Posted on 12/08/2018 5:46:27 AM PST by Kaslin
The unwritten rule seems to be that each successive climate report and news release must be more frightening than any predecessors, especially during the run-up to international conferences.
Thus Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report 15 claims governments worldwide must make “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” spend $40 trillion by 2035 on renewable energy, and impose carbon taxes that climb to $5,500 per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2030. Or temperatures could climb another 1 degree F (0.5 C) and bring utter cataclysm to human civilization and our planet.
Not to be outdone, the 1,700-page 2018 US National Climate Assessment wailed that failure to eliminate fossil fuels and roll back American industry and living standards would send global temperatures soaring 15 degrees F by 2100! Chaos and food shortages would ensue; US economic growth would plummet.
The hyperbole continues in Katowice, Poland – where 30,000 activists and bureaucrats (and a few scientists) are meeting to finalize regulations to implement the 2015 Paris climate treaty and compel wealthy nations to give trillions of dollars in “adaptation, mitigation and compensation” money to poor countries that have been “victimized” by climate change, even as the rich nations de-industrialize.
All of this certainly plays well with those who orchestrated these reports and programs, are ideologically opposed to fossil fuels, or get paid to advance climate chaos and renewable energy narratives. However, a very different response among other audiences is increasingly evident around the world.
People look out their windows and realize the “unprecedented climate and weather chaos” isn’t actually happening, is little different from what they and previous generations experienced, and cannot possibly be attributed solely to fossil fuel use. They know the sun and other powerful natural forces have driven frequent climate changes throughout history, and play equally important roles today.
They understand that the scary headlines are the product of “scenarios” conjured up by computer models that blame climate change on greenhouse gases. They see the boy who cried “fifty 20-foot-tall wolves” far too often. They don’t buy the notion that today’s incredibly wealthy, high-tech, energy-rich societies are somehow less able to deal with climate change than those that lived through the Little Ice Age, for example. They typically put climate change at the bottom of any list of pressing concerns.
More and more people understand that fossil fuels provide 80% of US and global energy – and are essential to lifting billions more people out of crushing poverty. They see Asian and African countries building thousands of new coal- and gas-fired electrical generating plants, and making and driving millions of new cars. They know even Germany and Japan are burning more coal, as they realize that wind and solar subsidies and facilities raise energy costs, kill jobs and hurt poor families the most.
People resent being scammed and get angry when they realize their taxes and energy payments often line the pockets of climate activists, scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, and wind, solar and biofuel cronies.
Above all, a growing number see the proposed solutions as far worse than the wildly exaggerated and even fabricated climate disasters. They won’t tolerate having their livelihoods and living standards disrupted or destroyed by carbon taxes, even higher energy prices or fossil fuel bans – especially when the antipathy toward those fuels is combined with plans to terminate nuclear and even hydroelectric power.
In recent weeks, millions of mostly poor, working class and rural French citizens have joined the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement, protesting and even rioting against President Macron’s proposed carbon tax hikes on their driving and living standards. Even a French police union has sided with the protesters. A shaken Macron finally postponed the tax for six months, then scrapped the plan entirely.
The protests are the first serious backlash against international eco-imperialism. They won’t be the last.
In Africa alone, twice as many people as live in the USA still do not have electricity, or have it only rarely and unpredictably. Can you imagine your life without electricity? And yet they are told by the EU, environmentalists, the World Bank and others that they must restrict their ambitions to what is possible with wind, solar and biofuel energy. Would you accept such carbon colonialism? Can actual, real-world climate risks possibly be worse than the horrid poverty, deprivation and disease that afflicts them now?
The World Bank recently said it would kindly give poor countries $200 billion during its FY2021-25 cycle, for “adaptation and resilience” in the face of manmade climate change. But still nothing for fossil fuel or nuclear power. The White House should read it the riot act, especially if US money is involved.
Poor countries don’t need climate cash. They need to develop: energy, infrastructure, factories, jobs, health, living standards. They need to do what rich countries did to become rich – not what (some) rich countries are doing (or at least saying) now that they are rich. Thankfully, many are doing exactly that.
Abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, motor fuels and factory power creates its own prosperity; its own ability to improve roads, hospitals, schools, homes and so on; its own “drop dead money” to tell carbon colonialists to take a hike. “Green” energy is insufficient, unsustainable and ecologically harmful.
With America likely being joined soon by Brazil in rejecting the Paris climate trap, poor nations are on firm ground. Ontario (Canada), Poland. Australia, China, India and other countries have also rejected carbon taxes and coal use restrictions. The Paris deal is fast becoming a climate Potemkin Village.
But what about that National Climate Assessment? Wasn’t that a Trump White House document? It certainly needed some adult supervision, to ride herd on the 1,000 Deep State scientists and bureaucrats who prepared it. However, the White House let them prove how loony climate alarmism has become.
Indeed, as Nick Loris, Roger Pielke, Jr. and other experts have pointed out, the NCA was based on absurd assumptions (eg, vastly increased coal use and no energy technology advances over the next 70 years) and a ridiculous worst-case global temperature increase of 15 degrees F by 2100. That’s twice as high as even the IPCC’s worst-case projections, and far worse than Garbage In-Garbage Out climate models are predicting. It’s more than 15 times the total warming our Earth has experienced since 1820!
The NCA is also based on rampant cherry-picking of data, to wildly inflate climate risks; an almost total failure to factor in the incalculable benefits of fossil fuels; and a refusal to consider the plant-fertilizing benefits of more atmospheric carbon dioxide. It just depicts the CO2 we exhale solely as a dangerous climate-changing pollutant. The NCA also ignored the fact that actual observations show no increases in drought, no increases in the frequency or magnitude of floods, no trends in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes. It didn’t mention the 12-year absence of Category 3-5 hurricanes making US landfall.
