Honeyman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 12:02 pm
But of course climate change is a leftist rumor.
There is no argument that the planet is warming. It's done so five times in researchable history, 3 of which eliminated 75% of animal life. (There is an interesting display on this at Kirtland Community College in Gaylord). Man has had a hand in it...but life as we know it would not have been possible, nor the industrial revolution. We didn't know what we didn't know. We will be among the first to go as a result.
Only a fool would blame leftist thinking for that part of the alarm. It's fact.
What
is the largely leftist agenda is the misinformation that we can stop or reverse it. The proliferation of coal plants present and still being built in India and China make our efforts to shut a few down here numerically insignificant. Elimination of nuclear plants that provide HARD power when it's dark or there is no wind is foolish. Our electrical generation and delivery infrastructure is no where NEAR the level that is required for the coming "mandated" phase out of conventional automobile engines. Mandating the elimination of fossil fuels before other techs are ready for the load is simply unicorns and other magical thinking.
Somewhere, there is a money trail to the thinking that we can stop or reverse it, and some are supporting it for that reason. There is a payday in there somewhere for some folks.
In my thinking, the reality of this pales in comparison to rogue nations like North Korea playing with nuclear weapons, and the US and China on the brink of a hot war over Taiwan. I suspect our 'climate change' issues will not be a major concern when these problems ignite.