mercatornet.com
2024-11-26
Writing in December's Scientific American, Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes has penned an essay with the title "Fossil Fuels Are Not Essential: The industry argues that we can't live without its deadly products. It is wrong." How so?
She begins with a litany of climate bad news: record high temperatures, floods, and Hurricane Helene. All floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and indeed just about every adverse weather event except maybe blizzards and fog are now recruited as evidence for global warming.
Then she quotes a couple of fossil-fuel companies saying things like, "oil and natural gas remain vital" and that there is a "need for fossil fuels that will continue to play a central role in our lives." That is the bait. We are primed to learn that fossil fuels are, in fact, not essential and that we can live without their "deadly" products.