Link below: Good reflections on Covid and the Net Zero debate from a man who knows the issues. Matt Ridley. Past editor of the Economist's Science section.
Later well-regarded writer on science matters. Talking with the Triggernometey lads, Konstantinos Kisin and Francis Foster.
On Covid he wrote a book Viral, with epidemiologist Dr Alina Chan.
Matt (aka Lord Ridley) explains why the lab-leak theory is still the most likely truth. And why it’s important to stop the same thing happening again. Through, as he explains, that’s not happening. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is doing gain-of-function research on the MERS virus. Shiver! With only level 2 protection. Which makes me shiver, coz MERS is way more deadly (36%) than Covid (0.2%). Whyyyyy? Just to appease China?!
Then on to the whole Net Zero stuff. Which for places like the UK and Australia makes no sense in terms of actual practical impact on future temperatures, vs the downside risks of impoverishing the nation.
https://youtu.be/LFPj8tNVoLQ?si=JfnjOtReTx94Lwtm
ADDED: "Four sides to every story". On Climate change. My post of 16 December 2009.
