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The Powerful Forces Pushing The Climate Scam

by Francis Menton
November 20, 2020, 10:32 AM
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jeff bezos amazonWhat I call the “climate scam” is the proposition that human use of fossil fuels will shortly bring about a catastrophic increase in atmospheric temperatures and that this crisis can easily be averted by governments in a few rich countries, with about 10% of the world’s population, imposing crippling coercive restrictions and cost increases on fossil fuel use while also massively subsidizing alternative “renewable” energy sources.

I have long thought that this scam could not go on too much longer. The reasons I have thought that are many, the least important of them being that in the several decades since the warnings of catastrophic warming were first issued, atmospheric temperatures have increased much less than predicted.

But here are two other reasons for my view that are more important:

  1. Restrictions on rich-country carbon emissions cannot possibly have any meaningful effect on world climate, because rich-country emissions are a minority and a rapidly-shrinking portion of total world emissions, while developing countries, with about 90% of the world population, are rapidly increasing their emissions from a low base. The developing countries will never agree to limit their ongoing emissions increases, particularly while many of their people still lack basic access to electricity, automobiles, air conditioning, and so forth; and
  2. In rich countries, ordinary and working-class people will surely put up an insurmountable roadblock to restrictions on fossil fuels as soon as they figure out that many of their jobs are threatened and their costs of electricity and gasoline are planned to increase by factors of 2 or 5 or 10 in the effort to achieve a (theoretical) meaningless reduction of predicted world temperatures of a few tenths of a degree 50 or 100 years from now.

I still believe that eventually this scam will fall apart, and for the reasons given (among other reasons). After all, the information to support my points (1) and (2) is readily available, not only from many posts on this blog but many other sources as well, official and otherwise.

There is a network of climate-skeptic news sources and bloggers, of which I am one, constantly putting this information out for the public to see.

All of these sources, as far as I am aware, operate on a shoestring; but they cannot be silenced, and the skeptic community is remarkably robust and resilient. We aren’t going away.

But then, you have to consider what we are up against. First, of course, are the vast amounts of government and taxpayer money that fund the global warming alarm industry.

I have never found a comprehensive figure for how much government money backs this industry, but it is clearly in the tens of billions of dollars per year in the U.S. alone.

All the thousands of people in academia and research institutions calling themselves “climate scientists,” not to mention everyone working in the entire industries of wind and solar energy, stand to lose their careers as soon as the public realizes that this emperor has no clothes.

For today, I want to focus on a related phenomenon, namely, that coterie of highly wealthy and/or influential people who clearly ought to know better, who devote vast resources, public and private, to the nonsensical efforts to obstruct people from using fossil fuel resources.

Consider just a few examples:

  • You may have seen back in February that Amazon mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos announced he had created something called the Bezos Earth Fund, which he then funded with an initial $10 billion! Just a couple of days ago, Bezos announced the first recipients of grants from the Fund, who will receive a total of some $791 million. The recipients will include several of the usual run of environmental activist groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund. These are the people who lobby and litigate endlessly to block every infrastructure project involving fossil fuels, from pipelines to power plants to drilling endeavors. Essentially, these guys are being given infinite resources for their efforts. In one of those linked pieces, Bezos is quoted as saying, “I’ve spent the past several months learning from a group of incredibly smart people who’ve made it their life’s work to fight climate change and its impact on communities around the world. . . . I’m inspired by what they’re doing, and excited to help them scale.” Wouldn’t you think that a guy who could make a hundred billion dollars creating Amazon would have enough critical thinking ability to see through this nonsense?
  • Bezos has made headlines with the massive size of his largesse, but he is far from alone among the super-rich in backing fossil-fuel restriction efforts. Michael Bloomberg — the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action! — has given tens of millions for an initiative he calls “Beyond Carbon.” (“Beyond Carbon is working to get the country [U.S.] on the path to a 100 percent clean energy economy . . . .”). With China alone building hundreds of new coal power plants — why? Or here is an announcement from July 2019 that Leonard DiCaprio, Laurene Powell Jobs and a guy named Brian Steth have launched a joint initiative to “battle climate change.” According to the piece, DiCaprio alone has so far given “around $100 million” toward the efforts. You can see how the environmental activist groups of the world have virtually unlimited funding for advocacy, lawsuits, or whatever else they can cook up.
  • And then there are the politicians who clearly ought to know better. Consider UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He is the guy who led the campaign for Brexit. The Brexit fight was very much like the climate wars in pitting smug elite conformists against freedom lovers and independent thinkers, with Johnson leading side of the freedom lovers and independent thinkers. But Johnson hasn’t stuck with that side on the climate issue. Since taking on the prime ministership, Johnson has gone farther and farther over to the side of government suppression of fossil fuels, even though UK emissions are a small fraction even of those of the U.S., and their reduction will never be noticed by the world’s atmosphere. Recent initiatives from Johnson have included proposals for a government-funded “green industrial revolution” and for government-backed “green bonds” to subsidize industry to cut emissions. Some in the UK attribute Johnson’s recent environmental activism to the influence of his current girlfriend Carrie Symonds (pictured below).

