Okay, folks, let’s think some of this through.
I don’t buy into the global warming slop. It is a “theory” put forth by infantile intellects that captured the imagination of globalist buffoons that want control over us. Carbon dioxide is an inert gas that comprises 0.03% of our atmosphere. I demand anthropologic global warming (AGW) or Climate Change! is proven.
Climate sceptic? No. Climate realist. They have not come close to proving their “theory”. Instead, they trot out heavily massaged data that shows our world is warming at an incredible rate, the polar caps are melting, the seas are rising and we will, eventually, become cannibals. Of course none of this is really happening but ol’ Ted Turner sure got sucked-in back in the day…
They tout their climate models that cannot even use past data to predict what the climate did in, well, the past.
But let’s say they are correct; we are burning ourselves up by pumping ungodly amounts of dangerous, poisonous gas into our atmosphere and we will destroy the ability of humans to survive on earth. Okay, got it. And for the past 40 years the alarmists have been claiming we have 30 or 20 or 10 or 5 or whatever years left before we get to a tipping point and a catastrophic apocalypse will befall us.
So, as a solution they want us to slaughter cows because they fart too much; they want us to paint our roofs white so as to reflect more heat back out to space (though, as a layman with limited cognitive abilities, wouldn’t the dreaded CO2 simply trap the reflective heat and still fry our ass? Just a thought.); they want us to move to tremendous smart cities where they can better control our carbon footprint; they want us in electric vehicles—if we are so fortunate to be approved to buy one and move freely about the country if so allowed (sorry, jumping the gun a bit)—despite the fact that EV cars, currently configured, create a larger carbon footprint, over its life time, than an ICE (internal combustion engine) car creates. From concept to manufacture to use to end of life, EV cars create a larger strain on our environment that our current vehicles, and that does not take into account electric generation (because face it folks, wind and sun isn’t going to get it done) for the electric charge.
So, let’s say we all buy into this. Okay, so fossil fuels bad, wind and sun good. Got it. We have to go all electric. Okay though I enthusiastically enjoy driving up sides of mountains in my ICE Jeep and I truly doubt they’ll install a charging station in areas where the electric grid can’t even be built unless… Whoa! What if they encase the side of the mountain in solar cells? Wow! Won’t that be great for the environment! And it won’t be ugly or anything. But hell, I guess I have to sacrifice for the greater good. Check. Bad, selfish me will have to get their religion.
Renewables! That’s the ticket! But the sun don’t always shine and the wind don’t always blow. Got it. Battery storage? Well, you have to spread a wind farm or solar farm over countless acres. But batteries, well they take up a ton of space too—and are dangerous—and you know the old saying, they don’t make more land. Someone is going to get displaced along the way. Oh well, tough fecal matter, right? And, speaking of that, composting is the way to go as well—biodiesel, way better than fossil fuels… well, until you actually burn the stuff then it’s worse.
In every plan there are still some compromises that aren’t always within the spirit of things but, we can live with that so long as it fits the agenda. The agenda…
So, here we go with their plans: Live in controlled cities in very small spaces—we’ll own nothing and like it! We can’t have ICE cars anymore. Cool. No more “real” beef; it will be grown in labs and we’ll like it! I have my doubts but then I’m a selfish sonofabitch and I want to kill grandma. Oh, wait, that was not taking the vaccine. Maybe they don’t want me to kill my kids and grandkids. But they don’t want my children to have any children. So, who am I supposed to be killing off with my selfishness? Well, I haven’t figured that one out yet but don’t worry, I’ll circle back (I hate that saying with a passion!!! Thank goodness Ginger Snap is gone. The replacement is so much better—ha!) and I’m still a selfish s-o-b.
But let’s get back to the energy aspect of all the hullabaloo. Energy, from this point forward—because 6 years ago we only had 12 years to turn it around—must be renewable. It MUST be green. The wind is the way to go although the windmills in their mind only last 20-25 years before they have to be scrapped in a very carbon-unfriendly way. Solar is cool though they create a pretty incinerating hot pad where birds flying over get fried and pilots of planes—especially of the private massive carbon burning types like John Kerry’s or Al Gore’s—get blinded from the rays. Of course, pilots and birds are safe when the sun is behind the clouds or down to sleep for the night. But then the lights go off.
But these are the two officially kosher means of electrification. Let’s forget the shortcomings in Texas when the windmills froze—and yes it was frozen wind generators that began the chain reaction that led to the near-grid failure—or when the Euros had to crank up the prehistoric coal fired plants to keep from freezing because of a little guy named Putin. Hydro, too, is cool, and so is thermal but you have to have rivers to dam and sides of volcanos to drill into. What’s missing in all of this? They’ve talked about hydrogen and I believe there is something to this but it’s costly to make and, unfortunately they won’t let you make it with natural gas because it is don’t drill, baby, don’t drill.
Go nuke. That’s the way to go. It’s clean—about as clean as you can get—and as long as you don’t build plants by an ocean in seismic zones that spawn horrendous tsunamis, or on an active fault line, or in the middle of a land war, then you’re good to go. But they don’t want nukes. Why? Too dangerous? Yeah, there is a risk, but there’s always a risk with everything in our existence on earth and it’s certainly less risky than posing on the side of the Grand Canyon for a selfie. But nuke is out. (Did anyone tell the Iranians?)
Okay, so, like the nukes from the cold war, everyone must get rid of their dirty energy at the same time to keep earth safe and in perfect harmony. But wait, the two most populous countries in the world, China and India, are exempt because they’re still considered developing nations (whatever that implies) so they’re allowed to wait a bit before they disarm. But everything’s cool; everyone is on the same page; no one is going to take advantage of anyone else when earth’s future is on the line.
Unless, of course, if it isn’t. The two biggest polluters still get to keep polluting; third world nations can build nuke plants; and we, the mountain of ethics and righteousness, will concede that we’re evil and racist and will bear the brunt of all of this until everyone else in the world can join the fun—which will never happen.
War and stubbornness; no new drilling/production; no nuclear; no buy in from the underdeveloped nations. This isn’t about saving the planet, it’s about enslavement. Control energy, you control the economy. Control the economy, you control the people. This isn’t really all that difficult to figure out.
I invite you to peruse Anthony Watts’ website, Watts Up With That? He has some interesting information to tell you exactly what is really happening to our climate.
I also came across another website, Electroverse which posits an interesting theory of the coming ice age.
Of course, nobody points out to the greeny types to look around themselves and see how much of what they use and need is made all or partially of PLASTIC. Note to Greta... Plastic is made from "fossil" fuels (petroleum).