Chris Talgo today has an article at Townhall.com entitled Climate Alarmists Are More Desperate Than Ever, which catalogs a number of trends toward climate realism. What one has to realize is that climate cooling...er...warming...er change has never been about the climate. The entire scam has been a United Nations effort to redistribute the wealth of developed nations toward the undeveloped. Keep in mind that the undeveloped nations could adopt our laws and system of government and have our success within a few decades. But they are socialists, so would rather steal it than earn it.
While campaigning, Trump made it crystal clear that he intends to unleash the American energy sector, particularly with regard to new oil and natural gas extraction projects. Moreover, Trump has pledged to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accords, authorize the construction of new pipelines throughout the nation, allow U.S. exports of U.S. liquified natural gas to our European allies, eliminate President Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, and abolish a host of frivolous regulations that have handicapped U.S. energy production in recent years.
It also must be noted that among the American population, climate alarmism seems to be on the decline as well. In years past, climate change consistently ranked among Americans’ top concerns. However, as several recent polls show, Americans now rank climate change last or near-last in terms of their highest concerns.
Meanwhile, in Europe, climate realists continue to make progress by calling attention to the absurd measures taken to prevent a so-called climate catastrophe.
Talgo provides a number of examples of European nations imposing ever more stringent regulations on their people. In addition to Germany and France, I would add that Ireland wanted to cull cattle herds destroying farmers livelihood. But of course, this isn't about climate. This is about socialists trying to redistribute the wealth rather than make their own wealth. As such, they seem more interested in hitting people over the head than understanding people's concerns. But it's for their own good, right?
Like Germany, several other European countries jumped on the climate alarmist bandwagon years ago, much to the detriment of their citizens. From the Netherlands to France, farmers and many others have protested against the implementation of climate alarmist policies that put their livelihoods in jeopardy.
As Arnaud Rousseau, who leads one of France’s largest farmers union, put it, “What is happening at the moment stems from the accumulation of rules that at first you accept ... until it becomes too much.”
While the bottom-up protests in Europe and the victory for Trump bodes well for climate realism, it would be foolish to believe that this necessarily means climate alarmists are on their back foot.
Instead of listening to peoples’ genuine concerns about high gas prices and electricity bills, their apprehensiveness to buy electric vehicles, their questioning of the green transition, or any other uneasiness they may have about upending their daily lives, climate alarmists believe it is best to smash them into submission.
Let this be a lesson for other ideas. If you can't convince a majority of people that they should change their ways through open and honest debate, maybe it is not a good idea. Please read Talgo's article.
