Consider applying Al Gore’s inconvenient truth logic to the stock market. If you did you would dump AAPL (Apple Computers) for a loss in a panic if you happened to see the DOW in the red at 10:35:27 AM … despite the fact that it was green at 10:35:13 AM and again at 10:36:19 AM (not to mention it trades on the NASDAQ). Then you’d release a propaganda video, win the Nobel prize for economics, and cash in on PR perks all by 10:36. Way to go you!
Our historic perspective on climate change is actually tighter than that. Everything we know happened in about 4.5 +- 4 seconds (depending on your earth age assumptions) out of a normal trading day (plus extended hours). Temperature readings are gathered from all over the planet, with some showing a general trend downward, but for the sample group, overall, at this moment in time, things seem warmer.
Lately the US stock market has been an epic battle. Sometimes comical. Large groups of people realizing losses in unison like lemmings jumping off of cliffs. Then swinging the other way while the seasoned veterans buy the deals. Like a tennis match that may not end until all of the emotional, herd minded, and panic prone (aka lemmings) have handed over their last shares.
IMO renewable energy is incredibly important, clean air is also important, but we set the stage for pied pipers of sorts. We don’t need pied pipers, we need independent thinkers, all able to formulate their own opinions based on emotionless information. Those are the people that will give us wise and viable solutions. Propaganda can swing emotions, but historically emotions make for very bad decisions.
Lets clean up the air because we like breathing clean air and know it is more healthy. Not because we believe someone who claims the surface of the planet will be covered in lava by the year 9765 if we don’t stop driving SUVs. Lets quarantine the political propaganda virus to elected offices and keep it out of science. Maybe some day we’ll eradicate it altogether.
There are many voices competing for our allegiance. What would Jesus do?