A political agenda has morphed into a very big business - no wonder it will not go away.
From Paul Driessen writing at Watts Up With That:
Climate Crisis, Inc.
No warming in 18 years, no category 3-5 hurricane hitting the USA in ten years, seas rising at barely six inches a century: computer models and hysteria are consistently contradicted by Real World experiences.
So how do White House, EPA, UN, EU, Big Green, Big Wind, liberal media, and even Google, GE and Defense Department officials justify their fixation on climate change as the greatest crisis facing humanity? How do they excuse saying government must control our energy system, our economy and nearly every aspect of our lives – deciding which jobs will be protected and which ones destroyed, even who will live and who will die – in the name of saving the planet? What drives their intense ideology?
The answer is simple. The Climate Crisis & Renewable Energy Industry has become a $1.5-trillion-a-year business! That’s equal to the annual economic activity generated by the entire US nonprofit sector, or all savings over the past ten years from consumers switching to generic drugs. By comparison, annual revenues for much-vilified Koch Industries are about $115 billion, for ExxonMobil around $365 billion.
According to a 200-page analysis by the Climate Change Business Journal, this Climate Industrial Complex can be divided into nine segments: low carbon and renewable power; carbon capture and storage; energy storage, like batteries; energy efficiency; green buildings; transportation; carbon trading; climate change adaptation; and consulting and research. Consulting is a $27-billion-per-year industry that handles “reputation management” for companies and tries to link weather events, food shortages and other problems to climate change. Research includes engineering R&D and climate studies.
The $1.5-trillion price tag appears to exclude most of the Big Green environmentalism industry, a $13.4-billion-per-year business in the USA alone. The MacArthur Foundation just gave another $50 million to global warming alarmist groups. Ex-NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chesapeake Energy gave the Sierra Club $105 million to wage war on coal (shortly before the Club began waging war on natural gas and Chesapeake Energy, in what some see as poetic justice). Warren Buffett, numerous “progressive” foundations, Vladimir Putin cronies and countless companies also give endless millions to Big Green.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg - much more at the site. The links go to corroborating data if you want to check the numbers for yourself.
Some 1% banksters are getting very rich from promoting this climate hysteria - we have to do SOMETHING!!!!! - when in fact, there is zero crisis, the weather is doing what it always does. The sooner we defund these braying ninnies, the sooner we can get back to normal lives.
Keeping cheap energy out of people's hands is the single major cause of world hunger and poverty. We in the first world can afford to wring our hands and gnash our teeth over some fancied shibboleth all the while we are condemning those in the third world to a life of grinding poverty and short lifespan. Even something as simple as a kerosene cook stove would be a godsend to the hundreds of millions of people who cook over wood or dung.
How can the greenies live with themselves. But of course, they do not really care about the brown people, they only care about themselves and how good they feel...
