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from ClimateChangeDispatch Website
Progressives have long wanted to tax unrealized gains from billionaires' stocks, bonds, land holdings, homes, artwork, cars, yachts, and other property.
As appealing as this sounds, the scheme would be vastly complicated and unworkable. In the absence of sales, who would evaluate current values - and how?
But the frustrations we "commoners" have with the ultra-rich are understandable - especially when they lecture us about eating less "climate-altering" beef, avoiding $5.00 gasoline by buying $60,000 electric vehicles and bankrolling "experts" who say we should live in 650-square-foot apartments.
So it's entertaining when some of those billionaires start arguing about who is more saintly (and sanctimonious) when it comes to preventing the alleged Climate Crisis.
Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have been quibbling about who cares more about climate change.
However, as happens too often with elites who promote climate activist agendas, when it comes to ensuring human and planetary health, they both ignore evidence, the big picture - and their own lifestyles, including private jets and multiple mansions.
They're not alone...
After spending eight years attacking fossil fuels, former-President Obama installed a 2,500-gallon propane system at his 6,900-square-foot Martha's Vineyard home, which is apparently safe from rising seas that endanger other coastal properties (resulting from propane, oil, and natural gas emissions).
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos led an entourage of 400 luminaries, dignitaries, and "green" CEOs flying private jets to the 2021 COP-26 climate confab in Glasgow.
Two years earlier, currency manipulator George Soros and 1,500 other "global leaders" hopped their private jets to the World Economic Forum in Davos, once again to focus attention on "sustainability" and "dangerous global warming."
As climate czar John Kerry explained, private jets are "the only choice" for someone as important as he is.
Not to be outdone, Leonardo DiCaprio flew a private jet to New York City in 2016 to accept an environmental award, then flew it back to France a day later.
Of course, it's real...!
It's been "real" throughout Earth's history,
Computer models are not evidence, and their predictions generally conflict with actual world events.
In reality, far more people die in cold weather than in hot, and a slightly warmer planet would be quite beneficial for both humanity and the plant and animal kingdoms.
There is simply no credible evidence that today's climate fluctuations and weather events are due to fossil fuels, instead of the same natural forces that have operated throughout Earth's history.
Tornado records show fewer violent twisters from 1950 to 1985 than during the 36 years since. Not a single Category 3-5 hurricane made U.S. landfall for a record 12 years (2005-2012).
Three especially "brutal" droughts during a 200-year dry spell caused the Mayan civilization to collapse by 930 AD.
Multiple droughts struck the Chaco Canyon (Four Corners) region from 1130 to 1450, helping to end the Anasazi civilization.
Extreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar, causing political unrest and war, and fostering the spread of Islam.
The Pleistocene glacial epochs and Little Ice Age,
Even worse than the fake science and endless fearmongering, their proposed remedies to the Climate Crisis would be far more harmful to people and the planet than the warming and the weather they worry about.
Replacing fossil-fuel (and nuclear) electricity generation would mean,
(Thankfully the United States has a huge, thus far unused landfill: Arizona's Grand Canyon.)
The ease with which the billionaire climate club members do business with China also conflicts with generally accepted standards of environmental and human rights ethics.
Musk is quite cozy with the Chinese Communist regime.
From taking billions in regime-funded loans to speaking at their embassy to building a factory in Xinjiang amid the Uyghur genocide, he is surprisingly comfortable working with a state founded on ideologies of totalitarian hatred and abuse.
Gates (Bill) stretched the limits of U.S. security laws to help China build nuclear reactors suitable for powering naval vessels, even as China continues making strategic long-term moves to control ever-larger swaths of the Pacific and surpass U.S. naval power in this critical region.
Incredibly, but understandably, these billionaires almost never criticize Xi Jinping's regime.
In fact, Musk has met with communist officials on multiple occasions and frequently says China "rocks" - even though it is by far the world's biggest emitter of plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide (CO2) and toxic pollutants.
In fact, in 2019 China's greenhouse gas emissions were nearly 2.5 times those of the United States - and more than all the world's developed nations combined.
In CO2 equivalent, China emitted 14.1 billion metric tons that year - more than a quarter of the entire world's emissions.
Musk even stopped serving on President Trump's advisory panels to protest Mr. Trump's decision to withdraw from the meaningless Paris climate agreement that's actually a treaty.
So why are Musk and Gates so quick to criticize America - but never reprimand the People's Republic?
They clearly don't live by the environmental principles they preach and won't even criticize the world's worst greenhouse gas emitter, toxic chemicals polluter, and child- and slave-labor practitioner.
Still worse, the policies they promote would harm global public health.
As Congressman John Curtis (R-Utah), founder of the Conservative Climate Caucus, recently noted,
Perhaps, Mr. Curtis suggested, we should instead start,
Over the last decade, the U.S. has reduced CO2 emissions more than any other country in the world.
Yet, Musk, Gates, and fellow jet-setters continue to support policies like the Paris accord, which would impose major restrictions on the U.S. while allowing China to continue increasing emissions through 2030.
Perhaps, instead, we should just stop trying to reduce CO2 emissions, since that monumental and costly global effort is driven by demands that we prevent a "man-made climate crisis" that doesn't actually exist.
If these climate activists wish to make a difference in human and environmental health around the world, they need to change their perspective and their relationship with Communist China.
They need to begin looking at real-world climate and weather evidence - and practicing what they preach.
Unfortunately, they're unwilling to do so.
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