Climate crazies can’t seem to get their minds around facts.
Oh, they cite temperature studies in their zealotry, but ignore them when they don’t fit the narrative. They even have tacitly admitted their misguided stance by changing their cause from fighting “global warming” to combating “climate change.”
This way any change in climate, which is proven historically to have been a fluid thing even before man was releasing carbon into the atmosphere, can be cited as proving their case.
The climate zealots make dire predictions that never seem to come to pass, examples being all U.S. coastal areas were to be underwater by now, farmlands were to be nonproductive dust bowls, and polar ice was to have all but disappeared.
If any of this has happened, I’ve missed it. And I usually follow current events.
The typical climate alarmists are comfortable with killing, too. They believe there are way too many humans on our blue orb, but have stopped short of announcing definite plans to thin that herd.
This is not true for farm animals – pigs, cows and the like. The climate zealots are looking to score a daily double here, killing these animals to reduce their gaseous emissions, while also shortening the supply for those of us who still enjoy the taste of meat.
There is an unholy alliance between climate crazies and vegans.
Climate extremists also want to kill the internal combustion engine and, by extension, the fossil fuels industry.
It is here that their warped view of reality fails miserably. Nowhere is that more evident than in the case of electric vehicles.
But even before we discuss that, consider the ethanol now part of the gasoline you pump into your car, which also is billed as helping save the planet.
Never mind that a 2022 scientific study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Wildlife Federation has gotten around to admitting that is a farce. Actually the 15 billion of gallons of corn-based ethanol, mixed annually into U.S. gasoline supplies by government mandate, is concluded to be adding to “climate change.”
This cannot deter the climate crazies. There is nothing wrong with this world, they believe, that banning gasoline burning engines in vehicles can’t right.
Here they are ignorant on so many fronts.
Begin with the nation’s creaky electrical grid, that certainly could not handle the entire population’s fleet charging daily, or even weekly. Already outbreaks of cold or warm weather bring pleas from providers to defer electric usage, lest the grid fail.
This also neatly ignores that electricity, despite the dream of genius inventor Nikola Tesla, is not readily harvested free of cost from the Earth or its atmosphere. Electricity must be generated, often using fossil fuels. Hopes of solar power and wind farms being acceptable replacements are mostly exercises in providing power that works only if heavily subsidized by the government, and with intermittent periods of low or zero production.
There also is the, to borrow the phrase of opportunists like Al Gore, “inconvenient truth” that the manufacture of electric vehicles is not climate friendly due to their outsized need for various common and rare minerals, which must be mined.
The Wall Street Journal addressed this recently in an article regarding the “nickel pickle,” explaining how nickel is much-needed in electric vehicles and mining nickel is decidedly environmentally unfriendly.
There are other realities regarding electric vehicles that are not discussed in polite company, including, but not limited to, the reality that charging stations continue to be hard to find, prices are uncompetitive with internal combustion rivals unless generous government tax credits are provided to EV purchasers, and manufacturers still mostly manage to lose money on each unit they sell to the public.
This is the reality of the situation, one readily ignored by zealots and their enablers both in government and the media.
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