Over the past two months, two seismic events occurred that blew up the hysteria attached to the climate change movement.
The first was from billionaire Bill Gates, who, in a stunning reversal, now concedes that climate change is not the existential threat to human survival that the extremists had preached for all these years. He wisely noted that dumping trillions of dollars into an unsuccessful effort to change the weather over the next century is diverting needed funds that could be saving millions of lives around the world right now through better sanitary conditions, healthcare and economic opportunity. It’s the same argument that’s been made for years by Copenhagen environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg.
Then, just a couple of weeks ago, the Institute for Climate Impact Research conceded that they had made significant errors in overstating the costs related to climate change.
Despite these retractions, Newsday continues to engage in climate hysteria. Just look at the recent article. The article contained a typical liberal warning: “Climate scientists say we must dramatically curb, and ultimately quit, the use of fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic climate tipping points.”
This is the apocalyptic type comment that power-hungry politicians and advocacy groups used to scare the public that they would die in the near future unless we gave trillions of dollars and unlimited power to these politicians and groups to control our lives so they could save us.
Look, we understand climate change is real, and it shouldn’t be ignored. But enough of the scaremongering. Even Gates now understands that throwing money at ill-conceived, so-called “solutions” that don’t work siphons crucial dollars from improvements that we can make to save millions of lives immediately.Yes, a gradual transformation from fossil fuels to alternatives is needed. But continuing to feed these histrionics of the climate change scare will continue to put more people into poverty, which will lead to their untimely deaths.