If You're Not Reporting Anything New, Do You Even Need The Report?

 Dig this.

That link is behind the WaPo paywall, but it hardly matters. It's a good bet we could all write the article ourselves and end up with 90% of the content the WaPo provides. What's the point?

What's the point of any of this?

China and the developing world are constantly increase their climate-destruction, such as it is, and no amount of carbon neutral fiddling by the West is going to stop it, if it's even happening at all. Further, these mountains of studies seem to be punctuated by annual claims that we only have n years to save the planet where n is an integer between 1 and 10. Deadlines come and go and the only results are more studies and more fear spasms.

At some point, the returns on the research have got to diminish to the point where spending that same amount of precious S&T funding studying the absorption properties of kitchen sponges would be a better use of our resources.

If greenhouse gases are going to change the climate, then the climate is going to change. If eighty gazillion dollars of research has yet to be able to predict actual catastrophes, but only comes up with new, hypothetical ones, then eighty one gazillion isn't going to make much of a difference.

The WaPo and other credulous, science-illiterate agitators in the newsmedia can cry all they want about the Trump Administration not paying for yet another report by weather researchers to yet another global conference on climate. These events just can't be making enough of a difference to warrant the diversion of research funding from every other field of study into the bottomless pit of predicting climate doom.