Suckers
2023-05-07 08:30:31 UTC
Democrats are all stupid and fall for bullshit.
dishonest scheme or swindle. Its a hoax for profit. Hoaxes have made
fools of the unwary, and scams have taken unwitting victims for a long
time. How do you avoid getting taken?
Cicero asked, Cui bono? (Who benefits?) Today you should ask: Whats the
hustle and whos the mark? If you are in a rigged game and dont know who
the mark is, its probably you. But what if you are in a rigged game and
dont know its rigged?
Say the hustle is theres an imminent global catastrophe and you have to
do something or stop doing something (such as using fossil fuels) for the
good of humanity. Beautiful people, experts, the media, politicians and
other shills are virtue signaling for it. You might think they know
something you dont.
But you see the sky isnt falling. And they arent doing what they want
you to do. So you wonder, Is global warming a hoax? A scam? Looks like
both.
Global warming, aka climate change, is the idea that the earths climate
is warming or changing unnaturally due to human activities specifically
the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
The argument is that burning fossil fuel creates carbon dioxide or CO2
(true). And that as this gas increases in the atmosphere it increases a
greenhouse effect that reduces outgoing energy radiation to space (true),
and the trapped energy causes the earths temperature to rise
(theoretically true). And that the rate of increase is unnatural (too
fast) and the higher temperature is undesirable.
This implies that there is a natural slower rate of temperature increase
(untrue) and an optimum earth temperature that all can agree on
(doubtful). And that humans can control it (untrue).
The temperature increase attributable to increased CO2 is small, hard to
measure and impossible to isolate from changes due to other variables.
Thats because CO2 is only .04% of the atmosphere, and there are many
other natural causes of temperature and climate changes.
Geologic records show wide variations in climate and temperature. Recorded
temperature measurements show wider natural variations than recent
increases that have alarmed global warmers. And those increases have
slowed. So alarmists now hype climate change and equate it with weather
events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, rainfall, droughts, heat waves, cold
spells, and with natural disasters such as locust swarms, plagues and
contagions, real or hyped.
Former Vice President Al Gore is one of the loudest shills for the
greenhouse effect. In 2006, he produced An Inconvenient Truth video,
which correlated CO2 in ancient ice cores with temperature and showed that
temperature was higher when CO2 was higher. He therefore said: Higher CO2
causes higher temperatures. And started the global warming catastrophe
industry for profit. Cui bono? Professional Chicken Littles.
It didnt matter that the ice cores showed that the rise in temperature
preceded the rise in CO2 by hundreds of years. So careful observers say:
Higher temperatures cause higher CO2. The former VP ignored this
inconvenient truth and made sky-will-fall predictions. Icebergs would
melt, sea levels would rise, coastal cities would flood unless governments
acted to reduce CO2 emissions. Cui bono? Big government in partnership
with green energy.
Others joined in to promote the scam and to share the profits from
government-mandated solutions to imaginary problems. There are lots of
scammers in federal and state agencies. Also in Congress and in state
legislatures, which create, fund and abdicate their legislative
responsibilities to those agencies (which become law into themselves).
Also in presidents and governors who appoint global warming and green
energy zealots to run the agencies. And who promote projects like Kemper
to make the oceans stop rising and to spin straw into gold or lignite
into natural gas.
And to enrich their political supporters and corporate cronies. Cui bono?
Politicians and their supporters.
The state agency that regulates Mississippis electric utility monopolies
is the Public Service Commission. Its 2:1 hand-picked Republican majority
approved the $2 billion Kemper experiment in 2012 instead of a $700
million natural gas plant using proved technology.
It didnt work. Its cost ballooned to $7 billion-plus. Following the 2015
election, two new commissioners voted with the hold-over commissioner to
kill it. Mississippi Power and its parent wrote off more than $6 billion
and the customers pay for an extra $600 million or so to convert the plant
to natural gas. Could have been worse.
Could have been better, too if the PSC had done its job.
Kelley Williams, a Greenwood native, is chairman of Bigger Pie Forum, a
Jackson-based think tank promoting free markets and government efficiency.
<https://www.gwcommonwealth.com/opinion-columns/global-warming-scam>