Jean Boissinot Goes Strange Post-COP30

“[COP30 was] the kind of outcome people like you have been bullying for for months…. And, if you please could keep for yourself your insane ranting backed by nothing but your fantasy (for lack of a better word) that would be better….. I might not hesitate to delete comments that delude, mislead or offend.” (- Boissinot to author, below)

Jean Boissinot, climate alarmist and energy statist, responded strangely to COP30’s failure. The ex-Director, Risk & Research, Banque de France, stated:

… the final CMA declaration gavelled down minutes ago and not in the net zero future we need to transition to …. Although addressing climate change unequivocally means phasing out fossil fuel and getting to net zero…. we, as a global community, are still unable to face the obvious, speak the truth and do the necessary.

This is a dark day – but there are many reasons to be hopeful, roll up our sleeves and act decisively. We will get to net zero – because there is no other option. So better get there fast!

I commented: “Are you surprised at the outcome? The anti-CO2 crusade is wasteful and futile–it needs to stop.”

He responded:

surprised? Not really, that was a possibility and the kind of outcome people like you have been bullying for for months. Saddened? For sure: when you take a step back and look at what’s at stake and what we are undoing while being much closer to a solution, how not to be.

And, if you please could keep for yourself your insane ranting backed by nothing but your fantasy (for lack of a better word) that would be better. Just be aware that, contrary to what I usually do, I might not hesitate to delete comments that delude, mislead or offend : when you genuinely develop no constructive idea nor show basic respect (I’m not necessarily speaking about you by the way), I will feel free to actively curate that feed.

Wishing you the best – including a liveable climate for yourself and your children and grandchildren.

Director, Risk & Research (ACPR) | ex. Banque de France, 

I answered:

“… people like you have been bullying for months.” Since when do you have the moral high ground given the futile, wasteful crusade against consumers, taxpayers, and freedom? Should you finally admit that it is adaptation time under any scenario? To get off the alarmist bandwagon to appreciate the benefits of CO2 enrichment for a greener Planet Earth?

Boissinot: Honestly, without even looking at the merits of the arguments, how would you qualify your sustained commenting behaviour on LinkedIn?

Bradley:

I have more than 12,500 followers on LinkedIn–many with opposing views than me–because I have spent decades in the debate with articles and books and media credits. I am also the founder of the world’s leading classical-liberal think tank in energy. Principled and pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, pro-environment.

With the tide finally turning against climate alarm and forced energy transformation, my effort is well timed to get the open-minded to consider free markets rather than energy statism.

This might have been the end of the exchange. But Jean Boissinot doubles down with assertion.

Very happy for you about your many followers – but how does this relate to the way you aggressively comment (though I admit I haven’t read your old ranting accusing anyone with an opposing view of Statism before your last comment)?

You keep on provoking comments in comments out and yes, sometimes you engage. I wish another balance between the two from someone who, as I would also do, appreciate classical liberalism.

As for the turning tide, it has a lot less to do with reality than with the collapse of an organised international order. Let see where this gets us – I’m not sure anyone will be better off – and I’m not even sure the fossil fuel industry (the only group that thought it would get something positive out of delaying or derailing climate action) would benefit from that…).

As I said, I sometimes hope all this would be just a bad dream. I unfortunately know all too well it is not and I (still) genuinely wish you the best – including a liveable climate for yourself and your children and grandchildren.

Strange indeed. Repetitive and whiny. I responded:

My “aggressive comments” come at a time when the four decades of climate exaggeration and magical thinking about non-fossil-fuel energy are failing politically–and for economic (and environmental) reasons.

Your challenge is to understand opposing views rather than assume you are right and the rest of us are somehow opposed to ” a liveable climate for yourself and your children and grandchildren.”

That is fantasy. Climate alarm is very exaggerated; wind/solar/batteries are uneconomic; and consumers and ‘social justice’ demand energy affordability and reliability.

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