Fraud is Still a Crime, Including Green Fraud!

By Rich Kozlovich 

Daniel Greenfield published this piece entitled,  Environmentalists Killed Logging to Protect Owls. Now They Want to Kill the Owls, saying:

Thirty-five years after “save a logger, eat an owl” could be seen across the Pacific Northwest, the government environmentalists at US Fish and Wildlife want to kill half a million owls….......the Owl Wars that entered the 1990 presidential election seem implausible. But they cost tens of thousands of jobs, wiped out sizable amounts of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest........listing the spotted owls as an endangered species. The northern spotted owls (which to non-owl fanciers look like most other owls except smaller) were listed as endangered by that noted scientist, Judge William L. Dwyer, who apart from destroying logging also helped create the Seattle Mariners which placed two crimes against humanity on his checkered soul.

Okay, "noted scientist" was for those who didn't get it, was a bit of snarc, and rightly so.  But being wrong is legendary for the environmental movement, right along with lying, and corruptly using the Endangered Species Act as a bludgeon for their fallacious claims.  

This insanity didn't only kill jobs, it killed forests, and people.  In October of 2022 Kevin Nelson, posted this article, Two Words Explain California’s Wildfire Woes: Spotted Owl, saying:

Some things in life are hard to understand and explain. The theory of relativity, for example, or the origins of black holes. Other things are easy to grasp, however,  Such as: California’s wildfire woes. In the past five years summer and fall firestorms have killed dozens of people, wiped out homes, businesses and entire communities, torched millions of acres of forestlands, caused billions in property losses, and swept away untold numbers of animals and wildlife.

The cause of all this wreckage is easy to pinpoint. It’s simple as two words: spotted owl.........The fight was over protecting the owl’s habitat. After lawsuits, protests and even violence, the environmentalists won............. delivered a death blow to an entire way of life. Sawmills shut down, loggers lost their jobs, and those little backwoods lumber towns went from boom to 1930s Depression-era bust.............

At the risk of over-simplification, the prevailing forest management wisdom in the post-spotted owl era has been: Don’t touch those trees. Leave ‘em where they be, for people coming up from the city to enjoy on the weekends. And sue and regulate the hell out of anyone who dares try to make a profit by harvesting them

It wasn't logging that decimated the spotted owl population, it was the barred owl.  Repeal the Endangered Species Act and remove enforcement authority from the Fish and Wildlife Service, or even better, eliminate the Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Their claims about owls, frogs, polar bears, honey bees, and more, were outright lies, misrepresentation of the facts, or speculation without foundation.  A common thread in all environmentalist writings.  But who really got that ball rolling was  Rachel Carson's and her "science fiction" book Silent Spring ultimately causing the unscientific ban on DDT.

As an  exterminator for 40 years who wrote extensively defending my industry I had to do a great deal of reading delving into the twisted reasonings of the green movement and it wasn't long before I began to realize everything they say is a lie, speculation, logical fallacies, and projection, with just enough truth to give the impression what they're promoting is right and true, mostly based on emotion. 

From that point on no matter what they promoted I started out with the valid premise it was a lie, and then did the research to find what was a valid and what was not, then develop the intellectual response to show why it's a lie.  

I posted this article in March of this year, Junk Science Thirteen Years Ago, saying:  I have to point out this was 13 years ago and nothing has changed.  We know the scientific fraud perpetrated to promote global warming initiatives, we know alternative energy is a bust, we know the EPA is corrupt to it's core, we know sustainability is a code word for the imposition of big government tyranny, and we knew it 13 years ago. 

So why are we still listening to these misfits promoting it.  Nitwits like John Kerry who thinks the world would like Russia better if they were more concerned about emissions.  How delusional is this man?  However, we know two things for sure from that.  Kerry is a blithering idiot, and we dodged a gigantic bullet when it wasn't elected President.  We can thank the Swift Boaters for that, not Karl Rove.  

No matter what the media and others regurgitate about ‘science,’ it’s always about money and control - People should know by now that they can’t trust so-called experts, and they certainly should not believe anyone who makes absurd claims in the name of “science.” ......

Whether it's endangered species, global warming, endocrine disruption, or any other green meme, it all ended up being lies, and many times promoted by scientists who abandoned truth in favor of grant money.  And the EPA has been party to this, and as my now passed friend Jay Lehr, one of the founders of EPA, the EPA needs to be dismantled.

