There's a lot of hot air coming out of New York City this week. [emphasis, links added]
As politicians, celebrities and academics gather in the Big Apple for Climate Week in New York, there will be plenty of bad ideas — and, ironically, CO2 emissions — from elites eager to impose their political agenda on the masses, but And unwilling to make sacrifices.
Starting Sunday, these self-styled climate warriors are busy lecturing ordinary Americans on how to live, what to drive, and even what to eat, while flying around town in private jets and SUVs.
As they preach about reducing their carbon footprint from podiums and lavish symposiums, they conveniently overlook those outsized footprints.
Climate Week is revisiting the same lackluster, failed plans from the climate movement, which this year have been labeled “urgent times”, perhaps in recognition that their ideas still don't work.
Despite the intensification of apocalyptic rhetoric, our environment is still thriving – the best time in human history to survive.
If you're looking for inflation's culprits, start with the Climate Week enthusiasts: Their anti-fossil fuel proposals have led to higher energy prices, increasing energy costs everything.
Add to this the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax burdens for renewable energy subsidies (which have had virtually no impact on our energy landscape) and pressure from the ESG movement to pressure companies to adopt climate measures or de-risk banks.
Yet despite all this investment – and all the increased costs – Wind and solar still account for only 5% of the country's energy production.
Despite the best efforts of the left, wind and solar are largely failed technologies. They work fine when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, but weather conditions are notoriously difficult to predict and power demand is rarely tracked.
No matter how many industrial wind farms and solar panels we build, these systems rely on fossil fuels to keep the lights on.
Imagine climate activists achieving their goals and somehow managing to eliminate every drop of oil and gas and every piece of coal disappearing across the country.
First of all, of course It can destroy our societies and send us back to the Middle Ages – as Venezuelans saw firsthand when their once prosperous country suffered week-long blackouts after the oil industry collapsed.
But what will happen to our dangerously warming climate?
there is nothing.
Based on the same data model, climate activists misuse claims that the sky is falling, A total U.S. ban on fossil fuels would change global temperatures by as much as a few percent.
These models vastly overestimated warming every time, so even That Maybe a bit far-fetched.
Even if the world were to participate in the disappearance of fossil fuels, the impact would still be small—less than a tenth of a degree.
It’s not worth spending trillions of dollars, losing lives and livelihoods, and disrupting our modern way of life.
but we are no Destined.
Contrary to the Climate Week event titled “Let’s not die,” Climate-related deaths have fallen by 99% over the past 100 yearsThis is despite the world's population having quadrupled, says researcher Bjorn Lomborg.
We won't die – Looking at the numbers, we are more resilient to climate-related hazards than non-climate-related hazards such as volcanoes and earthquakes.
Obviously, weather is not an issue here.
In fact, this is the best era in human history. Across the world, in the richest urban centers and the poorest developing countries, people are living longer, healthier and better lives than ever before.
They have accessible, abundant energy, not the unreliable, unaffordable energy the climate movement promotes.
Access to affordable and reliable energy from fossil fuels could dramatically increase life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and economic opportunity while reducing poverty and disease.
Fossil fuels are the reason we have comfortable homes and access to nutritious food and life-saving medicines.
They are the reason you can spend your free time reading this article, rather than doing the grueling labors of life without them: subsistence farming, walking miles to fetch water or firewood, and the possibility of a brief and difficult existence.
Climate Week dreams are just that – fantasies that will not stop climate change but will destroy our societies.
If its organizers truly want to create a brighter future for humanity, they should unapologetically embrace a high-carbon lifestyle and acknowledge its power to transform the human condition.
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