One of my favorite business idioms is “what gets measured gets done”. It’s clear, concise and most importantly, correct.
This is why the largest thing in any stadium is the scoreboard. It’s the metric of success. More points than the other team and you win. The biggest number along the highway is for fuel prices. Today, I can buy gasoline at $2.59 and nine-tenths per gallon. Yes, it’s nearly (almost) $2.60, but you know that.
It’s clear. It’s measurable. You know what it is today and tomorrow.
It’s why you have goals, and a means to measure them – how many did you make? How much did you sell? How much do I need to retire?
Clear, concise and repeatable. Purely objective, both from the standpoint of the measurement and the desired result.
For the past four decades, I’ve watched “global warming” become “global climate change,” all the while dipping their considerable ladle into the public treasury to “save the planet.” Because you know we only have one.
There is no goal, only some mealy-mouthed gibberish about slowing the warming. Not clear, certainly not concise, and not top of mind for anyone. Since it’s inconvenient for them to set clear goals, we need to examine what they have predicted that has actually come to pass.
In researching this article, I could not find a single prediction from the past that the climate alarmists correctly forecast. Oh, I’m sure there is some obscure thing they had right, but they missed the mark on the vast majority. In the late 1980s, the UN warned that entire nations would be wiped out by the year 2000 by “global warming.”
I must have missed which ones were wiped out? Or are we still waiting 25 years later?
How about their claim in 2005 that there would be “Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the year 2020.” They must be living on Martha’s Vineyard?
Or the fact that none of the climate temperature models are even close to being accurate should be everything we need to know. When alleged “science” is not repeatable, it’s no better than a conspiracy theory, and those who are selling the snake oil are little better than carnival fortune tellers.
There is one “global climate change” alarmist who claimed that most of the eastern seaboard of the United States would be underwater, and then after achieving his fame and fortune, they bought a mansion at sea level and right next to the shore that he tried to convince you would be rising to cause doomsday.
He will always be able to afford the air conditioning that he has taxed to the hilt, but will you be able to? No one I know is interested in more pollution. Everyone likes being able to enjoy clean lakes and rivers. Pristine clean air. When there are clear goals, we can achieve them, and the expense and inconvenience is justified.
Remember Pittsburgh in 1970? Me too. It’s much better today.
We are doing a much better job of recycling where appropriate (steel and aluminum come to mind, while recycling paper is just stupid), but I just can’t take CO2 as pollution seriously. I can’t take it seriously because the Global Warming as apocalypse people have been so stupendously wrong in everything they have predicted.
Real science is repeatable and reliable. Climate science is neither, but they continue to make claims that another billion dollars here or there will let them make better measurements, all the while their disciples are clamoring for increased subsidies on electric cars that few desire.
We have to be poorer to save the planet? Really now.
More than one UN official has uttered the truth when it comes to climate policy, and a quote from Ottmar Edenhofer, who chaired the UN’s climate policy group:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”
The lies and deception. The lack of a clear, measurable result. No goal other than control.
Numerous studies are showing that reducing CO2 will result in reduced agricultural output, starving third-world nations in what is likely the worst death anyone can imagine. All in the name of climate change, but the climate charlatans are still ringing the bell on their personal cash registers all at the expense of you and those least able to afford it.
The UN also thinks it’s perfectly acceptable for some countries to emit more CO2 and pollution than others, effectively punishing us and other successful nations. China and India run wide open coal plants with no scrubbers and questionable efficiency, grossly fouling the air and water.
I just might look at this as being serious if there was one standard for the entire world, just as there is one atmosphere and one climate, but until then, it’s NO SALE. One standard. A price per unit of measure. A number that is top of mind, not some inferred number of questionable truth measuring an odorless gas that is, in effect, plant food.
Until they have a single measurable and understandable goal, I’m not buying.
They won’t offer one either because if they do, their entire Ponzi scheme will come crashing down when the planet and our star do not behave as they need it to in a decade or two, exactly as it hasn’t in the past.
I contend the planet and our star are just fine. It’s their predictions that are wrong.
But today, I do know that I can buy gas by the gallon for $2.59. And nine tenths.
