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This hearing was infuriating youtu.be/smdCEriClrA
Making polluters pay will result in Big Oil passing the fee/tax/fine on to consumers or file bankruptcy and walk away from the mess they’ve created — think abandoned leaky gas wells and rusting rotting hulks of derelict refineries, field processing facilities, pump jacks, pipelines, etc.
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This hearing was infuriating https://youtu.be/smdCEriClrA?si=LscCgynKsnmyKHXA
Making polluters pay will result in Big Oil passing the fee/tax/fine on to consumers or file bankruptcy and walk away from the mess they’ve created — think abandoned leaky gas wells and rusting rotting hulks of derelict refineries, field processing facilities, pump jacks, pipelines, etc.
Vilifying the oil industry in retrospect for past sins detracts human energy from the urgent interventions (think CPR and tourniquet) needed to get the rising atmospheric and oceanic concentrations — and pH level — back to historical Holocene norms. Reducing emissions does nothing in the near term to reduce concentrations and temperature in the decades time scale when irreversible tipping points already underway become runaway.
Think AMOC, Arctic subsea methane release, Antarctic Thwaites and Greenland ice sheet collapse, sea level rise — nonlinear and irreversible — locked in with concentrations and temperature stabilized at the level when Net Zero is achieved. Ponder mass migration, economic chaos, famine, social mayhem …
Contrary to “the best climate science you’ve never heard of” myth perpetrated by IPCC model delusional assumptions, the delusional conventional wisdom is a suicide pact that amounts to “plan for the best and hope the worst doesn’t happen.” Not a smart strategic plan.
Would you please arrange for Dr. Mann to meet with Dr. Hansen and mediate a responsible strategy to save all our assets?
Doug,
Stop with the fossil fuel industry shilling. Seriously, STFU.