Climate Loons — the Wrongest Wrong People in the History of Wrong
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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is giving tap lessons to a group of freeform Marvin Gaye Bedazzlers.)
The cultists in the Church of Climate Change Alarmists sure are resilient for people who are convinced that we're all so fragile that the weather is soon going to kill us. Maybe I'm simplifying their message; it's difficult to pay close attention to those who are permanently in the throes of hysteria.
One of the greatest upsides to writing about politics is that I can vent my frustrations with the lunatic left and enjoy myself while doing so. The climate cultists are particularly enjoyable to mock because the aforementioned hysteria makes the poor dears so easy to trigger. One mention of "Floaty the Polar Bear" and the climate kiddies are off to Shrieksville.
I have run afoul of the thought police many times over the years when writing about climate change, which is proof of just how sensitive they are. My premise has always been that I do believe that climate changes, I just don't think that we are the primary drivers of that. That would of course mean that all of the New World Order machinations they want to subject us to won't help one bit.
You can see why they get disgruntled.
Catherine did a deep dive over the weekend into some of the latest caterwauling from the Chicken Little crowd:
The dangerous hot air is mostly coming from climate alarmists. A wacky professor hysterically claimed to the New York Times that Donald Trump’s science-based policies will cause droughts, wildfires, and floods around the world.
After more than 60 years of 100% failed predictions, and no climate doom, you’d think the climate liars would admit reality. But that would require surrendering a whole lot of money and power. Instead, the alarmists just double down and screech louder than ever that if they don’t trample more God-given rights and impoverish yet more citizens, the whole world will burst into flames.
“Emissions will be higher,” wailed Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College. “Trump’s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump’s heat waves, Trump’s droughts, Trump’s floods, and Trump’s wildfires.” The horror!!!
That's the most irritating thing about the climate change panic-mongers: they've never gotten anything right. A couple of years ago, someone referred to my beliefs on climate change as being different because it's a "generational thing," which is true. I'm from the generation that was told we were all going to freeze to death. Then we were told that overpopulation was going to make us all starve to death. Then it was the sun that was going to kill us. We've been told that the polar ice caps are going to melt away in five years for almost two decades now.
I'm from the generation that's been forced to live through a series of bad remakes of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," so I don't freak out very easily.
Despite being monumentally mistaken all of the time, the climate crazies are still given myriad opportunities to waste taxpayers' money and drive up the cost of consumer goods. They're some of the most galling examples of the Democrats' "failing upward" model of governance. They're brilliant at selling fear.
There are plenty of things going on in the world that we should legitimately worry about, it's rather perverse to be devoted to making stuff up. And it's borderline criminal for people to be getting wealthy off of creating apprehension where there needn't be any.
OK, maybe not so borderline.
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