A number of skeptic observers have recently marked the one year anniversary of President Trump’s decision to leave the Paris accord (for which the Senate never approved US participation) with favorable comments concerning how it was the right decision and how much progress has been made in the last year in decreasing the Climate-Industrial Complex‘s (CIC’s) hold on the expenditure of resources on the CIC’s “decarbonization” campaign. I believe that President Trump made the right decision on the Paris accord, but that there are two vital additional changes that need to be made. These are the reevaluation of the EPA Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and the elimination of Federal subsidies for building ever more unjustifiable “renewable” power plants. Only when both have been accomplished on a permanent basis will skeptic celebrations be in order.
As it is now, the CIC climate alarmist agenda may be back in business as soon as President Trump leaves office. Surely the country and world is better for the actions of the Trump Administration to reduce the influence of the CIC, but the likelihood that the CIC could in the end “win” is a sobering reality that unless these twin bases for the CIC stranglehold on the climate issue are accomplished by January, 2021, or possibly January, 2025, the changes made by the Trump Administration will soon vanish. The Endangerment Finding requires that EPA promulgate regulations to control carbon dioxide emissions, and the subsidy enables the CIC to force taxpayers to pick up the costs.
Without these subsidies, construction of additional solar and wind plants will come to an immediate end since they are not an efficient way to generate the reliable electricity needed for modern life. It is long past time to reevaluate the Endangerment Finding from a scientific viewpoint and to end the subsidies.
When and if these two actions are taken then we can rightfully celebrate victory over the CIC since it will be very difficult for them to resurrect the regulations and subsidies that make it possible for them to achieve their decarbonization agenda. The Endangerment Finding is best addressed by an EPA decision to start a reevaluation, which can be done entirely by the US Environmental Protection Agency, but is likely to lead to a long court review of the legal aspects of the reevaluation. This would take a number of years, so there is an urgent need to undertake this as soon as possible.
The subsidies require Congressional action and a resolve to never reinstitute them. Without the subsidies, new wind and solar projects will die a quick and well deserved death. It would also be very helpful if those states that offer homeowners retail prices for the unreliable wind and solar power they generate and sell to their utilities should only offer what the power is actually worth on the wholesale market (close to zero in most cases) rather than the full retail price which many but not all the states currently do. Both of these subsidies end up being paid by ratepayers and tax payers, and achieve no public purpose beyond enriching the homeowners involved and those who make and install the hardware involved.
I appreciate this is a serious web site about an ugly deliberate scam, however I did have to start laughing when I heard a city government in California was calling climate change a bigger challenge than World War II.
An imagined problem is a bigger challenge than was a world war in which tens of millions died?
It seems healthy to laugh at such preposterous claims.
I am working on a concept for a tv documentary that will be about anthropology. There will be a Professor providing commentaries about the subjects and their strange behaviors. Sounds boring, right?
The cameras will film real left wing loonies gabbing about the climate crisis and carbon pollution. Actors can include governor moonbeam and Pope Frank. Lots of lesser known nitwits as well, if they are choosing to demonstrate publicly.
It could be called Left and Looney. Or, Demented Democrats. Or, climate nitwits. Or, Donkey Hee Haw.
The professor will have a German accent and provide hushed academic jargon filled commentaries about what goes thru the minds of climate nitwits.
Another character could be Doctor Whistleblower. It could be played by Doc Carlin, but he is so relentlessly truthful, he might insist on his real name. So maybe we instead will call him Doctor Carlin, Eco Truth Explorer.
Another title could be Lefty Lemmings. Or, Obama’s Rubes. Or Eco Dunces. Still thinking about titles.
The documentary would of course visit universities, incubators and habitats for Lefty Rubes. Also Hollywood to observe celebrities at public events. No shortage of lefty lunacies to document and guffaw over.
I agree with these points.
Public subsidies to defray the cost of non competitive solar and wind technologies are pernicious. They sustain an industry perversely impervious to cost and inferior performance. Electric utilities are able to pass costs thru to trapped rate payers, so they do not mind providing inferior and higher cost product. Industrial users of energy invest in solar for virtue signaling PR.
It is important to correct the preposterous finding that photosynthesis is a danger. Climate change justly deserves to be branded as moronic and withdrawing the endangerment finding is a necessary step in this direction.
Belief in global warming or climate change is flat earth, dunce cap shameful. It is Fake Science, purveyed by Fake News, maintained by political correctness And tribalism. Photosynthesis is actually good for life on earth. The world is not enveloped within the glass of a green house. Mr. Pruitt should champion honest science by convening debate about the endangerment finding. Real Science depends on real debate.