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A snapshot of the midweek headlines reveals a nation is need of an about face. Now, more than ever, we need to pray for this country. New leadership in DC is only a part of the problem. I will be talking about these news items this evening on KSFO- San Francisco (ksfo.com), 6pm Pacific.
All headlines are hyper-linked to the actual story.
Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies President Trump From Ballot – Breitbart
62% of Americans Live Paycheck to Paycheck – Breitbart
Chicago Mayor Blames Texas After Migrant Child Dies – Breitbart
Transgender LGBT Activist Charged with Horrifying Crimes Against Children – Western Journal
For quite a few years now, many environmental organizations have been telling their supporters to make donations so that trees can be planted to offset global warming and climate change caused by carbon dioxide emissions. The idea is, since plants require carbon dioxide and absorb it for the process of photosynthesis, planting trees would make for excellent places to naturally deposit excess carbon dioxide. In fact, there are for-profit “carbon exchanges” where members of the climate cult can atone for their personal dirty carbon footprints by purchasing offsets, which usually include planting trees in the name of the buyer. This quote from the CarbonFund’s website verifies my point: “Planting trees is an excellent way to offset the carbon emissions you have generated through your energy consumption.”
I navigated their website and found that for $4000 I could offset a years-worth of carbon dioxide pollution! If I were to pull the trigger on this purchase, they say they can use that money to plant 4000 trees in my name!
Hmm. Is the guilt-ridden carbon sinner getting scammed, or what?
But wait! Next, I headed over to the Climate Portal at MIT to see what the brainiacs at the Writer’s Team has to say about this. They present a dire warning: we’re past the tipping point and planting trees is just not enough. “Humanity’s emissions have tipped that natural cycle out of balance,” they report, “And the enormous complexity of this system makes it perhaps impossible to say for sure how many new trees would be required to bring it back into balance.”
Darn. Planting a tree seemed so easy. So now what does the climate transgressor do?
Well, according to a just published article at Science Daily, “There is another way of dealing with the climate crisis, which, unlike the forests, is neither natural nor green, at least not in the literal sense of the word. This artificial solution consists of erecting fields of dark-colored solar panels. Obviously, the production of electricity from solar power has a positive impact on climate balance, since it replaces power stations that use fossil fuels such as coal and gas, thereby reducing harmful emissions of greenhouse gases that accumulate at increasing concentrations in the atmosphere.”
Of course, there was nothing in the article about the carbon dioxide emitted from the heavy machinery required to mine the rare earth minerals required for the solar panels, not to mention emissions associated with transportation, construction, and installation of the panels. Really, this is just another opportunity for highly favored renewable energy investors to make loads of cash while claiming to be green.
I’ll reveal a lot more of these schemes in my upcoming book, Climate Cult: Exposing Their Agenda, Defeating Their Schemes, Saving Liberty.
For nearly seventy years—since the 1960’s—California has been the epicenter of a radical philosophy that holds capitalism, wealth, property rights, and conservatism as enemies of the people. This progressive ideology gave birth to the modern environmental movement, which the uncompromising green extremists have used as a sledgehammer to attack lifestyles that they conclude are harming the planet. Ultimately, the broadminded thinkers have concocted environmental laws and policies designed to ultimately control of the rest of us whom they declare to be “lesser-minded.”
To accomplish this, one of their key goals is to limit the flow of inexpensive energy available to the masses, thereby eventually forcing people to make lifestyle changes that are more congruent with their climate agenda, which demonizes fossil fuels and calls for the end of “Big Oil.” They want us to reduce our personal carbon footprint, downsize our homes, become dependent on mass transit, and herd us into cities where we can be better observed, better controlled, and better regulated.
The lie they have activated to move forward their plans involves a compound necessary for life: carbon dioxide (CO2). They contend CO2 is a pollutant stemming from the use of gas and oil products required to create energy. While it’s true that carbon dioxide is a heat-absorbing greenhouse gas that is emitted whenever fossil fuels are used, it is not accurate to claim such usage is causing global warming or climate change. In my upcoming book, Climate Cult, I discuss this in very easy to understand terms. Suffice it to say, without greenhouse gases where you live would likely see temperature swings of 100-degrees between night and day.
Actually, where you live would be unlivable.
Additionally, CO2 is a requisite for all plant life. In fact, the more CO2, the more plants are able to thrive. But these are facts that get in the way of the climate agenda.
In their quest bring forth what Al Gore has described as “a wrenching transformation of society,” for the past several decades lawmakers in California have been putting in place aggressive moves towards renewable electricity production—solar and wind—thereby eventually killing Big Oil. While doing so, they frequently tout the state’s nation-leading electric efficiency and its supposed reduction in CO2 emissions. But what they don’t tell you is that Californian’s are paying the highest prices for electricity in the contiguous United States and that the energy grid in the Golden State is hanging by a thread.
While there are a myriad of laws and policies that have made California’s retail consumer electric prices totally out of line with the rest of the country, I’ll boil it down to just a few.
