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What is probability the earth will cool in the coming years? The mainstream view is the chances are so negligible we can bet trillions on carbon reduction. But what if ...

My own personal view is that we don't know enough to literally bet the farm on it. The key feature of all these climate change solutions is they require total commitment. The therapeutic dose has to be global, massive and expensive or else it's no good.
One of the people who is sure that only by spending trillions do we have a chance of survival is Beto O'Rourke.

dailywire.com/news/44681/our…
Of course O'Rourke might be right. But is he completely right? Right as to direction but not tempo or scale? Or is he wrong? Or is David Archibald right?
Most of the climate change proposals are really about imposing taxes. It's a tax scheme. In case nobody has noticed that is precisely what caused the unrest in France that simmers to this day.

moneyandmarkets.com/france-gas-tax…
In case you think it's just the French Australians are now realizing somebody's got to pay real dollars and cents for "climate change" and it won't be China.

thewest.com.au/countryman/new…
WAFarmers chief executive Trevor Whittington said the policy signalled that “Australian farmers will be picking up a large part of the tab”. “You don’t get to force the public to double the number of electric vehicles without loading up the taxes on four-wheel-drive utes,”.
“You can’t bury all the the carbon footprint from livestock into the soil without turning the paddock back into bush. “We have yet to seen the hidden formulas but all indications are that the agricultural sector ... will be paying a carbon tax by the end of the decade.”
Green energy has created a very strange situation for Australia. High prices and blackouts. Of course the only reason it hasn't worked is it wasn't done RIGHT. But a lot of people are starting to wonder.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"A bungled transition from coal to clean energy has left resource-rich Australia with an unwanted crown: the highest power prices in the world. New Yorkers pay half as much as Sydneysiders to keep the lights on, despite Australia boasting among the world's largest coal
and natural gas reserves, as well as ideal conditions for clean power generation. A decade of political dithering and climate policy missteps have set its patchwork power system adrift, ... doubling in electricity prices ... and rising risks of blackouts."
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