Coronavirus And Climate Change: A Tale Of Two Hysterias

Coronavirus And Climate Change: A Tale Of Two Hysterias

It did not take long after the onset of the global pandemic for people to observe the many parallels between the covid-19 pandemic and climate change.. , a colourless trace gas constituting 0.04% of the atmosphere which allegedly serves as the control knob of climate change.. Lockdowns are to the pandemic what decarbonization is to climate change.. By March 25th, Ferguson's predicted half a million fatalities in the UK was adjusted downward to "unlikely to exceed 20,000", a reduction by a factor of 25.. As politicians abdicate policy formulation to opaque expertise in highly specialized fields such as epidemiology or climate science, a process of groupthink emerges as scientists generate 'significant' results which reinforce confirmation bias, affirm the "scientific consensus" and marginalize sceptics.. I have worked in the oil and gas sector as an economist in both private industry and in think tanks, in Asia, the Middle East and the US over the past 25 years.. I focus on global energy developments from the perspective of Asian countries that remain large markets for oil, gas and coal.. I have written extensively on the areas of economic development, environment and energy economics..