The end of the Chevron Deference should help to end a lot of the tyranny of these agencies. but the question I keep coming back to is now that we know all their claims were lies, and government agencies, and the heads of these agencies had to know their claims were lies, how do we make it right?  

• When will someone finally realize all these environmental movements are blatantly promoting fraud.  The last I heard fraud is a crime?
• When will someone finally realize it's only these green organizations who are promoting fraud, but also those who fund them, and the agencies that enable them?
• When will someone finally realize this is all part of a massive international criminal enterprise, and decide an equally massive RICO investigation is needed?  
• When will someone finally realize someone needs to be sent to prison over all this?

As I watch the events unfolding all around the world I look at those who are in leadership roles, and I can't help but think of the words of one of my personal heroes, Col. John Boyd who said:   "One day you will come to a fork in the road. And you're going to have to make a decision about what direction you want to go."..... "To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?"

Definition leads to clarity, and it's clear the time as come to make the decision do properly define these people as the enemy of all mankind, with dark pursuits, and darker goals.  

Update:  Talk about fraud!  The Ninth Circuit shoots down COVID vaccine.  The COVID shot was put on trial in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and coming from California the result might surprise you.  Three of four judges agree it was never a “traditional vaccine” and therefore could not legally be mandated. ....

I really like seeing this as so many of us were saying this from very early on and criticized .... seriously criticized, including by scientists who until then worked together to expose junk science.  Now I really do want someone to go to jail as untold numbers are people are dying from these false vaccines that were in reality gene manipulating chemical compounds. 

Environmentalists Killed Logging to Protect Owls. Now They Want to Kill the Owls.

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Thirty-five years after “save a logger, eat an owl” could be seen across the Pacific Northwest, the government environmentalists at US Fish and Wildlife want to kill half a million owls…to save the owls.

In a world of transgender surgeries, terrorist cryptocurrencies, and senile presidents, the Owl Wars that entered the 1990 presidential election seem implausible. But they cost tens of thousands of jobs, wiped out sizable amounts of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest, and helped solidify Oregon and Washington as hipster strongholds no Republican could win.

It all started with listing the spotted owls as an endangered species. The northern spotted owls (which to non-owl fanciers look like most other owls except smaller) were listed as endangered by that noted scientist, Judge William L. Dwyer, who apart from destroying logging also helped create the Seattle Mariners which placed two crimes against humanity on his checkered soul.

But Dwyer was doing the bidding of the anti-industrial Sierra Club and decided to block timber sales in national forests to save the owls.

“The timber industry no longer drives the Pacific Northwest’s economy,” Judge Dwyer, whose own job as a government appointee was protected by the mandatory confiscation used to pay his ill-gotten salary, wrote. “Job losses in the wood-products industry will continue regardless of whether the northern spotted owl is protected.”

Over 1,500 loggers and family members staged a protest around Hood River, of the kind that has since become familiar in Europe, against the shutdown of their industry.

President George H.W. Bush in his usual squishy manner tried to split the difference. “All across the country, we have a spotted owl problem. And yes, we want to see that little furry, feathery guy protected and all of that. But I don’t want to see 40,000 loggers thrown out of work.”

Bill Clinton, who did want to see 40,000 loggers thrown out of work, won and held an owl summit in Portland on April Fool’s Day featuring Al Gore and a protest rally led by Neil Young. The result of the summit was that the millionaire hipsters and environmentalists who had funded the Clintons won and the loggers who were just trying to feed their families came out the losers.

Clinton cut 80% of logging. Timber prices rose 70% in the first years of the Clinton administration. Housing construction costs rose with it further hurting the middle class. Seattle and Portland became safe spaces for fans of Neil Young and bad music. Republicans, conservatives, and the working class were squeezed out to make way for the owls.

But a funny thing happened on the way to owl nirvana, the owls kept dying.

Logging on federal lands fell by 90% but spotted owl populations also fell by as much as 80%. The number of “furry, feathery guys” today is down 75% since Bill Clinton, Judge Dwyer, and the Sierra Club wiped out loggers to protect them. And owl numbers are falling 2.9% every year.

