Climate change nutters strike again

Scoopit!

Two weeks ago Climate Change Jihadists wanted to stop you eating this:-

Roast Beef

Now they are at it again and want to stop you enjoying these:-

Cornflakes

Some people really are moronic. All this was brought to mind by reading an excellent post from MacDoctor.

MacDoctor applies his mind to the stupidity of someone suggesting we give up breakfast cereal because of the carbon footprint implications. Yet only the other week the head of the IPCC wanted us to become vegetarian.
As Adam wrote then:-

daily more and more nonsense is promulgated and scenarios where everything is regulated in order to save the planet become more prevalent, so that one is forced to ask why bother? Sometimes ridicule may be the only thing that causes sense to break through.

Truly we are succumbing to the tyranny of those who to save us would first enslave us – the climate change jihadists.

However, we digress.

MacDoctor in his post makes some highly relevant comments.

In conclusion he wrote:-

It does not matter whether the theory of man-made global warming is true or not. The catastrophe that global warming enthusiasts predict is a catastrophe only for man and possibly a few species who will be driven to extinction. The planet does not give a toss for how much arctic ice it has, or the height of it’s sea level. Therefore, if the solution to global warming is to destroy ourselves economically and starve 80 – 90% of the world’s population to death, I can’t see the point of it. If we can’t make a difference unless we kill three quarters or more of our population, then we are certainly better off retaining our economies and trying to adapt to the changing circumstance.

Further in a thread comment responding to a comment from a reader, MacDoctor writes:-

Carbon dioxide, unfortunately, is a different kettle of fish. It is not a toxin – it is actually essential for life. It is discharged into the atmosphere in copious amounts as a side effect of energy creation. To restrict it’s production in any significant way would completely cripple our economy and annihilate our current way of life. You only have to look at the economic consequences of the ETS to see this. And the ETS will do virtually nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

I note that the confusion between pollution and carbon dioxide is rarely adequately addressed. I suspect this is because the global warming industry gets most of its support from people who confuse the two.

Adam agrees. Indeed the Climate Change Jihadists deliver a lot of scaremongering in Adam’s humble view.

Adam has noted several times that he is in favour of sensible steps to mitigate climate change, though he does agree with MacDoctor that much of this is not about saving the planet, but about keeping the species on the planet from evolving to meet the challenge of climate change.

Whatever. Climate Change proponents do themselves no good by wild talk about going vegetarian or stopping the eating of breakfast cereal. They just turn people off the whole subject and get themselves dismissed as ‘nutjobs’ by many.