I'd call this study a rational approach based on facts and evidence. It will probably either be ignored or dismissed as Russian collusion. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On October 6, 2018 12:45:17 AM EDT, Curley McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >Uh oh! Someone is trying to Inject science into "settled science" >(whatever is that?) > >Craig via Mercedes wrote: >> International Panel Calls for End to Global War on Fossil Fuels >> >> OCTOBER 5, 2018 -- More than 100 leading scholars from 12 countries >have >> issued a report contending "the global war on fossil fuels ... was >> never founded on sound science or economics" and urging the world's >> policymakers to "acknowledge this truth and end that war." >> >> The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an >> independent organization founded in 2003 to fact-check the work of >the >> United Nations on the issue of climate change, today released the >Summary >> for Policymakers of Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels. The >> 27-page Summary provides an early look at a 1,000-page report >expected to >> be released on December 4 at a climate science symposium during the >> United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-24) in Katowice, >Poland. >> >> In the new NIPCC report, 117 scientists, economists, and other >experts >> address and refute the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on >> Climate Change (IPCC) assertions that the impacts of climate change >on >> human well-being and the natural environment justify dramatic >reductions >> in the use of fossil fuels. The Summary provides more than 100 >references >> to peer-reviewed literature, while the full report provides nearly >3,000 >> such references. >> >> Go to >> >http://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/10-05-18-DRAFT-CCRII-Fossil-Fuels-Summary-for-Policy-Makers.pdf >> to read the Summary for Policymakers report in digital form (PDF). >> >> For more information about the Summary for Policymakers, NIPCC, and >The >> Heartland Institute -- and to talk to authors or editors of this >report >> -- contact Director of Communications Jim Lakely at >jlak...@heartland.org >> or 312/731-9364 (cell). >> >> Among the findings reported in the Summary for Policymakers: >> >> Fossil fuels deliver affordable, plentiful, and reliable energy >that >> is closely associated with key measures of human development and >human >> welfare. There is a strong positive relationship between low energy >> prices and economic prosperity. Economic prosperity in turn is >crucial to >> human health and welfare. Wind and solar power are incapable of >> delivering the affordable, plentiful, and reliable energy that is >> delivered by fossil fuels. >> >> Fossil fuels require the development of substantially less >surface >> area than renewable energy sources, rescuing precious wildlife >habitat >> from development. The power density of fossil fuels enables humanity >to >> meet its need for energy, food, and natural resources while using >less >> surface space, rescuing precious wildlife habitat from development. >In >> 2010, fossil fuels utilized roughly the same surface area as devoted >to >> renewable energy sources yet delivered 110 times as much power. >> >> The environmental and human welfare impacts of fossil fuels are >> overwhelmingly positive. Sixteen of 25 identified impacts of fossil >fuels >> are net positive. Eight are uncertain, only one is net negative. Some >of >> the identified impacts include agriculture, air quality, extreme >weather >> events, human health, and human mortality. >> >> Reducing fossil fuel use to achieve dramatic reductions in >carbon >> dioxide emissions would inflict tremendous economic hardship. >Reducing >> greenhouse gases to 90 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 would >require a >> 96% reduction in world GDP, reducing per-capita GDP to $1,200 from >> $30,600 now forecast. Per-capita income would be at about the level >it >> was in the United States and Western Europe in about 1820 or 1830, >before >> the Industrial Revolution. >> >> Scientists and experts will be in Katowice, Poland the week of >December 4 >> to publicly release the full volume of Climate Change Reconsidered >II: >> Fossil Fuels. Credentialed media are invited to attend the December 4 >> symposium to learn more about the report and question some of the >> scientists who agree with its findings. Details on where and when >that >> symposium will be held are coming soon. >> > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
