What we will be leaving our grand children is not a planet damaged by industrial progress, but a record of unfathomable silliness as well as a landscape degraded by rusting wind farms and decaying solar panel arrays....
A giant of the skeptical debate on why the Educated
Elites are so vulnerable to being Fooled - So Smart and yet So Stupid
Lindzen warns that the gulf in understanding between each elite culture is open to malicious exploitation. When science is used as a vote winning issue, non scientists have to pick sides and then belief and faith inevitably trump understanding.
The "trivially oversimplified false narratives" help reassure the non-scientists that they are not completely stupid....
So when a complicated debate is reduced to a binary "yes-no" situation, like renewables "clean": fossils "dirty", educated elites get drawn in....
...'ordinary' people (as opposed to our 'educated' elites) tend to see through the nonsense being presented...
To paraphrase Lindzen, educated elites are gullible suckers, because they spent too much time at uni....They want to believe they understand science, but their level of understanding is
"Bumper Sticker 101"...