With March 20 and the beginning of spring bearing down on us, I thought I had better get the Winter 2022 Newsletter out. How is it almost spring already? Where does the time go? It seems like Christmas was only weeks ago and now January and February are gone.
It’s been cold here in North Texas this winter, but at least we don’t typically get much of the kind of snow and ice that other parts of the country must deal with. Frankly, I’m not a winter person and am always glad to see the warmer temperatures arriving. And, it’s starting to look a little like spring. But the weather is always questionable here this time of year. After two very warm days at the end of last week, it’s cold and rainy out today as I write this.
Speaking of the weather, have you ever noticed how you hear nothing from the climate change alarmists in winter? They typically give it a rest when the weather is cold because that doesn’t support their global warming narrative. Then when the normal spring storm season starts and temperatures warm up they start up again with the hand wringing and doomsday predictions. I’m not a climate change denier and I do care about the environment. I just don’t accept the manufactured climate change “crisis” that elitists and activists like Al Gore push so that he and others can enrich themselves. The Earth’s climate has changed dramatically countless times throughout its estimated 4.5 billion years long history. And the climate continues to change. Climate change alarmists have been making apocalyptic climate change predictions for years. Here’s a small sample.
In 1989, the Associated Press relayed a warning from a U.N. official:
“A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
No nations have been “wiped off the face of the Earth” as of 2022.
Global cooling was once a worry to many. Top climate specialists and environmental activists predicted that “global cooling trends” observed between WWII and 1970 would result in a world “eleven degrees colder in the year 2000 – about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” Bitter winters and floods from “delayed typhoons” would trigger massive drops in food production, followed by widespread famine.
Yep, never happened.
I could offer hundreds of other dire climate change predictions from the past going back to the 1940s, but you get the point. In each case, claims of impending environmental disaster from climate change, backed by allegedly irrefutable scientific data never happened. Yet policymakers were encouraged to act before it was “too late.” Here is the truth. Environmental and climate change activists have an agenda. They want more government control of every facet of life, and generating widespread panic about the environment is a way to get more government control. Just look what’s happening in our country today. More government means less freedom and higher prices for everything we buy and need to sustain life. No matter where you stand on the environment and climate change you need to understand that the technology needed for a responsible transition from fossil fuels to greener forms of energy is at least 30-50 years away from development. Yet Biden and his administration of ideologues are pressing forward with that irrational agenda right now. God help us. While these clowns hold power, inflation is here to stay so we will all enjoy watching our retirement savings lose value and we will be paying more for basic necessities like gasoline, food, clothing, and utilities. Think about that when the November 2022 elections roll around. It’s time to radically change the make up of the U. S. Congress. Big governments become fascist governments. It’s inevitable.
Forgive me for the rant, and I’ll step off my soap box now and carry on.