The Climate-Industrial Complex
Foundations and journalists who channel public funds into "renewable energy"
Of all rackets, the so-called “renewable energy” racket may be the most fraudulent and nonsensical. What geologists call the “Last Glacial Period” occurred between c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. Pretty much ALL human development has occurred since the glaciers retreated. During the last Ice Age, glaciers advanced as far south as what is now the state of Missouri. They retreated at a time when human population is estimated to have numbered around 4 million.
The following chart is a visual representation of successive cooling and warming trends and the associated advance and retreat of glaciers.
The so-called greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone—comprise 0.04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere. Even scientists who pay lip service to the human induced global warming theory acknowledge that for most of the last 66 million years, CO2 levels in the earth’s atmosphere were much higher than they are today.
In the 1970s, climatologists were concerned that modern man would soon experience another cooling trend, resulting in yet another glacial advance that would bulldoze the cities of Canada and much of the United States. In the eighties, the theory of global warming—induced by human greenhouse gas emissions—became fashionable. What really ignited this intellectual, social, and political trend was the discovery that billions of public funds could be funneled into “renewable energy” industries through the mechanism of subsidies and tax credits.
This morning I stumbled across a notable investigative report titled Secret Partnership Fueling Climate Hawk Journalism. Note that many of the foundations the are key players in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex are also key players in the Climate-Industrial Complex.
and it should also be noted that the vast majority of the CO2 in the atmosphere, which is a tiny amount to begin with, is naturally occurring (I've seen reports that 95-97% is naturally occurring) which the climatistas can't do much about, and what could theoretically be removed is not even a rounding error as far as the composition of the atmosphere is concerned - it defies all common sense to believe that removing that miniscule amount of CO2 could have any effect on the weather or the climate
The industrial climate complex, a.k.a. how millionaires become billionaires!