Climate

Watching politicians can be frustrating and climate change is a good example. They emphasize replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar without understanding the full impact. Many do not realize the environmental damage caused by the mining of rare earth metals which are needed to manufacture wind mills and solar panels. They seem to be oblivious to fact that airplanes cannot fly on batteries. They never consider the new technology regarding clean thorium plants that produce small quantities of waste products and use up much of the stored waste. They have likely never heard of methane hydrate and finally they never seem to even consider using natural gas for transportation. While saying they look at all options in practice they do not. In their private lives they live in large homes with big lawns and commute daily in their SUV's. They pollute more taking care of their grass than all of the California fruit and vegetable farmers combined. They have second homes with the same environmental impact as the primary home. Climate change ranked as the 11th most important issue in the 2020 campaign just a little ahead of abortion. The only conclusion is that global warming is not a climate issue but a political issue. One congresswoman says it will be too late in 12 years. It is a way to restructure the current economic system. It led to the shutting down of a pipeline which has no effect on the oil used since it is carried in an adjoining pipe. It results in joining the Paris agreement which has no enforcement provisions. It results in numerous reports financed by government grants outlining the pending disaster. The proponents complain about the climate deniers because it is politically expedient but they don't investigate other solutions. They just stick with wind and solar. Millions of low information people on the subject believe that wind and solar are the only solutions.