The United Nations came up with a clever scheme to convince
the world that the “Four Horsemen of Environmental Apocalypse, overpopulation,
resource depletion, pollution, and climate devastation” will annihilate
humanity as we know it. The Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations, explained how they succeeded:
“The common enemy of
humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the
idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and
the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human
intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they
can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
According to Dr. Steve Goreham, with the establishment of U.N.’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988, “climatism was born and controlling carbon has become a bureaucrat’s
dream.”
World’s leaders, politicians, corporations, universities,
and NGOs have been captivated by the climate change industry even though the
theory of global warming has failed miserably and all the climate models were
proven wrong. They declared war on fossil fuels and waged it with a vengeance
at the expense of taxpayers and electricity users.
Suddenly using too much energy derived from coal, oil,
and natural gas became a sin even though energy is the driver of global
prosperity. Environmentalists have decided to deny the same opportunity for prosperity
from cheap fossil fuel energy to millions of citizens of third world nations,
forcing them instead into expensive solar and wind energy they cannot afford.
Hydrocarbons became the black sheep, and billions and billions in subsidies
were spent to make room for renewables.
“It's in our interest - and we wouldn't be able to
stop it anyway - for the poorer countries, which only are responsible for about
20 percent of the globe's pollution, to develop, but they should develop
according to a different path, a different industrial prescription than we did.”
(Michael
Oppenheimer on This Week with David Brinkley, 31 May 1992) http://www.princeton.edu/step/people/faculty/michael-oppenheimer/in-the-news/Correcting-Glenn-Beck-.pdf
Environmental NGOs lectured impressionable students that nobody
should be drilling at all because fossil fuels destroy the planet, we should
pay $10 per gallon like Europe, use renewables and learn to live modestly on
solar and wind, if we can afford them.
If we must return to medieval living to save one of God’s creatures, then we should.
It is getting serious when even the oil
producers have bought into climatism.
But environmentalists are not all equal. They want
electricity to their smart devices that use more power than a refrigerator.
They want tents, shoes, sunglasses, caps, and clothes made from hydrocarbons
but they are protesting fossil fuels. They want their Priuses and electric cars
but have no idea that the electricity to power them comes from hydrocarbons. Some
enviro-denizens are Nimby (Not in My Back Yard) when it comes to unsightly wind
turbines. Others are Banana (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything).
And yet others are Nope (Not On Planet Earth). There is too much oil, “enough
to deep fry the planet.”
Dr. Steve Goreham, Executive Director of the Climate Science
Coalition of America, and author of Mad,
Mad, Mad World of Climatism, described the collateral damage from the war
on hydrocarbons using Europe as an example of an “energy disaster unfolding.”
He said, “there are 487 national climate change laws in 66 nations” and they
are hurting the economies of those respective countries.
Europe is a basket case of subsidized and mandated
renewables that has resulted in higher electricity rates for customers, causing
electricity penury among some of the citizens of Germany. Giving renewables
output priority, energy from other sources like nuclear, hydropower, and fossil
fuels was scaled back. Germany shut down
nuclear power plants and Germany and France banned hydraulic fracturing. The
market for electricity and wholesale prices became dependent on the mercy of
weather and wind, regardless of demand.
There was a massive installation of solar panels in Germany
even though Germany is not exactly the sunshine state. Spain decided to use Diesel generation for
its solar panels because the solar panel electricity was too expensive, 23
cents per kWh. The ugly wind turbines everywhere produced inefficient and
undependable electricity.
Dr. Goreham also mentioned that some countries imported wood
from Alabama to burn as electricity generator instead of dirty coal. The Green
Revolution has been so expensive for Europeans that subsidies were dropping in
every area, followed by layoffs in the renewable industry. The wind industry in
the U.S. gets 2.3 cents per kWh in tax credit in order to compete.
Even though IPCC said that “burning biomass is carbon
neutral,” the reality is that biofuels release as much or more carbon dioxide
than coal does. And the trading of carbon on the carbon markets is failing.
People can pay all the carbon footprint taxes in the world and it will not make
a bit of difference in the actual CO2 in the atmosphere. It will just make the
traders and the companies richer.
Dr. Fred Singer, physicist and emeritus professor of
environmental science at the University of Virginia, reminded us that the
climate change industry does not take into account the CO2 emissions from operation
and maintenance of renewables such as how often these devices must be replaced
(solar panels, wind turbines, parts, lubricants), and the transmission costs.
Wind and solar power does emit CO2 in the construction process, during the
mining of the metals used, lubricants, etc.
Even the President blamed the low GDP on cold weather.
Perhaps it is time for global warmists turned climatists to be exposed again.
Honest scientists say that we have enough fossil fuels
reserves for centuries of use. In the world’s economy renewables should compete
without subsidies, we should worry about the Smart Grid’s vulnerability from
hackers, solar flares, and EMPs, we should conserve energy wisely, protect
nature sensibly, and let the carbon credits scheme go into the trash bin of expensive
hustles.
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