/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8583075
You can take all of that one step further by the actions taken to mitigate man made climate change so far, in hindsight something looks seriously awry. These actions are all energy sinks and result in additional emissions, starting with the massive and never ending echo chamber conferences hosted at taxpayer expense, to the super computers chugging away 24/7 in cooled computer rooms on the questionable climate modeling programs crunching of their questionable data sets, teams of programmers forever massaging the output.
The cap and trade or carbon tax programs requiring substantial administrative overhead bloating already bloated bureaucracies, assigning arbitrary conditions on emissions computed to somehow adjust earths temperature in the process, all just farts in the wind really.

Also this resulting push and subsidizing of so called green or renewable sources of energy, most of these new age trinkets and baubles - solar and wind - are manufactured in China which laughs in the face of man made climate change controls on industry, and so by outsourcing manufacturing to another corner of the globe we are supposed to believe we are fixing something while impoverishing our own economies? We are also now expected to take on these inefficient and unreliable sources of power and pay for that out of pocket to appease the bureaucracy that forced them on us?

If good alternatives to fossil fuels are discovered they won't need any help to make themselves worthy. Most of all, in the end, fossil fuels will be spent as long as the upright monkey walks the face of this earth. Should they be spent below an EROEI of 1 before viable alternatives are discovered so be it, natural depopulation gets underway and the problem solves itself. All the legislation points to so far is control of how those are spent and by whom. I just don't trust most of these people taking over the reigns now that 'the debate is over and the science is settled'. Science is never settled.