Environmentalists railed that the Trump administration’s expansion of forest areas where loggers could work was “heartbreaking”, “callous” and “offensive” to an “endangered species”.

But the real threat to the spotted owls wasn’t the loggers, but other owls. Environmentalists had known and lied about the fact that barred owls were expanding their territory and driving out the spotted owls. But the spotted owls provided a convenient excuse for a government power grab.

And now if the spotted owls disappear so does the excuse for government abuses of power.

That’s why US Fish and Wildlife has discussed killing the owls to save the owls. The proposal would use “trained shooters” to kill 470,000 barred owls. (And if enough of the barred owls are killed by the government, maybe they can be listed as an endangered species and protected.)

The Endangered Species Act was supposed to be used to protect species threatened by human behavior, but now the environmentalists are protecting owls from other owls by killing the owls. The same government environmentalists who bemoan the hunters who wiped out the passenger pigeon are now proposing to do the same thing to take sides in the owl wars.

But which owls live or die is not up to us. Nature has its own free market economy. And no amount of shooting barred owls will save the spotted owls. The trouble is that the spotted owls are interbreeding with barred owls. And unless the environmentalists can convince spotted owls to avoid owl miscegenation, the outcome will be some sort of mixed spotted barred owl.

The Biden administration has proposed killing the mixed spotted barred owl because owl miscegenation can only be solved with total owl genocide. The government has already decided which owls belong in Oregon and the Creator, nature, and biology don’t get a say in it. Why can’t nature listen to the “experts”, “scientists” and government instead of doing its own thing?

The Owl Wars have been going on for over three decades now. Since Neil Young and Kenny Loggins were warbling about owls in Portland, the pro-logger Bush administration was replaced by the pro-owl Clinton administration, and then by the pro-logger Bush administration, then the pro-owl Obama administration, the pro-logger Trump administration, and now the pro-owl and anti-owl Biden administration which will save the owls and kill the owls at the same time.

The number of loggers and owls has been declining so the only winners are the government and the barred owls which paid no attention to the judges, presidentists, and environmentalists.

After claiming to love the animals, environmentalists are turning to violence to fight nature. But violence has always been at the root of environmental and other forms of leftist activism.

The Biden administration appointed Tracy Stone-Manning, a former spokeswoman for the eco-terrorist group EarthFirst, to head the Bureau of Land Management. Manning had sent a threatening letter in 1989 warning that the eco-terrorist group had rigged trees with traps. “You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt.”

Tree spikes planted by EarthFirst had wounded a number of loggers and mill workers.

But Tracy and the other government ecoterrorists may find that it’s easier to stop loggers than it is to stop the course of nature no matter how many people or animals they try to kill.

It is difficult to say which is the more invasive species: the barred owls or the government. The coming showdown between the barred owls and the “trained shooters” of US Fish and Wildlife will also determine who decides the fate of the owl population: environmentalists or the owls.

G-d in His infinite wisdom made all the many varieties of owls, but only human beings could be stupid enough to create government, the Sierra Club, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In a contest between the works of G-d and the idiot works of man, the government has no chance.

After wiping out logging to save the owls, the government now wants to kill the owls.

My money is on the owls. 

 

(Daniel Greenfield will be appearing at the AFA's Literary Cafe on July 14th, Bastille Day, at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, to discuss the American and French revolutions and the origins of our struggle against the Left.)

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

If Green Prediction Was a Corporation, They'd Have a Monopoly on Being Wrong!

By Rich Kozlovich

What inspired this article was this piece, Portland Power Company Takes Control of Home Thermostats to Avoid Outages saying:

Some 200,000 people in the Portland, Oregon, area have handed control of their home thermostats over to an energy company.  What is there to say about a population willing to hand over control of its thermostats to an energy company instead of demanding its government provide enough energy to keep it comfortable?  These people are gerbils.......I’m sure that in their own deluded minds, they have convinced themselves they are noble and virtuous by making this sacrifice for the good of Mother Earth.......And who do these superstitious enviro-nuts believe…? A bunch of witches who have been wrong 54 times out of 54 times.

The linked article is a regularly continually updated piece saying: 

For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 [updated to 54] predictions wrong.m In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened. And not once — not even once! — have these alarmists had one of their predictions come true.

