Peter Kalmus: "Climate Scientists Are Desperate--We're Crying, Begging and Being Arrested"

I'm sorry, buddy. I know you mean well. Though I'm a mere philosopher, I used to basically feel like you seem to feel. 

Thing is, I just don't believe your main conclusion anymore.

I've read quite a bit about it--read stuff that's available to reasonably intelligent laypeople, anyway--and I just don't believe you anymore.

I mean, I believe that you're--forgive me--hysterical about it. I just don't believe you're right.

So far as I can tell, it is simply false to say that we face a near-term climate catastrophe. So far as I can tell, we face a longish-term problem. Or challenge--I thought you-all liked that term? And there is exactly no possibility that we will do the things the hysteriacs want us to do. China, India and the third world aren't going to go along with it--nor should they. They'd be relegating themselves to poverty.

We should be addressing this longish-term problem-not-catastrophe rationally: using nuclear, fracking, doing R&D. 

The main lesson to be learned here is--and will continue to be--that the radical progressive left cannot be trusted. Whenever they adopt a new aspect of their religion, they manufacture a crisis to coerce us to adopt their faith. Race--crisis! Police violence--crisis! Climate change--crisis! Sexual harassment--crisis! Transgenderism--crisis! It's all part of their general strategy of stifling debate. It's the old Come with me--no time to explain! movie trope. 

Anyway, I've made this prediction many times: when their next set of deadlines--three years! Five years! Seven years! Ten years!--passes without achieving their crazy goals, they will not say: Whelp, that's it. We told you that if we didn't act in x years, it would be too late. Not it's too late. We might as well make the best of our remaining years. I hope you're happy. That will never happen. They will milk this "crisis" as long as they can, always extending the deadline juuust enough to keep the "impending crisis" impending. Eventually they'll manufacture a different environmental crisis and abandon warming just like they abandoned cooling. In fact, they may just go back to cooling. Hell, why not? They seem to be able to get away with saying whatever they want. And, of course, they have all their fictional social crises still boiling away.