Commentary
Biden’s White House has screwed up immigration on our southern border, the withdrawal of our human and supply assets from Afghanistan, our energy independence and have shown no interest in quelling crime in our major cities, yet, the banner headline in my Sunday morning paper reads, “White House working to address the thawing Arctic.”
With the report that the Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, what will they do? What will they do?
Why, they’re reactivating the Arctic Executive Steering Committee, that’s what. And they’re adding six new members, including two Indigenous Alaskans. That should do it. They’re going to figure out “what needs to be done to get a better handle on addressing the changes in the Arctic, said David Balton the committee director.
The media scare mongers who want you to believe, as the Biden administration does, that climate change is our greatest threat, found two more events to put in the morning headlines.
In a piece in the Los Angeles Times, “Climate change, fires close forests to hikers,” the wildfires continue their high-intensity trend, “fueled at least in part by climate change,” without recognizing the lack of proper forest management.
Meanwhile, the Denver Post, in its article, “Climate change affecting tarantulas in Colorado,” want you to be concerned that the spectacle of “watching those saucer-sized Texas brown tarantulas as they scurry out of their burrows and across the fields and roads in search of a mate, might not last long.”
They want you to know that if the tarantulas in southeastern Colorado die out, they’ll start a domino effect in the ecosystem, likely allowing their prey to multiply and the creatures that eat them to starve. Isn’t that nature’s way?
It isn’t often that I stray to the British press, but an opinion piece by Ian Jack in the Guardian, “The climate crisis has made the idea of a better future impossible to imagine,”caught my attention.
Most of his column chronicled the modern-day scares of global warming that began in 1988 with the claims of scientist James Hansen, who said “the world was warming rapidly and human behavior was the primary cause.”
Jack wrote of editing an issue, “This Overheating World,” for the literary magazine, Granta, which he thought would be timely, but was not a total success. “Sometimes editors can get too far ahead of the game,” he said.
“An ordinary kind of life goes on,” Jack writes, noting that in 2020 the word “cake” was mentioned 10 times more on UK television than the phrase “climate change” and that “banana bread” was heard more frequently than “wind power” and “solar power” combined.
Coming up
The airways will be filled with emission-spewing jet aircraft flying to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled for October 31-November 12 in Glasgow, Scotland. As you know, the president requires more than one aircraft to appear anywhere.
Known as the COP26, it will be the first time the members will be expected to commit to enhanced ambitions since their 21st meeting. We can expect Biden & Company to seek leadership in this useless endeavor, while most of the European nations, that have already failed to meet previous goals will be forced to save face and put up a goal regardless.
“At the moment…
…he’s in trouble,” said Democrat pollster John Zogby, in the Washington Examiner about Biden. “There is a strong element of buyer’s remorse,” he added.
Finally, ponder this …
Clarkston, Georgia’s voters are being asked to sign a petition to get local voting for green card holders on the ballot. Not illegal or undocumented immigrants, but law-abiding permanent residents who have green cards, and who have been vetted to come to our country, said city council member Awet Eyasu, a native of East Africa.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
