Media and Climate Change

The Post and Courier, of Charleston, S.C, a dead-tree publication with an on-line presence, has reprinted an analysis of the coming Green Revolution by Ken Silverstein in Inside Sources.com. In almost every way it is a perfect example of the thinking, or lack thereof, in touting the adoption of intermittent energy.

Some quotes:

" The United States’ spirit is youthful — full of innovation and entrepreneurship...."

The US is led by a geriatric cadre of sexagenerian and older elected officials and business leaders. The administrator of NASA and a staunch advocate of intermittent energy is Democrat Bill Nelson of Florida, 81 years of age.

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"... coal mines may be closing in West Virginia, but battery storage facilities are opening there. This is progress, requiring workers to enhance their job skills and the government to invest in 21st-century infrastructure."

 

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As if modern coal miners don't have the job skills needed to safely extract the hydrocarbon energy that has powered America and continues to do so.  Do you  suppose Mr. Silverstein has ever worked in a coal mine or could even succeed in passing through the hiring process? This is part and parcel of the coastal elites' disdain for the "unskilled" worker who has been driving the US economy for many decades.

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 "Enter the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed in 2022. The private sector has announced at least 210 significant new green energy and clean vehicle projects nationwide. If they come to fruition, they will create 74,181 jobs and attract $86.3 billion, according to findings by Environmental Entrepreneurs, a nonpartisan business group advocating for policies that are good for the economy and the environment."

The private sector wouldn't be involved except for the subsidies offered by Biden's inflation creation legislation. Of course the jobs created is figured down to a single digit and a million dollars. These lucrative jobs entail wages that are poison to American business, which does everything in its power to eliminate the expense of labor and direct those funds to management and stock holders.

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"  Climate change is less a partisan issue than it is a generational divide. While some older Americans yearn to return to yesteryear, younger ones are moving forward. They want long-lasting, sustainable jobs that improve their quality of life."

A return to yesteryear isn't what anyone yearns for, instead responsible people of any age are reluctant to discard proven effective technology in favor of unproven intermittent power. The educated elites that seem to favor the new renewables have no intention of laboring in the muddy fields under solar arrays or repairing offshore turbines.

Both the older and younger generations attended college so they could get employment that didn't require physical labor and unpleasant conditions. Sitting in front of a computer monitor is considered by them to be "skilled" work while operating and repairing sophisticated mining equipment is unskilled. Really?

Silverstein's laundry list of the environmental catastrophes caused by an imperceptible increase in temperatures somewhere is media fiction. He completely omits the fact that seamlessly integrating hydrocarbon power and renewables, a requirement needed to maintain reliability, will cost trillions of dollars that have yet to be printed.