Dialing It Down
Jay Leno, a former host of The Tonight Show, once quipped: “According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.”
In my Saturday Short published last week, I wrote that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has drastically reduced its charge of climate culpability and admitted that its own projections and computer atmospheric simulations were very wrong. The linked report illustrates just how drastically off these projections were—not only in their inaccuracy, but also in their immorality.
As expected, proponent scientists in climatology are taking credit for actions that have supposedly lessened the climate “chaos.” While they claim carbon dioxide is the culprit, the fact that the rise of CO₂ emissions has remained constant for decades — as my article “A Saturday Short - Climate Rapture” illustrates — irrefutably disputes that claim.
The legacy news media have been relatively quiet on this matter. I suspect they are humiliated, but certainly not repentant. Eventually, we will see that what is called anthropogenic climate change is largely the result of natural variability, with little or no influence from the infinitesimal amount of carbon dioxide emitted by human activities.
According to the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an advisory organization that provides analytical assessments, global expenditures on climate change exceeded $1.3 trillion in 2023. I am confident that amount has been greatly surpassed since then.
As I wrote in The Green Transition Gives Me the Blues, global expenditure since 2004 has amounted to $14 trillion. The graph used at that time showed that expenditure in 2023 was $1.9 trillion, surpassing the CPI assessment by $600 billion. It further showed that expenditure in 2024 was $2.1 trillion. These values are in US dollars.
So let’s see how some have been neglected or injured by the squandering of these funds:
Read my articles on the starving Africans who have been denied the use of fossil fuel electricity. The articles that appear below show how the destitute Africans have been abandoned by the racism of the climate change agenda. These are only a few examples:
- The Myth of Progressive Environmental Justice
- The Racism of Climate Change
- A Matter of MachiavellianismSurveys in 10 countries showed that 60% of young people between the ages of 16 and 25 suffer to some degree from eco-anxiety. This disorder is the chronic fear of environmental doom stemming from their perception (indoctrination) of climate change. Many are in superfluous psychological counseling and therapy.
The climate marketers say the sun and wind are free, yet the more renewable energies that are installed, the greater the electricity prices would climb. The reliance on renewable energies, based solely on its intermittency and the requirement and cost of batteries, as I conclude in my article “Net Zero is a Complete Zero” is entirely unachievable
By reason of “consensus” freedom of speech was constantly challenged and chastised. Those contradicting climate change were often condemned in the presses and worse, sued in the courts. It was the antithesis to the late physicist Richard Feynman quote, “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
The green politicians of the European Union have essentially closed all sources for domestic gas and oil production and have become reliant on Russia. This effectively pays for the Russian war on Ukraine.
The progressive media, which constitutes the majority of the media, along with activist scientists, dysphemistically went from calling the phenomenon “global warming” to “climate change,” “climate chaos,” “climate emergency,” “climate crisis,” and even “climate armageddon.” Every severe weather event was described by unnamed experts, unidentified climate scientists and meteorologists as being caused by human-generated climate change—almost akin to a serial murderer constantly being on the loose.
Governments around the world have legislated, mandated, or regulated that electrical equipment, appliances, and other devices be built to an inferior standard to achieve lower energy consumption. Used vehicle prices are exceptionally high because legislators mandated that manufacturers build electric vehicles, even though few people wanted to buy them.
The natural beauty in numerous locations has been uglified. Some may find attractiveness in fields of wind turbines and solar panels – but my eyes see things quite differently.
In 2009, ExxonMobil paid $600,000 in fines for the deaths of 85 protected migratory birds across five states. The birds died after landing in uncovered natural gas well reserve pits and wastewater storage facilities. By comparison, wind turbines in California alone kill roughly 80 Golden Eagles each year — along with thousands of other birds. Wind farms first emerged in the state in the early 1980s. If California’s planned expansion of wind farms is realized, the annual death toll could reach 300 Golden Eagles in a state whose current population is only about 2,500. The National Audubon Society turned a blind eye to this injustice.
While the dial on anthropogenic climate change has been turned significantly lower, the progressive left will continue with the charade because, after all, as the late American journalist, essayist, and scholar of American English H.L. Mencken observed, “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.”