The author goes on to list all these failures, and it isn't just about global warming.  He goes on to say:

Sorry, Experts… Sorry, Scientific Consensus… Only a fool comes running for the 42nd cry of wolf.

Over the years I've written extensively on the scientific fraud known as anthropogenic global warming, and linked and published many more, but I've also published and linked much about the green/left prediction failures.  By the way, according to these nitwits here's a complete list of things they claim global warming causes.  But time and truth are on the same side, and now..........watch out, here it comes, ........ they're admitting they were....Oh Nooooooo....Say it Ain't So Joe.........They were wrong!  

‘They’ shrieked about ‘global warming’ — but now they admit we were ‘accidentally cooling’ .......When the earth didn’t warm up as much as they predicted, they changed the terminology from global warming to climate change. When hundreds of dire predictions never came true, and they had no scientific data to support their policies to destroy industries and our quality and way of life, they just made things up, just like they did with COVID.......

Well, I've posted a lot about their predictions, and, as noted physicist Niels Bohr is alleged to have said: "It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, especially about the future."  So, allow me to share a few selected posts on the monopoly the green/left has on wrong. 

They ignore the things that are known because they're inconvenient, and fail to support their false narratives.  As for the things they don't know, they make up.  For those scientists who know better and fail to take a stand remaining silent, they are in effect in support of these lies, and cannot escape their culpability.   

In the movie “A Man For All Seasons” Sir Thomas More was accused of being against the king's divorce and remarriage because he remained silent on this issue. He stated in the trial there was no evidence he was against the marriage.  

 

His accusers claimed everyone knows his silence demonstrated he was against the marriage.  He responded this was a court of law, and this wasn't an issue of what everyone knows, it was an issue of law, because in law “silence denotes agreement”.   So it does in the real world also.

1. California's a Mess, And It's Not My Fault, Part IV By Rich Kozlovich
2. WRONG AS USUAL! By Tom Harris
3. Thirty Years of Global Warming Prophecies, By Warren Beatty
4.  Environmentalists Almost Have a Monopoly on Being Wrong, By Rich Kozlovich 
5. 5 environmentalist ideas that have spectacularly backfired. By The green fraud
   
6.  18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Were Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day in 1970, Expect More This Year, By Mark J. Perry
7.  A Prince Who Was Potty, is Now a King Who is Potty, and Dangerously So! By Rich Kozlovich
8. Another Nail In the Global Warming Coffin, By John Hinderaker
9.  Is There a Penalty For Wrong Predictions?, By John Hinderaker
10.  Why are the predictions on climate change always so wrong? By Jack Hellner
11. On global warming, so many problems with the data, By Jack Hellner
12. Greenpeace Wrong — The Great Barrier Reef Is Thriving!, By Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
13. Charlie's a Loon, By Rich Kozlovich
14. Mitt Romney: Master troll, By John Green
15. How To Think Like A Liberal Supreme Court Justice By Francis Menton
16. Good news sucks for climate cultists, By Ron Ross
17. Biden Administration Has Issues With Science and Sanity, By Rich Kozlovich
18. Global Warming and How Some Things Never Change, By Rich Kozlovich 
19. It’s Earth Day. Again. Contain Your Excitement, By Steven Hayward
20. Prediction is Really Hard: Especially About The Future!, By Rich Kozlovich

Well, that's 20, and there are many more, but I think that will do for now.  You may wish to review my

Ross McKitrick exposed the global warming fallacies of the Hockey Stick Chart and the IPCC reports, so, let's end with this quote by him from many years ago saying:

I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.  

I think that pretty much says it all.

18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Were Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day in 1970, Expect More This Year

By Mark J. Perry April 21, 2022 

Editor's Note:  This appeared here. I've not asked for nor have I received permission to publish this in full, but given the state of things, I think this needs as broad a distribution possible.  If the author objects, I will break it down to a link.  RK

Tomorrow is Earth Day 2022 and marks the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, so it’s time for my annual CD post on the spectacularly wrong predictions that were made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now: The planet’s future has never looked better. Here’s why” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, and in the years following, there was a “torrent of apocalyptic predictions” and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article. Well, it’s now the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 21 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970? The answer: “The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong,” according to Bailey. Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the “green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:

1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years [by 1985 or 2000] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.

3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years [by 1980].”

5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”

6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”

7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

Note: The prediction of famine in South America is partly true, but only in Venezuela and only because of socialism, not for environmental reasons.

