In 1999, American climatologist Michael Mann first published a “hockey stick graph” that purported to show an unprecedented spike in global temperature over the past century.
Mann’s graph was featured in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was followed by the production of Al Gore’s apocalyptic climate film, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
These developments led to a continuous series of doomsday predictions and arbitrary climate policies that seek to replace fossil fuels with alternative sources of energy.
Challenging the Climate Change Narrative The presumed scientific consensus on cataclysmic climate change hasn't gone unchallenged.
In "Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas-Not Less," he argued that the looming "Climate emergency" and imminent "Renewable revolution" have been enormously overstated.
The Benefits of Adaption Over Mitigation Writing this summer in a Macdonald-Laurier Institute publication, Mr. McKitrick pointed out that government policies focus almost entirely on reducing emissions or "Mitigation" over the benefits of human "Adaption." The University of Guelph professor and author of "Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy" has been studying climate change, climate policy, and environmental economics since the 1990s.
The MLI report notes that "Proponents of climate policy have long resisted discussing adaptation perhaps out of fear that it might be effective: if through adaptation we can substantially reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of climate change, this will weaken the case for deep decarbonization and elimination of fossil fuels, which some in the climate movement view as an end in itself." Mr. McKitrick says adaptation has an unacknowledged record of success, while mitigation has been an expensive failure.
While prohibitively expensive CO2 reduction measures have failed to prevent climate change, adaptation has had considerable success in reducing health risks and protecting agricultural production from weather instability.
People's views about "Climate change" depend almost entirely on an acquired ideological framework.
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