{"id":63273,"date":"2022-08-11T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63273"},"modified":"2022-08-11T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:22:10","slug":"the-big-green-lie-almost-everyone-claims-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63273","title":{"rendered":"The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sun at Black Law wind farm, in Black Law, Scotland, on Jan. 29, 2010. (Jeff J. Mitchell\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Almost every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, pays homage to the Big Green Lie. So do all the past and remaining Conservative candidates vying to be prime minister of the UK and every candidate currently vying for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. So does virtually all of the mainstream press.<\/p>\n

The Big Green Lie\u2014that carbon dioxide is a pollutant\u2014is so pervasive that even those considered skeptics\u2014including\u00a0right-wing NGOs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0pundits<\/a>\u2014generally adhere to the orthodoxy, differing not in their stated belief that\u00a0CO2<\/a>\u00a0is a pollutant but only in how calamitous a pollutant it is.<\/p>\n

Because everyone now participates in the \u201cCO2 emissions are bad\u201d lie, the debate over climate policy hasn\u2019t been over whether a CO2 problem exists but over how urgently CO2 needs to be addressed, and how it should be addressed. Do we have eight years left before Armageddon becomes inevitable or decades? Do we get off fossil fuels by building nuclear plants or wind turbines? Should we change our lifestyles to need less of everything? Or should we mitigate this evil\u2014the view of those deemed climate minimalists\u2014by shielding our continents from a rising of the oceans by enclosing them behind sea walls?<\/p>\n

With almost everyone across the political spectrum publicly agreeing that curbing CO2 is a good thing, the debate has been between those who want to do good quickly by reaching net-zero in 2040 and sticks in the mud who want to slow down the doing of a good thing. With discourse careening down rabbit holes, almost everyone gets lost pursuing solutions to Alice-in-Wonderland delusions\u2014and wasting trillions of dollars in the process.<\/p>\n

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Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sun at Black Law wind farm, in Black Law, Scotland, on Jan. 29, 2010. (Jeff J. Mitchell\/Getty Images) The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe\u00a0 Almost every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, pays homage to the Big Green Lie. So do all the past and remaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[33086,3193,140,7377,8014,1406,33084,33085,16350],"class_list":["post-63273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-big-green-lie","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-climate","tag-climategate","tag-green","tag-green-energy","tag-lawrence-solomon","tag-patricia-adams","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63274,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273\/revisions\/63274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}