The Climate Change Hoax

 Chris Talgo has a report at the American Thinker entitled The actual 'Climate Change' agenda. Critical readers of not only this blog, but of other sources will realize that whatever the original climate alarmists may have believed, the movement was hijacked long ago by the fascist far-left and is being used to impose a totalitarian globalist system to replace the Constitutional republic of the United States of America. They use all the typical tools of the left, including violence, terrorism, propaganda, not to mention turning scientists into foot soldiers in their battle to transform America.

The latest edition of the State of the Climate Report published this week in the journal BioScience, begins rather ominously: “Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.” These sentences are meant to instill abject fear and evoke a sense of doom in the general public. However, they are patently absurd and ought to be disregarded outright.

Like almost every climate change report I’ve come across, the 2023 State of the Climate Report is full of red herrings and bombastic assertions that are intended to alarm the public into believing that climate change is an existential threat that must be stopped at all costs, regardless of the collateral damage and unintended consequences that their so-called solutions would inevitably bring to bear.

But what I find most alarming about this particular report, which 15,000 scientists signed, is the anti-human and anti-progress message that lies at the heart of it.

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The authors erroneously claim that “economic growth” is the driver of the climate crisis and that it prevents them from achieving their “social, climate, and biodiversity goals.” Unsurprisingly, they lay the blame on the world’s most prosperous nations, particularly those located in the “global north,” which they argue are preventing the need for “decoupling economic growth from harmful environmental impacts.” As such, they suggest we “change our economy to a system that supports meeting basic needs for all people instead of excessive consumption by the wealthy.” As it turns out, this type of economic system has been implemented many times over, most notably in the Soviet Union. The results, in every single case, were downright dreadful.

In other words, these scientists dismiss the fact that economic growth under a free-market capitalist system, which has produced myriad technological advancements and innovations that have significantly improved the human experience in recent centuries, is a net positive. Casting economic growth and free enterprise in a mostly negative light is ludicrous. Thanks to economic growth over the past few decades alone, humans are living longer than ever before, in less poverty than ever before, are able to communicate across the world in the blink of an eye, and live more comfortably than ever before.

In their misguided worldview, economic growth is a net harm because it does not automatically allocate resources in an equitable manner. Spoiler alert: neither does socialism. Apparently, these scientists are unaware that as President John F. Kennedy famously put it, “a rising tide lifts all boats.”

The unspoken assumption behind the report is that the Earth, not human life, is what the "scientists" most earnestly want to save. But in their misguided obsession with saving the planet, they haven't really thought out for what they are saving it?  They do not believe the words of Genesis, that the Creator God created the world specifically for humans and charged humans to fill the earth. Without humans, the world is just a wild jungle. Furthermore, our Creator God would not have designed a world where we could destroy it. We are simply not that powerful. Sorry to pop your bubble if you are one who supports the State of the Climate Report.

Furthermore, one wonders if these supposed "scientists" are actually...you know...scientists. After all, real scientists would know that wind and solar energy are not only diffuse, but also unreliable energy sources. Indeed, one thinks that the "scientists" were just window dressing to obscure the many leftist buzz words such as "equitable." And that is the real goal of the whole climate change movement. One of the things the movement wants to achieve, though it is seldom said out loud in public is to reduce the human population. People, the theory goes, are a cancer on the planet. Except, of course, we are not. Is it really so inconceivable that God would create the universe just to we would have a place specially designed for us to live?

Aside from their anti-economic growth stance, the authors also recommend “eliminating” “fossil fuels” and “transitioning away from coal” while calling for “funding to build out renewable energy capacity.” Based on statements like these, I wonder if the scientists who produce these types of reports are delusional. If we were to eliminate fossil fuels and stop using coal as a fuel source, the entire global economy would grind to a halt, billions of people would suffer, and millions would die.

But maybe that is the point, or at least a part of it. One of the last recommendations the scientists make is downright chilling: “gradually decrease the human population.”

Make no mistake, for decades, climate-change zealots have been calling for degrowth and depopulation. From Paul Ehrlich to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the list is too long to catalogue. For some strange reason, this call for depopulation and degrowth is resonating across academia and the illiberal Left. Even worse, it seems to be in vogue among today’s youth.

I am currently reading Michael Chrichton's book State of Fear in which eco-terrorists attempt to keep the public in a state of fear over global warming to cover for their real agenda. It is a fictional account, but it seems to have also been based to an extent on real events. The State of the Climate Report is more fear mongering. Climate change is a hoax. It is another of H. L. Menchen's hobgoblins designed to make you give up some of your natural power to the government, if it will but save you. Do not be herded that way.