Why are a couple of Australians at U. Melbourne wasting their time on this type of BS?
I would venture to guess that during the Cold War most science and research were directed at National Defense. When the Cold War ended the National Labs, large research Universities and corporations that had been sucking on the government teat for many years had to find a way to keep from going out of business or at a minimum shrinking significantly. Al Gore, Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren along with the Green lobby devised the fiction of a climate and environmental existential problem that needed immediate solutions and top priority. Government agencies grew enormously and new ones were formed and corporate America piled in. The Democrat Party saw this as an opportunity to distinguish themselves from their opposition. People who knew better tried to speak up but over time were either canceled or died.
Climate Change is not an existential problem per se but making believe it is and fashioning policies as though it were may indeed end up being an existential problem. People like RPJr need to call it like it is and push for sane policies based on sound science and stop farting around with meaningless "data".
Having spent over 50 years working in or with the highest levels of Federal, State and local government, I can’t believe someone is measuring political speeches. The first thing I learned, working closely with the Johnson White House, was “Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do.” Over the 60 years I’ve been watching it, the federal budget dramatically shifted from defense to welfare and medical care. From 1962 to 2022 Defense dropped from 54% to 21% of Federal expenditures, while welfare went from 22% to 36% and medical care exploded from 1.4% to 29%. Find that dramatic shift in your speeches! On the regulatory side, where the government plays a huge role in many sectors, their actions are often totally different from their words. In housing, government regulation has dramatically limited the supply and increased the cost of housing. This vast regulatory apparatus, using “the environment” as cover for rampant NIMBYism, has increased the real cost of housing by at least 50%. Land no longer has value, only permits have value.
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Why are a couple of Australians at U. Melbourne wasting their time on this type of BS?
I would venture to guess that during the Cold War most science and research were directed at National Defense. When the Cold War ended the National Labs, large research Universities and corporations that had been sucking on the government teat for many years had to find a way to keep from going out of business or at a minimum shrinking significantly. Al Gore, Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren along with the Green lobby devised the fiction of a climate and environmental existential problem that needed immediate solutions and top priority. Government agencies grew enormously and new ones were formed and corporate America piled in. The Democrat Party saw this as an opportunity to distinguish themselves from their opposition. People who knew better tried to speak up but over time were either canceled or died.
Climate Change is not an existential problem per se but making believe it is and fashioning policies as though it were may indeed end up being an existential problem. People like RPJr need to call it like it is and push for sane policies based on sound science and stop farting around with meaningless "data".
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Having spent over 50 years working in or with the highest levels of Federal, State and local government, I can’t believe someone is measuring political speeches. The first thing I learned, working closely with the Johnson White House, was “Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do.” Over the 60 years I’ve been watching it, the federal budget dramatically shifted from defense to welfare and medical care. From 1962 to 2022 Defense dropped from 54% to 21% of Federal expenditures, while welfare went from 22% to 36% and medical care exploded from 1.4% to 29%. Find that dramatic shift in your speeches! On the regulatory side, where the government plays a huge role in many sectors, their actions are often totally different from their words. In housing, government regulation has dramatically limited the supply and increased the cost of housing. This vast regulatory apparatus, using “the environment” as cover for rampant NIMBYism, has increased the real cost of housing by at least 50%. Land no longer has value, only permits have value.