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Another Climate Scam Exposed, But Will California Fall For It?

This article was posted at American Thinker:

This past weekend, a news article in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Mercury News warned, “As summer approaches and temperatures soar, one of the most dangerous places for Bay Area students might actually be the playground.”

The reporter wasn’t concerned about school kids being confronted by criminal elements while on their summer break. Instead, the column served as a promotional pitch for the climate change agenda. A national non-profit is seeking $1 billion from the California legislature to construct “green playgrounds” on school campuses. The remodeled play areas are described as being essential in the fight against climate change, while simultaneously improving student achievement in the classroom.  This appeal for government funding comes from the Trust for Public Land, even though California is broke. Governor Gavin Newsom has gone from boasting of a $97 billion budget surplus two years ago, to confessing that his state now has a deficit of some $45 billion.

However, the Trust is not dissuaded by the financial shortfall. They know the Democrats who run the Golden State are beholden to a cause that defies logic, fiscal or otherwise: climate change. The California legislature has over $40 billion to spend on climate initiatives in the coming budgetary year and they are always on the hunt to support their green comrades.

One of the Trust’s specialties is retrofitting school playgrounds. Their literature claims doing so helps bridge the “nationwide gap in academic achievement between white and black students.” They also contend their work reduces the effects of “heat islands” on inner city schools.

I investigate unfounded claims like these in my new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property. Besides planting flowers, trees, and often sod on the school grounds (all of which require costly and extensive ongoing maintenance), these play area transformations include pricy brightly colored rubber surfaces and artificial turf, which may not get quite as quite as hot as the asphalt and old thick dark rubber play surfaces but still significantly warms when exposed to direct sunlight. In addition, new playground structures are also constructed. Never mind that the slides, ramps, and steeples consist of dense plastic made from petrochemicals derived from fossil fuels.

Then there are the “heat islands” the Trust implies are somehow harmful to learning. It’s too bad these climate activists don’t care that a significant percentage of the earth’s temperature readings are recorded on comparable heat islands associated with airport tarmacs, firehouse parking lots, and other heat absorbing infrastructure. These anthropogenic microclimates produce wildly inflated temperature readings that are all thrown into the daily mix, causing Earth’s weather to appear hotter than ever.

You see, environmental non-profits like the Trust for Public Land really aren’t concerned about the climate. Instead, their first priority is taking care of their own, and very well I might add.  For example, the Trust’s 2023 annual financial statement reported total revenues of $294 million, while operating expenses (salaries, rent, insurance, etc.) totaled nearly $293 million. Meantime, they sit on a stock portfolio worth over $151 million. The Trust even provides a retirement plan available to employees who work more than 20-hours per week. Who knew that a degree in Social and Environmental Justice could pan out so well?

Second, these groups make sure construction work for their various projects is carried out by organized labor whenever possible; unions serve the climate agenda as key stakeholders to better secure government funding and thus redistribute wealth.

Third, these orgs appease individuals who have been drawn into the climate cult by providing a method to atone for their sinful carbon footprints with very green donations. Cash, real estate, and endowments are all eagerly accepted.

Are Climate Lockdowns Next?

This article was originally posted at American Thinker…

We all vividly recall the absurd COVID lockdowns. While they had no effect on the spread of illness, the imposed regulations certainly proved that a large segment of the population was easily compelled to come to heel and submit to the government’s outrageous demands.

Since the COVID scare worked so well for the left, could a climate lockdown be next?

Given the facts I provide in my new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property, such a scheme should come as no surprise, especially given that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats are priming the pump with talk of executive action to declare a “climate emergency.”

As I reveal in the book, the first individuals to contend the environment was in peril due to human behavior were direct disciples of Karl Marx. Their contempt for capitalism and private property motivated them to conjure up a fallacious argument: the earth’s ecosystem was being mutilated by the industrial revolution. In fact, Edwin Ray Lankester, a zoologist at University College, London and close friend of Marx, referred to humanity as “the insurgent sons of nature.” Even Vladimir Lenin—a radical environmental preservationist—wrote lengthy regulations placing Russia’s natural resources off limits to his subjects. Millions died of starvation and hypothermia as a result.

In more recent decades, the climate agenda has been crafted by the United Nations with the United States and many European nations rushing to comply. It was a 1987 UN document entitled, Our Common Future, that officially introduced CO2 as not only the cause of global warming but a threat to world peace and an agent of economic inequality. Since then, the elitists at the World Economic Forum have provided muscle for the United Nation’s plans. In fact, a man the WEF describes as an agenda contributor, Yuval Noah Harari, pompously declared, “You can stop all flights, you can lockdown entire countries,” to combat climate change.

Climate lockdowns have been discussed by Democrats for several years. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Climate Emergency Act of 2021, co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats. The bill would “require the President to declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and for other purposes.” Allowing President Biden to declare a climate emergency would provide the him with statutory powers that could be renewed should he gain a second term. The proposed Act reads like a communist takeover, demanding a “radically and socially just” plan to increase union membership, guarantee wages and benefits, promote social and environmental justice, expand the rainbow flag, and transition America to a carbon-free economy.

