Quadrant Online (Australia)
A global agreement to funnel trillions upon trillions of dollars into
windmills and solar panels over the next few decades will gratify
politicians keen to add ‘saving the planet’ to their list of career
accomplishments. Yet in terms of aiding the world’s benighted, arresting
insignificant rises in global temperatures would amount to precious
little. Indeed, it will be cold comfort for the untold millions in Asia
and Africa who over the coming years will die premature deaths from
preventable disease while living in conditions of abject misery.
As Bjorn Lomgborg has demonstrated, and drawn the unrelenting ire of
warmists and rent-seekers for doing so, if we care more about facts than
expensive gestures, the best value climate mitigation lies in researching better green energy technology.
And as renewables become more cost effective, we’ll start to see them
replace traditional sources without having to foist the unnamed billions
in costs onto long-suffering taxpayers."
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