{"id":367407,"date":"2025-02-24T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=367407"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:19:17","slug":"about-time-climate-green-energy-scams-take-well-deserved-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=367407","title":{"rendered":"About time climate, green energy scams take well-deserved heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Larry Bell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A costly Green New Scam premised upon conflicted special interests of climate pseudoscience science and rent seeking wind\/solar industries mutually invoke entirely unwarranted fear and fantasies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any claim of a consensus that \u201cscience is settled\u201d regarding the existence of a dire climate crisis caused by carbon dioxide is a deceptive, destructive, and costly fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u201cWorld Climate Declaration<\/a>\u201d made public by the non-profit scientific Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) endorsed in 2023 by 1,609 informed scientists and professionals \u2013 including two Nobel Laureates \u2014 asserts the opposite, that here is no such climate emergency consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of this, proposals driven by climate alarmism to rapidly transition America away from the more than 80% of energy provided by fossil fuels by sufficiently increasing intermittent wind and solar systems currently producing about 3% combined are additionally delusional, with solar producing less than 1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wall Street Journal\u2019s Barton Swaim observes<\/a> that over the past three decades, someone who pigheadedly didn\u2019t embrace the belief that \u201cscience was settled\u201d that life on earth faces imminent extinction from \u201cglobal warming\u201d and, later, \u201cclimate change,\u201d was labeled a crank, or worse a \u201cclimate denier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter characterization \u2014 an offensive epitaph sometimes hurled against me and many of my writings on the subject \u2014 presents an obvious correlation with ignorant disbelievers who\u2019ve denied horrific historical events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yes, climate changes, and has been doing so ever since our planet had an atmosphere. Besides, if it didn\u2019t, we wouldn\u2019t need a word for it other than just \u201cweather.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Swaim points out, \u201cThe possibility that an entire academic discipline, climate science, could have gone badly amiss by groupthink and self-flattery wasn\u2019t thought possible. In many quarters this orthodoxy still reigns unquestioned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, that circumstance appears to be changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As observed in this writer\u2019s previous Feb. 7 column<\/a>, President Donald Trump\u2019s landslide election offers heaping amounts of evidence, that a majority of Americans have lost patience and charity for woke government policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edicts premised upon unsupported alarmist climate claims and wildly unrealistic green capacity projections that choke energy-driven consumer commodity costs and lifestyles, business and employment opportunities, and national prosperity and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All one need do is look at California and New York as painful examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) recently released a report revealing that the Golden State\u2019s average monthly electricity rates for residential customers have nearly doubled since 2019, a trend negatively influenced by green energy policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAO attributes major contributing factors for these price hikes to \u201cambitious<\/a>\u201d greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets and taxpayer-funded energy programs, leading to the nation\u2019s second highest rates following Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The California Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires that by 2030, 60% of an electricity provider\u2019s portfolio must come from more costly \u201crenewable energy\u201d resources, and legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., in 2022, seeks to require that 85% of the state\u2019s GHGs are reduced to below 1990 levels by 2045.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making matters worse, Californians are also seeing increased energy costs resulting from programs that are using their tax dollars to build many thousands of charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs), which-in turn, increase electricity demand and shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As consequences, LAO found that, \u201cOn average, residential electricity rates in California are close to double those in the rest of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, New York is making great progress in competing with California and Hawaii to achieve distinction for the nation\u2019s highest electricity costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In attempting to meet a state-wide mandate that 70% of power generation come from renewables (including hydropower from Quebec) by 2030, investor-owned Con Edison, which serves New York City and its suburbs, proposes to hike utility bills by 11.4% on average and 13.3% for gas service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will raise average residential electricity bills to about $500 monthly, $154 more than five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that vital hydropower from Quebec?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another transmission line under construction to provide more is costing a whopping $6 billion, four times more than Con Edison\u2019s proposed electricity rate increase this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, in November the New York Independent System Operator warned of potential power shortages next year if the line isn\u2019t operational by May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, last spring state regulators cancelled three offshore wind contracts owing to rising interest rates and inflation along with a planned 175-mile-long transmission line to power New York City from gigantic upstate wind and solar farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It hasn\u2019t helped that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated a premature shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear plant that generated about a quarter of New York City\u2019s power plus banned shale fracking and vetoed gas pipelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These actions will continue to drive up electricity costs since Con Edison says they need more money for infrastructure upgrades to strengthen their power grid as more intermittent renewables come online, particularly at a time of increased electricity demands related to New York\u2019s climate regulations banning gas hookups for new buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There should be no wonder why deep blue New York and California, along with Illinois, led the nation in 2023 population losses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, those who are least able to afford these unnecessary financial burdens caused by woefully misguided climate-alarm energy policies are typically the same lowest income ones, including many elderly, who can\u2019t afford relocation expenses . . . the very same populations that virtue-signaling liberals hypocritically purport to care most about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at Newsmax<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A costly Green New Scam premised upon conflicted special