"Now that the #Coronvirus has taken hold and schools are closing globally (along with everything else) Josh imagines that Greta’s minions who are stuck at home with parents, might be saying this right about now: ...... "

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/23/monday-mirthiness-greta/

Chairman of the Forestry Commission:

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Ralph_Worsley"

The Baronets of this world seem to do OK for themselves, by and large.

".... just possibly, like many other government bodies. the Forestry Commission "corporate communications" department is overstuffed with dim jobsworths.... "
Mar 23, 2020 at 1:21 PM tomo

Jim Dobsworth is getting a bad press at the moment, and rightly so.

"Mervyn King presses Rishi Sunak over pay for self-employed
Coronavirus is ‘much more serious and difficult to cope with’ than 2008 financial crisis"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/23/coronavirus-mervyn-king-presses-rishi-sunak-over-pay-for-self-employed

H/t our host's Twitter feed:

"GOLDSTEIN: We gambled on the wrong threat — climate change"

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-we-gambled-on-the-wrong-threat-climate-change

"One of the key lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is that for at least the past decade, we focused disproportionately, or rather our governments did, on one potential global threat — human-induced climate change — to the exclusion of all others.

Anthropogenic climate change became the issue that sucked up all the oxygen in the room when it came to a global crisis.

At the expense of, for example, a contagious and deadly virus becoming a pandemic, which public health experts have been warning us about for decades....

As Robert Bryce warns in Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energyand the Real Fuels of the Future: “If you are anti-carbon dioxide and anti-nuclear, you are pro-blackout.”

Consider what the world would be like today, in the face of COVID-19, without fossil fuel (and nuclear) energy, a world climate radicals crave.

Without reliable, on-demand energy sufficient to power a modern, industrialized society — which neither wind nor solar power can provide at current levels of technology — our hospitals could not maintain sterile conditions.

Food and vaccines — when one for COVID-19 is developed — could not be preserved or transported."

"But I thought climate change was a crisis?"
Mar 23, 2020 at 7:53 AM Mark Hodgson

Climate Science faces an Unprecedented Existential Crisis.

1. Both the public and politicians realise there are genuine problems that REALLY DO need to be addressed.
2. Neither the public nor the politicians have any spare cash to pay for Vanity Projects.
3. The importance of cheap and reliable power has never been more important for homes, hospitals, and for the vehicles delivering everything

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/23/energy-storage-boom-stalls-in-europe
"A new study by consultants Delta-EE for Ease"
Mar 23, 2020 at 7:53 AM Mark Hodgson

The expertise comes from:

https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/staff/robin-adey-johnson/
Research Engineer
EngD Research Engineer

"Based within the Timber Improvement Programme, Robin is undertaking a four year Engineering Doctorate (EngD) through the University of Surrey’s Centre for Doctoral Training in MiNMaT (Micro- and NanoMaterials and Technologies). Robin is supervised by Dr Paul McLean at Forest Research and Prof Peter McDonald at the University of Surrey."

As Green Blob Climate Scientists are so quick to point out that non- Climate Scientists are not qualified to criticise their life's work, why is The Guardian risking further ridicule on matters of science and economics?