{"id":275809,"date":"2023-08-27T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T11:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275809"},"modified":"2023-08-27T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T11:25:50","slug":"supernatural-warnings-come-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275809","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSupernatural\u201d warnings come to California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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On the same day that Hurricane (Tropical Storm) Hilary brought\u00a0record rainfall<\/a>\u00a0to the Los Angeles area (nearly 6 inches to Lake Palmdale and 4.26 inches on the UCLA campus), a magnitude 5.1\u00a0earthquake<\/a>\u00a0occurred in nearby Ojai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the truly enlightened, these rare disasters should serve as a warning from on high that the Golden State is headed for a massive downfall \u2013 punishment for trying to force smog-fighting electric vehicles on smog-free America and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And rightfully so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all,\u00a0every hurricane<\/a>, every\u00a0heat wave<\/a>, every\u00a0forest fire<\/a>, and\u00a0every flood<\/a>\u00a0today anywhere in the world is blamed on climate change. Climate change\u00a0even eats<\/a>\u00a0children\u2019s homework! Yet the same humans who cannot stop the heat, the wind, the water, and the fire believe that they can control the climate through electrification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is climate change, anyway, ask religious leaders, but\u00a0the evidence<\/a>\u00a0of human sin? Spain-based Hindu spiritual leader Swami Rameshwarananda, one of\u00a050 faith leaders<\/a>\u00a0who drafted a set of\u00a0ten spiritual principles<\/a>\u00a0for addressing the climate crisis, says, \u201cWe have to exchange the concept of ego for the concept of \u2018eco.\u2019 Ego is the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to \u201cthe Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders,\u201d these principles include \u201cdo no harm\u201d (the Hippocratic Oath) and \u201cevery action matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One \u201caction\u201d in the name of climate spirituality is the electric vehicle mandate, which, like abolishing fossil fuels and ending all mining activity, applies only to Europe, North America, and other nations dependent on Western money and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But electric vehicle mandates and abandonment of fossil fuels clearly violate \u201cdo no harm\u201d \u2013 though their failures do demonstrate the sad truth that \u201cevery action matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another violator of \u201cdo no harm\u201d is the \u201cC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,\u201d whose goals have been\u00a0endorsed by over 100 cities<\/a>\u00a0worldwide. The group\u2019s objectives include \u2013 by the year 2030 \u2013 \u201c0 kg meat consumption, 0 kg dairy consumption, 3 new clothing items per person per year, 0 private vehicles owned, and 1 short-haul return flight every 3 years per person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meat-loving residents of Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and the nation\u2019s capital are likely unaware that their city leaders have endorsed these goals, which are \u201cbased on a future vision of resource-efficient production and extensive changes in consumer choices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0virtuous mayor<\/a>\u00a0of New York, Eric Adams, has introduced citywide caps on meat and dairy served at city institutions (including public schools and prisons). The\u00a0government of Ireland<\/a>\u00a0has promised to kill off 200,000 cattle, at a cost of \u00a3600 million, to reduce methane emissions and human meat and dairy consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One might think that this is part of a grander scheme to dramatically reduce human population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven years ago, author and entrepreneur\u00a0A. D. Largie<\/a>\u00a0listed \u201c10 methods\u201d for reducing human population. Transhumanism topped the list, but controlling the food supply came in second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Largie says, \u201cIf you control the food supply for any living organism, you control the organism\u2026 The power-hungry elites among us understand this fact fully and have been slowly modifying the food of humans \u2026 to ultimately reduce the human population rate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As University of British Columbia population ecologist\u00a0William Rees<\/a>\u00a0sees it, \u201cwe\u2019re using up Earth\u2019s resources at an\u00a0unsustainable<\/a>\u00a0rate.\u201d Yet our natural tendencies as humans \u201cmake it difficult for us to correct this \u2018advanced ecological overshoot\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What an open door for elites to pursue a \u201ccourse correction\u201d without telling anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rees correctly claims that merely switching to renewables does not actually address the problem of exponential population growth (a byproduct of using fossil fuels). Such efforts instead further contribute to excess consumption. Rees doubts that technological advances can enable the Earth\u2019s 8 billion residents to survive, let alone thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suppose those in power unleash deadly viruses (for which they choose who gets the antidote) on an unsuspecting world. Ordinary people can do little to prevent a massive kill. New generations of androids will serve them, and Bill Gates and others are pioneering lab-based food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has long been said, \u201cAs California goes, so goes the nation.\u201d \u00a0Yet as early as 1989,\u00a0Ronald Brownstein<\/a>\u00a0wrote, \u201cOperating virtually outside public reach, Sacramento has become the political equivalent of \u2018Lord of the Flies\u2019; [it provides] a chance to examine what happens when politicians are left on their own, free from supervision. It hasn\u2019t been a pretty sight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three decades later, political columnist\u00a0James Shott<\/a>\u00a0noted that a million Californians had fled to other states over the previous decade (a continuing trend). A major reason \u2013 the average price for a house had jumped from three times annual salary in 1970 to 10 times in 2019. No wonder over half the state\u2019s residents wanted to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the people want no longer matters, or so it seems. For example, the new\u00a0California policy<\/a>\u00a0that requires heavy-duty trucks is forcing older vehicles and their owners out of the state. State politicians are demanding zero emissions from these trucks regardless of performance impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Dalbir Bala<\/a>\u00a0spent $130,000 on an electric Ford F-150 (hardly a giant truck) only to learn that fast-charging stations are neither fast nor provide a full charge. He dared not take the vehicle on fishing or camping trips, and he found that its performance was heavily affected by weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An astonished Ford CEO\u00a0Jim Farley<\/a>\u00a0sought to disprove Bala\u2019s contention that the electric truck is a \u201cscam\u201d by attempting a cross-country road trip in his own electric F-150. \u201cCharging has been pretty challenging,\u201d he admitted. Even in California, it took 40 minutes to get a 40% charge. Trying to spin this stubborn reality into a positive, Farley concluded, \u201cLong hauling in an electric truck is an act of pioneerism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meantime, the Proterra bankruptcy dealt a crushing blow to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s gushing love for electric school buses. Proterra failed despite its receipt of huge subsidies pushed by California-imitating social influencers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Golding\u2019s \u201cLord of the Flies\u201d ended in disaster for everyone on the island. The virtual reality in which today\u2019s politicians operate (using computer models that flatter their assumptions) just might \u2013 if unchecked \u2013 lead to the worst-case scenario that Rees paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is that the political class accepts the genocide of Uighurs and enslavement of eight-year-old Congolese children, along with the extinction of right whales and decimation of bald and golden eagles, as necessary sacrifices to keep the \u201cnet zero\u201d juggernaut afloat. \u201cDo no harm\u201d is not the operating principle here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But every action still matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary citizens worldwide are realizing that California-style mandates lead to disaster. Opposition to banning gas stoves and water heaters, forcing adoption of heat pumps, shutting off air conditioners, and other diktats is burgeoning. The Wall Street Journal has\u00a0even reported<\/a>\u00a0that the electric vehicle bubble is starting to deflate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe that\u2019s why Hilary came to California. Disasters always remind people to rely on one another, not governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As people watch inept or uncaring politicians weakly respond to disasters (fires in Maui and East Palestine, Ohio included), the courage to resist unwanted mandates grows. Even in\u00a0California<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Duggan Flanakin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A brief history of his multifaceted career appears in his book, “Infinite Galaxies: Poems from the Dugout.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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