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One of Barack Obama’s most dangerous efforts to “fundamentally transform the United States” is what the Wall Street Journal dubbed “his so-called endangerment finding that declared greenhouse gas emissions a threat to public health and safety.”
“Cue the apocalyptic warnings unhinged from reality,” the Wall Street Journal continued. “What progressives really fear is that they won’t be able to dictate the energy supplies, cars and appliances that Americans can buy.”
The Trump EPA’s recent repeal of Obama’s “finding” hopefully will be a harbinger of the end of global warming’s malign rein.
From its beginning, the theory that atmospheric CO2 caused by human emissions threatens our existence, was the poisoned fruit of scientism, not science, and at best a mere weak theory dressed up in the jargon and quantitative data of real science.
This theory’s purpose has been to serve leftist political ideologies, by creating what Obama henchman Rahm Emmanuel called a “serious crisis you never want to waste,” and so lose “an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before,” usually because they violate the Constitution.
For example, implementing government laws and regulations that raise the price of gasoline, or coerce automobile makers to produce more electric-powered vehicles. There are few material things that Americans prize more than the vehicles they drive and the abundant, cheap energy and fuel that allows that to happen. Using catastrophic, apocalyptic global warming to get their attention and support for new regulations is the ginned up “serious crisis” that the Obama administration used to get consumers in line.
Then there’s the carrot: federal and state grants, loans, and tax breaks to encourage production and increase sales of electric vehicles. Until recently, all these government bribes have worked pretty well in roping voters into the electric energy grift, and putting up with more government rules and regulations that push green energy with Disneyesque idealizations of nature.
Another recruiter for Green energy policies––especially for the political left and other members of the “intelligentsia”––are the Europeans. For some Americans, Europeans always seemed sophisticated and au courant, so Europe’s eager adoption of Green policies such as replacing all automobiles with EVs and creating a “net-zero” economy must be a moral imperative––even though such folly is sending Europe’s economies back to the fiscal stone-age.
Even more dangerous has been the symbiosis of Green schemes with Marxist political parties, ideologies, and policies. Green political parties are at first glance very diverse, from “deep” greens and “shallow” greens to “red” greens (or “watermelons”: green on the outside, red on the inside) more closely aligned with the traditional left. Whatever these differences, however, all Greens embrace similar ideas and values that derive from one of the West’s most popular pseudo-religions, romantic environmentalism.
Rather than a concern for resource management and protection of the environment, romantic environmentalism is a wholesale critique of science, technology and free-market capitalism. As such, Green ideology is anti-Western at its core. According to Andrew Dobson’s Green Political Thought (3rd edition), the Greens represent a “challenge to the political, social and scientific consensus that has dominated the last two or three hundred years of public life.”
Part of the Green complaint is directed at the humanistic individualism that characterizes bourgeois society and undergirds modern science. Dobson continues, Greens want to “decenter the human being, to question mechanistic science, and to refuse to believe that the world was made for human beings.” They believe that selfish individualism, abetted by science, has created consumer capitalism and a material affluence that is not “sustainable” because it depends on plundering the finite resources of nature, and it alienates people from their natural identities.
In short, radical environmentalism is, like Marxism, a type of antihumanism that reduces our humanity into disposable tools to be reprogrammed or eliminated to serve the ends of leftist ideologies––by “any means necessary.”
The other insult on the Global Warming injury is pointed out by the Wall Street Journal: “Most of the ‘science’ in the Obama finding is debatable, as the Trump team notes. The impact of greenhouse gases on global temperatures is intermediated by such factors as cloud cover and urbanization, and the effect on storms is disputed. In any event, curbing CO2 emissions in the U.S. will have scant impact on climate because emissions are rapidly rising in China, India and developing countries.”
And as usual, the Journal continues, “The real import of the [CO2 endangerment] finding was to give the Obama and Biden teams legal license to mandate electric cars and force fossil-fuel power plants to shut down. Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has moved to roll back the Biden regulatory overreaches. But as long as the endangerment finding is in effect, a future Democratic President could reimpose the Biden climate diktats and go even further—say, by banning petroleum-powered lawn mowers and gas space heaters or stoves.”
In other words, the “finding” is a weapon for achieving partisan ideological evasions of the Constitution’s structures for protecting our unalienable rights and personal freedoms, in order to give more power to technocratic elites––the essence of tyranny.
Finally, romantic environmentalism, the idealization of nature that indulges the “pathetic fallacy,”––Victorian critic John Ruskin’s phrase for the habit of Romantic poets to attribute human attributes, emotions, and conduct to inhuman nature–– and what Theodore Roosevelt called “nature fakery,” which made romantic writers “an object of derision to every scientist worthy of the name, to every real lover of the wilderness, to every faunal naturalist, to every true hunter or nature lover.”
Rather than recognizing nature’s “fierce eternal destruction,” as John Keats put it, a bit of “nature fakery” that happens to be true of humanity’s experience with nature, and still does in undeveloped nations, many of whom are being denied the abundant, cheap fossil fuels by the West’s scientism about “global warming”––or more honest, “anthropocentric, catastrophic global warming,” which claims the dubious, unproven notion that human behavior is driving us to destruction.
For the rich West, however, nature is still what Joseph Conrad called “the shackled form of a conquered monster,” its destructiveness tamed and domesticated in order to benefit human beings. Today, technology and science have further liberated us––not completely, of course––from most of nature’s tyranny and indifference to this one small, weak, slow, puny species that, as Apollo says in the Iliad, “live like leaves now flourishing full of fire . . . and now wither and perish.”
