Anti-fossil fuel climate policies drive up energy prices, power outages and death tolls
Paul Driessen
The climate policies promoted and imposed by the Bidens and Democrats are based on disparate science, headline scare stories, and affirming fictional “scenario” computer models. that the use of fossil fuels and emissions will make the Earth warm up 4 degrees C (7 F) over the next 80 years, and cause Arctic warming will bring colder winters.
Those dire predictions are used to justify more taxpayer-funded “research,” as a recent Columbia University “death cost of carbon” study claims. 83 million people (population of Germany) “could be killed off” this century by that elevated planet’s temperature. Therefore, we must take “immediate action” to “transform” our energy and economic systems, while replacing oil, gas and coal with (millions) of wind turbines and ( billions) of solar panels and backup batteries.
These policies are deadly and planetary They will require mining at scale unprecedented in human history, most of it by slave and child workers, and nearly all of them use fossil fuels – causing huge loss of habitat and wildlife, air and water pollution, as well as serious health problems and human safety.
But since most of the mining, processing, and production of ore will take place in other countries, far from the United States, politicians and climatologists might say this “alternative energy” is “clean and green”.
Worse yet, climate policies cause widespread “energy poverty” – energy prices that rise above the ability of homes to keep warm (or cool) adequately warm (or cool) at a reasonable cost, accounting for according to their income. It means Everyone died.
Modern housing and energy systems allow people to adapt and survive even in extreme heat and cold – even in Antarctica, which recently coldest winter temperature ever recorded: -61ᵒ C (-78ᵒ F). However, it becomes difficult to adapt and survive as government policies find it difficult to properly heat or cool homes amid unemployment, inflation and oil and natural gas prices. , coal and electricity increased.
Indeed, on the coldest and hottest days and nights, when heating or cooling is most essential, the wind blows at a speed not sufficient to rotate the turbine blades and/or the sun shines with zero intensity. enough into the solar panels, to generate electricity. This (and wind and solar variability in general) leads to constant blackouts and the need for “backup” energy: coal, natural gas, diesel, hydro or expensive battery systems, significantly increase energy costs and exacerbate energy poverty, morbidity and mortality.
The Biden/Democrats Green New Deal Policies Will Demand It still perfectly fine Natural gas furnaces, water heaters, ovens and stoves are being replaced by heat pumps and expensive electrical equipment, powered by expensive wind and solar power systems that are not worth it. reliable, weather dependent. They will require installing electric car charging stations, upgrading home and neighborhood electrical systems to 220 volts, and having expensive “walls of electricity” to provide backup power during times of loss. electricity more and more often.
All of this will cost trillions of dollars, with families and small businesses bearing the brunt.
Contrary to faulty “research” on global warming, more people die in cold weather than in the hot summer. 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, in countries that are already overheated with much less air conditioning than in the United States, about 1,700,000 people die annually from the cold compared with 300,000 from the heat.
A 2014 report by the University Institute of Public Health, University of London, UK highlighted the severity of energy poverty, disproportionate disproportionately affect the poor, the elderly, fixed incomes and minority families – leading to many unnecessary illnesses, health problems and deaths.
Cold homes cause or worsen the risk of asthma, bronchitis, flu, cardiovascular disease, and other adverse health conditions. Cold temperatures also increase depression, anxiety and other mental health problems, increasing health and physical problems. Young children, the elderly, people with pre-existing health conditions and other vulnerable groups are particularly susceptible to hypothermia, illness and death.
The Institute for Equity in Health has calculated that one-tenth of all “overcrowding deaths” in England and Wales are directly attributable to fuel poverty, and 21% of excess winter deaths are because 25% of houses are coldest. Between 1990 and 2014, the researchers estimated, 30,000 to 40,000 people die every year who wouldn’t have died if their house hadn’t been so cold. American Studies achieved same conclusion.
Adjusted for population, but not adjusted for, colder winter temperatures in much of the United States (compared to England and Wales), this equates to some 170,000 to 230,000 deaths due to excess winter each year in U.S.A.
In 2019, 344,000 German families had a power cut because they couldn’t pay the electricity bill.
Worse still, the cost of coal, oil, natural gas, electricity and home heating has skyrocketed since the UK, US and German reports were prepared – because of stupid, tax-obsessed policies climate, callous.
Global demand for gas and coal soars recovery world from Covid – but UK and Europe Jailbreak is forbidden for gas in their huge shale fields, Germany is shutting down its nuclear plants, Russia is playing politics with gas deliveryand UK and EU wind turbines generate less electricity in 2021 (much lower than their “nameplate capacity”) due to unfavorable winds.
No wonder 65% of UK tenants struggling this year to pay their energy bills, 25% of the points live in energy poverty, and 400,000 more UK households is on the verge of losing gas and electricity suppliers before Christmas. The cost of energy in Europe hit a new recordand millions of UK households are faced with 70% increase in energy bills. The excess death toll during the winter is likely to set new records as well.
It’s happening in the US, too, as the Biden Administration leases, drills, and exploits pipelines and pipelines, sending gas prices skyrocketing and kicking off. highest inflation rate in 39 years.
Climate policies will also exacerbate health risks in hospitals. At 13¢ per kilowatt hour (the average US business rate today), 650,000 square feet hospital building will pay about 2.5 million dollars annual for electricity. At 27¢ per kWh (the previous UK average), the annual cost rises to $5.2 million; at 39¢ per kWh (the previous German average), up to 7.5 million dollars! Those inflated costs will lead to colder conditions, layoffs, higher medical bills, reduced patient care, and more deaths.
Consider too much one third belong to American family had difficulty six years ago adequately heat and cool their homes, and one over five U.S. households have had to cut back or forgo food, medicine, and other necessities to pay their energy bills. Even before COVID, low income, Black, Native American and Hispanic families spent more of their income on energy than the average household.
The impact on hard-working families and those with fixed incomes would also be harmful and disproportionate, as they also spend a large portion of their limited income on energy.
Job destruction, energy poverty, illness and death will increase dramatically under anti-fossil fuel policies mandated and imposed by the Biden Administration and Democrats – in the name of equity, equality and “climate justice”.
Those policies will also make America’s energy, economy, national security and foreign policy increasingly dependent on China – already the world’s largest coal user and greenhouse gas emitter – in an increasingly dangerous world. That’s because China controls most of the metals and minerals required by “green” energy and modern transport, communications and defense technologies.
This is the Real Climate Crisis. The ecological devastation and human toll will shock us all.
They are not due the climate changes that’s mostly natural, weather events less frequent or more extreme than in the last century, or man-made global warming exist almost exclusively in computer models based on the greenhouse gas hypotheses of the junk science. The climate crisis is actually caused by policies being adopted based on false premises, causing fear and intolerance towards fossil fuels.
Congress, the courts, states and voters must act now to reverse the damage that “green” energy and climate policies are doing to the economy, jobs, health, happiness, wildlife and our environment.
Paul Driessen is a senior policy analyst at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.
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