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Posted on 02/18/2026 4:40:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.
And for what?
Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree -- as even the alarmists will admit.
In other words, $16 trillion has been spent -- a lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse -- but there is not a penny of measurable payoff.
But it's much worse than that. In economics there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?
What if the $16 trillion had been spent on clean water for poor countries? Preventing avoidable deaths from diseases like malaria? Building schools in African villages to end illiteracy? Bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than 1 billion people who still lack access? Curing cancer?
Many millions of lives could have been saved.
We could have lifted millions more out of poverty. The benefits of speeding up the race for the cure for cancer could have added tens of millions of additional years of life at an economic value in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain. For this reason, it is important that we identify the green "climate change" derangement syndrome as perhaps the most inhumane political movement in history.
The people at the Sierra Club, the...
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Aren’t they still saying it’s true? What percentage of people in the U.S. still believe it?
I personally think crypto will be the biggest financial scam in history, surpassing the 2008 MBS crisis, FTX and Madoff.
But the amount of money flushed on climate change will certainly rank in the top 10.
Where will the California HSR train to nowhere end up?
<<?The people at the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund and the United Nations, and politicians like Al Gore, Joe Biden and John Kerry who voted for and carried out this Green New Deal scam, should be placed on a wall of shame >>
They should be placed against a wall all right.
I believe the international scamming regarding Covid and particularly the testing would be a close second
Only 4.94 years left.
How will you rate crypto? What people paid to hold it? Its reported “worth”?
Exposing the Great Climate Change Lie Paperback – June 10, 2023 by Lynne Balzer
Available online. Enjoy the great (but sobering) read, then give to friends.
The Climate BS takes the prize because not did cost the world trillions but it inflicted misery and was used by evil pricks to gain power and control.
Yes
Yes. AI soon to take the lead.
The insane climate religionists here are punishing us with their "Climate Commitment Act" scam that makes energy prices and most every product's price some of the highest in the nation.
It's criminal and people need to go to prison.
I always laugh when the Stars play the Kraken in “Climate Pledge Arena.”
Yes. It was.
Bigger than covid.
Then you’ve got the regulatory shutting down of refineries in California. Their prices are around $2 a gallon more they here in GA, and likely to go another $.40 or $.50/gallon higher with current permanent shut down of the Valero refinery.
John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel calls climate change a hoax.
We don’t know the cost because it isn’t over.
Made up by Michael Mann and his group using 12 hand picked tree rings
U of P and University of East Anglia
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