Commentary
I was delighted to read that “The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a diversion tactic by the government, the radical left, and the mainstream press,” in “Climate Change is About Control, Stupid – Not the Environment,” a piece written by William L. Kovacs, someone familiar with the ways of Washington.
“Lobbying for more climate regulation is to enhance the power of the authoritarian state, not protect the environment,” he writes, adding “the many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the rise of the oceans or heal the planet.”
Kovacs gets it.
With that control in mind, and the midterm elections on the horizon, several Democrat lawmakers are floating weak ideas like removing the federal gas tax, while another group on the left is foolishly proposing a $100 per person “stimulus” check, when the answer is the return to producing the oil and gas that gave us energy independence.
NASA, fulfilling its obligation to Biden’s whole of government approach to addressing climate change, notes, “The effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible on the timescale of people alive today, and will worsen in the decades to come.”
Regrettably, NASA has been taken in by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and views “the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time.”
NASA’s probably looking for additional funds.
Every day, there’s more evidence that the media has bought into the Biden administration’s climate change agenda as two more articles have appeared in an effort to produce more concern in your minds
The headline, “Climate change is causing Michigan dogsledders to shift gears from snow to dry land,” in the Washington Post, caught my eye. I was curious because my wife and I had a wonderful experience dogsledding in upper Minnesota a few years ago.
The article primarily featured the lack of sufficient snow for dogsledding in Southwest Michigan, and the affect it has on the sport. With the lack of snow, they’re using the dogs to pull wheeled vehicles, like ATV’s.
The Post’s climate scare, buried in paragraph 11, but there to persuade you to believe that you are the cause of climate change. “Richard Rood, a professor of climate science at the University of Michigan, said that principally because of man-made climate change, Michigan’s cold seasons are different now – and, in portions of southern parts of the state, winters are often wetter,” according to the Post article.
Reportedly, that Great Lakes region’s frost-free season grew by 16 days from 1951 to 2017, with an increase in average temperature of 2.3 degrees, according to data from the university and NOAA. That’s over a period of 66 years, and as I have frequently said, I believe weather patterns are cyclical.
For example, in the heart of Southwest Michigan, Grand Rapids has a 30-year average of 77.6 inches of snow. While they had just 58.6 inches in 2021, they had 84.9 in 2019, 92.8 in 2016, and 111.3 in 2014.
The story about a lack of snow this winter begs the point – have they considered operating where there’s more snow annually? Like McMillan, Michigan, about an hour and a half north of the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper Peninsula, where the snow is still waist-deep in March.
The Nature’s Kennel near there has some 200 dogs raring to take you on an exhilarating run.
You can’t play golf in McMillan now, but by all reports, you will be able to do so in Southwest Michigan soon.
Another article covers work at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, where scientists are looking for clues to climate change.
Examining tree rings for varying reasons isn’t new. It is commonly done to determine the age of as tree, but at the university they’re studying how climate variability drives tree-ring variability, using thin and wide rings to record droughts and wet periods.
Again, there’s the agenda. The article refers to the research being done “about the future of a planet that’s squaring off against global warming and the cascading disasters.”
While the media accuses us of causing climate change, President Biden and his green handlers are sticking with their “net zero” electricity generation plan based almost entirely on wind and sun, and we’re paying for it at the pump.
As I have pointed out before, they have this obsession over alternative electrical generation, but never mention the intermittency of wind and solar, and what they will do without fossil fuels as a backup.
And, again, what about storage and transmission? “The idea that we would embark on replacement of our entire energy systems without demonstration of its feasibility as the replacement is pure madness,” write Francis Menton
If the radical left was truly concerned about emissions, they wouldn’t support the stoppage of pipelines, which, studies show, emit less CO2 than those railroad tankers and tanker trucks now transporting oil from Canada. Even John Kerry knows that.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