In other words, we can afford to idealize and romanticize nature because we are protected from its destructive powers that science and technology have tamed and controlled.
Another factor creating “nature fakery” is the liberation of the great majority of Westerners from the endless drudgery of growing and producing food, which before the modern period required the lion’s share of human labor, but takes only a fraction of us today to farm, and much of that fraction comprising immigrants. This means that few Westerners in our times know firsthand, as farmers do, nature’s fickle cruelty and indifference to our survival or misery.
Once more, President Trump is correcting the leftist Dems’ attempts to weaken the Constitutional guardrails of our rights and freedoms so their technocratic, regulatory ideology can flourish. Now’s the time for the Supreme Court to undo its Massachusetts v. EPA decision’s insult to the Constitution and common sense.
Go Green Go Boke Organic Food is always more expensive then regular food but the Climate Change screwups are trying to force us all to go totally Vegan all over this Global Warming/Climate Change scam and Consumer Freedom is a rare Bird in their world of mindless banter and born again Flower Children
I never think about green anything any more other than my bank account, which under Trump, is doing quite well thank you very much.
“The problem I have fundamentally is that I find it very difficult to distinguish valid environmental claims from environmental claims that are made essentially as a secondary anti-capitalist front. ”
– Dr. Jordan Peterson
“Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical (particularly epistemological) base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go….
It is not the special sciences that teach man to think; it is philosophy that lays down the epistemological criteria of all special sciences….
The disintegration of philosophy in the nineteenth century and its collapse in the twentieth have led to a similar, though much slower and less obvious, process in the course of modern science.” – Ayn Rand
The green religion is a sect of the wokeness religion: Obama is Jesus, Trump is Satan and being born white (and western) is the original sin. I think we were better off with the existing traditional religions.
The problem is, all of the true believers continued to EXHALE Co2, a clear violation of their sacred beliefs….
Exhaled air has about 100 times the amount of carbon dioxide that was in the air which was inhaled.
It’s a miracle that animals from humans down to grasshoppers were not punished in some way..
Luckily, the plants absorb that carbon dioxide and produce all the carbohydrates that we eat.
The earth is 4.8 billion years old. Man’s industrial impact has been around for about 260 years. In order to control the planet’s human beings, an ideology about climate change has sprung up., based on human hubris.
The earth has been through 12 epochs. Man’s time is so brief that the fraction is nearly infinitesimal and the calculator goes into scientific notation to measure it.: 5.416666666666667e-8. Man forgets about God and thinks he can control what is not controllable.
America is far cleaner then any of those other Nations since 60% of the Plastic Waste dumped into the Oceans comes from Asia
When Obummer went screaming around the world about bad, bad CO2 and how he was going to ‘fundamentally’ change America, you have to ask ‘Why didn’t anyone ask, WHY’? Fundamentals are the basics, changing the very basics of what made America great. Why did no one ask WHY?
This should give everyone an idea of ‘How far we have fallen”, how ‘dumbed down’ our society has become and I would present this as a case for the truth of Scripture when it describes mankind in the last days as ……
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. …Romans 1:22-32
Rev. Roy……….<
Remember when they said the polar ice caps would melt, and they didn’t, and Glacier National Park would be ice free, and it wasn’t, and Miami would be under water, and it wasn’t, and that it wouldn’t snow any more, but it still does? Then they tried to say that was because all of the global warming swam to the bottom of the ocean, where it was wreaking havoc with all of those weird-ass fish down there. The craziest thing is that 95% of people who believed the global warming bs, BLM, LGBTQ, Russia collusion, Covid etc., etc. and were proved to be wrong on all counts will just fall for the next bit of commie nonsense because there is a large group of people who are just fucking retards and will never think for themselves.
“The impact of greenhouse gases on global temperatures is intermediated by such factors as cloud cover and urbanization,…”
Some foolish people want to cover the planet by injecting sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space. But less light reaching the earth would reduce photosynthesis, which would reduce plant growth and the CO2 consumed by it.
They’re not “foolish”; they are cold-blooded murderers who want to own the whole planet while being served by maybe a half a billion slaves living a subsistence life (along with the robots). As long as people like this (Gates, Schwab, Fink, etc.) are around, the rest of us are not safe.
Most of the western world is clueless about the complexities of the climate change debate because most people have little or no understanding of physics. Professor Thornton is right. There is no climate crisis due to human activity. But why is that true? The UN IPCC is a political animal that has captured the attention of politicians across the planet because what could be better than a crisis that can’t be measured but can be used by politicians to control the people? CO2 has no impact on our climate except that it’s absolutely necessary to sustain life. Here is why.
Our climate is controlled by atmospheric pressure, solar radiation and the change in the albedo. The albedo is a measure of how much the cloud cover is affecting the absorption of solar radiation by the Earth. This model, developed by Drs Nikolov and Zeller, is confirmed by 24 years of CERES Satellite measurements of radiation. Atmospheric CO2 has NO influence on our climate. It’s irrelevant. NASA’s Dr. Gavin Schmidt wrote a hand wringing article in Nature in 2024 stating that we were in uncharted territory because the flawed IPCC models didn’t predict the significant warming in 2023. But, the Nikolov-Zeller model did. It is the only climate model that is supported by measured data. You can read the original papers online or buy my book “HOAX, Why burning fossil fuels doesn’t cause climate change” which explains why the IPCC models are wrong and why the Nikolov model and the work of Professor Robert Holmes is right. It’s available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback format.