Friday, December 14, 2018
Climate Lunacy Takes Center Stage
At Townhall.com, Paul Driessen recently wrote about what he labeled 'climate lunacy.' Here's part of it:
"People look out their windows and realize the 'unprecedented climate and weather chaos' isn’t actually happening, is little different from what they and previous generations experienced, and cannot possibly be attributed solely to fossil fuel use. They know the sun and other powerful natural forces have driven frequent climate changes throughout history, and play equally important roles today.
They understand that the scary headlines are the product of 'scenarios' conjured up by computer models that blame climate change on greenhouse gases. They see the boy who cried 'fifty 20-foot-tall wolves' far too often. They don’t buy the notion that today’s incredibly wealthy, high-tech, energy-rich societies are somehow less able to deal with climate change than those that lived through the Little Ice Age, for example. They typically put climate change at the bottom of any list of pressing concerns.
More and more people understand that fossil fuels provide 80% of US and global energy – and are essential to lifting billions more people out of crushing poverty. They see Asian and African countries building thousands of new coal- and gas-fired electrical generating plants, and making and driving millions of new cars. They know even Germany and Japan are burning more coal, as they realize that wind and solar subsidies and facilities raise energy costs, kill jobs and hurt poor families the most. "