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First, despite being a state with some of the country’s most abundant natural gas reserves, California has made the decision to eventually curtail the use of those resources. There are only three natural gas plants left operating in the state and the legislature has plans to shutter than all. However, there is a huge disconnect with reality that the environmental community doesn’t want you to know about. California has led the way in government subsidized solar and wind arrays; it’s the only way the bureaucrats have been able to get renewable generation—which is very costly by the kilowatt—to market. Problem is, solar only works on a sunny day well after sunrise and well before sunset. Wind turbines only create electricity when the wind is blowing just right, not too fast or too slow. When conditions are not perfect, the grid has to be powered by another source. The go-to is natural gas. Yes, there is nuclear and hydropower in California, but both combined make up less than 20-percent of total electricity output, and the environmentalists want to see those sources come to an end as well. In fact, perhaps in an effort to appear moderate and save face under his watch, Governor Newsome actually pushed to extend the usage of California’s last remaining nuclear plant for another five years.
California’s electricity production is very much dependent on natural gas, which now has to be imported from other states, and that’s very expensive, not to mention fiscally stupid. In fact, California is the nation’s biggest importer of electricity. In the past, this meant bringing in a lot of coal-fired power from Arizona and Utah. But a law passed in 2006 alongside the state’s more famous AB 32—the Global Warming Solutions Act—effectively banned reupping contracts from traditional out-of-state coal-powered generating companies.
As a result, something known as “electron laundering” has arisen to fill the gap. This occurs, for example, when California, in its hunt for green electrons to power their grid, pays British Columbian for hydropower. The Canadians are more than happy to sell hydropower as they backfill their own power needs with coal power from Washington State and Alberta. It’s a shell game. California gets higher-priced power that they can claim to be “green,” while the Canadians get American greenbacks to fund their socialized health care system. But it’s even more devious. To maintain the green mirage, California authorities created a category of imported power called “Unspecified Sources of Power” that provide about 10 percent of the state’s electrical needs. The “Unspecified Sources” are coal.
Meantime, all the legislators continue to make the phony claim that California is leading the way to a carbon-free, “net zero,” energy grid.
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Another big reason for the sky-high monthly utility bills has to do with the many rooftop solar arrays. Because the electricity generated by the panels is free to the user (with any excess fed back to the grid), the user doesn’t receive a bill each month that automatically includes additional fees for “fixed costs” which include maintenance, generation, transmission, and distribution as well as public programs like wildfire mitigation. When households adopt solar, they’re not paying their fair share, while they still rely on the state’s electric grid for much of their power consumption. This is another reason for the grid’s higher electricity prices in California.
Electric vehicles (EV) pose another problem. Despite the propaganda, these vehicles generally suck in electricity from the grid that is derived primarily from natural gas. Thanks to government subsidies and a massive PR campaign, as more drivers switch to an EV, and as the politicians in Sacramento continue their warpath against natural gas, the grid’s capacity will continue to be stretched, leading to higher prices, rolling black outs, and forced lifestyle adjustments. On hot summer days, California is already seeing electronic signs above the highways urging EV owners to charge their vehicles after the peak evening energy hours have concluded. And this is happening with only 3 percent of the vehicles on the road being electric–just wait until new gasoline powered vehicles are prevented from being sold in California in 2035—per the law.
But wait there’s more. While Bidenflation is taking a big bite out of the working family’s bank account, California is set to employ another electricity rate hike in 2024.
Dubai is an opulent city in the United Arab Emerates. The country was made wealthy from the sale and consumption of oil. Take that resource away from the Arab world and they would be pounding sand, so to speak.
So now, Dubai is host to the world’s elite, flying in on private planes, dining on luxurious spreads, sleeping and partying in air-conditioned suites, and telling us how to live a more frugal, carbon-free life. And so the United Nations latest Climate Change spoof begins.
High on the agenda? A plan to provoke us into becoming vegetarians. Why? Because the meat from animals, particularly cattle, is causing global warming. The chain of thought goes like this: when cattle fart they produce methane, a greenhouse gas. The more beef we eat, the more cattle required, the more methane released, and the more the atmosphere warms, creating climate change. So, the U.N. is calling on Western countries, especially the U.S., to drastically reduce meat consumption to save the world.
Never mind that the U.S. agriculture industry only accounts for 1.4 percent of greenhouse emissions and 10 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. Never mind that China produces more greenhouse gas and REAL pollutants than any other country in history.
The UN and other agencies have long called for ditching red meat and swapping to vegetarian or vegan diets to prevent climate change. I talk about this in my latest podcast.
Stop the press. First of all, we need greenhouse gases. Without them we have a climate more similar to that of the moon. The primary greenhouse gas is water vapor; the one the climate agenda hates is generally carbon dioxide, with only accounts for .04% of all the gas in the atmosphere. Of that, humans are responsible for a mere 4%! Carbon is the backbone of life, Carbon Dioxide is a required atmospheric compound necessary for life. Methane is a another tiny fraction of the global atmosphere, but an important one as well. And forget about cow farts as the big methane contributor, the biggest living emitter of methane are termites!
I eat a lot of veggies and I even like tofu when prepared properly. But I also like good, organic, grass fed and finished beef. My wife and I have freezer full of beef from a steer we raised and buthered last year. It’s fantastic.
Meantime, have you ever tried one of these fake burgers? The most poplar is the Impossible Burger? They call it an Impossible because it’s impossible anyone will ever confuse it for a real beef burger.