University of Toronto psychology professor and author Jordan Peterson does not think global warming is an issue that can unite people — in fact, Peterson was highly critical of calls to “solve” global warming.
“It’s certainly not uniting us so far,” Peterson told students during a recent Cambridge University lecture. “It’s just the kind of low-resolution thinking that gets us absolutely nowhere.”
Cambridge invited Peterson to give a talk on Nov. 2 where one audience member asked him if global warming could “unite us all on left and right” to take action.
Peterson’s response: “No.”
“The climate change issue is an absolutely catastrophic and nightmarish mess and the idea that that will unite us — that’s not going to unite us,” said Peterson, according to a video clip of the lecture posted online Thursday.
“First of all, it’s very difficult to separate the science from the politics, and, second, even if the more radical claims are true we have no idea what to do about it. And so, no,” Peterson said.
“And we’re not going to do a damn thing about it either, so it doesn’t really matter,” Peterson said.
“Well, what are we going to do? Are you going to stop having heat? You’re going to stop having electricity? You’re going to stop driving your cars? You’re going to stop taking trains? You’re going to stop using your iPhones? You’re not going to do any of that, and no wonder,” Peterson added.
Peterson has risen in popularity, especially among conservatives, because of his criticisms of political correctness. Peterson has also been critical of global warming alarmism, and earlier in 2018 he said: “you can’t trust the data” because of the politicization in climate science.
During his Cambridge lecture, Peterson said he worked on a United Nations sustainable development committee for two years, reading lots on the subject of climate and environment.
“Here’s one of the worst things about the whole mess,” Peterson said. “So, as you project outwards with regards to your climate change projections, which are quite unreliable to begin with, the unreliability of the measurement magnifies as you move forward in time, obviously, because the errors accumulate.”
“If you go out 50 years, the error bars around the projections are already so wide that we won’t be able to measure the positive or negative effects of anything we do right now,” Peterson said.
“So how in the world are you going to solve a problem when you can’t even measure the consequence of your actions?” Peterson said.
My duscussion at the Cambridge Union, the oldest debating society in the world, has now been posted: https://t.co/GdISSScL6U
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) November 5, 2018
Peterson heaped praise on Bjorn Lomborg, the “skeptical environmentalist” for framing global warming as part of a hierarchy of global problems.
Consulting with economists, Lomborg found that global warming was a very low priority and funding would do more good addressing other problems, like child nutrition.
Peterson also attacked Germany’s green energy policies for raising electricity prices and doing little to cut emissions.
Germany invested hundreds of billions of dollars in building out its green energy infrastructure, but the country will miss its 2020 goals for cutting emissions.
“It was a complete catastrophe and all that happened was the price of electricity shot up,” he said. “That’s not a solution.”
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Jordan Peterson is already ‘persona-non-grata’ among the Fabian puppet masters of the socialist U.N. and its subsidiary, the E.U.
He speaks out against gender manipulation, among other left-wing distortions of reality, and speaks in support of constructive, real-world, individual responsibility instead of imaginary group identity and victimhood.
But the most effective weapon ever devised by the totalitarian Fabian movement to dismantle the capitalist engine of wealth creation is the Global Warming Deception. It has created a fictional problem of apparently global proportions, which has persuaded a significant fraction of caring individuals in the West that only a global solution can save the world. Brilliant!
All we have to do is surrender our money, our way of life, and our sovereignty to the corrupt U.N. bureaucracy and unelected faceless people will decide everything for us. Voting no longer required.
Now Jordan Peterson has spoken out against Global Warming too.
That doesn’t bode well for him.
His future career will certainly be subject to relentless attack from now on.
Almost correct David. How do you adapt to something neulous in nature?? None of the models have been correct over about 30 years, zero precision and so how do you adapt?? Adapt to what??? Jocularly is like the George Carlin joke about a birth control pill they’re not sure will work; Baby:Maybe.
Cheers
From the article, “it’s very difficult to separate the science from the politics.” The fact is that the anthropological climate change movement is totally a political movement. They use junk science to support the politics.
“second, even if the more radical claims are true we have no idea what to do about it.” This is very true. Even most nations that have bought into the fraud are not going to meet their objectives under the Paris Treaty and that treaty is said to fall far short of what is needed. If the dire predictions were true, the best course of action would be to start now in developing ways to adapt.
Its just like with the so called Union of Concerned Scientists their concerns are purely political not scientific the same with Bill Nye its money and politics and his idiotic rant gain Livestock proves he is a total idiot no real scientist gose around wearing silly bow tie unless its to a party