{"id":75299,"date":"2021-12-13T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75299"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:35:47","slug":"75299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75299","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Real Climate And Health Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n

Anti-fossil-fuel climate policies increase energy prices, blackouts and death tolls<\/p>\n

Paul Driessen;<\/p>\n

Climate policies promoted and imposed by Team Biden and Democrats are based on junk science, headline-grabbing scare stories, and computer models that create far-fetched \u201cscenarios\u201d asserting that fossil fuel use and emissions will cause Earth to\u00a0warm by 4 degrees C<\/a>\u00a0(7 F)over the next 80 years, and cause Arctic warming that will\u00a0bring colder winters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those dire predictions are used to justify more taxpayer-funded \u201cresearch,\u201d like a recent Columbia University \u201cmortality cost of carbon\u201d study that claims\u00a083 million people<\/a>\u00a0(the population of Germany) \u201ccould be killed\u201d this century by those rising planetary temperatures. Therefore we must take \u201cimmediate action\u201d to \u201ctransform\u201d our energy and economic systems, and replace oil, gas and coal with (millions of) wind turbines and (billions of) solar panels and backup batteries.<\/p>\n

These policies are lethal for people and planet They would require mining on scales\u00a0unprecedented in human history<\/a>, much of it by\u00a0slave<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0child<\/a>\u00a0laborers, and nearly all using fossil fuels \u2013 bringing massive habitat and wildlife losses, air and water pollution, and horrific human health and safety problems.<\/p>\n

But since most of the mining, ore processing and manufacturing will occur in other countries, far from the USA, politicians and climateers can say this \u201calternative energy\u201d is \u201cclean and green.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse, climate policies cause widespread \u201cenergy poverty\u201d \u2013 energy prices rising above families\u2019 ability to stay adequately warm (or cool) at reasonable cost, given their incomes. That means\u00a0people<\/em>\u00a0die<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Modern housing and energy systems enable people to adapt to and survive even extreme heat and cold \u2013 even in Antarctica, which recently had the\u00a0coldest winter temperatures<\/a>\u00a0ever recorded: -61\u1d52 C (-78\u1d52 F). However, adaptation and survival become nigh impossible when government policies make it hard to heat or cool homes properly amid joblessness, inflation and soaring oil, natural gas, coal and electricity prices.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it is often on the coldest and hottest days and nights, when heating or cooling are most essential, that winds blow at inadequate speeds to turn turbine blades and\/or the sun shines with inadequate intensity on solar panels, to generate electricity. This (and wind and solar variability in general) results in recurrent blackouts and necessitates \u201cbackup\u201d energy: coal, natural gas, diesel, hydroelectric or expensive battery systems, which significantly increase energy costs and worsen energy poverty, illness and death.<\/p>\n

Proposed Biden\/Democrat Green New Deal policies would require that\u00a0still perfectly good<\/a>\u00a0natural gas furnaces, water heaters, ovens and stoves be replaced with costly heat pumps and electric appliances, powered by expensive, unreliable, weather-dependent wind and solar systems. They would necessitate installing charging stations for electric cars, upgrading home and neighborhood electrical systems to 220 volts, and having pricey battery \u201cpower walls\u201d for backup power during increasingly frequent blackouts.<\/p>\n

All this would cost trillions of dollars, with families and small businesses bearing the brunt.<\/p>\n

Contrary to faulty global warming \u201cresearch,\u201d far more people\u00a0die in cold weather<\/a>\u00a0than in hot summers. In the United States and Canada, cold causes 45 times more deaths per year than heat: 113,000 from cold versus 2,500 from heat. Worldwide, with air conditioning far less available in already hot countries than in the United States, some 1,700,000 people die annually from cold versus 300,000 from heat.<\/p>\n

A 2014 Public Health England University College of London Institute of Health Equity report underscores how energy poverty severely, disproportionately and\u00a0inequitably affects poor<\/a>, elderly, fixed-income and minority families \u2013 resulting in numerous, needless illnesses, health problems and deaths.<\/p>\n

Cold homes cause or exacerbate risks of asthma, bronchitis, flu, cardiovascular disease and other adverse health conditions. Cold temperatures also increase depression, anxiety and other mental health problems, intensifying medical and physical issues. Young children, older people, those with preexisting health conditions and other vulnerable groups are especially susceptible to hypothermia, illness and death.<\/p>\n

