Mike McDaniel has two related posts today at the American Thinker. The first is entitled The Swiss Army Knife of Climate Change. McDaniel notes that throughout the 20th century, we had global warming...er...global cooling...no, global warming again...oh f___ it, climate change. Man made climate change became the rhetorical cudgel with which to blame any disaster, no matter how tenuous, and of course, it is all our fault! We must, therefore, sacrifice to the goddess Gaia by giving up anything that makes life pleasant and donate all our wealth to the likes of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Klaus Schwab for salvation. It is no wonder that Climate Change has been likened to a religion.
Remember the good old days when Global Warming was going to doom us all? I’m so old I remember it was the imminent, any day now, new ice age that would popsicle humanity. Good times. Good times. But when the climate computer modeler’s climate computer models all failed to predict, well, anything, and embarrassingly, the globe suddenly refused to warm, and that couldn’t be covered up, our new, universal doom was hastily renamed: Climate Change! It’s the Swiss Army Knife of eco-Armageddon. There is nothing it cannot do, nothing it cannot anticipate, describe or blame. Since it is and causes everything, it has the enormous scientific advantage of being non-falsifiable, which is kind of un-scientific, but CLIMATE CHANGE!
Hot weather? Climate Change. Cold weather? Climate Change. Rain? Climate Change. No rain? Climate Change. Tuesday? Climate Change. Dark out? Climate Change. Full moon? Climate Change. Snow? Climate Change. No snow? Climate Change. Bidenomics? Climate Change. Ooops. No, sorry! That’s not Climate Change, that’s stunning success and salvation. Glad I caught that one. High gas prices? Climate Change—or Putin. Afghanistan pull-out debacle? Stunning success and Climate Change! Supply chain disruptions? Climate Change. Cow flatulence? Climate Change. Breathing? Climate Change. Terrorism? Climate Change. No terrorism? Climate Change. The utter failure of high-speed rail? Climate Change. Donald Trump? Absolutely Climate Change.
See? There is nothing that exists, does not exist, moves, does not move, thinks, acts, or just sits there that is not caused by, or is an existential cause of, Climate Change! The Climate Change crowd have statistics to prove it too, and if they don’t they’ll just make some up, just because CLIMATE CHANGE!...
McDaniel goes on to explain how the Climatistas have somehow blamed the wild fires that burned in the United States on...you guessed it...Climate Change! The fact that wildfires raged before man ever walked the planet seems to have eluded these geniuses. Indeed, fires can be blamed on arson, on lack of good forest management practices, and lightening. Climate? Not so much. But when you have a flexible tool like Climate Change, you use it. What is the saying? When you are a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The fact that we had half the acreage burning this year did not cross their minds. But who needs chemistry, physics, or common sense when you can blame it all on Climate Change
McDaniel's second post is entitled In Pet Buttigieg's reality, EVs dominate.
Real reality-based Americans have been watching the increasingly downward spiral of electric vehicles and their associated PR machine with relief and pleasure. The venerable axiom “what cannot go on, won’t” applies. However, one of the fruits by which democrats/Socialists/Communists may be known is also their defining characteristic: they create their own reality and try to force others to live in it. So it is with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is, by the way, gay. You don’t have to ask him; he’ll tell you. Here’s his current reality:
“[T]he share of EVs has been dramatically increasing every single year, and that’s continuing. Now, our goal is, by the end of this decade, to be about half-and-half. We think that that can and will happen. But what isn’t guaranteed is, first of all, is that EV revolution going to continue to be made in America? During the Trump administration, China really built a major advantage on EVs. But as somebody who comes from the industrial Midwest, sees how the auto industry creates so much by way of livelihoods where I come from and really around the country, I’m much more excited about the jobs being created on U.S. soil, and that doesn’t just happen. We’ve got to make sure that the U.S. leads the way as this technology changes. I don’t know a lot of people who think that Americans in 2050 are still going to be driving that old technology, that combustion technology that we inherited from the 20th century.”
The other day, I was speaking to an elderly gentleman who had purchased a Mercedes Benz EV around 6 or 7 months ago. I noticed that for the last 3 weeks he had been driving a Mercedes Benz gas powered car. We were gathered, waiting for assignments and I asked him why he wasn't driving the EV. "I sold it. Sold it back to Mercedes." There ensued a bunch of complaints about the car, most of which had to do with troubles charging it. He wasn't allowed to put in a home charging station by his homeowner's association. So he had to charge using normal power outlets which took up to 18 hours. The charging stations nearby were often on the fritz, and the ones that weren't were usually occupied. Then, if he wanted to go anywhere besides to work or errands, he had to worry whether the charge he had would run out before he got back home. I chuckled.
Just as the Left has to shred the Constitution to save it for "Our Democracy," it seems they have to destroy the environment to "save the planet" from so-called "Climate Change." It is all demonic and anti-human. They presume to sit on God's throne. The fact is that we have at least 200 years' worth of recoverable fossil fuels right now. We should use them now. Interestingly, God seems to provide more, as played out wells become productive again. Meanwhile, that will buy time for other technologies to develop naturally. No need to force anything down the public's throat. Except, that is the way of the Left.
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