Cooking with Gas
Last week while Joe and the gang looked as nervous as cats in a litter box covering his expanding classified document scandal, the “Swells” were meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Just what exactly was this entitled bunch of alleged elites doing for nearly 5 days? They were lamenting the climate crisis, offering how they were going to save the world. Evidently, if you cook with gas, you’re contributing mightily to climate change. These loons are coming for your gas range.
Every year the World Economic Council meets in Davos to opine about how they will save the world because the regular folks are too clueless to affect any meaningful change. The stars of this year’s pseudo-intellectual fest were John “Lurch” Kerry and Al “Boiling Oceans” Gore. These two progressive fossils far and away uttered some of the looniest blather every heard about the so-called climate change crisis. Let’s start with Lurch.
Seems that John flew in on his private jet, one of the several hundred that flew to Davos. No huge carbon footprint there. Then he declared at one point the opportunity to work on climate issues was “extraterrestrial”. Huh? He desperately wants a transition to wind and solar, never mind that it wouldn’t make much difference as long as China and India continue to build coal plants to fuel their economic growth. No high scrubbers on those smokestacks to clean the pollutants from the coal burning. It's well known that China emits two-thirds more CO2 than Europe and the U.S. combined.
When talking emissions Kerry stated, “Let’s face it, a whole bunch of companies in the world have chosen to say, ‘I’m going to be net zero by 2050.’ And you and I, we know they don’t have a clue how they’re going to get there. And most of them are not on track to get there.” Unfortunately Kerry doesn’t have a clue either. He is the poster child for the delusional left, a figment of his own imagination.
Kerry’s nonsensical rant paled in comparison to former Vice President Albert Gore’s unhinged bellowing as a member of climate change panel. Remember Al is worth over 300 million dollars, a fortune largely due to his climate activism.
Raising his voice to a maniacal level he bellowed "We’re still putting 162 million tons of greenhouse gas into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees, predicted to reach 1 billion in this century!". Whew! Did he include what his private jet put in the atmosphere? How can anyone take that baloney seriously? Boiling oceans?
Apparently, New York Governor Hochal does. No new gas-fired furnaces in new homes in 2025. No replacements for existing gas-fired furnaces in 2030. Replace them with electric heat pumps, which may or may not be effective in winter season. The electric grid is already barely able to meet current demands. Gavin “Hair Gel” Newsom, Governor of California and wanna be President, has advocated similar policies with respect to all things using natural gas. Someone explain this nutty policy to those who cook with Woks. Isn’t this discrimination?
All these high-minded zealots who would force folks to drive an electric car, cook on an induction range or end barbeques as we know them, don’t have a realistic solution to climate change because the climate has been changing for thousands of years. No one yet has explained how the Ice Age ended. The earth didn’t warm up because Indian coal powerplants heated the atmosphere nor was it because someone was using a wok to cook beef with broccoli over a gas flame. This is a control issue. Control of the non-elite who don’t fly private.
Banning your gas cooktop or oven isn’t going to change the environment one iota. Creating electricity cleanly is entirely feasible with fossil fuel or nuclear reactors.. The actual facts are that the world’s volcanos put more “greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere than all the cars and powerplants on the planet combined. Think about that.
Someone ask Al Gore or John Kerry how they are going to solve the volcano pollution or better yet, ask Greta Thunberg, noted 20-year-old Swedish climate expert.
Meanwhile keep cooking on your gas cooktop, while Joe and the gang continue to wonder how all that classified material got into his Wilmington garage.