The response to COVID-19
which mainly kills older people
with serious medical problems,
was applied to everyone.
The resulting "instant recession"
will probably cause more damage
than the disease.
Political decisions were justified
by "experts" ... even though there
were no COVID-19 experts at the
time, and there are still no experts,
until the disease has become
"history".
In climate science,
any scientist with a
non-consensus view is
dismissed as “You’re not
a climate scientist”, ...
or ridiculed and character
attacked, if he or she
was a climate scientist.
But now even high school
dropouts are treated as
experts, such as Ms. Greta
"thundering" Thunberg.
"Experts" present complex
models instead of stating
their personal opinion,
which is exactly what
their modes will predict.
Actual data are likely to
be incomplete, biased,
or cherry picked.
Of course, for the climate
there are no actual data
for the future climate,
so just models
and predictions
define the
coming climate
change crisis.
But predictions of such
a crisis began in the late
1950's, and have been
100% wrong, so the first
rule of pretending to be
an expert, is to ignore all
past predictions !
The climate scientists are
almost all on government
payrolls, so wrong predictions
will not cost them a job, as
they might in the private sector !
Warren Buffett believes in
climate change in his private
uninformed life, and gave
$31 billion to the Gates
Foundation in 2006,
much of which went
to climate issues.
But in his professional
informed life he blows off
climate change:
From 2015{
“Up to now, climate change
has not produced more frequent
nor more costly hurricanes
nor other weather-related
events covered by insurance.
As a consequence,
U.S. super-cat rates
have fallen steadily
in recent years,
which is why we
have backed away
from that business.
If super-cats
become costlier
and more frequent,
the likely – though far
from certain – effect on
Berkshire’s
insurance business
would be to make it larger
and more profitable.”
( Note: "cat" = catastrophe )