A nomination for the anti-science movement and cult known as environ-Mentalism.
Not the old sort of environmentalism that wanted to cut out pollutiion from air and water (although Greenpeace has form; back in the 80s they wanted to get rid of chlorine from the planet), but the new religion; a politicised unthinking zealotry and embrace of failed ideas, the abandonment of conservative scientific principle to scaremonger with specious computer modelling (also seen with Imperial’s COVID projections), the promotion of child saints and prophets, the conflation with anarchist nonsense so rich idiots can hold up electrically powered public tube trains, the hysterical chicken licken panic over every deluge or heatwave as sign of a climate catastrophe and the obstinate folly of ‘net zero’, a meaning concept in a biosphere shared with China.
The latest development in this anti-scientific farce is that the efficiency of solar panels drops off in hot weather to the point coal has to – once again – pick up the slack.
This failure of renewables to take full advantage of more sunshine or higher wind speeds might explain Germanys descision to reopen coal plants, especially after refusing to invest in nuclear, another antiscientific decision based on popular fear rather than scientific data.
Do I believe the climate is changinging and we’re the cause of of it? I did at one point, but nowadays there’s so much political guff in the media that claims to be ‘science’, be it related to the climate, virology, food production (every other year the WHO releases a report on red meat consumption and cancer -the methodology of the studies was completely stupid), i have severe doubts on the entire field , the reasoning and the funding of it.
Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.