Climate, the end of the world can wait
… How long do we have until the end of the world?
… “The next decade will be decisive.”
… “We’ve reached our limit”, said the Pope. We must reverse “this path of self-destruction.”
… 79 predictions of the ultimate destruction of the world due to climate change have been recorded [ International Journal of Global Warming ]
… 48 of these predictions have already expired, and nothing of what was forecast has turned out true
… “many of them were announced as being certain about the date”
… 2009 … “just 100 months to save the world” [ The Guardian ]
… performed a sort of countdown at all of his public addresses
… July 2017, the date of his projected apocalypse and, well, nothing happened
… 2019 … “The next 18 months,” he said, “will be decisive.” [ BBC ]
… it serves to impose a series of catastrophic policies
… Earth Day’s first slogan was in fact “population pollutes” [ Basta Bugie ]
… every month from now on, 11 power plants a month will have to be shut down or converted to zero-emission plants (even if, as of today, there is no technology capable of doing this) [ Roger Pielke jr ]
… in the meantime climate alarmism justifies ever greater state intervention in the economy and restricts the freedoms of citizens
Bergoglio – Leaders Summit on Climate
International Journal of Global Warming