The Red New Deal

Many climate change proponents are using the recent heat wave that has hit Texas, with temperatures as high as 108°, as definitive proof of climate change. Ironically, a year and a half ago, when Texas was hit with an extreme cold snap, with temperatures as low as 2°, many climate change proponents rebuked anyone who tried to use the unusually cold temperatures as proof that there is no global warming. They scolded us, “That was weather and not climate”. How is it that a week of single-digit temperatures is considered “weather” but a week of triple digit temperatures is considered “climate”? To them, “climate” is any meteorological event or data set that supports the climate change narrative, but “weather” is any meteorological event or data set that dispels the climate change narrative.

Failed Presidential candidate Al Gore recently said that, if we don’t use this heat wave to completely buy into climate change and the green new deal, then we are the equivalent to the “law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred.” And this is the way they always play it. They don’t look at the facts. They don’t look at the science. They don’t look at reality. They only work on emotion and fear. They pick and choose which events can be used to push their theories and narratives and dispel those which don’t.

In reality, we are making a sharp left turn toward total renewable or green energy, and the infeasibility of that is clear. The Biden administration is pushing everyone to drive electric cars, and they believe that all the energy we will need to do all that can be produced with wind and solar energy. Right now, wind and solar account for less than 10% of our energy grid. What will happen to our energy grid when all 290 million gas powered automobiles in America are replaced by electric cars? Our energy needs would double, or even triple. And if the demand for electricity outpaces the supply, the cost will rise dramatically.