Like someone else pointed out. It has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with more taxes and control of the populace.
My favorite one was : “There are more cars on the road so we need to raise the gas tax to cover the repairs.” IF there are so many extra cars on the road aren’t they using more gas thereby paying a lot more in taxes now?
They just siphon off the money to use somewhere else while the roads get worse so they can raise the tax again.
Like any bloated government entity — like a balloon, it expands to the size of the revenue source and then continues to grow for no reason. Just because it can.
Toss in inefficiency, waste, and no spending controls and then it becomes a massive monster that must be constantly fed.