Just as egregious, the Deep State NCA claimed continued fossil fuel use would hit the United States with $500 billion in annual climate related costs by 2090. That’s more than twice the percentage lost during the Great Depression. It’s 10% of the US economy in 1971. Even with modest economic growth, it’s likely to be a trivial 0.6% of America’s GDP in 2090. The NCA bogeyman is a little stuffed bear.
But based on IPCC and NCA fear mongering, America and the world are supposed to keep their fossil fuels in the ground – including what the US Geological Survey says is the “largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever assessed!!” Over 46 billion barrels of oil, 280 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in just part of the Texas-New Mexico Permian Basin.
No one denies that the climate changes, or even that human activities have some effects on climate and weather. But there is no real-world evidence that human CO2 emissions have replaced the sun and other natural forces; that another degree of warming would be cataclysmic; or that humans can control climate changes and weather events by tweaking the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Want some facts and common sense? See what CFACT and Heartland have been saying in Poland, and read books by Marc Morano, Roy Spencer, Anthony Watts and others. They’ll be a breath of fresh air.
Just say no to this.
Oh, they would love that. They are salivating over the thought.
That is what this is all about.
Churchill 's prediction has the right words to describe this:
"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."
It should be pretty obvious to anyone with a brain, that Government are using “Climate Change” as a boogeyman to ram their Agenda through. The Agenda here is some combination of: green policies, higher taxes, foreign aid, or promotion of diversity (aka, population replacement). IN the end, it’s social engineering on a massive scale designed to create a Thousand year Socialist (Marxist)/Fascist Reich (picking right up where the Nazis left off). When countries like India and China are exempted, any measures imposed on Western nations becomes a bad joke.
The only way that it will happen here in the US is if we submit to it.
Unfortunately, there a lot of low information voters and feel good motives.
All we need is for another idiot like Obama to come along, get elected president, & then sign on to this crap all over again. Should that happen, I hope we could take a lesson from the French.
Climate change mandates are corporate welfare on a global scale. Extremely wealthy people will become even wealthier.
Climate change cultists are elitists. They see themselves on top with the rest of humanity on the bottom.
Their agenda is anti-human. People in France have woken up to their real
agenda and have rejected in droves.
Along with the lunatic proposition people must bear the costs of transitioning to the climate change cultists Brsve New Green Earth.
Those are economically ruinous and socially onerous to justify their marginal ecological impact. People are saying no to an agenda intended to harm them in the name of helping the environment.
Turning our backs on the destructive climate change cult is the best thing we can do for our benefit and for the welfare of the planet as well.
Hmm...how do we insure a neverending supply of money we can use to control and micromanage the tiny people everywhere...hmmm.
“I know! Let’s TAX THE AIR!!!”
They are trying to literally impoverish and kill millions of us. They should be neutralized and destroyed before they can carry out their dark plans.
I have spent quite a bit of time in the Philippines. The husband of a former president there, Gloria Arroyo, was nicknamed “Mr Twenty Percent”, the cost of a favor. The world if full of leaders of his ilk, ready to put climate funds in their own pocket. The UN Climate scam is like their “Oil for Food” program on steroids. The UN, their friends and relatives, and world leaders, and their friends and relatives, will get wealthy from it.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
I would like to query some of these alarmists to see how many plants or better yet, how many trees have they planted to help mitigate over abundance of CO2? I bet combined, these thousands of global warming believers have not planted as many trees as my husband and I have. The last two years we have planted 8500 baby trees, eventually to be 80 foot tall beautiful Douglas Fir trees! Our 40 year trees were dying, some say due to the drought on the west coast, but could it be lack of CO2 as the environmentalists clamp down?
When your lies don’t work… lie harder, LIE LOUDER!!!
None of this "green" crap" has anything to do with the climate, the environment or the planet.
It has everything to do with the green color of money.
It all has to do with replacing capitalism, which relies on fossil fuels, and replacing it with socialism/communism, which relies on taxpayer dollars to build their central, one-world government.
The socialist revolution is their goal and the ruse is climate change.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00537.x
Joseph Priestley. The first evidence that gases participate in photosynthesis was reported by Joseph Priestley in 1772. ... However, Priestley discovered that if a plant is placed in an atmosphere lacking oxygen, it soon replenishes the oxygen, and a mouse can survive in the resulting mixture.
The relationshipe of plants, oxyegen and Carbon dioxide were established 246 years ago.
Jan Ingenhousz, (born December 8, 1730, Breda, Netherlands—died September 7, 1799, Bowood, Wiltshire, England), Dutch-born British physician and scientist who is best known for his discovery of the process of photosynthesis, by which green plants in sunlight absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
Yet in the year 2002, 230 years after the relationship was established, they are still studying it at Alpine Tree lines and arguing about why they exist. Given that fact, they expect me to believe that climatologists know with absolute certainty that we must act know.
Boo-gels the mind. I here there has been a resurgence of the use of maggots and leaches in medicine and even the reemergence of bleeding as a medical therapy. Go figure!
Good thing all those delegates jetted to this latest Gaia Worshiping conference, rode in cars, stayed in swanky hotels etc etc.
Once again “real sacrifices are for you little people. Certainly not for us politicians and technocrats and hollywood types”.
What else would you say but No?
I hope when that happens I won’t be around anymore.
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