Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points that ignored the risks from climate change
ightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship – a sort of quasi-Peterson pleaded with the audience at London’s O2 Arena to “tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell”, which, for many of the event’s main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.
Frontbenchers from the conservative opposition Angus Taylor, Andrew Hastie and Dan Tehan were there, as well as Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and James Paterson. Several other Australian federal and state politicians and rightwing figures alsoThe new speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, sent a recorded message, and the former speaker Kevin McCarthy was there in person.
There were “large uncertainties” in how high sea levels would rise, they wrote, mainly because of the difficulty in predicting how much ice could be lost from Antarctica. Prof Kerry Emanuel, a leading expert on hurricanes at MIT, said while Shellenberger was right, he was “cherrypicking”. Australia’s resources minister sees a gas-fired future just as the International Energy Agency charts the fossil fuel’s decline | Temperature Check“There is a strong consensus among tropical cyclone researchers that tropical cyclones are producing more rain and that this trend will continue.”Shellenberger said globally, “carbon emissions have been flat and slightly declined over the last decade” and that this was “extraordinary news” that people wouldn’t read in major newspapers.
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