The lies of Big Green

 Mark Hendrickson:

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In fact, in late 2009, when President Barack Obama and congressional progressives were trying to pass a cap-and-trade bill designed to make Americans pay extra for the privilege of burning fossil fuels, some of the scientists in the global warming alarmist camp were backing off their claims of runaway warming.

Looking at the most recent data available to them, they guessed (yes, “guessed”—all that we—even the so-called “experts”—can ever do is guess the future) that the Earth was likely to cool for the next few decades.

Think about that for a second: After years of telling us that the more CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the hotter Earth will get, they reversed themselves, saying, “CO2 will continue to increase, but the temperature is likely to fall.” The alarmists thereby demolished their own case, by conceding the main point made by so-called skeptics: that many other factors besides CO2 drive changes in global temperatures.

The big green lie—specifically, that human activity is warming the globe to a dangerous degree requiring a radical economic, social, and political transformation—has many iterations. Although my invocation of “the big lie” phraseology may be harsh, it’s bluntly and plainly accurate. Just as Hitler’s propaganda team (and indeed, all left-wing totalitarian groups, whether communist, fascist, or socialist) employed and continue to employ “the big lie” technique of incessantly repeating a falsehood until all but the most alert citizens are mesmerized into believing it from the sheer volume of repetition, so it is with today’s greens.
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The most recent iteration I have seen of the big lie appeared on April 26 in a daily newsletter from The Wall Street Journal, derived from a longer article: “$115 trillion—The amount the world would need to invest in clean technologies through 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.”

Before I point out the untruths in this statement, let me commend it for being honest and forthright in one important respect: the candid admission that the radical transition away from fossil fuels will be immensely costly. $115 trillion—wow! That’s larger than the entire planet’s annual GDP. Beyond that, though, the statement is arrogant, pretentious, and dishonest in more ways than one.

The arrogance lies in the implied certainty that human efforts can devise a policy mix that would act like a thermostat regulating Earth’s temperature.

The pretentiousness is the glib presumption that somebody even knows what the “right” temperature is, much less how to attain it.
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Big Green has a decades-long history of being wrong about climate change or global warming.  While they have been predicting gloom and doom the poles are not ice-free as was predicted and New York City is not underwater as predicted.  If anything the climate is significantly better than it was when they started making their failed projections.