From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Next Time You Tell Me A Physicist Can't Talk About Climate...
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:47:23 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-10-12 19:01, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> The Climate Change Committee has appointed Emma Pinchbeck as its new CEO - a 37 year-old humanities graduate with no
> experience in the energy industry except lobbying. Can the caliber go any lower, asks Ben Pile.
>
> This week, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) appointed a new Chief Executive, Emma Pinchbeck, and it was as if a
> coronation had made some incredibly popular princess a queen. Britain's army of obsequious green blobbers and political
> hacks fell over themselves to pay tribute. Even former Secretary of State for Energy Security Claire Coutinho stopped
> trading insults with her successor (and Pinchbeck's likely appointer) Ed Miliband to welcome the "wonderful
> appointment" who 'speaks with both passion and expertise" and "always allowed space for thoughtful debate".
>
> Emma is a wonderful appointment. She speaks with both passion and expertise.
>
> We don't always agree, but at Energy UK she always allowed space for thoughtful debate. I hope too that she will bring
> her background as a strong voice for industry to her new role. https://t.co/MQP4nTwNcZ
>
> - Claire Coutinho (@ClaireCoutinho) October 9, 2024
>
> Green policymakers and the broader blob have long welcomed persons of extremely low caliber into their ranks because
> environmentalism is a mediocracy that thinks itself an aristocracy. Whereas the constellation of institutions that
> influence the design of policy and the delivery of vital infrastructure has in the past been dominated by people who
> came up through their trade, today's wonks, lobbyists, experts and advisors have little practical experience, if any at
> all. More often than not they are humanities graduates who can profess only "passionate belief" in renewable power to
> qualify their status as 'experts' charged with informing policymakers.
Remember what?
She's CEO, not a climate scientist.
You're so bad at this.