High Ground Underground

11/27/18 Climate & the Economy Bjorn Lomborg wrote a WSJ article on the hysteria over projected climate impacts on the economy: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-ignores-economics-of-climate-1539125496 US (& global) economic growth this century is forecast at 300-400%.   Worst case climate impacts on that      As complex as the climate itself is, and forecasting it, so, too is the economy – or we’d have a lot more rich investors.   And the combination of the two is nearly utterly unpredictable.   But the Left will stretch and fabricate to their heart’s content, as truth and facts and real science are not among their values. The French have good reason to be rioting in the streets over taxes raised above their already highest in the world to pay for climate measures. The border rush Thanks, Leftist activists, for helping manufacture the situation confirming the need for more border wall.   Clearly, when several h...

“Never let a crisis go to waste” – Rahm Emanuel (Obama administration). In the wake of the terrible Florida school shooting, the Left and media have rarely been more diligent in executing that philosophy. They have played on, fanned, financed, fed script and selectively given voice to raw emotions. Many of these poor students have only heard in the media and from some parents that gun legislation is the only solution, and that the NRA (& GOP) is the enemy – truly demonized. So naturally they direct their anger there. And their anger is real, and intense – no one argues with that. But emotions and hysteria are the enemies of reason and real solutions to a more complex and multi-faceted problem. They foster mob mentality (someone shouted "burn her" at the NRA representative at the CNN town hall) and stage one thinking – knee-jerk solutions the Left typically uses for many problems, like throwing money at them – solutions that over the years have proven failures. ...