Status Updates From The Skeptical Environmental...

There's something very amusing, or maybe fascinating, about the fact that Lomborg here references Jurassic Park, and I'm reading this specifically because it was in Michael Crichton's bibliography for one of his later books. A neat little circle that this book should end where I began with it.

He could save himself a lot of paragraphs, and I mean A LOT, by just admitting the truth about what the IPCC wants. Say it with me everybody, "Socialism."

Raising taxes won't fix the environment, whaaat? Who could have possibly guessed that... aside from every taxpayer who takes the slightest bit of interest in where their dollars are going...

What an incredibly long walk to establish that the so-called models are mostly more fictional than anything I've ever written in my life.
Oh no, there's another 40 pages... aaaaaahhhh.... make it stop!

We did it, everybody, we found peak tedium. Is it the Global Warming chapter? You bet your sweet bippy it is.
Because it's ALWAYS the Global Warming chapter. I think it may be the absolute most convoluted and simultaneously BORING subject in the entire world.

I wonder if the relative dearth of extinction evidence is why they've gotten really into subspecies and unique genetic pools for conservation efforts, since those make small, isolated populations that are easily wiped out, as their models and town crying has predicted.
If your model doesn't fit reality, change reality. That's how it works, right?