Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon – Includes video; In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Libertarian Alex Epstein has accused Climate Scientist Michael Mann of triggering a cascade of events which led to today’s gasoline price horror show.
Alex Epstein’s explanation for his accusation is that Michael Mann has promoted a very one sided view of fossil fuel, only talking about the negatives, without talking about how the modern world we live in today simply wouldn’t have happened without the extensive use of fossil fuel.
As Epstein points out, the billions of global poor people whose miserable poverty stricken lives have not been touched by access to fossil fuel are a cautionary reminder of the alternative to fossil fuel powered modernity.
I personally don’t think the current fuel price crisis was all on Mann. There were other influential players, though Michael Mann’s scary hockey stick likely played a big part in the ascendancy of the climate crisis narrative.
The current gasoline supply shortfall is an obvious direct consequence of President Biden’s fossil fuel hostility. Biden’s cancellation of pipelines and drilling lease sales crimped supply and impeded competition from new entrants, which must have contributed to today’s gasoline pump price pain.
But from where did Biden draw the inspiration for such reckless policies? Why is there substantial public support for harsh restrictions on fossil fuel production and use, despite the enormous cost and inconvenience?
Perhaps if Mann hadn’t made such an effort to “hide the decline“, fewer people today would be suffering the misery of extreme fuel poverty. And perhaps more Americans could afford this year to take their families on summer vacation, without stressing about the gasoline bills they will face.
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Mike and gang are on top of it all and they have a cunning plan. Petrol and diesel are getting too dear for the poor people as well as changing the weather so we’re all going to get electric rechargeable cars to fix these problems-
South Australia turns to diesel generators as gas shortage and price spike hits (msn.com)
61% gas + 11% diesel needed to power SA, despite them having the world’s biggest Tesla battery.
And the state treasurer comes out with this bit of lunacy –
Of course there has been no increase in cost, you muppet.
That’s because wind & solar are producing s.f.a. for people to buy.
Get a clue.
There is certainly no shortage of blame to go around. Not just the hockey team but countless university professors, most journalists, nearly every politician at every level of government, virtue signaling corporations, and greedy, subsidy truffle pigs.
But I’m happy to see some of the squeekier wheels get the blowback they deserve. Lets hope more of these people get the microscope as energy costs “necessarily skyrocket” to quote somebody who deserves more then a little blame as well.
Mann lied. People died.
The higher cost of almost everything including gas prices is the result of election fraud where people are in elected office without the consent of voters. Election fraud is when voters are cut out of the election with false ballets and machines that count in favor of a candidate regardless of actual votes.
It was democrats that wanted to do away with the punch card system in favor of voting machines. And now we see why. When office holders don’t have to depend on voters approval they are free to do as they please. Blaming Mann is avoiding the issue.
Mann is “The Science” political hacks use to enact a policy of de@th to hundreds of millions and crushing poverty to over half the world. People like Mann, Hansen, Schmidt, Betts, Allen, Rahmstorf, … a bunch of their retired co-crimes against humanity felons, the big institutions, Universities, UN and the big NGO/Government Complex, Champagne Socialist Billionaires… need to be called out, blamed, shamed, for the Greatest Crime Against Humanity Ever Perpetrated. If they arent stopped the cost in human life and health will be horrific.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_climate_scientists
Increase in heatwaves due to CO2 driven warming? I don’t believe it, rising CO2 forcing should affect the mean temperature not weather variability. Major heatwaves are discretely solar driven, so they must a cause and not a product of climate change.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQemMt_PNwwBKNOS7GSP7gbWDmcDBJ80UJzkqDIQ75_Sctjn89VoM5MIYHQWHkpn88cMQXkKjXznM-u/pub
When did he and Hansen know? The Association of Trial Lawyers wants to know.
Add Penn State to the list.
CO2 is going up. Prices are going. Therefore CO2 causes inflation.
Interest rates are the feedback loop to CO2 driven inflation. Higher interest rates raise prices until we reach the tipping point.
A major consequence of this oil based fuel price inflation is not mentioned enough. In Their glee over trying to force people to buy electric cars by causing this massive fuel price inflation, they don’t consider (or care about) the commensurate increase in the price of heating oil. People who heat with oil generally consume a higher volume of heating oil per year than they do of gasoline. The cost to heat one’s house is now staggering. Heating oil is now about 6 bucks a gallon. Next winter I have a choice between eating or freezing. Converting to electric would be more expensive in usage costs, let alone equipment conversion costs. One can sometimes drive less, but one can’t heat less. Thanks, you lefty bastards.
Yes we can blame Michael Mann and the rest of the climatariat minions for many adverse policies and beliefs, but we must remember these are not wise or ethical people and their claims never came with any convincing evidence. So lets take some responsibility ourselves for electing politicians who make these idiotic policies with no factual foundation, for allowing a vast bureaucracy of equally ignorant but powerful people who can drag us all down the road of economic suicide, and for supporting financially a 5th estate that long ago abdicated it’s role as the seekers and purveyors of truth in favour of selling advertising and novelty.
Who’s WE?! I didn’t elect these fuctards, I vote against them in every election.
I’m sure Mann’s ego would love to take the “credit” for the economic and social disasters we’re facing now but he’s just a small useful idiot in others’ quest for power.
“CAGW” has never been more than just a lever.
I certainly wouldn’t blame Mann personally, but it is entirely appropriate to note that these outrageous and skyrocketing energy prices are a feature, not a bug, of climate change mitigation measures, and the warmunists are entirely to blame for it.
Mann is a lying sack of excrement, but he is well behind people like James Hansen, Al Gore, and Tim Wirth in promoting CAGW as a political religion. I am sure there are others. And they should be named and shamed.
There should now be a museum for the greatest science frauds in history and another wing devoted to agenda science frauds dedicated to “nonprofits.”
Let’s just say Obama/Soros pretty much engineered it all.
Hope they burn for it.
Unfortunately this is a stew with way too many shady chefs, of which Mann is merely a bit player.
Alex blames Mann and those like him, not just Mann himself.
Academics like Mann want fame, prestige and government money for research.
Politicians want the power to control your life.
Those running “green” companies want the billions in government money.