Tuesday 23 May 2023

“G7 nations burying their heads in the sand with ‘temporary’ gas supplies” | SCMP

MY COMMENT AT THE SITE:

The US pulled out of the Paris Accord (PA) then developed its own natural gas supplies, including by fracking. It lowered its carbon emissions -- more than any other of the PA signatories.

Why do we have to make "perfection the enemy of the good"? Gas is a dense source of energy, quick, easy and cheap to deploy. It's not the best; but it's pretty good.

If you're after the "perfection" route, look where that's got Germany. $538 billion spent on renewables since 2012, plus closing nuclear stations (!) -- resulting  in the most expensive and least reliable energy in Europe. (And shuttering of businesses and people dying of cold). Climate alarmism is having tragic real-world consequences today, let alone in fifty or a hundred years. 

The "experts" are activists. Wedded to a catastrophist narrative. We have to stop listening to them. Or at least balance their views with a dose of common sense.