Several scientist members of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) want more influence over governments to bring about their radical and potentially deadly climate policies. “Five lead authors of IPCC reports” insisted “that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the U.N. framework convention on climate change,” The Guardian’s Arthur Neslen reported Thursday.
“At some point we need to say that if you want to achieve this aim set by policymakers then certain policies need to be implemented,” said IPCC Vice-Chair Sonia Seneviratne. The “policies” Seneviratne is referring to are “fossil fuel cuts and phaseouts,” reported Neslen.
“Fossil fuel cuts and phaseouts” is a terrifying proposition. Green energy, such as wind and solar power, has proven to be unreliable and insufficient. And fossil fuels save lives. You’ve probably heard climate fearmongers warn that climate change will cause mass deaths, but climate disasters have been a threat to survival for all of humanity. What has saved people from dying at the hands of the climate has been technological innovation, such as the use of fossil fuels. Energy from fossil fuels provides people with heating, air conditioning, weather warning systems, durable buildings, and mass irrigation. Thanks in part to fossil fuels, climate-related disaster deaths have been reduced by 99 percent compared to 100 years ago. To ditch fossil fuels entirely for green energy right now would leave millions of people at the mercy of the elements, causing climate-related
