If I were a marketing executive who wanted to hawk “Climate Change” as something of value to spend hard earned money on, I might start with the slogan, “Since the beginning of time…”, or, “As old as Creation itself…”. The climate has been changing and man has been adapting to it since God said “Let there be light”. Why on earth then, (pun unintended but I like it) do we all pretend that climate change is something new, the results of which can only be catastrophic, and is almost exclusively caused by the burning of fossil fuels which is a relatively recent activity in light of man’s history on the planet? How many of Algore’s predictions of climate gloom and doom have come to pass? Umm, none I believe is the correct answer. So, with inflation soaring out of control, gas prices at record levels, and recession on the horizon, the Biden administration, following the progressive left wing democrat pipe dream of zero carbon emissions, puts climate change front and center as the greatest existential threat to the country and the world. Or was it “White Supremacy”, another myth purposely used to destroy freedom and liberty. But, I digress.
The world’s engine runs on the burning of fossil fuel. Until solar, wind and other energy producing technologies become cost effective this will continue to be a reality we can’t change by wishing it so because it makes us feel better. The USA is by far the most environmentally friendly producer of fossil fuel. John Kerry himself let the cat out of the bag when he said that 90% of the carbon emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels comes from countries other than the US. If we don’t produce fossil fuels, the world will demand that others produce them and they will, caring nothing about the consequences of how they do it. So even if we do, as a country, play the martyr role and fall on our sword to “save the planet” it will all be for naught. We are enriching and empowering adversaries like Russia, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and others by not producing the energy that is right under our feet and dirtying the planet at the same time. Does this make sense? Not to me.
If it hasn’t been erased yet, history and real science teaches us that we had an ice age, and other periods of higher than “normal” temperatures that were obviously caused by something other than your mom’s Buick, that the planet has survived just fine. Greenland has that name because it used to be green. It is really the height of hubris and arrogance to believe that we both exclusively cause climate change AND that we can do anything about what effects we might have, or even have had, on major climate shifts. Hence it becomes very difficult for me, a schlub electrician of average intelligence, to reconcile destroying 10,000+ American jobs by halting the construction of pipelines, and halting drilling for oil and fracking for natural gas on federal lands in the name of a coming “climate emergency” that only exists on Joey Acubundy’s computer model. Don’t believe the governments lies when they blame the oil companies for not drilling. They aren’t using the permits they have been issued because government regulations and taxes make drilling and fracking unprofitable endeavors to say the least. We were energy independent during Trumps term because he lifted regulations nd lowered taxes. Psaki thinks we are all morons.
We are, you might say, tilting at windmills here. Another unintended but appreciated pun. Let’s completely undo our energy independence and at he same time kill domestic jobs and strengthen our enemies. The idea that “green jobs” are suddenly going to appear out of nowhere is pie in the sky foolishness. A free economy based on reality produces jobs that create real wealth, not the government, which would force unworkable utopian foolishness on us.
Planet gonna planet, climate gonna climate. Humanity gonna adjust. I do not deny that the earth may be warming a tad and that a small degree of that warming might be caused by fossil fuel burning. We do NOT know that a slightly warmer earth will result in existential catastrophe. It is not settled science. There are just too many unpredictable natural variables to rely on Joey’s computer model and subsequently tubing the country. Why not make Greenland green again?