9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).

14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000 if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say,`I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”

Note: Global oil production last year at about 95M barrels per day (bpd) was double the global oil output of 48M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.

16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so [by 2005], it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”

18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an Ice Age.”

MP: Let’s keep those spectacularly wrong predictions from the first Earth Day 1970 in mind when we’re bombarded again this year with dire predictions of “gloom and doom” and “existential threats” due to climate change. And let’s think about the question posed by Ronald Bailey in 2000: What will Earth look like when Earth Day 60 rolls around in 2030?

Bailey predicts a much cleaner, and much richer future world, with less hunger and malnutrition, less poverty, longer life expectancy, and lower mineral and metal prices. But he makes one final prediction about Earth Day 2030: 

“There will be a disproportionately influential group of doomsters predicting that the future – and the present – never looked so bleak.”

In other words, the hype, hysteria, and spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions will continue, promoted by virtue-signaling “environmental grievance hustlers” like AOC, who said several years ago that we have “only 12 years left to stop the worst impacts of climate change.”

California's a Mess, And It's Not My Fault, Part IV

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, it turns out Ole Ben once again demonstrates that clarity leads to understanding, and California is now, and has been for many decades, the poster child for stupid.

Because California's population is so big, and has a huge economy, they've been able to dictate to the rest of the nation demanding the rest of the nation change to suit them or they won't allow their products to be sold in California, which I fail to understand how that's not a Constitutional restraint of trade action. 

As of a year ago it was claimed if California was a separate nation it's economy would be the fourth largest economy in the world.  

And, in a recent tweet, California’s First Partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom stated: “As the 4th largest economy in the world, California wields significant market influence.” Meanwhile, a state assembly committee fact sheet contained the following exaggeration: “Bloomberg reports that in the 2021 rankings, California would be the 4th largest economy in the world.”

Well, maybe, and then again maybe not, as the author of that piece went on to say:

For a state government so concerned with the spread of misinformation, it is reasonable to expect its leaders to get their facts straight. In this case, they did not.

Did California really surpass Germany?  No.  California still has a massive population, and a massive economy, neither are as big as Germany's, even as Germany's economy is stagnant.  In California but there are foundational issues changing that.  People, the productive people who pay taxes, create jobs and a stable society, are fleeing California. Their are massive cracks in California's economy such as huge tech industry layoffs, collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, all of which has created a huge drop in income tax revenue, and their debt is way out of control, and virtually everything they promote is proving to be a negative, especially their environmental schemes.  

Environmentalists, who have massive influence in everything that's being done and failing in California,  believe they have all the answers, but it's clear, they don't even have the right questions.  If flawed and wrong green predictions was a corporation, it would be a monopoly.  Virtually everything they predict and promote turns out disastrous.  

They insisted California has to destroy the "dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was..... necessary to save salmon – specifically, ‘to restore habitat for endangered fish.’  So, the "river is finally free to carve “its new shape” and man’s colonizing tyranny is over! Except, greenies don’t quite understand as much as they think they do........."The reservoirs drained swiftly, leaving behind vast expanses of fissured mud the color and consistency of chocolate cake batter. The Klamath River is winding through the naked landscape, finding its new shape.".......steelhead trout are dead, and salmon spawning beds destroyed & four hydroelectric dams have been breached.

With brilliant clarity Olivia Murray states: 

Greenies’ delusions of intelligence and enlightenment have some very serious real-world consequences. The Green cult is really just another death cult (see “The Left Demands Millions of Human Sacrifices to Appease the Gods of Climate Change” by William Sullivan today), and its approach to nature is infantile. Admiring the beauty of nature and advocating for its conservation are noble attitudes, but it is only the greenies, with their romanticization of leftism, mixed with their supreme lack of awareness, who reap very serious and very detrimental environmental consequences for us all.

Environmentalists have always been against logging, demanding pristine forests, and finding all sort of ways to make that happen with that failed, seriously flawed, and corrupt piece of legislation known and the Remember when environmentalists destroyed the logging industry in the Northwest to save the spotted owl?  Do you also remember when it was discovered that spotted owl decimation was actually being caused by the barred owl?  

