FROM THE MAG: The End of the Green Panic
The fearmongering about man-made global warming has failed, and the movement is dying.
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It’s implausible, impractical, and the opposite of urgent. The theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has proven to hold little importance for the citizens of the world, and now that Donald Trump has reascended to the White House and targeted green energy boondoggles for elimination, the world has started to take his lead. Perhaps the UN hasn't noticed, but the Trump Effect is real and has given cover for leaders across the globe to quietly back away from the insane spending required to make green energy remotely comparable to conventional combustion-based energy production.
This process has also revealed a truth as the tide goes back out: Nobody believes the fundamental premise of global warming anyway, despite the decades of panic fomented by globalists, totalitarians, and grifters hoping to cash in.
We may very well be witnessing the death of the green panic as a meaningful societal and political movement.
The People Never Bought the Theory
In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway described the process of going bankrupt: Gradually, and then suddenly. The same description holds for the death of the climate narratives. Ever since then-Sen. Al Gore (D-TN) brought up the concept of global warming U.S. Senate hearing in 1988, it has been marked by myth-making more than science. To commemorate this "birthday"—the hearing was held on July 23, 1988—the CO2 Coalition recounted the story of how it came to be:
This first hearing was convened by former Senator Timothy E. Wirth along with a young Senator from Tennessee named Al Gore. It was no coincidence that the hearing was held on this date.
"We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer," explained Senator Wirth. "So, we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it. What we did is that we went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room.”
That hearing began a nearly 40-year run of unimpeded misinformation linking carbon dioxide to unusual and unprecedented warming.
- Consensus science replaced the scientific method.
- Censorship of contrary evidence was nearly complete.
- No debate was allowed because the science was settled.
Born of a PR stunt and backing by a few fringe scientists, the theory then morphed into a driving principle of the professional Left. Massive pseudoscience campaigns emerged to support the spurious claims of impending planetary doom in the media, which has incentivized politicians to adopt punitive and confiscatory public policies. The voters routinely ranked climate change near the bottom of their priorities in public opinion surveys, but that didn't matter to the power- and money-hungry politicians and bureaucrats.
The history of public climate policy from that point on has involved ever increasing spending by federal and state governments, ever tighter industrial regulations, and "investments" in financially foolhardy projects—remember Obama's failure with Solyndra?
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