Climate wretches Say fighting climate change is more important than food, reliable energy and peace – Are you okay?

By H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.

In the face of unbearable human tragedy around the world, children starving, women and children bombed, homes and businesses without electricity, the climate slurs continue to assert Climate change is the most important danger facing the world.

With daily streaming images from Africa and Ukraine showing malnourished and starving children and razed cities, callous Biden administration officials, environmental reporters and Researchers are more concerned with continuing research cash flow than saving lives. Furthermore, they go on to emphasize that governments focus their attention on preventing future hypothetical climate harms, rather than on current humanitarian crises.

People are starving in Africa today. People are being killed by Russia’s unscrupulous actions in Ukraine as I write. Anisotropic climate warningers, however, fear temperatures could get a little hotter 10, 30, 50 or 100 years from now – and insist efforts to prevent this should be a major focus of the campaign. government efforts. They decry the fact that war and food shortages are diverting attention from the climate crisis.

Evidence of this indifference to the very real human suffering caused by climate obsessions appears almost daily, heavily promoted by the corporate media. Just days before Vladimir Putin launched his deadly invasion of Ukraine, John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate director, lamented on BBC news coverage that the war’s impact would not be on to people but to people’s focus on climate change, saying:

But it [the war] can clearly have profound negative effects on climate. You have a war and you will obviously suffer huge emissions consequences for the war. But equally important, you will lose the focus of the people, you will certainly lose the attention of the big countries because they will be deflected and I think it can have a bad effect. . . . ”

Kerry then expressed hope that Putin would continue to focus on climate change, no matter what action he took in Ukraine. Kerry’s statements are both meaningless and vile.

I and others at the Heartland Institute have previously detailed how Europe and US energy policyand theirs Russia’s dependence on oil and natural gaswere contributing factors to the war in Ukraine as well as global food shortage and increase prices.

Biden certainly recognized at least part of the problem and signed an agreement to ship US liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe to make up for the loss of Russian gas supplies. The response from progressive climate is predictable, perhaps best illustrated by an article in Hilltitled “LNG exports will cause climate change”. The article’s authors warn of increased greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas production, and infrastructure, pipelines, docks, etc., from increased U.S. LNG production and shipping it to help Europe out of the energy crisis.

Instead of helping Europeans heat their homes, cook, and run lights on U.S. natural gas, the scholars behind this paper say, in effect, let Europeans’ heat pumps, electrical appliances Europe runs on wind turbines and solar panels. Of course, the call to electrify Europe with renewable energy is obvious, and the writers know it. Europe is outpacing every other region on Earth in its use of wind and solar power, as wind and solar have failed spectacularly in recent months.contributed to the energy disaster of the trade bloc.

Never fear, climate harassers, Biden got the message. Even as he is talking about helping our European allies with LNG, his administration has introduced new rules to make it possible to expand gas development and proposed shipments. almost impossible to do. Just a week after announcing he would expand LNG exports to Europe, Biden revoked Trump-era National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) provisions that authorized urgent construction of critical infrastructure. . Biden’s NEPA rules virtually ensure no new gas pipelines or LNG docks or related infrastructure can be built. So much for sticking with Putin and helping Europe.

Then there was the food crisis. People, thousands of people, many children, not only starve but starve to death every day.

“More than 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are experiencing extreme hunger, according to a recent report by the humanitarian relief organization Mercy Corps,” wrote. American Science (SA). The World Food Program warned earlier this month: ‘Humanity is feeling the collapse of a ‘seismic hunger”.

Based on these facts, if you think the SA article is a clear call for countries to do whatever is necessary to immediately reverse this humanitarian crisis, you are wrong. . The title of the article says everything you need to know about SA’s real concern, “Response to increased hunger could threaten climate goals in Europe.” The article goes on to criticize the fact that “policy makers are considering easing environmental protection measures to allow increased crop production.” Imagine the wisdom of Europe considering allowing for increased production of life-saving crops today, despite climate models predicting modest sea level rise in the future; its horror!

Never fear, in America we are much more rational. Despite rapidly rising food prices and often empty store shelves, the Biden administration appears unwilling to pause future weather control efforts to increase food security. So far, despite pleas from the members of Conference and farm groupThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has so far refused to grant exemptions to import fertilizers or to allow farmers to cultivate fallow fields that are enrolled in the Wetland Reserve and Conservation program. The crops have begun, people are starving, prices are higher, and the Biden administration struggles as the world’s food supply is figuratively burning.

People around the world face more pressing, urgent and dangerous problems than climate change. That is an indisputable fact. It is immoral and inhumane that the media continue to provide climate warningers with a platform to make other claims.

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. ([email protected]) is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, a non-profit, non-governmental research center based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.