"If Machiavelli set out to devise a strategy to drive the greatest wealth transfer in history, monetizing “climate change” on the pretext of saving planet Earth from an anthropogenic apocalypse would be at the top of his list.
Globalists and climate controllers are very keen on it too.
One of them is former rock-star central banker, Dr Mark Carney ... the UN Secretary General’s new Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.
"A market in the transition to net zero is now being built…which can accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy.
It’s turning an existential risk into one of the greatest commercial opportunities of our time.
... In this way, private finance can bend the arc of history towards climate justice ... and the Glasgow of COP 26 can be reunited with the Glasgow of Adam Smith." — Reith Lecture 4, transcript, page 6, December 26, 2020
A “net zero world that people are demanding” is a tactic as old as Methuselah.
Scare sufficient folk – especially the young – into believing what you want them to believe and soon they are pressuring countries, corporations, pension funds and the gullible into supporting your Net Zero ideology in the name of “climate justice”.
... Many folk now assert ad nauseam the developed world is the primary cause of most – if not all – atmospheric variability.
The dodgy pseudoscience of “attribution” has fooled them, with help from UN agencies and a mainstream media obsessed with crises, both real and imagined.
A new religion has been created in the process.
Nasty predictions proliferate at a rate not seen since the age of Jeremiah.
... In the utopia of Net Zero everyone will be a winner.
All that is required to realise this green fantasy is an arbitrary price on “carbon” (dioxide) north of US$75 a tonne.
... an immaculate misconception extolled on BBC Radio 4:
A few economists, bankers, bureaucrats and carefully chosen alarmists zoomed in to hear about a “market solution to the climate crisis”.
... Big Climate wants a binding “ratchet mechanism” for recalcitrant countries to be endorsed at the Glasgow UN Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November.
... The choice is stark: either set out on a long march to the Promised Land of Net Zero, or face a catastrophe by 2050, one with more “tipping points” along the way than an online bookie’s tout on a good day.
... Promoting salvation – with funny-money and virtue-signaling – is more fun than exposing a global boondoggle.
A new chapter is being written for a future edition of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
... And what of the “overwhelming scientific evidence” and “remorseless logic of climate physics”?
Could it be that what we have here is more “precautionary principle” – not a principle of science – than proof of causation?
That the climate is changing is hardly surprising.
It has been doing so ever since the planet acquired an atmosphere.
What is surprising is that so many blame it on “carbon” when the controversy is actually over 0.04 per cent of an invisible trace gas, carbon dioxide.
Given its vital role in photosynthesis, yearning for a Zero Carbon world is an odd aspiration.
... plucking future temperatures out of dubious climate models is a big call, as are speculative scenarios about melting icecaps, acidifying oceans and all the ... doom and despoilation.
... Climate change is whatever you want it be: for example, any extreme weather event for which the developed world allegedly should pay loss and damage compensation.
... in the climate sciences, no such sample of Earth-like climate systems is accessible to natural observation and even less so to experimental testing
… With such strong limitations on the natural observation side and with in situ experimentation inaccessible, we are left with the only remaining alternative: so-called in silico experimentation. — A. Hannart et al, American Meteorological Society, January 2016
In silico, Latin for “in silicon”, refers to “experiments” performed solely on a computer, such as computer modeling.
... What if today’s climate alarmism is driven more by fear of the unknown – and the unknowable – than verifiable data?
What if the planet’s climate – like corona virus and anthropogenic population growth – is beyond our control?
What if nature controls us, not vice versa?"