Saturday, January 20, 2018

Bailing on climate change in the face of reality

Despite bashing the President Donald Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from consideration of the Paris accord on climate change, none of the industrialized countries that have aligned themselves with the accord is on schedule to meet their respective targets for carbon emissions reduction. Now Germany, who was particularly vocal about its disapproval of Trump's decision, has announced it is altogether preparing to abandon its 2020 climate targets.

As reported in The Daily Signal, Germany had an aggressive plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2020. But last November, a leaked document from the country’s Environmental Ministry projected the country would miss the mark by 8 percent without additional action. It's speculated that, in other words, even with generous subsidies for renewable power, the Germans would have had to implement some form of economy-restricting policy to curtail emissions, and the country just doesn't want to have to do that.

No matter. Even if the United States and the rest of the developed world were to meet their intended targets, it wouldn’t make any meaningful impact on global temperatures. The temperatures will change on their own. They always have. They'll go up and they'll go down. But the desire to use this normal fluctuation as justification for higher taxes and control of human behavior is just too good to pass up by those who love money and power.

But to state this plain truth about the real motives will get you slapped with the "denier" label. That in itself is insulting because it's the type of language that attempts to conflate those who question the "settled science" on climate change as a bad thing with those who would deny things like the Holocaust. Deny one bit of nonsense and it must mean you're willing to deny real evil - and that, of course, is evil of you. So the voices of the sane who refuse to fall for man-made climate change and man-made mass hysteria are marginalized and targeted for silencing.

This rhetorical trick against "deniers" reveals all you need to know about the desperate manipulation the climate planners are willing to engage in to realize their plot regardless of popular and justified skepticism concerning their regulatory and redistributionist policies.

It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Countries like Germany can talk a good game about their eagerness to embrace policies for a "sustainable planet," but when it comes down to it, they realize the strangling conditions placed upon them in the name of "climate change" are anything but sustainable. It's more than most can take. 

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