Climate orthodoxy punishes the West

The world is said to be in a climate emergency. Illegal immigration, airplane turbulence, and even dog behavior are all blamed on climate change.

The prescribed solution is the forced adoption of less reliable and more expensive so-called green technologies, driving up costs and lowering living standards. Climate orthodox enforcers frown upon eating red meat, having children, and generally being human, because doing so emits greenhouse gases that allegedly overheat the planet.

If coal-hungry China and India aren’t going to give up fossil fuels for the next 40 years, why should people in the West have to give up access to affordable energy sources?

None of this is meaningful compared to the huge and growing emissions from new coal-fired power plants in India and China. Western governments are punishing their people for no good reason.

For a long time, people have mistakenly believed that wind and solar energy could replace fossil fuels, but this is not true: these forms of energy are too expensive, too susceptible to the vagaries of the wind, and too dependent on the availability of sunlight during the day to support modern society.

Compared to traditional energy sources, wind and solar require large amounts of land and materials to generate a comparable amount of electricity, and are not as environmentally friendly.

“The true energy and raw material impact of wind and solar is ‘hidden’ in the primary energy needed to extract the solar and wind energy and make the electricity produced actually usable by consumers,” says Dr Lars Schernikau, an energy expert who studies the usefulness of energy sources in the economy.

For families who are already struggling with daily living costs, the extra money spent on fuel, heating and everyday energy usage can be too much of a burden. Poor families spend a larger percentage of their income on energy, making them more vulnerable to price increases.

The U.S. fossil fuel industry supports millions of jobs, especially in states like Texas, Wyoming and Pennsylvania. In fact, the U.S. leads the world in producing liquefied natural gas. Carbon taxes and other regulations that favor wind and solar over fossil fuels will lead to job losses and economic collapse as power plants close.

All this is happening as a record number of coal-fired power plants open in Asia.

The world’s number one and third largest emitters of carbon dioxide are China and India, respectively. China’s rapid industrialization and urbanization have led it to become heavily dependent on coal. The country consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined, and continues to build new coal-fired power plants at an alarming pace.

China’s coal consumption is expected to remain high for decades to come, resulting in significant carbon dioxide emissions, despite a promise to start reducing carbon emissions by 2030. The same is true for India, which is expected to surpass China’s oil use in the coming decades.