But our breath is not that different from the output of a power plant. I actually brought a CO2 meter here which I am going to turn on. You people in this room are putting out a lot of CO2. Many people are surprised to learn that they exhale a little more than two pounds of CO2 a day. Number one, it is not a pollutant at all. So, hare-brained schemes to limit emissions of CO2, which is actually beneficial, as I will explain a little bit later, will only make it harder to get rid of real pollutants like what I just showed you in Shanghai. CO2 is a gas you cannot see, smell or taste. If there is anything to do that would make it better, I would certainly support that.īut, none of this has anything to do with CO2. I would not want to live in a city like that. Part of it is burning stubble of the rice fields, which is traditionally done before planting next year’s crop. They have had this type of pollution in Shanghai since the days of Marco Polo and long before. But a bigger fraction is due to dust from the Gobi Desert. You can just barely see the Bottle Opener Building in the back through all the haze. This is a photograph of Shanghai, and that’s real air pollution. Just about everyone wants to live in a clean environment. Climate fanatics don’t know or care any more about the science of climate than those medieval Inquisitors knew or cared about the teachings of Christ. The medieval Inquisition really did a job on the poor Cathars, on the Waldensians of southern France, and on the Bogomils in the Balkans. But a lot of it was against local enemies. Part of the medieval crusades was against the supposed threat to the holy sites in Jerusalem. This is a question of a secular religion for some. This is really not a question of science. Ismay resigned and had he not, his governor would have fired him. Right, I can’t even say that publicly.”Ī few days later Mr. there’s no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts to point the finger at, to turn the screws on, and you know, to break their wills, so they stop emitting. “So let me say that again, 60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person across the street, the senior on fixed income, right. These are the remarks made last week by Charles Ismay, the Undersecretary for Climate Change in Massachusetts to the Vermont Climate Council: It gets worse when you get to the state levels where there are fewer checks and balances. There is no climate crisis, and there will not be a climate crisis ![]() Blumenauer’s website.) But this is utter nonsense. The National Climate Emergency Act directs the President of the United States to declare a national climate emergency and mobilize every resource at the country’s disposal to halt, reverse, mitigate and prepare for the consequences of this climate crisis.” (This is from Mr. On February 4th Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Congressman Earl Blumenauer introduced “legislation mandating the declaration of a national climate emergency. Policies to address this phony climate emergency will cause great damage to American citizens and to their environment.Ĭlimate frenzy is really heating up recently. ![]() They have brought hardship and death to multitudes. They have brought discredit to the supposed righteous cause. But they have been misled.Īs a scientist who actually knows a lot about climate (and I set up many of our climate research centers when I was at the Department of Energy in the early 1990s) I can assure you that there is no climate emergency. Those who think that way, in many cases, mean very well. After decades of propaganda, many Americans, perhaps including some of you here today, think there really is a climate emergency. Most climate enthusiasts have not gone so far, but some actually claim that they are doing God’s work.
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