WTF?

Fester states: "In the early 70s I remember a book in the school library saying that by 2000 the world would be out of oil and running on nuclear."

Well Fester your unnamed book written by an unnamed author from the school library was wrong we clearly have not run out of oil.

Fester also states "Exxon Mobil treated the prediction appropriately."

If we extend Fester's logic forward then Fester is suggesting that it was appropriate for Exxonmobile to play down the fact that their predictions accurately predicted human-caused global warming.

WTF?

ttbe states: "Look how Covid turned out to be a minor inconvenience despite the dire predictions of the Left."

This thread is not about either Covid or your left's predictions about Covid.

Stay on topic or start your own thread.

WTF

Predictions are much easier when you go backwards. Clearly you have little experience in reading forecasts, like prospectuses for projects like Sun Cable and other projects, especially green projects. Always sound wonderful, but very often in VA a few years later.

Hi WTF,

Science is exciting because it's not absolute.
New discoveries are consistently being made.
New challenges keep cropping up - ways of thinking
changes. A large percentage of scientists seem to agree
on global warming, its causes, and what actions need to
be taken for the planet to survive.

Who knows what our future holds? Many people predict
nuclear as the answer - others - renewables, and so it goes.

We live and hopefully we learn - both from our mistakes,
and our science, and from predictions. Does money make the
world go round? Well you certainly need it to continue
innovating. Right?

Here we go again !
The current warming period is the eighth known cycle.
This cycle started around 1800 +- a 100 years or so and is known as
the "Little Ice Age" or the Maunder Minimum.
It is believed to be close to peak about now or in the next 100 years or so.
The cycle is variable in length because it is composed of about five
natural cycles.
You may have heard of how the Vikings settled in Greenland around 1000ad
and then had to leave because agriculture became to hard as the cycle
started down towards the Little Ice Age.
Before all that there was the Roman Warming around 00 ad and the
minimum around 450ad.
It has all happened before but it is just a co-incidence that the
Industrial Revolution started during the Little Ice Age.
Maybe they started burning coal because it was so cold, hmmm.

WTF?

Fester says:" ...reading forecasts, like prospectuses for projects like Sun Cable and other projects, especially green projects."

The directors of Sun Cable are the ones who need to discuss this with their investors.

I'm not one of them so it has nothing to do with me.

This is just another deflection.

Foxy

I agree the future of energy supply and its consequences will be topical for the foreseeable future.

We can only hope that the huge amounts of money at stack don't cause critical scientific information to be hidden from the public by vested interests.