To CNN’s hosts and the Green New Deal presidential candidates, “renewable” energy will just happen – like manna from Gaia, or beamed down from the Starship Enterprise.
– Paul Driessen
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“CNN’s recent 7-hour climate bore-athon garnered pathetic viewership,” writes Paul Driessen. “But it revealed just how far into fantasyland CNN hosts and Democrat presidential candidates have traveled. They all simply assumed we are in the midst of a climate cataclysm – and proceeded in trying to outbid each other on how much taxpayer and consumer money they would spend, how many of our personal choices and living standards they would roll back how far, and how “renewable” energy can quickly and easily be commanded to replace fossil fuels.
“As this article explains, it is simply impossible for biofuel, solar, wind and battery power to replace the oil, natural gas and coal that provide over 80% of all US energy. The supposed alternatives are simply not clean, green, reliable, affordable, renewable, sustainable or eco-friendly. In fact, they would be tremendously destructive not just to our jobs, economy and living standards – but to our environment, scenery, habitats and wildlife.”
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Paul Driessen
CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate bore-athon. That climate cataclysms are real and already devastating our planet was not open to discussion. So host Wolf Blitzer and ten Democrat presidential contenders vied to make the most extravagant claims about how bad things are, and who would spend the most taxpayer money and impose the most Green New Deal rules to restrict our freedoms and transform our energy, economy, agriculture and transportation, in the name of preventing further cataclysms.
Cory Booker opened the bidding at $3 trillion. Kamala Harris and Julian Castro raised it to $10 trillion. Bernie Sanders upped it to $16 trillion. Then they got down to the business of telling us which personal choices and living standards they intend to roll back the furthest. Among the proposals:
Ban all commercial air travel (ruling and privileged classes presumably excepted). Change our dietary guidelines or ban beef outright. “Massively” increase taxes. “Make polluters pay” for emitting greenhouse gases. Eliminate onshore drilling, offshore drilling, fracking, coal-fired power plants, internal combustion engines. No new pipelines. In short, ban the fossil fuels that provide 80% of America’s energy! No new nuclear power plants either. And then somehow, amid all that insanity, ensure “climate justice.”
They need to be doused with a few buckets of icy cold reality. The first bucket: We do not face a climate emergency. Computer models certainly predict all kinds of catastrophes. But both the models and the increasingly hysterical assertions of planetary chaos are completely out of touch with reality.
