence showing increasing odds in favor of extreme wildfire weather due to Human-caused Global Warming.
I guess we shouldn’t blame her too much for being so deluded about the Earth’s climate. A lot of alarmist people have put in a lot of effort to fool people like her. So she assumes too much, as do millions of others.
The only way not to feel hysterical about the constant propaganda about Human-caused Climate Change is to read WUWT. That’s where all the scary stories are put into perspective.
Climate change policies outlined by Joe Biden will leave us so weak from general starvation that no one will have the strength to go out – so yes lock down is good training for the armageddon to come.
The week ending April 18 saw 17,052 so-called Covid-19 deaths in the USA. The week ending September 19, last week, saw 149. This is over.
Tell all your friends!
The week ending April 18 saw 17,052 so-called Covid-19 deaths in the USA. The week ending September 19, last week, saw 149. This is over.
Yeah, but there are so many new CASES!!!!!
(Notice how the concern has switched to that, as the death counts have dropped?)