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Hank,
Climate Alarmism has become a religion. I think that it is confirmation bias for the political left because it justifies authoritarian government control over the entire energy sector. It was justification for Biden bragging about shutting down coal plants. This is what the Climate Alarmist Skeptics are afraid of. They don't want authoritarian government. They want free choice.
They also don't want the government spending a trillion dollars of their money to fix the problem until we are sure that it really is a problem. When government provides incentives to do a particular thing, this is a form of coercion because it causes people to make economic decisions that they would have not otherwise made, and at the expense of taxpayers.
The actual temperature changes are not very scary and the public in general senses this. When temperatures are not much different than they were in my childhood 60 years ago, I notice, and so do many other people.
The data shows that it took 140 years for the average atmospheric surface temperature to rise by 1 degree celsius. In short, these changes happen very gradually giving the people and the government plenty of time to adapt if we need to.
Saying we have a large number of record warm days sounds scary, but when those records are by 0.01 or 0.02 degrees, we are clearly being manipulated by graphs that resemble a hockey stick.
Apparently, the somewhat questionable need for massive AI datacenters is causing the country to not worry so much about our energy usage and climate change.
I think that humans have a psychological need to worry about something. The boogey man of the day could be government, corporations, or climate change, but it feels like much ado about nothing.
I always enjoy your videos.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
