Remember Aesop’s fable about the little shepherd boy who
twice cried “wolf!” when there was none? The villagers who came running to help
save their sheep warned him afterwards not to cry out when there really wasn’t
a wolf. Sadly, the sheep were all lost because, when there really was a wolf,
none of the villagers came to help when the little shepherd boy cried out. As
one of them warned the little boy, “no one believes a liar even when he tells
the truth.”
PJ Media's Tom Harris recently noted that global warming
advocates ought to heed that warning. Harris' observation followed release of
the latest report of the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The IPCC cried that fossil fuel energy use around the world must be reduced by
as much as 70 percent by 2050 to avoid the apocalyptic “death, injury and
disrupted livelihoods” caused by man-made atmospheric warming.
“This will require
massive cuts in our use of coal, oil, and natural gas,
the sources of 87 percent of world primary energy consumption,” Harris said. It
will also require quadrupling the amount of energy generated from renewable and
nuclear sources,
plus widespread adoption of carbon capture and storage technology that doesn't even exist
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