Nice piece from the gutsy Jo Nova. There are opportunity costs to everything the government spends money on. There are only finite resources in the world. If billions are directed to carbon capture technology then that is billions not spent on other research in the western world and overseas. Warmists like to appeal to the precautionary principle; even if we are not convinced that the world is dangerously warming shouldn't we take precaution just in case? But this neglects the opportunity costs that money spent combating climate change forgoes. A dollar spent on reducing CO2 is a dollar that could have been spent on mosquito nets in Africa, or on vaccines, or eye surgery for the world's poorest.
If our government-funded climate establishment makes the wrong guess
about what humidity does in a warmer world, CO2 emissions become trivial
and inconsequential. But the money diverted or delayed from better
causes leaves a trail of destruction that cannot be repaired. Money can
always be replaced, but lives lost are gone for good.
Julio Licinio, director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research
at the Australian National University, put together a passionate,
disturbing advertisement two weeks ago, a plea to stop cuts to medical
research funding. His sister died aged four from a disease that is
treatable today.
Which four-year-old in 2018 will die because
Gillard introduced a carbon tax instead of increasing medical research
funding? Which father will die in 2022 who would have lived if we had
doubled our funding for medical research? It is for people such as
four-year-old Fabiola that we should keep fighting for rational debate.
Bad science makes for bad policy. Poor reasoning is deadly.
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