The Health Equity Institute calculated that one-tenth of all \u201cexcess winter deaths\u201d in England and Wales are directly attributable to fuel poverty, and 21% of excess winter deaths are attributable to the coldest 25% of homes. Between 1990 and 2014, researchers estimated,\u00a030,000 to 40,000 people died each year<\/em>\u00a0who would not have perished if their homes hadn\u2019t been so cold. US studies reach\u00a0similar conclusions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adjusting for population, but not for colder winter temperatures in much of the USA (versus England and Wales), this is equivalent to some\u00a0170,000 to 230,000 excess winter deaths<\/em>\u00a0per year<\/em>\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n

In 2019,\u00a0344,000 German families\u00a0<\/a>had their electricity cut off because they couldn\u2019t pay their power bills.<\/p>\n

Still worse, coal, oil, natural gas, electricity and home heating costs have skyrocketed since those English, US and German reports were prepared \u2013 because of stupid, climate-obsessed, callous policies.<\/p>\n

Global demand for gas and coal surged as the\u00a0world recovered<\/a>\u00a0from Covid \u2013 but Britain and Europe\u00a0banned fracking<\/a>\u00a0for gas in their enormous shale deposits, Germany is shutting down its nuclear plants,\u00a0Russia is playing politics<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0gas deliveries<\/a>, and UK and EU wind turbines\u00a0generated far less electricity<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 (way below their supposed, \u201cnameplate capacity\u201d) due to unfavorable winds.<\/p>\n

No wonder\u00a065% of United Kingdom renters<\/a>\u00a0are struggling this year to pay their energy bills,\u00a025% of Scots<\/a>\u00a0live in energy poverty, and\u00a0400,000 more UK households<\/a>\u00a0are on the brink of losing their gas and electricity provider before Christmas. Europe\u2019s energy costs\u00a0hit new records<\/a>, and millions of UK households face\u00a070% rise in energy bills<\/a>. Excess winter death tolls will also likely set new records.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s happening in America too, as the Biden Administration stymies leasing, drilling, fracking and pipelines, sends gasoline prices rocketing upward, and launches the\u00a0highest inflation rate in 39 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Climate policies will also exacerbate health risks in hospitals. At 13\u00a2 per kilowatt-hour (average US business rate today) a 650,000-square-foot\u00a0hospital building<\/a>\u00a0would pay about $2.5 million\u00a0annually for electricity<\/a>. At 27\u00a2 per kWh (Britain\u2019s earlier average), the annual cost jumps to $5.2 million; at 39\u00a2 per kWh (Germany\u2019s earlier average),\u00a0to $7.5 million<\/em>! Those soaring costs would bring chillier conditions, employee layoffs, higher medical bills, reduced patient care, and more deaths.<\/p>\n

Consider too that\u00a0one-third<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0American families<\/a>\u00a0already had difficulty\u00a0six years ago<\/em>\u00a0adequately heating and cooling their homes, and\u00a0one-fifth<\/em>\u00a0of U.S. households had to reduce or forego food, medicine and other necessities to pay their energy bills. Even before COVID,\u00a0low-income, Black<\/a>, Hispanic and Native American families were spending a greater portion of their incomes on energy than average households.<\/p>\n

Impacts on hard-pressed working families and people on fixed incomes would be just as harmful and disproportionate, as they too spend a greater portion of their limited incomes on energy.<\/p>\n

Job destruction, energy poverty, illness and deaths would increase dramatically under anti-fossil-fuel policies mandated and imposed by the Biden Administration and fellow Democrats \u2013 in the name of fairness, equity and \u201cclimate justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those policies would also make America\u2019s energy, economy, national security and foreign policy increasingly dependent on China \u2013 already the world\u2019s biggest coal user and greenhouse gas emitter \u2013 in an increasingly dangerous world. That\u2019s because China controls most of the metals and minerals required by \u201cgreen\u201d energy and modern transportation, communication and defense technologies.<\/p>\n

This is The Real Climate Crisis. The ecological destruction and human death tolls should shock all of us.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t due to\u00a0climate changes<\/a>\u00a0that are mostly natural,\u00a0weather events<\/a>\u00a0that are no more frequent or extreme than over the previous century, or\u00a0manmade global warming<\/a>\u00a0that exists almost solely in computer models that rely on junk-science greenhouse-gas hypotheses. The real climate crisis is due to policies that are being rammed through on the basis of false premises, fear-mongering and intolerance for fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Congress, courts, states and voters must act now, to reverse the damage that climate and \u201cgreen\u201d energy policies are having on our economy, jobs, health, well-being, wildlife and environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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