Interestingly, like most Cult of Climastrology members, Mark Reynolds, group executive director of the Citizens Climate Lobby, fails to push Cultists to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. He just wants taxes. It’s almost like this is about empowering government
It’s time to act on climate change with a tax on carbon
Those of us who understand the existential threat posed by climate change have been waiting for the “Pearl Harbor moment†that galvanizes people and politicians alike into taking action to minimize that threat. 2018 is turning out to be a “Pearl Harbor year,†where a majority of Americans support taking action, and we’re ready for Congress to press forward.
We thought the wake-up call on climate change occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina slammed and devastated New Orleans, a disaster that left 1,836 people dead and displaced tens of thousands more. Four years later, when legislation to price carbon made a run in Congress, any sense of urgency to deal with climate change was lost amid partisan squabbling and pushback from special interests.
The next opportunity for action came in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy roared up the East Coast with a storm surge that put much of New York City under water. The cover of Bloomberg Businessweek proclaimed, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.†But again, nothing happened. Likewise, last year’s back-to-back-to-back storms — Harvey, Irma and Maria — left a swath of destruction from Houston to Puerto Rico totaling some $300 billion in damage. This, too, was not enough to spur action. (snip)
The terrifying vortex of fire that swept through Redding, is the latest Pearl Harbor moment for climate change in a year filled with such moments. Let us hope this year of infamy, together with the growing desire for action, will finally set the wheels in motion for Congress to enact meaningful solutions.
This comes via Eric Worrell at Watts Up With That?, who notes
My first thought when I hear about a weather disaster is usually “I hope those people are receiving the help they needâ€. But perhaps not everyone shares my sense of priorities.
There is that. But, Warmists do not care. They’ll take advantage of every weather event to push their hardcore progressive doctrine, which will do harm to the lower and middle classes. Hundreds of years ago the people “who understand the existential threat” of bad weather blamed witches and the gods. Now they blame trace amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Together, the town of whites and Latinos, liberals and conservatives, spent their time on Jackson Street, dining on the south end at the one sit-down restaurant in town and attending class on the north end at Brooklyn’s only high school. They mingled at lunchtime in the Brooklyn Grocery and learned to smoke meat at the hardware store.
Katrina, they say, wasn’t an anomaly, but an introduction.
Psychologist Susie Burke tells the story of a woman who came to her for counselling after having her first child. Not because she was suffering from post-natal depression, but because she was “struggling with the enormity of what she had done.” She felt she had brought her child into a “world she knew was going to be a lot harsher and a lot less safe,” Burke told DW.
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More than two dozen MS-13 gang members and affiliates were arrested and charged following a monthslong murder and drug trafficking investigation centered on a rural California farm city that the gang turned into a base for its operations, U.S. and state prosecutors said Friday.
Exxon Mobil Corp. told a judge that New York’s attorney general should either sue the company for misleading investors about the financial impact of climate change, or close its probe and move on.