They were wrong again, imagine that.  And in their wrong headedness they wrongly destroyed an industry, along with the livelihoods of those people.  But it gets worse, all that untouched "pristineness" always ends up causing massive forest fires, something that's been known for many years, and now California is going to spend   $500 MILLION this year to thin its 33 million acres of forests to lessen the chance of wildfires.

It turns out Trump was right!  While they laughed at him in 2018, in 2020 alone their idiocy cost the lives of "31 people died and another 37 suffered non-fatal injuries due to 9,639 fires spread across the Golden State." Wrong again!

As usual, every left/green scheme/narrative fast becomes a California "job one" project, and the Anthropogenic Climate Change fraud isn't any different.   

On Mar 06, 2024 John Stossel published this piece,  The Renewable Scam discussing alternative energy saying:

Political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. notes, "It's quite intuitive for people to understand that there's a lot of power in solar energy. We feel the wind. The idea that you can get something for nothing, people find enormously appealing." Especially in California, where politicians now require all new homes to have solar panels, all new cars sold in 2035 to be zero-emission, and all the state's electricity to come from carbon-free resources by 2045. They're getting results, but not good ones: California's cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of America.......Taxpayers pay for rich people to have a highly subsidized solar system.

The fact is because of California's delusional demands they're now incapable of providing their own electrity.  They MUST buy it from other states.  Francis Menton shows the insanity of their thinking in his article, Can California Really Achieve 85% Carbon-Free Electricity By 2030?, saying:

So is any of this real? Or is it just so much posturing to show conformity with current fashions, all of which will be forgotten by the time the now-seemingly-distant deadlines approach? As to New York, I have had multiple posts (for example here and here) explaining how the supposedly mandatory goals are completely unrealistic as to both feasibility and cost, and how the people charged with achieving the goals have no idea what they are doing. ............ Over at Watts Up With That on May 12, Eric Worrall comments:

“California seems utterly determined to be the next pauper state. . . . [A]nyone with an ounce of engineering talent can see where California’s ruinous policies could lead, the human tragedy in the making, how close California and other green states are to losing all the security and comfort their parents and grandparents worked their butts off to provide.”

There's nothing environmentally or economically viable about alternative energy, it's a scam, and in point of fact, it's not only economically unfeasible, alternative energy is environmentally damaging.

 

 California’s Green Energy Dark Age

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Let's understand this isn't hidden or secret information.  These misfits are completely aware of the facts.  This is deliberate fraud by leftists and green activists.  Why? 

I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that! 

1.  Oh California! You Are a Mess! And It's Not My Fault 
2.  California is a Mess, And it's Not My Fault, Part II 
3.  California's A Mess, And It's Not My Fault, Part III 

We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin

WRONG AS USUAL!

2023 Continued the Lies of Climate Alarmists

By Tom Harris

Imagine if every time your doctor gave you advice or wrote you a prescription, it turned out to be dramatically wrong. Indeed so wrong that, had you followed his or her advice, and took the medication prescribed, you would now be sicker still or perhaps even dead. No one could fault you for trying to find another doctor.

And that is, in fact, the Achilles Heel of the climate scare: virtually everything climate activists and their friends in the media tell us about climatic conditions in the past, present and future is scientifically wrong—temperatures, sea level, polar bears, extreme weather, ocean pH, you name it, real world data shows that they are wildly off base on practically everything. In many cases, the trend is precisely the opposite of what climate alarmists tell us. Readers are encouraged to simply check real world data to see how wrong these prophets of doom actually are.

A good example is the NOAA extreme weather database which shows when state-wide records were set that still stand today. These records include record temperature (high and low), wind speed, snow fall, rain fall, hail stone size, and so on. As illustrated in the graph below, in 2023, only two records were set—a 5.25 inch diameter hailstone in Colorado in August and 11.28 inches of percipitation in 24 hours in Kentucky in July. In 2022, no records were set at all, in contrast to 27 in 1936. Clearly, neither the incidence, nor the severity of extreme weather is increasing.

Throughout 2023 the group I lead, the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), has published on our website entertaining, easy-to-understand monthly CLIMATE FACT CHECKS that reveal some of the many mistakes in the press about climate change. A group led by Steve Milloy, a widely recognized leader in the fight against junk science and the publisher of JunkScience.com, has been digging into the climate science facts that put the lie to the alarmism we see every day in mainstream media. Besides Mr. Milloy, who writes most of the fact checks, and ICSC, these brief but important documents are presented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and Truth in Energy and Climate.

