Climate Change Fanatics

If it’s good enough for the Wall Street Journal, it’s good enough for me. From today’s paper, an excerpt from Christian Whiton’s Substack, Super Macro.

The subject is climate change, and the generalized hysteria about said topic. You would think, from reading the mainstream media and listening to our brain dead political class, that there is complete and total agreement about climate change. After all, it was just a few days ago that the venerable and thoroughly liberal New Yorker seemed to countenance sabotage as a way to save the planet. That means, shutting down the power grid, the means of production, the transportation network, agribusiness and industry. Beware crazed zealots who think that they are the sole possessors of the truth.

If said fanatics, having now received the benediction of The New Yorker, really believe what they believe, I recommend that they first shut down the power grid that sustains said magazine. Next, they should turn out the lights at the editor’s home. It’s easy to rail when someone else is paying the tab.

Anyway, here is Christian Whiton, to shed the light of reason into the darker recess of the minds of the climate change fanatics:

The fake science pushed on the public by the government and media has worked somewhat. A Pew poll last year indicated 62% of adults think climate change is affecting their local community. Gallup, exhibiting the trademark arrogance and refusal to countenance disagreement that mark the climate debate, said that 64% of adults “acknowledge the scientific consensus” that human activities cause climate change. On the other hand, a poll in 2019 revealed that 68% of Americans would not pay $10 more per month on their electricity bill to combat climate change. The same poll showed that if you lower that amount to $1, then 57% of the public would pony up. We see that the American public as usual knows better than the elites. The climate is changing as it always has and carbon emissions are something we should probably curb gradually through nuclear power, natural gas, and renewables, but there is no “crisis.” Certainly raising the cost of energy, which would stunt human progress generally, is not the right answer.