Some more inconvenient data and discussion from an experienced and well-known meteorologist. Planting more trees may as he proposes be useful, but so might chopping down fewer of them for biomass burning and wind turbine land clearances.
I believe that as the COVID-19 situation diminishes, a major pivot to man made climate change as the major driver of impending doom will come front and center, The pivot from Covid to climate is starting.
Perhaps I will be wrong, but the naming of AOC by Joe Biden as an advisor on how to fight climate change, to me, was the first signal this is going to happen.
This is an insensitive tactic, since the misery of Covid-19 is real, immediate, and loaded with great uncertainty. Future generations can opine on the result of the measures taken to combat it. Yet, as I wrote back in March:
Climate change accused of being deadlier than Covid 19 — Fact check
and the foundation for this was being set for the turn we are seeing now.
This is fascinating, if not predictable, to me since the same AOC was advocating for people not going back to work even when we got the virus under control. We are seeing right in front of our eyes what happens when you shut down the economy.
Given that energy is the essential lifeline to our economy, it stands to reason that taking 10 trillion more dollars out the economy and shutting down commerce should put the finishing touches on the way of life.
Which has made it possible for a person like AOC to rise to her position. Very few people with her background, lets say in N Korea, Iran, China, Venezuela just to name a few nations, would have ever had the chance to do what she does.
However, lets not quibble about the details. Lets reveal a few facts here.
Continued here.
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May 20, 2020 at 08:48AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 