boris johnson carrie symonds

As to Joe Biden, the less said the better. Yes, it should be a basic test of competence for a U.S. President to steer clear of shackling the U.S. economy while the whole developing world is building fossil fuel power sources as fast as they can.

But let’s face it, we’re not likely to get basic competence, let alone any critical or independent thinking, from Joe.

Anyway, as the anti-energy advocates get their hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of funding for flooding the zone, our hardy band of skeptics labor on, mostly on a pro bono basis.

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  1. Barry Bateman says:
    5 years ago

    Bezos’ “Earth Fund”, Bloomberg’s “Beyond Carbon” and the UN Climate scam all accomplish NOTHING. Nothing for the environment. Nothing for humanity. NOTHING BUT A REGRESSIVE IGNORANCE of the environment. Ignorance of life. Ignorance of energy’s role in human progress. Ignorance of climate. Ignorance of CO2’s central role in life’s chemistry. ALL LIFE ON EARTH is composed of CARBON-BASED LIFEFORMS. Human beings are carbon-based lifeforms. Carbon that comes ONLY from the carbon in CO2. All the oxygen we breathe and all the energy required for all our lives comes from photosynthesis – directly or indirectly. Energy poverty, stalled development, and a regressive imaginary fantasy land of pitting the basic ingredient of all life on earth – CO2 – against the environment results. Ignoring the increase in CO2 greening of the environment (up to 30% more biomass). Plantlife so much stronger and more drought-tolerant that deserts are shrinking. And crops so much more productive that they continue to break an ongoing string of world record crop yields. The very environment that is built from CO2! Photosynthesis is the basic metabolic pathway of life on earth. Sunlight plus CO2 and water produce sugar (energy locked in a molecule) and the oxygen required for all animal life to exist. ALL LIFE DIES WITHOUT CO2. And our atmosphere has been declining from life-enriching levels ten to twenty times that of today at the beginning of the evolution of multicellular life. Declining to levels of CO2 that during glacial phases of our current ongoing Pleistocene/Holocene ice age comes within 30ppm of lethal lows! Our current ongoing ice age is the coldest the earth has ever been. Current global temperatures remain well within our (so far) three million year Pleistocene/Holocene ice age norms, our twelve thousand year Holocene interglacial norms, and our one thousand year Eddy Cycle norms. The climate will continue warming naturally irrespective of our atmospheric CO2 levels for another two degrees C. Before temperatures turn back down again following the one thousand year Eddy Cycle. You’d think that before pouring billions of dollars into a regressive enterprise such as blocking the progress that has been building the win-win-win of energy powered development that makes us the best fed, longest-living, most prosperous human beings that have ever existed, they would do their homework. Homework on at least the basics of environmental science. Apparently not.

  2. Chaamjamal says:
    5 years ago

    About fund recipient NRDC

    Here is how the money is being spent.

    https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/18/climate-alarms-of-11-18-2020/

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    Bezos and his Earth Fund A Fool and His Money are soon Parted

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