Last July, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters, “The president is going to do everything he can to take action. This climate emergency [decision] is not going to happen tomorrow but we still have it on the table.”

Eco-zealot Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), told Politico that he urged Biden to use emergency authority to enact radical climate change measures.  “In the absence of congressional action it is critically important he use all of his powers.”

And, of course, working in tandem with the Democrats on Capitol Hill, the UN has its own Climate Emergency webpage which states, “The science is clear. The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear.”

Yes, the science is clear. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a requirement for life on Earth, and more is better. As for global warming, the geological record indicates past periods have been significantly warmer than today.

Given that CO2 represents .04 percent of all atmospheric gases and of that amount only four percent are derived from fossil fuels, we should all be reminded that the tail doesn’t wag the dog.

The Plot Behind Biden’s “Climate Emergency”

When the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics, Dr. John Clauser, declares the left’s climate crisis, “pseudo-science,” a reasonable person should pause to consider his assertion. But there are no reasonable people in the Biden administration, particularly on the issue of climate. Instead, it is widely reported that the White House is considering exerting executive power to unilaterally declare a climate emergency.  Such a move is an obvious attempt to gain the youth vote—a group that has been aggressively indoctrinated on human-caused climate change since preschool.

However, talk of an atmospheric emergency provides a clue of what we could expect from a second Biden term.  His team is moving forward with a scheme originally concocted by the United Nations to punish American’s for enjoying the pursuit of happiness. In fact, it’s a plan Al Gore described back in 1993 as entailing a “wrenching transformation of society.”

The left calls this, climate justice.

First, a bit more on Dr. Clauser. He has become associated with Clintel, an organization boasting nearly 2,000 accomplished scientists and professionals; their website boldly boasts, “There is no climate emergency.”

Add to that, another group of qualified experts who have signed the Oregon Petition, which states,

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.

The Petition has over 31,000 signatories, including 9,029 with PhDs.

As for Biden’s faux emergency, as I reveal in Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property, in 1986, anti-America UN bureaucrats brought forth a cunning concept called, sustainable development. The goal of their scheme, as detailed in a treasured document known as Our Common Future, “…requires meeting the basic needs of all and extending to all the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations for a better life.”  The plan also includes revenge upon Americans whose lifestyles have been greatly lifted by way of industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. “Meeting essential needs requires not only a new era of economic growth for nations in which the majority are poor, but an assurance that those poor get their fair share….”  Drilling down further, the strategy states: “Sustainable global development requires that those who are more affluent adopt lifestyles within the planet’s ecological means—in their use of energy, for example.”

Climate justice contends American’s have lived at the top of the heap for far too long. Our lifestyle’s jugular is in their crosshairs: the energy grid and the untenable plan to achieve “net-zero.”

This is why Biden’s EPA has just demanded America’s remaining coal-fired power plants further reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 90-percent, or shutter operations. Coal is inexpensive and delivers 16-precent of America’s electricity. Technology has greatly minimalized otherwise harmful emissions from these 200 remaining coal plants, but the new mandates would likely force them all to close. Meantime, Biden is renewing efforts to suspend offshore drilling and US oil exports as his team plows full speed ahead to power the US with a grid void of fossil fuels.

The left’s green agenda will not just kill great American jobs in the oil and gas industry but will make our envisioned grid as reliable as the Third World’s, complete with rolling brownouts and blackouts, outrageous peak demand pricing, and the need for extra blankets and thick flannel pajamas on cold nights. No more two cars in the driveway either, you’ll never be able to afford charging them.

However, if you are a wealthy and well-connected apparatchik, you will still live quite well.

This is the transformation Gore telegraphed years ago, and this is what the Biden administration hopes to have four more years to accomplish.

ON THE AIR – Newsmax – Today

On the air with Chris Salcedo on Newsmax, today at 4:45 Eastern

Topics:

  • Joe Biden uses State of the Union to rip into his “Predecessor.”
  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green’s awesome MAGA outfit goes viral.
  • And… maybe a word on my new book, Climate Cult???

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My new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property hit the online shelves today!

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Climate Cult reveals how the climate change agenda has reached into virtually every corner of American life, reducing personal freedom, exacerbating inflation, usurping property rights, and redefining social justice, equity, and equality—to save liberty, it must be stopped.

“Of over thirty books I have read on this topic, Brian Sussman has the best understanding of what the climate movement is all about…Climate Cult is a must-read.” —Dr. Neil Frank, Former Director, National Hurricane Center

The climate change agenda has nothing to do with a pristine environment. Instead, it’s a devious scheme designed to upend America’s foundational rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Originally conceived by early disciples of Marx, this scheme relies on ecological crises—both real and imagined—to frighten the masses into cult-like submission as it seeks to create a brave new world. Advanced by the United Nations, promoted by the World Economic Forum, practiced at the federal and state level, embraced by the educational system, and sold by media mouthpieces, the climate change agenda has invaded nearly every aspect of society, threatening to dismantle American liberty and advance a total reset of the world’s economy. In Climate Cult, Brian Sussman presents impeccable research and persuasive facts that will embolden you to take a stand against this dangerous charade.