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<blockquote data-quote="Thebrownblob" data-source="post: 6045491" data-attributes="member: 60485">Even the top climate scientists are coming to grip with the reality that they were fooled and wrong.“For a long period I uncritically absorbed the notion that climate change represented the pre-eminent challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. ... I was easily convinced that the growing human influence on the world’s climate would be a reality that all nations would increasingly need to confront, a reality to which their interests would necessarily be subservient and that would be decisive for shaping their development pathways. For more than half of these 40 or so years, it seemed to me self-evident that relations between nations would forcibly be re-shaped by the exigencies of a changing climate.But now, in the mid-2020s, I can see that I got this the wrong way round. ... Too often the language, rhetoric, and campaigning around climate change remains wedded to a world that no longer exists. ... Rather than geopolitics having to bend to the realities of a changing climate, the opposite has happened. ... In short, this optimism was fueled by the rise of globalism; thinking strategically about climate change was caught-up in this zeitgeist. ... Climate is not the only thing that is changing through our lifetimes, and perhaps not the most important thing. ...”[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/from-idealism-to-realism[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thebrownblob, post: 6045491, member: 60485"] Even the top climate scientists are coming to grip with the reality that they were fooled and wrong. “For a long period I uncritically absorbed the notion that climate change represented the pre-eminent challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. ... I was easily convinced that the growing human influence on the world’s climate would be a reality that all nations would increasingly need to confront, a reality to which their interests would necessarily be subservient and that would be decisive for shaping their development pathways. For more than half of these 40 or so years, it seemed to me self-evident that relations between nations would forcibly be re-shaped by the exigencies of a changing climate. But now, in the mid-2020s, I can see that I got this the wrong way round. ... Too often the language, rhetoric, and campaigning around climate change remains wedded to a world that no longer exists. ... Rather than geopolitics having to bend to the realities of a changing climate, the opposite has happened. ... In short, this optimism was fueled by the rise of globalism; thinking strategically about climate change was caught-up in this zeitgeist. ... Climate is not the only thing that is changing through our lifetimes, and perhaps not the most important thing. ...” [URL unfurl="true"]https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/from-idealism-to-realism[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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