Things aren’t going well for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, very little impact has been felt, other than increased costs.
The electric vehicle movement has stalled, solar and wind power remain fringe forms of energy, and green candidates got crushed in recent elections in Europe because voters are sick of the higher prices associated with the green policies that do absolutely nothing but grant government more control over our lives.
So having struck out with consumers, businesses and at the ballot box, now the greens are moving on to the courts. The climate change industrial complex has now joined forces with trial lawyers to advance their war on fossil fuels.
Although, science has been telling us the earth has been warming for the past 400,000 years, the green zealots insist that warming is the result of us humans dependency on fossil fuels.
As the graphic shows, that warming started long before we arrived. It is also widely accepted that the current warming of the past few hundred years reflects coming out of the regional cooling period (the Little Ice Age) that existed from about 1300-1850.
To put this point into better perspective, imagine if the earths age (4 billion years) was boiled down to a single 24 hour day. Then, let’s see where humankind fits into that day.
I saw this quoted before but unable to locate it now so we’ll do the math here.
Age of earth: 4,000,000,000 / 24 = 166,666,666 hours.
Now, we divide up those hours into minutes.
166,666,666 / 60 = 2,777,777 minutes.
Our primate ancestors might have been around then but there were no homo sapien civilizations yet so let’s continue.
2,777,777 / 60 = 46,296 seconds.
And we can finally see where our species fits in. According to these numbers, our species of humans have been around for about 7-8 seconds of that single day (if you accept we have been walking this earth for 400,000 years). Although, these were primitive cave dwellers whos only contribution to the climate was possibly their quest for fire.
Going even further, civilized humankind (the past 5000 years or so) have only been experiencing earths changing climate for about 1/8 of a second – much less than a single heartbeat.
Taken to the extreme, the past 100 years which the zealots now love to blame for everything from earthquakes to solar eclipses equates to .0021 of a second or a measure where you’d need 400 of them to equate to a single heartbeat.
So, by all means, let’s implement policies that further erode our freedoms and drain us of all of our livelihoods, based on a micro-blip of our history on this planet.
It takes a special kind of arrogance to pull that off.
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