An interesting question is what will be the outcome of the great climate scam? If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016 it is clear that all coal fossil fuel power plants would have been shut down and even some of the natural gas plants. By that time it would have become evident that all that would have been accomplished was that the builders of “renewable” power plants would have been enriched and the ratepayers and taxpayers would have paid the much higher costs of “renewable” electricity and suffered from lower reliability of wind and solar plants. There would be no significant effect on global temperatures.
But Hillary did not win. Unless EPA is willing to reevaluate the greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding, there seems likely to be a long period of legal uncertainty while EPA tries to revoke the Obama climate-related regulations and is rebuffed by the courts because of the continued existence of the EF. In the meantime, global temperatures may start to fall–not because of any government action but because of naturally-caused lower solar activity, changes in naturally-caused oceanic cycles, increasing cloud cover on Earth, and lower temperatures as more incoming radiation from the sun is reflected back into space by the increased clouds. It will presumably become ever more evident that CO2 has no significant effect on temperatures in the real world, but the climate alarmists are unlikely to ever admit this despite falling global temperatures and ever increasing divergence between the alarmists’ climate models and the satellite temperature record. It may take a new generation before the Climate-Industrial Complex will actually be willing to admit that CO2 has no significant effect on temperatures despite the critical evidence for this.
This outcome is clearly very messy, but preferable to wasting more trillions of ratepayer and taxpayer dollars and to suffering reduced electricity reliability on the basis of bad science. But a better outcome would be for EPA to reevaluate and revoke the Endangerment Finding, which should end the scam in the US.
via Carlin Economics and Science
June 15, 2018 at 11:52AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 