I lived through the final phase of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, “the coming ice age”, the “acid rain crisis”, the “ozone hole” expansion crisis (which amazingly stopped within months of banning of freon as a refrigerant), and numerous other environment alarms.
Many fail to remember that our air is far less polluted today than when I was a child over 70 years ago.
As a scientist, I am aware of Diesel engines that emit exhaust that is actually cleaner and less polluted after combustion than it was before it entered the engine!!
If climate alarmists were truly concerned about CO2 emissions, why are they so apposed to thorium generated nuclear energy which is the produces no “carbon footprint” to use Al Gore’s terminology??
Solar farms fry thousand of birds and other animals on an annual basis but we do not hear a peep from the so-called environmentalists, likewise, wind farms kill thousands upon thousands of bats and birds, but again not a peep from these individuals!! An exemption for the killing of the American Bald Eagle by wind turbines was granted by the Obama administration allowing eagles killed from wind farms to go unpunished, while a hunter accidentally killing one of the birds will be heavily fined and may even be subjected to jail time.
Why is there no media coverage or concern expressed by leftist politicians about declining bat populations and endangered species on this? Because it does not fit the actual agenda!
Why is there no concern about China using dirty coal rather than United States mined coal and opening a new coal powered power plant nearly every week?
Why did the great environmentalist Barack Obama buy beachfront property in Marthas Vineyard and in Hawaii if he actually believed his own rhetoric? Why are numerous other billionaire climate alarmists buying expensive beachfront property?
Why is there no coverage of the beneficial effects of a warming climate? – Opening of the Northwest Passage year around for sea travel and trade; Alaska would become the bread basket of the world if it had a warmer climate and a longer growing season – have you ever seen the size of cabbages and other vegetable grown in Alaska because of the long daylight hours? Also, reduce the impact of regional and global cooling resulting from a major volcanic eruption – when a large volcano even 1/4 the size of the Yellowstone Volcano will cause sufficient cooling of the environment to cause major crop shortage and failure resulting in major famines.
Personally, I am far more worried about a major electromagnetic pulse event produced by a large solar storm arising from our Sun or a human-produced high altitude nuclear burst on the East and West coast. Regardless of the cause, the United States would be depopulated in a matter of days and weeks with the only survivors living in isolated primitive conditions.
The United States and Western World would be better served by expending its resources on producing clean nuclear energy and protecting our power grid and computer networks from electromagnetic interference and sabotage than the useless effort of trying to prevent climate change.