Too Stupid to ‘Save the Planet’?

More cracks continue to spread through the Climate Doomsday Movement.  In the face of falling public concern for climate change, even among the very green Germans, a leading scientist and thinker in the movement complains that humans are not yet “evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. “ James Lovelock says one of the main obstacles to meaningful action is "modern democracy." Really? Democracy and the rule of law haven’t proved to be formidable obstacles to the Left progressives who are busily re-making this country into something socialist and European looking.

Anyway, reading Lovelock’s interview in The Guardian, it’s hard not to sense that he, like other frustrated climate change doomsday types, is secretly rooting for an environmental cataclysm that will save the movement from irrelevance.  "That would be the sort of event that would change public opinion," he says.

Meanwhile, more cracks. A leading an environmental think tank has announced that, “Now is the time to free energy policy from climate science.” 

What? Climate science has been the cash cow of the environmental movement, pulling in grants and tax dollars. But the Breakthrough Institute writes that the climate doomsday theory is so damaged from scandal and exaggeration that it's now a loser with the public: “For 20 years, greens and many scientists have overstated the certainty of climate disaster out of the belief that governments could not be motivated to act if they viewed the science as highly uncertain…environmentalists risk undermining the case for building a clean-energy economy.”

I would say the undermining job is complete.