John Smyth
2025-01-11 16:53:35 UTC
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Permalink'United States Is Crippling Itself With Climate Change Regulations,
China Is Not'
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'Maintaining a strong military requires a strong economy. And a strong
economy requires reasonable regulations that make sense from both an
economic and scientific viewpoint.
Unfortunately, many policy makers have bought into an extreme regulatory
agenda driven by ideology that does not make sense scientifically or
economically, that is harming both our economy and our military.
This agenda was on display at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change
Conference, also known as COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November
11 to 22 of last year. The premise for the conference, and such
agreements as the Paris Accord, is that man-made climate change poises
an existential threat to human existence. Further it is claimed that
even now climate change is wreaking havoc around the world and that
regulations, mandates and new technology will slow down and even reverse
it.
Those pushing these beliefs also claim that it is the duty of more
developed countries to transfer 100’s of billions, even trillions of
dollars to developing countries so that they can continue developing
using so-called green technology vs. dirty old legacy technology.
Here in the United States, climate-change driven polities and mandates
are being rolled out on the premise/claim that that climate change is
even now disproportionately affecting the poor and disadvantaged. They
also claim that man-caused climate change is negatively impacting GDP.
In other words, if you don’t support draconian climate-change driven
policies and mandates you support a weaker economy and have a callous
disregard for how climate change is hurting those occupying the lower
socioeconomic strata.
These claims, believed by many in academia and the media establishment,
have taken on religious overtones, and consequently there is little
tolerance for opposing viewpoints in both academia and legacy media. Be
that as it may, many scientists, engineers, and other knowledgeable,
extremely bright people don’t believe the rhetoric and have provided
convincing arguments debunking what they believe to be pseudoscience.
One such group of distinguished academicians is the Climate Intel group
(Clintel). And one of the most distinguished members of this group is
Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser, who in August of 2023 signed the
Clintel Climate Declaration which declares that there is no climate
emergency. As of today, 1600 plus scientists and experts have signed the
declaration, with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Ivar Giaever being the first
signee.
The declaration states that climate science has become politized and is
lacking scientifically. It notes that climate change models are fully
dependent on what go into them including hypotheses, assumptions,
relationships, parameterizations, stability constraints, etc. And that
“to believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe [blind faith]
what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of
today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate
science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound
self-critical science.”
Suffice it to say, the repeated failures of these models leaves plenty
of room for doubt in the popular narrative on climate change. And given
that the regulations and mandates aren’t actually stopping or even
slowing climate change, we must question the wisdom of implementing
regulations and mandates that cripple our economy and our military, even
as China’ economy and military continue to expand unhindered by such
crippling mandates and regulations.
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Still, for the last 15 years plus, the United States has led the world
in reducing carbon emissions. The extent of this leadership can be found
in the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, which shows that over
the last 15 years, the U.S. has experienced the largest decline in
carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from energy, process emissions,
methane and flaring. Indeed, as compared to 2013, the U.S. has been able
to reduce carbon dioxide equivalents by 8.5 percent even as it has
massively grown it economy through aggressive drilling for and using
cleaner burning natural gas, including natural gas from fracking instead
of coal. During this same period, China’s CO2 equivalents went up by 20
percent to make China by far and away the biggest emitter of green-house
gases (GHGs).
China also leads the world in plastics pollution, and only India beats
China when it comes to the sulfur dioxide emissions (SO2) responsible
for acid rain.
Of note, when it comes to SO2 emissions the United States produces about
one-sixth that of China.
Hence, as of today if the climate change narrative is correct, it is
China that by far and away that is doing the most damage and it the
United States that has done the most to combat it.
Consequently, with the United States already leading the developed world
in reducing GHGs and with huge chunks of the world producing GHGs and
other pollutants largely unabated, it hardly makes sense for the United
States to voluntarily cripple its economy and military even as China and
other potential adversaries pay lip service to the climate change
narrative.'