Army Bob: Don’t question religion of climate change

by Robert M. Traxler

The Green New Deal is back in the forefront of our thoughts as the media will not stop the wall-to-wall coverage.

This column did a series on the Green New Deal that were the least-read columns in the years the Army Bob column has existed. Many of the people who support what Wikipedia calls a plan to socialize the nation and save the planet have never read the plan.

Let’s talk over the end-of-the-world aspects of the Green New Deal. According to the United Nations Council on the Environment, Saint AOC (Alexandria Occasio-Cotez), Senator Bernie Sanders and all the media, the end is near. One thing I find curious: If the end-of-the-world date is a certain date, a date you must believe in, why has it changed over the years?  From 9 to 10 currently to 11 years? We are told we must believe in the end of the world by, pick a date, or we are  deniers, we deny science.

We must believe in climate change; the question is “Do you believe in climate change?” It reminds me of a man I met shortly after moving to Dorr who asked me if I believed in Jesus Christ as my savior. Climate change has become a religion. For the majority of world history, the climate and nature was the main religion for centuries before monotheism; our ancestors worshiped mountains, rivers, trees the sun, moon and oceans. If folks want to worship nature, it is fine with me.

So let’s take the UN and Representative Occasio-Cortez at their word and accept that the end of the world occurs in 9 to 11 years unless we cut current world wide carbon emissions by 25%. The United States and Western Europe may cut carbon by 25%, world saved, right?

Not so fast, the world population is growing at a rate of 1.15% per year, 11.5% in the next 10 years, mostly in China and India. Pollution and carbon emissions are growing there more rapidly than the west is cutting; the overall total will increase, not be reduced, in the next 9 to11 years — just a cold cruel fact.

India and China are bringing a coal-fired power plant (burning soft dirty high carbon bituminous coal) online at a rate of one per month continuing well into the next decade. China and India have more cars than we do, and the number is growing at an explosive rate. They use untreated gasoline, with extremely limited pollution controls.

The unvarnished truth is that the carbon emissions in the world will not be reduced, and according to AOC, the UN and Mr. Sanders, we will all die off in a few years. Please remember, we must believe them unquestioningly.

In a column covering the same subject years ago, the belief totally in man-made climate change as preached in the Green New Deal, comments were made that all I was doing was giving up, I prescribed doing nothing. None, not one of them, even tried to argue the facts.

The fact is that if you believe in climate change as preached today, the end is not going to be changed by the actions of the United States, North America nor Western Europe. If you feel China or India are going to stop their explosive growth to make the American left happy or to fight climate change you are wrong; they may give lip service to climate change, but they will not stop their economic growth. The people in India and China want electricity, refrigeration, TV, computers, central heat/AC, a family vehicle, all the things we take for granted.

Questioning the religion of climate change is not allowed, stating the cold facts is not allowed, climate change is settled science, end of debate! Well if it is then it is all over, believe the science as preached is unquestionable and factual, then it is all over.

Please refute the facts and do not attack the messenger; please tell us just how the predictions of the Green New Deal will not come to fruition. Perhaps the climate change rhetoric is over the top?