I remember reading about our impending climate doom via a new ice age in the early 70s. I graduated from high school in 1972, but even then I kept an eye on things like the pending extinction of the human race and was gratified to discover I really did have a future.
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Then came Global Warming and the 10- to 12-year predictions by “experts” of imminent doom, despite even UN Climate experts noting that even if they didn’t get the trillions they demanded to “fight global warming,” the global temperature might increase by only about 1° centigrade in a half century or so. I was and am no climate expert, but I knew a slightly warmer climate meant a longer growing season, which meant more food, more oxygen production, and other good things.
As the date of doom for every prediction arrived, and nothing happened, I began to suspect the “experts” weren’t so expert after all.
Then to the embarrassment of experts, the global stopped warming, so much so they couldn’t tease heat out of the contrived data. Thus was “Climate Change” born, with an entirely new round of 10- or 12-year predictions of certain doom. It was the perfect scam. Climate change was everything and nothing. Hot weather? Climate change. Cold weather? Climate change. Hurricanes? Climate change. No hurricanes? Climate change. Snow? Climate change. Tuesday? Climate change. And by the time a 10-year doom date arrived and nothing happened, everyone would have forgotten about it, and there was always a new prediction of doom about which to worry, and the darned climate just kept on changing.
The scam has been kept afloat on a sea of mostly American cash, as nations like China don’t give a damn about the climate—they’re building new coal-fired power plants pretty much daily—but they like all that American money for solar panels and other goodies they supply in response to greenie demands. Those funds are building their military, which doesn’t care about the climate either.
At long last, Americans have figured out they’ve been scammed. “Renewable Energy,” like solar and wind, has proved to be largely useless and very expensive. They can’t ever hope to replace conventional energy sources, and when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow, they’re expensive sculptures that have to be backed up with natural gas or other plants. “Expert” claims of cheap, renewable energy always were fraudulent. Even CNN can’t spin it any longer:
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CNN’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, appeared with anchor John Berman this week to examine the political implications of “global warming” following the fake news reports that July was the hottest month ever recorded in this country.
Despite decades of relentless messaging and narrative-pushing, Enten reports that just 3% of voters list climate change as a top midterm concern, far behind the economy and immigration.
“You know, I was schvitzing a lot in the month of July, although granted, you know, I schvitz a lot all the time. But the bottom line when it comes to voters is, simply put, they don’t care. They don’t care.
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“I mean, just look at these numbers. Okay, top issue in a midterm vote — you can list up to three issues. The economy, not surprisingly, comes in at number one at 54%. Immigration, 28%. Look at climate change — it’s tied for 14th, tied for 14th, all the way down here at 3%.
Johnny, I’m not the greatest mathematician in the world, but I sure as heck know that 54% is a whole heck of a lot higher than 3%.
So despite the climate being so warm in the month of July, the hottest month on record here in the United States of America, the voters, simply put, do not say that climate change is going to be an issue on which they vote in the midterm election.
That’s billions, even trillions, that is not going to find its way into climate grifters’—mostly Democrats’–pockets.
To put it in perspective, our planet is in an interglacial period that represents a relatively warm interval between glacial phases of an ice age, when global temperatures rise over thousands of years. Ice sheets and glaciers retreat, adding water to the oceans and raising sea level. Vegetation zones and ecosystems also shift as conditions warm, cyclically and naturally. Earth is currently in the Holocene interglacial, which began roughly 11,700 years ago.
That rather puts 10-12 year certain doom cycles in perspective, doesn’t it? The gap between the climate hysteria of the self-imagined elite expert class and the real reality Americans experience on a daily basis is now so wide the climate grift might even be over for good, like USAID. When you’ve lost CNN…
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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