Simultaneously posted on my climate science and energy blog:
I woke up at 6am for no particular reason with a “climate rap” in my head. I wrote it on my climate science and energy blog and will cut and post it here. I’d like to wake up with a hit song in my head, or a stock that will skyrocket, but I get climate change visions instead:
The root cause of what people call the "climate change religion" is the hatred of burning fossil fuels. There is some justification — they cause pollution. The worst may be using soft coal to heat homes of poor people (with no pollution controls). Burning wood and animal dung pollute too. A symptom is air pollution, and such pollution is serious over many large Asian cities. Especially in China and India. The answer is modern pollution controls. And nuclear power plants rather than older polluting coal power plants. But so-called environmentalists don’t seem to care. Few of them mention real air pollution.
Leftist behavior is described by my favorite philosopher Groucho Marx:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”