Commentary

Regular readers know that I have devoted a great deal of space to discredit the scare tactics of those on the left who believe we have the means of altering global weather, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by the use of fossil fuels and funneling funds to unimaginable programs.

With the Biden administration’s current effort to include spending to fight climate change within its controversial infrastructure legislation, and the wild claims about climate change in the Pacific Northwest, I thought it was time to address this issue again.

When temperatures reached 116 in Portland, Oregon, President Biden scolded Republicans for not taking climate change seriously.  Yes, it was a new high for Portland, but not that much higher than the 107 degrees hit there in 1942 and 1981, and the 104 hit in 2015.

In Seattle, Washington’s hottest temperature reached 118 over the Independence Day weekend, tying the 118 hit in Wahluke on July 24, 1928 and Ice or Dam on August 5, 1961.  Cyclical.

However, it was a pathetic letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic, written by three young PhD students at Arizona State University, that triggered this piece.

They called upon President Biden, Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly, and the state’s representatives to “prioritize climate needs for the good of our state and our nation.”

“Anything less than serious action will lay the economic, climate and social burdens of massive climate disruption on middle-class Americans for the next several decades.

We as young people who will live with the consequences of today’s choices, demand the earmarked $10 billion for the Civilian Climate Corps in the American Jobs Plan.

“The investment will restore badly hurt ecosystems and aim to recover endangered species.  Hesitation or delayed action will only exacerbate imminent threats, leaving the United States with more water crises, insecure food futures, and unmanageable fires and intensifying heat in the urbanizing Southwest.

“However, mobilizing funds now will create millions of new jobs, reduce habitat destruction and build sustainable infrastructure.  We need these measures to create a more resilient natural landscape for the future of America and is inhabitants, both human and wildlife alike.

“To our elected officials: Don’t leave us here to burn.”

I’m sure you noted that the three young women have demanded the funds for the Civilian Climate Corps.  Sound familiar?  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg issued a demand of action to the United Nations.

The Civilian Climate Corps is Biden’s effort to bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps of 1933.  It would employ thousands of young people to address the threat of climate change. “To mobilize the next generation of conservation and resilience workers and maximize the creation of accessible training opportunities and good jobs,” Biden said.

Call me a cynic, but how can we realistically believe today’s woke generation, accustomed to being paid to stay home, fast foods, iPhones and the comforts of today, would do what the 18-25-year-olds of the Depression era did to survive?

MEANWHILE, in addition to accepting the climate change messages coming out of the White House, current young people are also gullibly taken-in by web sites like Job One for Humanity, a climate change blog, that has had to report the “gross failure” of world governments to reach the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, conceding the fact that it is all but mathematically and politically impossible.

“The main consequence of this new gross failure reality is that all we can hope to do now is slow the unthinkable process of humanity dying by 2050,” the blog has declared.  “For the last 35 years we have repeatedly ignored the dire fossil fuel reduction warnings of our best climate scientists.”

“The battle to prevent the die-off of much of humanity by 2050 has been lost.  We are now fighting to prevent total extinction as soon as or before 2070!” Job One predicts.

While polls show that young people believe in climate change, most are ambivalent as to how to address it.  In a recent report on Climate Change in the American Mind, it was revealed that two in three (67 percent) say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends, which says something about their lack of concern over the dire predictions, or that they’re too embarrassed to admit it.

The crisis on our Southern border, crime in the streets and the assault on our law enforcement members should be our real concerns.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.