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The Global Warming Scare Hits Rock Bottom

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 3/25/2025 9:34:21 AM

Our friend Steven Hayward, late of the great Power Line blog, university professor and incisive thinker, wrote a compelling essay last week about “The Nadir of the Climate Change Movement.” If anyone should know about the state of global warming hysteria, it would be Hayward. Here’s how he begins his argument: The prevailing winds are blowing not toward more windmills but toward common sense on energy. It is possible that the Trump administration is going to deal the death blows to the long-running climate change hysteria and government hostility to fossil fuels, not just in the United States but around the globe.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: seamusm 3/25/2025 9:39:05 AM (No. 1920951)
It needs to go lower than rock bottom. I want my money back and to see Greta cry, 'I was wrong!'
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Reply 2 - Posted by: franco 3/25/2025 9:51:43 AM (No. 1920957)
It apparently still works in Canada, where "net zero" Mark Carney and The Liberal party have closed a 20+% polling gap against the Conservative Party by mixing a tiny dose of climate change with a large dose of TDS. And low-information urban "liberal" Canadians -- who define their 'Canadianess' mostly by being anti-American, are buying it. They also decide elections, since most of the districts are in the high-population urban area running along a line from Toronto to Montreal. If they elect Pierre Poilievre, they may have a Reaganesque turnaround rivaling the USA's from 1981-9. But they will likely stupidly elect Carney and the same party that has run the country into the ground over the past ten years with its adherence to the religion of global warming... leading to the dissolution of the country as Alberta will likely secede as a consequence. "Climate change" may be at its nadir here, but it's about to kill off the country just to our north.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: FJB 3/25/2025 9:57:17 AM (No. 1920964)
Call your office, Al.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Maggie2u 3/25/2025 10:30:11 AM (No. 1920987)
FTA...'“that fossil fuels are responsible for launching” modern medicine, telecommunications, air and rail travel, and automobiles, innovations that are critical to the functioning of an advanced existence'. That's kind of the operative words right there. The sole reason the globalists have been hysterically screeching about global warming is to destroy Western civilization. Where a handful of elitists rule the world while the rest of us live in 15minute cities and eat insects.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 3/25/2025 11:03:05 AM (No. 1921002)
The largest contribution that Trump is making in this area is removing the block on open discussion of climate. There was long been a counter argument to the "Warming" story. But it has been slapped down by liberal government and especially the government bureaucracy. The REALITY is that the warming "science" doesn't hold up. Warming studies keep coming up with differing answers and prediction of catastrophe fail to materialize. Plus, there is opposition science that DOES explain what we are actually observing happen. If these alternate ideas are right, there is NO danger from increasing CO2 and the causes of any warming is due to extraterrestrial forces (cosmic rays and the magnetic field of the sun and their impact on cloud formation) that we have no hope of changing. In short, if it IS going to get warmer, the only thing we can do is ADAPT TO IT! Almost certainly, destroying our high energy economies is NOT a good answer. So, let's pack up all the climate fear mongers and set them to the Arctic, where things stay frosty. Then let's REALLY figure out what is happening and see if there is something to worry about and what options we might really have to deal with it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 3/25/2025 11:14:48 AM (No. 1921013)
Let's hope that this lie is finally starting to go the way of phenology.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Venturer 3/25/2025 12:34:07 PM (No. 1921070)
The Climat thing and the EV's were just one more proof of the idiocy of the Democrap party
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Mike22 3/25/2025 2:36:34 PM (No. 1921120)
Check out climate.gov. Looks like the belief in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is alive and well at NOAA. The MIT climate site has a different take.
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