[OPINION] Climate Change Has Run Its Course

[NarrowBandFtw]

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-has-run-its-course-1528152876
(paywalled, alternatively: http://archive.is/a6sXH)

Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality.

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.’ ”

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Good riddance!

 

[grok]

It was a wholly political thing to start off with, it should've been treated with the contempt politicians deserve from inception.

 

[Emjay]

How is it a good thing?

 

[konfab]

The simple way to see this is to look at the actions of politicians who are supposedly pro-climate change.

You take the politicians in the EU. On one hand they hark on about environmental sustainability and preventing climate change, yet when faced with a declining population (which is the easiest way of making your country more friendly on the planet), they immediately import millions of people from the third world to keep the population growth up with the debt level growth.

 

[Unhappy1]

The simple way to see this is to look at the actions of politicians who are supposedly pro-climate change.

You take the politicians in the EU. On one hand they hark on about environmental sustainability and preventing climate change, yet when faced with a declining population (which is the easiest way of making your country more friendly on the planet), they immediately import millions of people from the third world to keep the population growth up with the debt level growth.

You do realise climate change is a global issue right? So considering the EU generally has cleaner energy sources than third world countries, if anything they are helping climate change by getting more people onto their power grid. This is however such a silly stick to try and beat people with.

 

[konfab]

So considering the EU generally has cleaner energy sources than third world countries, if anything they are helping climate change by getting more people onto their power grid

Please don't let facts get in the way of your feelings...
In metric tonnes per capita.
2014:
Germany : 8.9
Syria : 1.6
Ethiopia: 0.1



Lets look at
France: 4.6
Algeria (where they get the most migrants from):3.7

These stats are from the climate-change-denying people of the world bank.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC


South Africa is probably the only third world country that has really high emissions, hence it would be very good for the planet if people here were to be exported to Europe or Australia

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

How is it a good thing?

Once the political grandstanding and SJW virtue signalling BS can be forgotten we can get back to real scientific solutions instead of the pseudo consensus science that's been making the headlines from the start.

A real solution was never going to happen, now there's a glimmer of hope.

 

[Emjay]

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.’ ”

This is just so silly. Talk about conflating issues. The one issue, due to its imposition on another, is actually discrediting them both, and making the real issue here (climate change and sustainability) a non-political issue. Politics is the only way to bring about real change, sadly.

 

[Emjay]

Once the political grandstanding and SJW virtue signalling BS can be forgotten we can get back to real scientific solutions instead of the pseudo consensus science that's been making the headlines from the start.

A real solution was never going to happen, now there's a glimmer of hope.

Sorry, which headlines?

 

[rietrot]

Sorry, which headlines?

We're all doomed. Pay more carbon taxes.....

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Sorry, which headlines?

Google 'climate change', every single one of them.

 

[Emjay]

Google 'climate change', every single one of them.

Ok.

 

[Eniigma]

Well you know what they say about opinions being like aresholes.

Buy yes, Let’s all celebrate man’s destructive impact on the planet. It's incredibly naive and/or arrogant to think we can't or don't have an impact on the planet globally as opposed to just local impacts.

 

[Solarion]

First climate change headline in 1991 - not a single fk was given
Last climate change headline in 2018 - not a single fk was given

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Well you know what they say about opinions being like aresholes.

Buy yes, Let’s all celebrate man’s destructive impact on the planet. It's incredibly naive and/or arrogan

Precisely what the OP is talking about here:

Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp

You're accelerating the decline with such talk

 

[SlinkyMike]

Sources people!

Steven F. Hayward is an American author, political commentator, and policy scholar, who argues for libertarian and conservative viewpoints in his writings. Wikipedia

Emphasis mine.

Good on the WSJ for catering t all viewpoints but to consider that the question of climate change is so inextricably linked to identity politics that it is essentially "over" is typically moronic conservative BS.

The idea that measurements of the subduction zone and subsea permafrost are linked to feminism and LGBT+ rights is a typically idiotic and transparent attempt at misdirection.

What an utterly transparent parade of foolishness.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Sources people!



Emphasis mine.

Good on the WSJ for catering t all viewpoints but to consider that the question of climate change is so inextricably linked to identity politics that it is essentially "over" is typically moronic conservative BS.

The idea that measurements of the subduction zone and subsea permafrost are linked to feminism and LGBT+ rights is a typically idiotic and transparent attempt at misdirection.

What an utterly transparent parade of foolishness.

When is the last time you saw any climate change article that does not virtue signal at the same time?

 

[SlinkyMike]

When is the last time you saw any climate change article that does not virtue signal at the same time?

I don't subscribe to conservative bingo phrases so "virtue signalling" isn't a part of my world really.

Anyway, want to talk about climate change or you want to crybully because you hate gays and women? Same question to Mr. Hayward really...

 

[buka001]

Sources people!



Emphasis mine.

Good on the WSJ for catering t all viewpoints but to consider that the question of climate change is so inextricably linked to identity politics that it is essentially "over" is typically moronic conservative BS.

The idea that measurements of the subduction zone and subsea permafrost are linked to feminism and LGBT+ rights is a typically idiotic and transparent attempt at misdirection.

What an utterly transparent parade of foolishness.

I can see why NBFTW quoted this article.