To read the climate facts the media got wrong in the previous month, just visit the ICSC website at any time and click on the fact check banner at the top of the page. Right now, for example, you will see the following image which links to the January 2024 fact check: 

But now Milloy has gone one step further and, with input from our team, prepared WRONG AGAIN: 2023 EDITION – Hottest Lying Ever which starts as follows: 

Last month, Fox News reported on WRONG AGAIN as well as The Climate Narrative Is Changing against Net-Zero, Electric Vehicles, Offshore wind, and ESG, a joint open letter to Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives signed by myself on behalf of ICSC and the following allied groups:

• James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute
• Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, Energy & Environment Legal Institute
• Jason Isaac, CEO of American Energy Institute (AEI)
• Craig Rucker, President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
• Frank Lasee, President of Truth in Energy and Climate  

Here are the highlights of the open letter:

“At the forefront of the melting climate narrative [during 2023] was the public emergence of 2022 Nobel physics prize winner John Clauser who boldly declared: ‘There is no climate crisis.’ Clauser won his Nobel prize for proving Einstein wrong.”

“In addition to 2023’s climate science claims falling far short of reality and honesty, President Biden’s Green New Deal climate policy agenda is also in rapid meltdown and countdown to disaster:

“• Net zero. The US utility industry … concluded that no amount of wind turbines, solar panels, hydropower, nuclear power, battery power, electrification of fossil-fuel technologies or energy-efficiency technologies will get our economy to net zero by 2050. The Energy Information Administration came to same conclusion in 2023…

“• Electric vehicles. … EV’s are becoming a casebook study in the failure of government industrial policy. Taxpayers are subsidizing this disaster at the rate of $50,000 per EV over a 10-year period.

“• Offshore wind. … The 1973 ‘Save the Whales’ campaign has essentially been replaced by federally-permitted and taxpayer-subsidized “Kill the Whales” [by the construction and operation of wind turbines] profiteering for the benefit of mostly foreign and some domestic offshore wind companies.”

Here are excerpts from the first two entries in the WRONG AGAIN: 2023 EDITION – Hottest Lying Ever report to whet your appetite to read more:

“BOILING OCEANS? In January at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos Al Gore loudly raved: ‘We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gases] into [the atmosphere] every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. That’s what’s boiling the oceans…’”

“Wrong Again. The warmest ‘average ocean temperature estimate in 2023 was 21.1°C (~70° F) [see graph below], which occurred on August 24. And that estimate excluded much colder polar waters. Either way, that is way short of the boiling of water, 100°C (212°F) and within a mere 0.5°C (0.9°F) of the range of recent temperature estimates….”

“GLOBAL BOILING? United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said in July that: ‘The era of global warming is over; the era of global boiling has arrived.’

“Wrong Again. “Global temperature” is an imaginary concept [see my video explaining this] invented for global warming alarmism. It has no physical meaning. Yet estimates of it are made, nonetheless. At the time Guterres proclaimed “global boiling,” global temperature estimates ranged from about 57.5°F (14.2°C) to 62.5°F (16.9°C). Those estimates are clearly far away from the “boiling” temperature of 212°F (100°C). Even at Death Valley, California – reputed to be “the hottest place on Earth” – the highest temperature reached in 2023 was 128°F (53.3°C) on July 16. And that temperature was significantly below Death Valley’s all-time high of 134°F (56.7°C) reached on July 10, 1913.”

The Wrong Again report then goes on to refute alarmist statements about:

•  2023 as the “hottest year ever”
• The first week in July being the “hottest week in 120,000 years”
• Phoenix setting a heat wave record
• Humanity wiped out by 2023
• Climate change killing whales
• Maui wildfires caused by climate change
• Hurricane Hilary being “unprecedented”
• Record rain in New York City
• California’s 1,200-year drought, and
• Butterflies going extinct

Read the whole report and get a good laugh while learning the facts you need to thoroughly debunk the climate scare at your next city council meeting!

Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition. Please share this article and support the International Climate Science Coalition through its GiveSendGo crowdfunding webpage at GiveSendGo - THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY!: The Leader in Freedom Fundraising.