Our friend Steven Hayward, a late-stage in the Big Power Line blog, a university professor and keen thinker, wrote a compelling article last week about “the lowest point of the climate change movement.” [emphasis, links added]
If anyone knows about the hysteria of global warming, it would be Hayward. This is how he started to argue:
The prevailing wind does not blow to more windmills, but towards energy common sense.
The Trump administration has the potential to blow up death, not only in the United States, but globally, to long-standing climate change and administration hostility to fossil fuels.
The Trump administration is far beyond just supporting increased oil and gas production.
It also proposes steps to remove the basis of anti-energy climate policy, in particular a proposal to reverse the so-called “hazardous discovery” that allows EPA jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases, which has never been explicitly included in the past 50 years.
Trump's EPA also recommends modifying the EPA's “carbon social cost” analysis, which is used to justify expensive green energy plans.
Is this the moment we have been looking for for nearly three decades? Are the climate virtues finally worn out?
Have activists blocked traffic, closed international airports, destroyed priceless artworks, cut tires, lifted fires, clashed with police, nagged, roared and harassed, even faded into the backstage and could even do something productive rather than destructive?
Is litigation slowing down? Are politicians looking for another grift? Will the media leave its constant stimulation and screaming? Can we expect researchers to be a little honest?
Hayward doubts that “the climate knows what is going to attack them” because “the new Trump team” is “directly at the heart of the entire climate change framework.”
He pointed out the “economic fantasy” of the cost of carbon society and reminded us “Fossil fuels are responsible for launching” modern medicine, telecommunications, air and rail travel, as well as automobiles, which are crucial to advanced innovations.
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