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I’ve kind of avoided Patrick Moore coz I thought he was a Bad Person. He’d founded Greenpeace, sure, but then had a fall-out with them. And gone off the reservation. Or so I thort. Not so. He’s not crazy at all. Amongst the first in North American to study the then new discipline of Ecology, he loved science and he loved nature. And he co-founded Greenpeace!
It was the headline in the video that got me. XR are indeed very stupid! (As are the anti nuclear folks, as Patrick says).
He had a falling out with Greenpeace that he doesn’t talk about here. As I recall he didn’t approve of their high-profile PR stunts. And their radically anti-nuclear stance. It’s sure as anything that they are responsible for the halting of the nuclear push in the sixties.
I guess Patrick Moore will be labelled a “climate denier” in Wikipedia. I’ll check later. But he does have deep knowledge of the subject. And I always think it’s worth listening to people who know whereof they speak, even if you don’t always agree with their views. He’ll trigger many. Eg, he says carbon dioxide is “an essential nutrient” for plants. The climate worriers frame carbon dioxide as “a pollutant”. Yet it’s true, as Moore says, that the earth has become greener in recent decades as shown by a NASA which I’ll put below when I find it again. ADDED: Here it is ➡️
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| “Carbon dioxide fertilisation greens the earth”. NASA 1982-2015 change in leaf area. 25-50% of the earth has had “significant greening” since 1982, says NASA |
ADDED: Moore is for reducing use of fossil fuels. And to make up, go nuclear. Germany has gone full bore renewables, closed nuclear, and now has the most expensive and most unreliable electricity in Europe and rising CO2 emissions. France has over 60% electricity from nuclear, the cheapest and most reliable electricity in Europe and the lowest carbon emissions. Then again the Greens, who say “follow the science” don’t really follow the science. Moore’s comments on Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima are correct.
