Ross Mcitrick
Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of
letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say
Last year was the year the climate
issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year
sanity makes a comeback.
There have long been three groups occupying the climate issue. To avoid pejoratives, I will call them A, B and C.
The A group are the doubters. .......they don’t support expensive climate-policy interventions.
The C group think the opposite; they
fear a climate catastrophe, they foresee a crisis and they want urgent
action, regardless of cost, to stop it. ........
The B group are in the middle. They believe, or say they believe, that GHG emissions are a problem and must be reduced........Thanks to 20 years of patronage and
endorsement from the B crowd, group C is now in control and has dropped
any pretense of commonality with B. They raised a generation convinced
the apocalypse is nigh and they proved over the past year they can
dictate terms of surrender to politicians everywhere ........
Climate and energy policy has fallen
into the hands of a worldwide movement that openly declares its
extremism. The would-be moderates on this issue have pretended for 20
years they could keep the status quo without having to fight for it.
Those days are over.
Ross McKitrick is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.
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