The Push for ‘Net Zero Emissions’ is Climate Hoax Fiction, Not Energy Reality

Last August, Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published a prescient report entitled “The ‘Energy Transition’ Delusion: A Reality Reset.” The report demonstrates convincingly that the transition to Net Zero Emissions (NZE), if politically imposed, will mean a dramatically reduced standard of living for the world’s advanced industrial societies. It’s an excellent essay, but it misses the mark because Mills misses the real point of the leftist push for a “green energy” revolution: For leftists, NZE is not about the climate. Instead, NZE is simply a vehicle to achieve a purely political goal.

While eminently reasonable and admirable, the Manhattan Institute’s push for “energy and climate” reality to dominate governmental policy debates will fail because global warming and climate change hysteria derive from neo-Marxist anti-capitalist ideology. “Imaging a world without hydrocarbons” is predominately a utopian dream, fit only for a John Lennon lyric. Climate scientists, who exchange emails admitting their “hockey stick” arguments require rigged data, know that CO2 is not the turning knob of Earth’s temperature.

Do we want to return the world to a preindustrial level of CO2? Daniel H. Rothman, a professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, published an important paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 His research established that over most of the geologic record of the past 500 million years, Earth’s CO2 concentration fluctuated between values two to four times greater than those of today. However, over the past 175 million years, the data show a long-term decline in the air’s CO2 content.

I agree 100% with the long glacial periods and ice ages.

But since mankind has walked the earth only about 150K years, I try to make our conservative arguments within that timeframe. And we have a decent amount of recorded history from the past few thousand years of what life was like within the micro warm and cool periods.

There's also the issue of many different people groups committing most atrocities in history during the cooling periods. For example, it was in the Little Ice Age that 300-400K black were brought as slaves to the United States, 1 to 1.2 million whites were taken as slaves to the North African states, 5 to 5.5 million blacks were brought as slaves to the Spanish speaking nations in America, and 10-12 million blacks were taken as slaves to Asia. (Yeah, I listed those numbers in part to show how the one part of slavery most talked about is the smallest one by number. LOL). Also, the 60K or so indigenous Americans forced out in the Trail of Tears happened at about the coldest point of the Little Ice Age. Likewise, it was in the Dark Age cooling period that my Anglo ancestors, numbering anywhere from 5K to 20K, were pushed out in their own Trail of Tears from modern Germany into modern Denmark. Just like other Germanic tribes (the goth tribes) were pushed out of their homeland by the Huns in the Dark Age cooling period (which is what forced the Anglos and Saxons out of Germany).

I'm not justifying the many people groups who committed all those atrocities. But I am saying the leaders of those groups deserve a little slack for living in desperate times which often resulted in horrible measures against others. Low crop yields with the Huns was probably a major reason they migrated south and west (forcing the Gothic Germanic tribes from their homeland). During the Little Ice Age we know that Africa experienced mega-droughts lasting decades and devastating crop yields. This was probably a major factor in the spike of black tribes taking over crop land from neighboring tribes (and selling the inhabitants as slaves). And the Europeans struggling to survive in the Little Ice Age, including having trouble navigating trade routes over the frozen Himalayas after the Muslims took over Constantinople and was seizing whatever cargo ships they ran across, chose to try to find a new sea route around the globe to Asia (the accidental discovery of Americas). And once discovered, new crop land seemed very desirable when crop yields are way down. Then there's the need to work the land harder to get what you can out of it (demand side of slavery) and take over more land (displacing indigenous Americans). It's amazing what you'll do when many of your people starve.

Last but not least, remember the often discussed high death rate of black slaves on the Atlantic route? What they conveniently forget to tell you is that most of those deaths occurred on land in Africa in transit to the shore. Basically, Africa was experiencing the high rates of death by disease that Europe, the Middle East, and indigenous Americans were experiencing. Why? Because life in the cooling periods suck!!! As much as the political class wants us to fear covid, it's child's play compared to 40-60% of Europe dying from the Black Plague.

This is all recorded in history. Yet, we're somehow supposed to hate the Modern Warm Period? Not me.

I have often wondered what it would take to cause an end to this climate change folly. So far people have mostly bought the climate change hoax, but we are reaching a point where these “green” policies will soon have very significant impacts on peoples lives. The fledgling electric driven economy will be crushed by the inevitable large scale blackouts due to the fickle nature of unreliable green power sources. The Biden administration is now declaring war on natural gas,an abundant clean power source. Of course nuclear energy is anathema to the greens. No forests of windmills blighting the landscape or acres of solar farms can begin to meet our energy needs and the Rube Goldberg ideas to store electricity are almost laughable. The 800 pound gorilla that is being ignored is agriculture. Other than diesel there is no power source that can produce the food we need.

I could see in the near future large parts of the country are blacked out, EVs are stranded and grocery shelves are bare. Maybe when people are stuck in their homes without electricity or water and have no food they will say enough.

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