A common argument from the Krazy Klimate Kultists is an appeal to authority which usually runs along the lines of But Multinational X is investing in renewables! Which raises the question: since when did the green-left make the evil corporations their heroes? The same goes for The US military is planning for climate disruption! Suddenly, the green-left are panting fans of the US military? (Leaving aside that the US military plans for alien invasions are frankly more credible than the claims of climate catastrophism).
Still, it is true that some very rich people are throwing their money behind climate alarmism. But, rather than proving the Klimate Kultists’ millenarian fantasies, what this really illustrates is that climate alarmism is the biggest money-spinning scam on the planet. Bernie Madoff must be kicking himself in his jail cell that he didn’t think of it.
Unlike the oh-so-appropriately-named Larry Fink, as well as perennial useful idiot John Kerry.
‘The climate transition presents a historic investment opportunity,’ says BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. ‘What the financiers, the big banks, the asset managers, private investors, venture capital are all discovering is: There’s a lot of money to be made in the creation of these new [green] jobs,’ chimes in presidential climate envoy John Kerry. Fink concedes that the economy remains ‘highly dependent’ on fossil fuels. He also asserts that BlackRock is ‘carbon neutral today in our own operations’. It’s a claim open to challenge. ‘If a company or individual says to me they are net-zero, I know it is complete crap,’ tweeted Glen Peters, research director of the Oslo-based Centre for International Climate Research.
“Carbon neutral” is nothing more than a gigantic pea-and-shells scam designed to mollify the consciences of bourgeois watermelons.
Peters was taking to task former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who had claimed that investments in renewable energy offset emissions from fossil-fuel investments. Carney quickly backed down, but the spat reveals the fissure in the climate movement that first became visible with Michael Moore’s 2020 movie Planet of the Humans, which pitted true believers on one side against those positioning themselves to reap profits from the climate money pouring into decarbonisation.
Like the odious Klaus Schwab, the fuhrer of the Great Reset, these people aren’t exactly hiding the fact that “climate change” is a gargantuan money machine for the already mega-rich.
Carney is a leading light of the climate-finance oligarchy, positioned at the nexus of politics and finance[…]
There’s little doubt who will do best out of building this better world. If you’re solving an existential risk, Carney told the World Economic Forum’s Radio Davos in January, it becomes a ‘tremendous opportunity’ that ‘turns into the greed, or the opportunity part of the equation.’
Luckily, there are still impertinent little boys ready to point out the emperor’s notable state of undress.
At the end of his Reith lecture, Carney was asked by historian Niall Ferguson if he’d read Bjorn Lomborg’s most recent book, False Alarm. Lomborg calculates that each $1 (70p) spent on cutting greenhouse gas emissions yields only 11 cents (8p) of future climate benefits.
With trillions being spent on climate change, this estimate implies that a colossal burden is being placed on the current generation – especially those who can least afford to bear it – for little climate gain.
Ignorance is no defence; nonetheless, Carney tried it. No, he hadn’t read Lomborg’s book, Carney answered Ferguson. He dismissed Lomborg’s as a ‘classic economic approach,’ though he offered no data or evidence to show why Lomborg was wrong. ‘I want to say it’s 15 or 20 years ago when he first came out with his ‘Don’t worry about the climate.’ How’s that working out for us?’
Pretty well, actually. The world is greener, richer, better fed and safer than its ever been.
In fact, one might better ask the alarmists how their doom-saying predictions have panned out.
The Toronto climate conference, 33 years ago, compared the effects of climate change to nuclear war. How did that forecast work out?[…]
A February 2021 paper by David Rode and Paul Fischbeck of Carnegie Mellon University examines the pervasiveness of apocalyptic forecasts of climate change. ‘The only observations we have of prior apocalyptic forecasts are of forecast failures,’ they note[…]By the end of 2020, 61 per cent of the predictions had already expired.
The Spectator
Still, the Klimate Kult go on forecasting an apocalypse that’s always just twenty years away. In the meantime, the richest scumbags on the planet keep their private jets, their mansions around the world – and keep piling up that sweet, sweet climate cash.
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