A somewhat personal question for Jessica if she cares to respond. I notice you have a PHD in environmental studies that couldn't have been acquired that long ago. Furthermore you're an associate professor. Given Roger Pielke's experience with university politics and you're skepticism about some aspects of the alarmist narrative are you being pressured to stop providing intellectual fuel for us grumpy old borderline deniers?
Hi! I am fortunate that my home department still carries a range of viewpoints and no one pressures anyone to think one way or another. That said, I am in a political science department and teach for their coastal and ocean policy program.
However, Roger was my doctoral advisor and he has a PhD in political science. By academic lineage, I am a fourth generation policy scientist originating with the work of Harold Lasswell.
So, yes, I have a PhD in environmental studies but I was advised by Roger. I never appreciated how deep the kool aid was until many years later and only saw it all as one aspect of science policy and politics, more generally. I was too busy trying to keep up with Roger's thinking and writing!
Up here in Canada we're on the verge of electing Mark Carney a poster child for centralized authority in the cause of net zero as our new Prime Minister who recently took over the Liberal party formerly under Justin Trudeau. The Liberal party had delivered the poorest economic growth in the western world due primarily to its fixation on global warming. Canada, needless to say, is a cold country that most would agree would benefit considerably by temperature increase of at least 5 degrees Celsius (ballpark estimate). Perhaps less well known is our extensive hydrocarbon resource base currently the world's 3rd largest, most of which, if Carney is elected will remain in the ground. If the sort of thinking expressed in the Harvard Business review can win elections in a cold country with a struggling economy that depends on oil&gas consumption to maintain its lifestyle as well finance its spending ambitions through exports of it most valuable resource then the world is in deep trouble. Monsters indeed!
I quipped the other day, "If Canadians want to live in the UK, they should vote for Carney." and something about the state of the UK for those who have not been paying attention.
I always thought the focus on mitigation over adaptation was due to the coolness of physical models over the real-world struggles of differing practices and trade-offs. This article makes me wonder if it was really about globality (if there is such a word). Adaptation wouldn't have to be coordinated around the world and is in the hands of local people, mitigation not so much. Maybe that's a reason people questioned the dominant climate change narrative, they sensed the vaguely under-the-table transfer of autonomy. We might circle back to Pope Francis, who was challenged by the tensions between classic church teaching on the principle of subsidiarity, and the apparent need for international decision-making for climate mitigation to succeed.
The monsters all seem to be wealthy assholes who seek plenary power over all of humanity because they know best - they've gone to Harvard and Stanford, often (though not necessarily) with good family names, understand how to navigate difficult geopolitics, live well, work in finance and technology. In short, the moneyed denizens of NY, Silicon Valley, DC, London, Paris, should decide on a path that everyone on Earth must follow.
These are not ramblings, they are the great danger of civilzation in their Stalinist and fascist mashup of authoritarianism for our own good. Bataan, Siberian mines, the killing fields were all just good ideas expressed poorly.
Correct. These are the people who read a dystopian book or watch a dystopian film, nod a few times, and say to themselves, "That's a great idea. Let's do that."
Typos: "Knell is also know[N] for his work as founding Executive Director of the UN Global Compact which "corporate" [?] investment practices around UN policies.
Consolidation in banking, medicine, education, Big Ag, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Government carefully undergirded by the Climate Agenda—the wealth transfer machine of modern globalist Malthusians
Their financial stake in this collapsing grift must be massive.
A somewhat personal question for Jessica if she cares to respond. I notice you have a PHD in environmental studies that couldn't have been acquired that long ago. Furthermore you're an associate professor. Given Roger Pielke's experience with university politics and you're skepticism about some aspects of the alarmist narrative are you being pressured to stop providing intellectual fuel for us grumpy old borderline deniers?
Hi! I am fortunate that my home department still carries a range of viewpoints and no one pressures anyone to think one way or another. That said, I am in a political science department and teach for their coastal and ocean policy program.
However, Roger was my doctoral advisor and he has a PhD in political science. By academic lineage, I am a fourth generation policy scientist originating with the work of Harold Lasswell.
So, yes, I have a PhD in environmental studies but I was advised by Roger. I never appreciated how deep the kool aid was until many years later and only saw it all as one aspect of science policy and politics, more generally. I was too busy trying to keep up with Roger's thinking and writing!
Up here in Canada we're on the verge of electing Mark Carney a poster child for centralized authority in the cause of net zero as our new Prime Minister who recently took over the Liberal party formerly under Justin Trudeau. The Liberal party had delivered the poorest economic growth in the western world due primarily to its fixation on global warming. Canada, needless to say, is a cold country that most would agree would benefit considerably by temperature increase of at least 5 degrees Celsius (ballpark estimate). Perhaps less well known is our extensive hydrocarbon resource base currently the world's 3rd largest, most of which, if Carney is elected will remain in the ground. If the sort of thinking expressed in the Harvard Business review can win elections in a cold country with a struggling economy that depends on oil&gas consumption to maintain its lifestyle as well finance its spending ambitions through exports of it most valuable resource then the world is in deep trouble. Monsters indeed!
I quipped the other day, "If Canadians want to live in the UK, they should vote for Carney." and something about the state of the UK for those who have not been paying attention.
I always thought the focus on mitigation over adaptation was due to the coolness of physical models over the real-world struggles of differing practices and trade-offs. This article makes me wonder if it was really about globality (if there is such a word). Adaptation wouldn't have to be coordinated around the world and is in the hands of local people, mitigation not so much. Maybe that's a reason people questioned the dominant climate change narrative, they sensed the vaguely under-the-table transfer of autonomy. We might circle back to Pope Francis, who was challenged by the tensions between classic church teaching on the principle of subsidiarity, and the apparent need for international decision-making for climate mitigation to succeed.
The monsters all seem to be wealthy assholes who seek plenary power over all of humanity because they know best - they've gone to Harvard and Stanford, often (though not necessarily) with good family names, understand how to navigate difficult geopolitics, live well, work in finance and technology. In short, the moneyed denizens of NY, Silicon Valley, DC, London, Paris, should decide on a path that everyone on Earth must follow.
These are not ramblings, they are the great danger of civilzation in their Stalinist and fascist mashup of authoritarianism for our own good. Bataan, Siberian mines, the killing fields were all just good ideas expressed poorly.
“For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.”
C S Lewis in The Abolition of Man
1943
Correct. These are the people who read a dystopian book or watch a dystopian film, nod a few times, and say to themselves, "That's a great idea. Let's do that."
Nice post! And I love the links you provided.
Typos: "Knell is also know[N] for his work as founding Executive Director of the UN Global Compact which "corporate" [?] investment practices around UN policies.
Consolidation in banking, medicine, education, Big Ag, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Government carefully undergirded by the Climate Agenda—the wealth transfer machine of modern globalist Malthusians
I love how proponents of “global government” always seem to imagine that they will be in charge of it somehow.
The history of these kinds of systems is replete with tyranny.