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Deerey, there’s a bit of a difference between today’s economic position and the ‘highway to climate hell’. Millions of young kids are being scared witless by these absurd claims from the UN and other “experts”; and you think this is funny?????
Siderite, I’m not arguing against economic impacts of Brexit, which I’ve accepted are likely to be the case. It’s perfectly correct to say, however, that it will be some time before the real economic impact of Brexit will be known. What we do know is that the EU is in a perilous financial position, with Germany’s economy at the mercy of winter weather. It’s ironic to say the least that Germany — and Italy — are now praying for warm weather.
Regarding your other comment, my point isn’t moot at all. It simply reveals how many media — and, I’m sorry to say many organisations that should know better — aren’t providing all the facts. As I said, people can make up their own minds but in order to do so they need to know the facts behind the claims. As for the “energy coming from nowhere”, ALL of the evidence for CO2 driving climate change comes from computer models. You can argue until you’re blue in the face but that is a 100% fact; and I can tell you with 100% certainty that the computer models are wrong. The question is how wrong? Well, good luck with that because the confidence intervals are never revealed, which is hardly surprising given they’ll be extremely bad. I’ve challenged climate scientists directly about this and not a single one of them has been able to provide an answer. Put simply, we don’t know the answer to how the climate works at anything like the depth required for the absurd claims being made and saying otherwise is just ridiculous. But, hey, it means billions in funding and shiny new computers.
As for this thing about London and Paris. The idea that Paris is a bigger financial centre than London is fanciful to say the least. Market caps come and go, it’s just the way they operate and my point is that it’s highly likely London will overtake Paris again on market valuation. But that is just one part of the financial equation. Taken as a whole London remains much bigger than anywhere apart from New York.
Where I do agree with you 100% is around predictions. It is, indeed, very funny how people want us to trust their predictions. You’re absolutely correct that in 20 years they still say we need to wait. That goes for climate every bit as much as it goes for finance. They’re both non-deterministic systems with a huge number of variables, which makes predicting them in any way that is remotely accurate 100% impossible.