The false narrative of the “green new deal”.

The irony is that the policies advocated now by the “green new deal” would actually reverse the current positive trend.

I’m tired of talking about politics and the ridiculous impeachment.  Let’s talk about climate change and the green new deal today.

A wind farm requires far more concrete and steel than an equivalent system based on gas.  Even after the wind farm is built and paid for, it is still the most inefficient methods of generating electric power ever conceived. The cost of maintaining them is unbelievable. 

Hydro-electric generators are much more efficient, but we have pretty much reached the limit on the number of dams we can build in the United States.  Many environmentalists Say we have already dammed up far too many of our rivers and streams

The only thing remaining is nuclear power and solar energy.  Environmental opposition to nuclear power has hindered the generating system that needs the least amount of land, least amount of fuel and least amount of steel or concrete per megawatt.  Solar energy is still fairly new, and I expect solar energy technology to improve and become much more popular...

Burning wood instead of coal in power stations means the exploitation of more land, the eviction of more woodpeckers — and even higher emissions. Organic farming uses more land than conventional. 

It's time for some climate sense.  Human activity can never control atmospheric CO2 levels or global temperature.  Much bigger forces are at work.  Forces which have been at work sense the beginning of time, and will most likely continue.  The solar system cycles, earth orbital changes, volcanic activity, El Nino episodes, declining magnetic field and magnetic pole reversals, variable cosmic rays and cloud cover, and absorption and expulsion of CO2 by the mighty oceans.

Geological records show that today's CO2 levels are very low — so low that plants grow slower and need more water.  Many greenhouses which grow plants indoors actually have CO2 generators to make their plants grow faster.

Moreover, the ice core records from Antarctica and Greenland show clearly that atmospheric temperature always rises before CO2 levels rise.  So rising CO2 is the effect of rising temperature, not the cause.  Warming oceans expel bubbles of CO2 into the atmosphere.  When oceans cool, they take the CO2 back.

We live in a natural warm interlude, but we are past the warming peak.  There will still be fluctuations and extreme weather events, but the next big move will be global cooling — the 11th freeze-up in about a million years.   Ice ages have been a periodic threat to much of life on Earth.  As the ice sheets spread from the North Pole, there will be massive depopulation, and survivors will need to relearn hunter-gatherer skills or have access to reliable energy.   Even the Great Niagara Falls froze in 1848 during the Little Ice Age.

Technology has put us on a path to a cleaner, greener planet. We don’t need to veer off in a new direction with the green new deal. If we do, we risk retarding progress.  We need to concentrate on the REAL environmental problem, which is the reckless pollution of our planet…