Climate Policies Are Hurting, Not Helping, the Environment

Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)
Independent Researcher and Publisher,
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

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[Editor’s Note: Roger offers up some good video and some good fun exposing the fact climate policies in New York and elsewhere are not helping the environment, but hurting it.]

A real short post.  I have been following the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (Climate Act) since it was first proposed, submitted comments on the Climate Act implementation plan, and have written over 300 articles about New York’s net-zero transition.  My boilerplate introductory material notes that I have devoted a lot of time to the Climate Act because I believe the ambitions for a zero-emissions economy embodied in the Climate Act outstrip available renewable technology such that the net-zero transition will do more harm than good.  The recommended videos in this post support my position.

The opinions expressed in this post do not reflect the position of any of my previous employers or any other company I have been associated with, these comments are mine alone.

Climate Policies Hurt the Environment

There is very little career upside for anyone in a regulatory agency to speak up about the environmental impacts of wind and solar development.  Consequently, there is not much apparent support for my belief that the Climate Act net-zero transition will do more harm than good.  This post links to the following video interview with John Baker, retired Assistant Chief with California Fish and Wildlife Department.

Baker describes double standards he experienced while enforcing California’s environmental laws:

“In the name of green energy, we’re sacrificing wildlife species. Because of the power mandates, we’re unable to enforce the take of that. I don’t think they have thought what that cost is to us as Californians and to the environment as a whole.”

Baker describes the pragmatic tradeoffs that have been ignored in the rush for net-zero transition.

Climate Fearmongering

Paul Homewood introduces a video with Neil Oliver:

Oliver notes that British weather maps on TV now use daily temperature maps with frightening colors.  He calls out the fearmongers by describing historical European heat waves and goes on to call attention to the hypocrisy of the loudest voices.  Finally he notes that the 99.7% of scientists meme is a “scam”.

Watts Up With That

You can view this video and more under the topic of Environmentalism on the ClimateTV page:

Climate Predictions

The Life is a Random Draw website notes that:

As they say in the investment business, past performance is no guarantee of future profits. Just because the climatistas consistently got it woefully wrong  in the past does not mean that this time around they aren’t right. They could be right this time. There may be a wolf for real this time.

But here’s the thing. They got it wrong in the past for a particular set of reasons. Those same reasons continue to apply in the present case too. Therefore, past performance guarantees the present performance to be precisely the same.

Here are climate predictions that turned out wrong.

For fun here is a video of mesocyclones that look like alien spacecraft from the same website.

Roger Caiazza blogs on New York energy and environmental issues at Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York.  This represents his opinion and not the opinion of any of his previous employers or any other company with which he has been associated.

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