Climate change believers should first alter their own behavior

To The Daily Sun,

Having failed to convince adults about man-made climate change, climate alarmists, with support from schools and media, have despicably turned to propagandizing and scaring children, even young children, who don’t know history or recognize deceit. (See: http://tinyurl.com/y2mpyaj2, http://tinyurl.com/yxuz6zjm)

Adults reject climate alarmism because prominent alarmists don’t act as if they believe it (they fly private jets while telling us to cut our energy use), because of the alarmist’s data scandals, their suppression of opposing views and refusals to debate — and the many promised disasters over the last 50+ years that didn’t happen (vanishing polar bears, polar ice, and glaciers; increased droughts and famines; etc.).

Whether the climate is warming or cooling, the alarmists nonsensically declare the only acceptable solution is the same thing: cut/end fossil fuel use and surrender more of our freedoms, prosperity and money (over $1 trillion per year) to politicians.

Yet the climate is always changing, naturally; no one claims that the demanded spending and loss of our freedoms will stop climate change.

The enormous spending they demand would dissipate the human wealth needed to improve peoples’ lives, reduce pollution, and adapt to whatever climate change happens...causing people to suffer now and in the future.

We all want clean air and water and a healthy environment for future generations; that’s not the issue.

Climate alarmist politicians are uninterested in approaches that reduce the alleged excess CO2 while allowing the energy use needed to lift billions of people from poverty, including millions from squalor and starvation.

Fracking has greatly reduced CO2 generation and pollution in the U.S. (and could do worldwide), but alarmists (including Democrat presidential candidates) want to stop it.

Alarmists are uninterested in Allan Savory’s brilliant experiment turning deserts green, supporting life sustaining crops, improving peoples’ lives, and which could capture many billions of tons of CO2 (https://youtu.be/vpTHi7O66pI). Nor are they interested in Sergey Zimov’s experiment to reduce CO2 (and other greenhouse gas) release from defrosting permafrost (https://tinyurl.com/yxs2exx5). Nor are they interested in Levitt and Dubner’s proposals, in “Super Freakonomics”, of three relatively inexpensive solutions to global warming (https://youtu.be/-30CdS8xiyM).

If politicians really cared about people, they wouldn’t terrorize and use children to get their way. If politicians really believed in a man-made climate change crisis, they’d demand open debates, shared data, and lead by example by changing their own behavior.

If politicians actually wanted to address a climate crisis and cared about people, they’d incentivize and adopt solutions that help people be freer and more prosperous (today and tomorrow), while protecting our environment and growing the human wealth needed to adapt to future climate changes — even if those solutions don’t enrich and empower the politicians and their friends.

Don Ewing

Meredith