{"id":292862,"date":"2023-12-28T16:41:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292862"},"modified":"2023-12-28T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:42:00","slug":"from-covid-to-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292862","title":{"rendered":"From COVID to climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Driessen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I choked on my coffee when I read the headline: \u201cDemocrats raise specter of Trump dictatorship to boost Biden.\u201d What a textbook example of \u201cprojection,\u201d I laughed, referring to the psychology term for deflecting attention away from one\u2019s own blatant behavior by claiming someone else is doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partisan media and politicos parroted the accusation, and the Biden campaign doubled down<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interest of fairness and accuracy, it\u2019s appropriate then to revisit ways the Biden Administration, Democrats, and their allies have battled wannabe dictators and defended freedom, democracy, and viewpoint diversity in recent years. (Or not.) For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Incessant Antifa rage, riots, rampaging, and legal warfare against \u201cRussia-colluding\u201d President Trump from his election and inauguration throughout and after his term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* School, park, and restaurant lockdowns, \u201csocial distancing\u201d and mask \u201cadvisories,\u201d mandates for \u201csafe and effective\u201d inoculations with vaccines approved with minimal study under \u201cemergency use authorizations,\u201d and endless misrepresentation and censorship by Biden officials, Democrat governors and \u201cjournalists\u201d \u2013 in the name of preventing Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Opening our southern border to untold millions of \u201cundocumented noncitizens\u201d \u2013 mostly Latin Americans but also Chinese agents, drug smugglers, sex traffickers, terrorists, and disease carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Billions in \u201cstudent debt forgiveness,\u201d forcing taxpayers to pay off huge loans to graduates who struggle to get six-figure jobs despite prestigious degrees in gender studies or community organizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Environment Social Governance (ESG) programs, from K-12, college to law school<\/a>, and into government and corporate arenas \u2013 to ensure that every component of society reflects racial, ethnic and gender proportionality, but never viewpoint or political diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These and many other authoritarian actions impacted American society, freedoms, health, and prosperity in countless negative ways. Far worse, many progressives and leftists hope they will pave the way for obeisance to even more dictatorial mandates promulgated in the name of saving our planet from supposed cataclysms inflicted by fossil-fuel-driven climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few will quibble that President Biden directed federal employees<\/a> to take public transportation, ride bikes or rent electric vehicles for work travel, and hold virtual meetings instead of in-person gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These rules certainly won\u2019t apply to private-jet globe-trotters like Climate Czar John Kerry, and EVs mostly transfer emissions from tailpipes to distant countries where toxic pollution and child labor<\/a> accompany the mining and processing of raw materials to make EV batteries. But at least some federal workers will now suffer the inconveniences they\u2019re imposing on us commoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Team Biden\u2019s endless torrent of executive orders, regulatory mandates, and twisted legal reinterpretations for electricity generation, vehicles, appliances, agriculture, housing, and other matters are already impacting our industries, livelihoods, living standards, and basic rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These diktats are designed to force us to convert everything we now operate with coal, gasoline, diesel, or natural gas to electric models. The United States will soon need 3-4 times more electricity than today \u2013 and still more to power the AI revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the same bureaucrats are shutting down coal, gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric generators \u2013 ensuring that electricity will be in short supply, generated primarily by weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels, backed up by massive grid-scale battery systems, and thus unavailable or unaffordable during the coldest and hottest days, when electric heat or air conditioning becomes a matter of life or death<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, just the batteries to back up nationwide electricity would cost up to $290 <\/a>trillion<\/em><\/a> (13 times US 2021 GDP)! Add that to wind, solar, and transmission costs, and the juice to run your all-electric home, business, hospital, school, or transportation will likely cost 30-40 cents per kilowatt-hour instead of the 12-15 cents the average American is paying now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a prescription for repeated blackouts, economic disaster \u2013 and unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats micromanaging every aspect of our lives: what size home we can have; how warm or cool we can keep it; what cars we can drive and how far, or whether we too will be forced to walk, bike or take a bus; how many trips we can take in jetliners, in our lifetime<\/em>; what foods we can eat<\/a> (hint: not beef); maybe even how many new clothing items<\/a> we will be \u201callowed\u201d to purchase each year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, every House Republican voted to block President Biden\u2019s electric vehicle mandates. They were joined by just five Democrats. That means 197 Democrats say<\/a> Team Biden should be able to dictate what kind of car or truck you can drive. And Donald Trump<\/em> has dictatorial proclivities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US and global ecological impacts will be equally harmful and widespread. Here are just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind and solar installations, transmission lines, and enormous battery complexes would sprawl across millions of acres of now scenic wildlife habitat and agricultural land. A single solar facility proposed in Virginia would involve 3,000 acres of panels<\/a> on 21,000 acres (over half the land area of Washington, DC). It\u2019s just one of dozens of Virginia solar plans \u2013 on top of onshore and offshore wind turbine projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installations \u201cwill power millions of homes,\u201d supporters insist. Perhaps \u2013 but only when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining at optimal intensities \u2026 maybe 15-30% of the year in northern latitudes, considering winter snow and sunlight, clouds, nighttime, zero wind, and other factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many local residents and other citizens don\u2019t want these massive installations in their backyards, the habitat and scenic vista destruction, bird and bat killings, health problems<\/a>, and electricity costs and disruptions that go with them, or being turned into energy colonies for progressive urban centers. They\u2019ve already blocked more than 500<\/a> wind and solar projects on environmental and other grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why Michigan, California, New York, and Illinois have already enacted laws<\/a> that give state bureaucrats authority over land use \u2013 the ability to exercise eminent domain and other powers over local governments that want to slow or stop the onrush of enormous, heavily subsidized industrial wind, solar, transmission line, and other \u201cgreen\u201d projects. More are likely to follow \u2013 depriving rural communities of their rights, property values, and autonomy \u2013 to serve corporate interests that bankroll Democrat pols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal \u201cdeep state\u201d is likely to seek similar legislative authority \u2013 or simply assert<\/em> authority \u2013 to implement President Biden\u2019s national net-zero \u201crenewable\u201d energy transformation agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN and Biden \u201c30\u00d730\u201d plans<\/a> to \u201cconserve\u201d (make off-limits to development) 30% of US and global lands and waters by 2030 will massively increase all these impacts and usurpations of power. Any areas not made off-limits by 30\u00d730, wilderness, park, refuge, and other actions will be developed and desecrated to the hilt by wind, solar, transmission line, mining, biofuel, and other \u201cgreen energy\u201d projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, international climate alarmists and bureaucrats are telling African and other impoverished nations how much they will be \u201cpermitted\u201d to develop and improve their health and living standards \u2013 using only \u201csustainable, renewable\u201d wind and solar power. It\u2019s dictatorial colonialism at its worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And amid all that, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other rapidly developing countries are burning more coal, oil, and gas \u2013 and emitting more greenhouse gases \u2013 than most developed nations combined. That means US and EU economic suicide on the climate altar won\u2019t make an iota of difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What might a Trump dictator do? Roll back or cancel these dictatorial decrees. Stop fast-tracking wind and solar projects. End abusive environmental justice, DEI, and ESG programs. Return America to energy independence and affordable energy. Build the wall and control immigration. Above all, follow the law and Constitution. How revolutionary, tyrannical \u2026 and refreshing \u2026 that would be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a0From COVID to climate<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0CFACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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