{"id":238089,"date":"2023-01-06T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=238089"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:48:16","slug":"absolem-and-puff-inspire-todays-green-monsters-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=238089","title":{"rendered":"Absolem and Puff inspire today\u2019s Green monsters Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Duggan Flanakin<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Absolem, Lewis Carroll\u2019s blue caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, smokes a hookah to pose as a creature of great wisdom. He blows smoke in Alice\u2019s face and does little or nothing to help her escape a horrible fate planned by the Queen of Hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puff, many may recall, is \u201cthe magic dragon\u201d immortalized by Peter, Paul and Mary, who borrowed the dragon from a poem<\/a> by Leonard Lipton. Puff was friends with Little Jackie Paper until the lad grew up and the sad dragon \u201csadly slipped into his cave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s \u201cnet zero\u201d advocates are like little Alices smoking hookahs (or something else) with imaginary Absolems while pressing society toward unreachable goals and condemning anyone who fails to fall into line with their militarist vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latest in the line of fantasists is Michigan state representative Yousef Rabhi (D), who has proposed legislation<\/a> that would require the state to transition to 100 percent \u201crenewable energy\u201d (wind, solar, and little else) by 2035 \u2013 a mere dozen years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the lawmaker, who has a long record of pushing the envelope on green issues, dodged questions<\/a> from reporters. There is nothing in the bill, and perhaps nothing in Rabhi\u2019s head, to answer the obvious question: Renewables today account for just 11 percent of Michigan\u2019s energy, so how can Michigan physically achieve 100 percent renewables in just 12 years?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is nothing new. Moses warned millennia ago that when the words of the prophet do not come to pass, we should no longer fear that prophet or the prophecies. So let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Ehrlich\u2019s 1968 blockbuster<\/a>, The Population Bomb<\/em>, predicted worldwide famine in which \u201chundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death\u2026. The battle to feed all of humanity is over. [Humanity lost.]\u201d The book also inaugurated a worldwide wave of repression that included forced sterilizations from Mexico to Bangladesh \u2013 and most notably in India and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the real world, despite some localized events, famine has become rarer. In 1968, a quarter of Earth\u2019s people were hungry; today, one in 10, despite a doubling of world population. Of course, when Thomas Malthus penned An Essay on the Principle of Population<\/em> in 1798, twin insurrections in Ireland brought on back-to-back harvest failures, but politicians and policy makers acted<\/a> to stave off distress and public disorder, resulting in \u201cThe Famine That Wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frustrated by humanity\u2019s continued march, Endgame<\/em> author Derrick Jensen and two colleagues laid out a plan for Deep Green Resistance<\/em> in 2011. Their thesis<\/a>: \u201cThe dominant culture -civilization \u2013 is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on Earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, they issued a clarion call to \u201ctotally tear down the corporate capitalist economic system, and even civilization itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, people take a back seat to the planet \u2013 idolizing the creation, one might say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One might think as well that those enraptured by wind and solar energy believe these resources are part of the great retraction \u2013 moving back to nature\u2019s energy. Yet these twin, heavily subsidized behemoths in truth represent the ultimate in high tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also epitomize the folly of \u201cputting all one\u2019s eggs into a single basket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent essay, Andrew L. Urban, author of Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World<\/em>, writes of \u201cthe inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism\u201d that have hit home. When his fellows wonder, \u201cWhy are we suddenly running short of ridiculously expensive energy,\u201d he points to the \u201creal straw man, life-giving natural gas,\u201d that has been demonized by political activists for more than three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a rational government, Urban posits, alarming climate claims would be scrutinized, and verifiable facts would play a key role. But today\u2019s hookah-puffing green monsters manufacture imagined evils from the failure to \u201creach net zero\u201d and hold global temperature rise to a maximum 1.5o<\/sup> C, placing all the blame on life-giving carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban disposes of key claims by climate zealots: extreme weather events are not increasing; Pacific islands are not sinking; polar bear populations are increasing; and the planet is greening, not browning up. Despite these easily proven facts, Urban laments that \u201cthe climate-alarm-gullible parts of the world \u2026 are torn asunder by fearmongering activists, politicians, investment opportunists, and well-meaning but ignorant sheeple, all identifying as saviors of our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end result? \u201cInstalling fear of catastrophic global warming has thus become the tool to forge policy without scrutiny.\u201d The barrage<\/a> is endless. Just look at the \u201c10 signs\u201d disaster is looming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven years ago author John C. Wright<\/a> published an exhaustive list of \u201cthings supposedly caused by global warming\u201d that included \u201cAtlantic more salty, Atlantic less salty,\u201d \u201cbrain eating amoebae,\u201d \u201cEarth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode,\u201d and hundreds more \u2013 <\/strong>\u201cand all on 0.006o<\/sup> C per year!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time flies, and the list by now is likely twice as long. The entirety of academia seemingly revolves around identifying new horrors caused by carbon dioxide. And smoking Absolem\u2019s hookah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, though, it is time to leave behind the imaginary world of Puff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at\u00a0Real Clear Energy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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