For most of my adult life, the climate change people have been trying to scare everyone to death. It’s a bit ironic because they were telling us that we were going to die sooner rather than later, so I suppose scaring everyone was a quick way to put an end to everything. At one point, it got so bad that climate change activists were asking us to go ahead and just die to save the planet. Most of us were of the opinion, “You go first.”
We are at a significant end because Bill Gates of the I-want-to-vaccinate-you-as-many-times-as-possible crowd recently conceded that the world will NOT end with climate change after all. Most banks have gone back to banking, and most oil companies are—hallelujah—back to drilling for oil. Meanwhile, Ford has announced that it will cease to make its electric pickups that didn’t really work, and no one wanted to buy, even with thousands in subsidies. A recent article in The Spectator announced that Australia has dropped its hosting of next year’s climate change conference. Of course, there are still some protests. The climate activists are in full force at the Olympic Games. A few days ago, climate activists protested that the winter games polluted the environment by, well, polluting the environment with gunpowder from their fireworks. Go, as they say, figure. Even so, we are at an end to this climate drama.
Take a moment to allow all this to sink in. This is a bipartisan elimination—Democrats and Republicans—of the climate change shell (not oil) game. At one point, we were warned that there would be an extinction of some six billion people this century. Climate change was responsible for harsh winters. Then it was responsible for warm winters. It was responsible for droughts, floods, hurricanes, and the lack of both clear skies and cloudy ones. In short, if you were paying attention, climate change was as changeable as the …weather. Funny, that.
During these awful years, if you dared to say that the climate did change but according to cycles, you were branded as a denier, and you were no longer worth saving. The few people who came forward, Bjørn Lomborg comes to mind, were treated with the utmost contempt. Even though Lomborg believes in climate change and that we humans contribute to it, he points out significant differences that branded him as a climate bête noire. Climate change became the new Henry Ford of how to view things. Ford said that any customer could have any color car so long as it was black. Climate change activists said that you could believe what you wanted to about climate change, so long as it was apocalyptic and devastating.
One of the few people to make money off this scam—and make no mistake, it was a scam–was the once irrepressible Al Gore. If you are also as old as Comus, you know that Al came on the scene via his wife, Tipper, who went after rappers and the vulgar songs about raping women and beating them up. The ploy—it never went very far beyond putting designations on CDs which only serve to identify for young people the most vulgar CDs to buy—didn’t last that long. A few Hollywood dismissals and the Gores were nowhere to be found on the vulgarity and profanity front.
After Gore lost to Bush in an epic, hanging chads defeat, it appeared that the ever-rotund Gore would vanish into that political hell called oblivion. But no. He had an inconvenient truth to share, and that truth was that the world was coming to an end, and all of us, especially white people driving cars, were largely responsible. It did not matter that Mr. Gore’s environmental footprint was as gargantuan as he became himself. While he rode around in monstrous SUVs and flew in private planes, he landed only to shake his middle fingers at CEOs of large companies and shame them into submission. Gore’s climate cha-ching effort netted him hundreds of millions and a Nobel Prize to boot. He turned out to be as wrong about the weather as your local weather person. He, like they, still kept his job.
In the film version of his book, he proclaimed that the sea levels, in the near future, would rise 20 feet. Like your local weather person who predicts 14 inches of snow and you get 60-degree weather and no precipitation, Gore was off by nearly 20 feet. Twelve years ago, the Arctic Ocean was also to disappear, but according to oceanographers, it’s still there.
What disappoints more than anything else is that real scientists knew all of this was balderdash. But it meant big grants and floods—pun intended—of shame money from corporations who fell for it. Greta Thunberg jumped on Gore’s broken-down bandwagon. Just before COVID-19 (another scam), she warned that the world would end before the decade was up unless we stopped fossil fuels completely. I don’t know about you, but it appears we are still here. If all the indications are correct, the snarky Thunberg, who quit smiling in 2003, has moved from climate change to hating Israel and white people.
Gates, who has been pilloried for his outrageous departure from the climate change faith, now argues that more people are dying, not from climate change, but from pollution from fires they cook on, from the lack of fuels to keep them warm, arable lands. Securing clean, cheap energy—namely fossil fuels—is the real reason Third World people are dying, not floods and hurricanes and mean old oil.
Yes, the climate does change, every week if not every day. Complaining about climate change in the midst of people dying because they cannot stay warm or get about from one place to another was like fiddling while Rome burned. Climate change made Greta Thunberg a household name, left millions in poverty, scared the bejesus out of millions of schoolchildren, and made science untrustworthy.
We needed a change of climate, all right. We need to put this lie to death. Thankfully, climate change drama is dead at last, killed by its own excesses.