interests of climate pseudoscience science and rent seeking wind\/solar industries mutually invoke entirely unwarranted fear and fantasies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":367410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819134,691818056,691833504,691833506,691818118,691825193],"class_list":["post-367407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-alarmism","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-pseudoscience","tag-global-climate-intelligence-group-clintel","tag-green-energy","tag-greenhouse-gas-ghg","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Effects_page_triptych.jpeg?fit=2963%2C1459&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1xzV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":388971,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388971","url_meta":{"origin":367407,"position":0},"title":"The end of the green panic","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/15\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The politicians have used the pseudoscience and malinformation campaigns to sell their \u201cgreen energy\u201d schemes on the promises of affordability and job creation. When carbon-based energy like gasoline or natural gas outcompete wind or solar in the marketplace, they fall back on the old excuse that Big Oil gets too\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)\"","block_context":{"text":"Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=anthropogenic-global-warming-agw"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Green-activists.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Green-activists.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Green-activists.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Green-activists.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Green-activists.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":370881,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=370881","url_meta":{"origin":367407,"position":1},"title":"EPA seeks to end climate cult war","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/19\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Decades of sham climate-premised green scams promoting mandates and subsidies for costly, anemic wind and solar fantasies at the expense of abundant fossil energy we can afford and depend on appear finally to be over.","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0Zelding-epa-deregulation-announcement-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0Zelding-epa-deregulation-announcement-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0Zelding-epa-deregulation-announcement-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0Zelding-epa-deregulation-announcement-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0Zelding-epa-deregulation-announcement-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":330181,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330181","url_meta":{"origin":367407,"position":2},"title":"Claim: Trump\u2019s Anti-Science Climate Denial Threatens the Foundations of Prosperity","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/27\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a review of a book by Kings College Professor Daniel Susskind, President Trump is the harbinger of a new age of superstition and prejudice, which threatens to derail science driven economic growth.","rel":"","context":"In \"climate alarmism\"","block_context":{"text":"climate alarmism","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-alarmism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0-certainty.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0-certainty.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0-certainty.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0-certainty.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0-certainty.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":370256,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=370256","url_meta":{"origin":367407,"position":3},"title":"From Paris to Permian, Trump Restoring Rational Energy Policy","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/16\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"For too long, the conversation around energy policy in the United States has been dominated by a toxic brew of partisan rancor, media sensationalism, and international grandstanding. The far-left media are now driving a narrative that President Trump\u2019s positions are an assault on reason itself. But the opposite is the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Energy Costs\"","block_context":{"text":"Energy Costs","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=energy-costs"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0240705-project-2025-trump-tease_w79o32.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0240705-project-2025-trump-tease_w79o32.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0240705-project-2025-trump-tease_w79o32.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0240705-project-2025-trump-tease_w79o32.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0240705-project-2025-trump-tease_w79o32.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":361866,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361866","url_meta":{"origin":367407,"position":4},"title":"World Institutions Pushing\u00a0Pseudoscience","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/13\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A spate of stories in the media recently provides a remarkable illustration of how the\u00a0globalist policy agenda of the climate-industrial complex has captured key international institutions\u00a0and\u00a0perverted\u00a0their original\u00a0organizational aims. From initially serving broad, laudable objectives for the welfare of their constituents, these institutions have been subverted over the years\u00a0to serve the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/020211004_shutterstock_1327041497.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/020211004_shutterstock_1327041497.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/020211004_shutterstock_1327041497.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/020211004_shutterstock_1327041497.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/020211004_shutterstock_1327041497.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":288270,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288270","url_meta":{"origin":367407,"position":5},"title":"Biden smeared climate skeptic Nobel laureate at White House Oval Office meeting for practicing \u2018right-wing science\u2019 \u2013 Video","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/20\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Nobel laureate Dr. John Clauser revealed his 2022 meeting with Biden at the Deposit of Faith conference in Baltimore on November 14, 2023.Watch Video here:\u00a02022 Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. John Clauser was invited to a one-on-one meeting with President Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in 2022\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"CO2\"","block_context":{"text":"CO2","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=co2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/F-6XyH0W0AAt7bg.jpg?fit=1200%2C941&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/F-6XyH0W0AAt7bg.jpg?fit=1200%2C941&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/F-6XyH0W0AAt7bg.jpg?fit=1200%2C941&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/F-6XyH0W0AAt7bg.jpg?fit=1200%2C941&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/F-6XyH0W0AAt7bg.jpg?fit=1200%2C941&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367412,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367407\/revisions\/367412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/367410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}