From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: Next Time You Tell Me A Physicist Can't Talk About Climate...
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:39:24 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:47:23 -0700, Alan wrote:
> 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.
And Yes, she's got a plan to eliminate the CO2 problem:
https://xkcd.com/3000/
>
> You're so bad at this.
An' yes, you're too stupid for werdz.
Dhu
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