Blood Simple. Climate Simple. Endless Deception

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Einstein, “If I were wrong, it wouldn’t take a dozen scientists to disprove me – one would be sufficient.” 

Watching a commercial for new cars produces an ambivalent mix of nostalgia and rage. The conventional car industry seems to be selling much the same product in much the same manner as it always has. “Ooh, look at that sleek, well-washed car with the nice mpg.”

Nostalgia, because if geniuses like WEF’s Klaus Schwab and his acolytes Justin Trudeau and Pete Buttigieg have their way, gasoline-powered cars are about to go the way of the Studebaker. Quoth the U.S. Transportation secretary: “The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicle,” Pete doesn’t get into the icky details of how the cars will be powered or where the energy goes from. Trust him.

Rage because who made Klaus Schwab king of the world? Don’t Trudeau and Buttigieg work for the citizens of sovereign nations? Apparently not, as Schwab has ordered his munchkins to end private ownership of cars. And so they shall. “A design process that focuses on fulfilling the underlying need instead of designing for product purchasing is fundamental to this transition,” the WEF announced. “This is the mindset needed to redesign cities to reduce private vehicles and other usages.” From his lips to Justin’s ears.

Klaus also wants to re-design the countryside by forcing nations to adopt organic farming. So he has Trudeau ordering Canada’s farmers to reduce fertilizer use by 30 percent— all to meet the fantastical Paris Accord commitments he’s made on behalf of Canadians to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2030. (If you want to see how this WEF brainwave is working, check out Sri Lanka, Ghana or Argentina.) 

No one outside Trudeau’s pocket of private-jet pilgrims thinks tanking Canada’s  agriculture and energy security is anything but an invitation to reliance on others. So it needs a little persuasion technique.

First they must create urgency. Luckily they have the arts-faculty dimwits of journalism to aid in the obfuscation. Asking today’s earnest scribblers to assess climate science is like asking an arsonist to consider a box of matches. For example, escalating storm damage becomes proof of catastrophe. “We should fully expect that over time the economic losses from disasters will grow as wealth grows,” writes Roger Piece Jr.. “So looking just at growing loss numbers may be good for political advocacy, but it doesn’t tell us much about how impacts are changing”

And so they regurgitate the Great Reset Doctrine: The Science is Settled. 

Steven A. Koonin, Obama’s former Energy Department undersecretary for science, now director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU, begs to differ. He describes a huge game of “telephone” where climate messages go in one end and, massaged by the committed, emerge in different form for the media at the other end of the line. “The discussion should not be about ‘denying’ or ‘believing’ the science,”he writes in his book Unsettled. “Climate change is real and affected by human activity. But we are very far from having the knowledge needed to make good policy.” 

To the rage of the Doomsayers, Koonin elaborates on what Schwab, Prince Charles at al. gloss over. “Our best climate models still fail to explain the actual climate data… To the surprise of many, the country’s warmest temperatures have not increased since 1960 and are no higher in recent years than they were in 1900.… The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.”

Scientist Richard A. Mueller, who says he’s a converted skeptic about climate change, nonetheless notes:  “I still find that much, if not most, of what is attributed to climate change is speculative, exaggerated or just plain wrong. I’ve analyzed some of the most alarmist claims, and my skepticism about them hasn’t changed.”

Then there’s professor Roger Pielke Jr.: “Let’s face it, disasters have become deeply politicized as part of advocacy for climate action. Climate action is important, of course, but not so important that we should mislead people or misrepresent the current state of science. But here we are.”

Former U.S. budget director David Stockman spared no one in America. “What’s really in play here is the all-out commitment of the Biden Administration to destroy the fossil-fuel industry in the name of preventing a climate catastrophe that is pure fiction.”

And yet the Schwabians like Trudeau, who only lightly brushed up against higher education, are blind to any subtleties. They see only certainties in science’s variability when there is a legacy to create. One having everything to do with his preening and nothing to do with the welfare of Canada’s citizens.They must submit.

“Dan Allan: Canadians have to understand a basic fact. Canada is less than 0.5% of the global population. We pay a very high Carbon Tax to try to make a difference. Except it doesn’t matter. Because 98.5% of the world’s population does not pay a Carbon Tax. We are only punishing ourselves.”

Perhaps the only comfort in this messianic pursuit is how poorly Canadian governments have fared in backing up politicians’  caprices with results.  Combined, Conservative and Liberal governments have set emission targets in 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2021. They haven't hit one yet. It’s looking likely they’ll keep their record of imperfection.

But that won’t stop them pushing for more ways to cripple the economy. 

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft YearsIn NHL History, , his new book with his son Evan, was voted the eighth best professional hockey book of by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted seventh best, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx