Guest Post by John Stossel
I hear that climate change will destroy much of the world.
“There will be irreversible damage to the planet!” warns a CNN anchor.
Joe Biden says he’ll spend $500 billion a year to fight what his website calls an “existential threat to life.”
Really?
I’m a consumer reporter. Over the years, alarmed scientists have passionately warned me about many things that they thought were about to kill Americans.
Asbestos in hair dryers, coffee, computer terminals, electric power lines, microwave ovens, cellphones (brain tumors!), electric blankets, computer terminals, herbicides, plastic residue, etc., are causing America’s cancer epidemic!”
If those things don’t get us, “West Nile Virus will!” Or SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola, flesh-eating bacteria or “killer bees.”
Experts told me millions would die on Jan. 1, 2000, because computers couldn’t handle the switch from 1999. Machines would fail; planes would crash.
The scientists were well-informed specialists in their fields. They were sincerely alarmed. The more knowledge you have about a threat, the more alarmed you get.
Yet, mass death didn’t happen. COVID-19 has been the only time in my 50 years of reporting that a scare proved true.
Maybe you accepted the phrase I used above: “America’s cancer epidemic.” But there is no cancer epidemic. Cancer rates are down. We simply live long enough to get diseases like cancer. But people think there’s a cancer epidemic.
The opposite is true. As we’ve been exposed to more plastics, pesticides, mysterious chemicals, food additives and new technologies, we live longer than ever!
That’s why I’m skeptical when I’m told: Climate change is a crisis!
Climate change is real. It’s a problem, but I doubt that it’s “an existential threat.”
Saying that makes alarmists mad.
When Marc Morano says it, activists try to prevent him from speaking.
“They do not want dissent,” says Morano, founder of ClimateDepot.com, a website that rebuts much of what climate activists teach in schools.
“It’s an indoctrination that’s so complete that by the time (kids) get to high school, they’re not even aware that there’s any scientific dissent.”
Morano’s new movie, “Climate Hustle 2,” presents that dissent. My new video this week features his movie.
Morano argues that politicians use fear of global warming in order to gain power.
“Climate Hustle 2” features Senator Chuck Schumer shouting: “If we would do more on climate change, we’d have fewer of these hurricanes and other types of storms! Everyone knows that!”
But everyone doesn’t know that. Many scientists refute it. Congress’ own hearings include testimony about how our warmer climate has not caused increases in the number of hurricanes or tornadoes. “Climate Hustle 2” includes many examples like that.
“Why should we believe you?” I ask Morano. “You’re getting money from the fossil fuel industry.” After all, Daily Kos calls him “Evil Personified” and says ExxonMobil funds him.
“Not at all,” he replies. “I’m paid by about 90% individual contributions from around the country. Why would ExxonMobil give me money (when) they want to appear green?”
Morano’s movie frustrates climate activists by pointing out how hypocritical some are.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio says he lives a “green lifestyle… (using) energy-efficient appliances. I drive a hybrid car.”
Then he flies to Europe to attend a party.
I like watching Morano point out celebrities’ hypocrisy, but think one claim in his movie goes too far.
“Stopping climate change is not about saving the planet,” says narrator Kevin Sorbo. “It’s about climate elites trying to convince us to accept a future where they call all the shots.”
I push back at Morano: “I think they are genuinely concerned, and they want to save us.”
“Their vision of saving us is putting them in charge,” he replies.
And if they’re in charge, he says, they will destroy capitalism.
John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”
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Follow the money. Scientists work for universities and government organizations so of course they’re going to be on board any agenda that will divert funds their way.
Same as engineers constantly telling us our infrastructure is collapsing. Big payday for them if they can convince us its true.
Follow this money…
Biden’s in chinas pocket. China does solar, rare earth mining for the super magnets and NOBODY will take them to task for destroying their environment and inevitably ours.
Climate change demands the Chinese solution is the battle cry.
(Whatever happened to LNG providing us energy independence? Oh yeah, the progs shut down the pipelines AFTER they rode the NatGas bubble till it popped).
the folks pushing the climate change, believe humans are a plague, and that everyone, except them, must stop using fossil fuel, and then pay to use this green energy, give up travelling, and animal protein and support a whole agenda that is designed to reduce your quality of life, so that they will not have to.
green energy is not feasible to support current population levels, and by the time you have figured this out, the elite will unleash another virus, designed to remove what remains of the middle class. all the shmucks who did vote for these con artist, will realize far too late, that they have destroyed what was left of the US.
This is what a Harris/biden communist administration will actively work towards.
We are in a GSM that will last 30 to 100 years; Conservatives understand Solar Cycles, the Maunder Minimum etc, and are preparing; whereas the Useful Idiots believe TPTSNB Global Warming lies and are committing suicide; don’t interfere with your enemy when he is committing suicide.
How does a dickweed hoist himself with his own petard…?
“COVID-19 has been the only time in my 50 years of reporting that a scare proved true.”
…while missing his own road sign:
“It’s an indoctrination that’s so complete that by the time (kids) get to high school, they’re not even aware that there’s any scientific dissent.”
Absoultely. Nobel prize stuff, your ‘exposures’. Climate Change be bogus and all. Thank you, but, there’s actually a whiff of ‘scientific dissent’ against the ‘real’ notion that face masks unable to filter road gravel or a fart launched 6 feet away are a barrier for viruses. Say it loud, be proud, John. Covid is less bogus than Climate Change. Hoist your undies on that flagpole and expose’ on your ignorance.
I assure you, Stosselnozzle, these six-foot fart scares are real and deserve your terrified, scientific regurgitations.
We’re holding our breath.
environmentalists are hypocritical, inconsistent, and anti civilization–
the link is to a newsletter called desertusa–every week they have articles about locations in america’s deserts–
last week they had an article about a place in the cali desert called eagle mountain–kaiser co had a huge open airmine there which they abandoned when it became unproductive–
the mine is very deep so a company bought it w/the intention of generating hydro electric power by forcing water from the top down to the turbines at the bottom of the pit–clean energy,right?
nope,lefties have it tied up in court–
https://www.desertusa.com/cities/ca/eagle-mountain.html
I remember something about two scientists’ emails that were hacked showed that they altered their research results to support their Global warming agenda. This was on wikileaks.