This Year in Climate: 2019
My colleague, aeroponics expert Rafael Quezada, writes about the meme here, “In 2019, for the most part, the picture was bleak; but for all the overwhelmingly bad news, there were also some really powerful and momentous moments of action and progress that are worth remembering.”
Yes indeed. In particular, it was a decade in which science developed a far greater understanding of exactly what’s happening with the Earth’s climate, and drove all but the lunatic fringe out of the climate denial business. Now this garbage comes exclusively from crooked politicians who lie about what they believe and a few anti-science zealots.
But so what? The American people want a government that pushes renewables and phases out fossil fuels. Two-thirds (67%) of Americans support a carbon tax if the proceeds would be used for environmental restoration.
Big deal. The problem, of course, is that U.S. law-makers couldn’t care less what anyone but their big donors want, as we’ve discussed dozens of times. A far higher number (90%) of Americans want universal background checks for prospective gun owners, and we’ll have commuter jets to Mars before that happens.
Craig,
I curious, you claim 90% of Americans want universal background checks for prospective gun owners, but “big donors” prevent this occurring.
What you never do is explain;
1) why you believe “universal background checks” would be of any value in preventing gun crime ?
2)How any politician could get elected in defiance of 90% of the electorate?
Without substantiating these claims, can’t you see how any other claims you advocate tend to look just the same sort of jargonized slogans without credibility or substance?
Take your claim;
“The American people want a government that pushes renewables and phases out fossil fuels. Two-thirds (67%) of Americans support a carbon tax if the proceeds would be used for environmental restoration”.
This is just a wish by you. Even you don’t believe it or you would be driving an EV ten years ago!.
Americans would not support a carbon tax once properly explained what a carbon tax involves. Constructing the question in a poll to derive the answers you want, isn’t reality!
Two day ago, Greenpeace blamed the raging bush fires in Victoria, Australia on “climate change”. The greens of all descriptions also blame “white settlement” for the savagery of these fires.
The current bush fires are indeed terrible and ferocious.I am awaiting a plane to take me back to Australia where my own farming property sits on the edge of a massive fire.
I have invested heavily in fire control and prevention, but all may prove useless against the awesome power of nature.
But as historical records evidence, the State of Victoria (then colony) suffered a bush fire in 1851 that destroyed 1/3 rd of the entire state and burned for nearly three months.
At that time. “white settlement” was less than 15 years old, and industry non-existent!
What angers people on the front line of Natural disasters like forest fires, hurricanes etc, is a bunch of city dwelling. arm chair know-it-all climate change zealots, bleating on about something they know nothing about.
What’s worse, is these people never debate their claims. Their “pronouncements” are largely pseudo-scientific political/ideological babble, repeated in a smugly sanctimonious tone to disguise the same old tired leftist agenda’s.