Jane Muhlenbruch-Yee: Climate-change fatigue - Loveland Reporter-Herald

Jane Muhlenbruch-Yee: Climate-change fatigue - Loveland Reporter-Herald

Sunday’s headline read, “Record heat tells story of a warming world.”

I suppose the Associated Press forgot about the bitter cold and record snowfalls across the western U.S. last winter now that we’ve had a few record high temperatures. Imagine that. It’s hot in July.

I recently heard the term “Climate change fatigue.” When everything is caused by climate change, then perhaps nothing is. Are you fatigued? I am.

The IPCC says we only have eight years left to spend our way to course correct climate change.

Search the internet for “50 years of climate predictions” to see how scientists’ predictions came out. Spoiler alert: They are repeatedly wrong to the extreme. It takes extremism to get headlines and research grants.

The badly named “Inflation Reduction Act” earmarked $370 billion for renewable energy and decarbonizing the economy, so we’re already paying for it. But no matter. Whatever we spend will never be enough.

Photosynthesis depends on CO2 for plant growth and is vital for all our food. When CO2 increases, agriculture benefits and produces more food. And don’t forget, you are a carbon-based life form. Carbon and CO2 are not our enemy. It’s interesting how they rarely speak about water vapor as an important greenhouse gas. Concerned? Go plant a tree.

The elites of the world at the United Nations and World Economic Forum along with governments and corporations using ESG scores (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) have big plans about taking your money and changing your behavior in the name of climate change.

Want a gas stove? Nope. Buy a gas powered vehicle in 12 years? Nope. Charge a mandatory electric vehicle along with everyone else tonight? Nope, the current power grid won’t handle everyone charging and few improvements to it are on the horizon. They’ll probably pick a time and duration when you’re allowed to charge your car, if at all.

You might be living in a 15-minute city where you walk everywhere, own nothing, eat bugs instead of meat and need permission to leave (the prison).

With non-stop fear mongering, children are having nightmares of climate doom. Young adults are hesitant to have children. Population collapse could be in our future if it weren’t for those illegally coming across our open southern border. Over 2 million snuck in during 2022. Many are bringing deadly fentanyl or engage in human trafficking.

VP Kamala Harris recently slipped up and spoke about reducing the population, which the UN and WEF support. Bill Gates is a population reduction advocate and said during a 2010 TED Talk that we could reduce the population by 10-15% through health care (euthanasia?), reproductive health services (abortion), and vaccines (mandated COVID vaccines?).

The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural goods in the world, after the U.S. The EU is forcing 3,000 farms to be shut down to curtail nitrogen emissions for climate change. To meet the target, the government estimates that it will have to close another 11,000 farms and have 17,600 others reduce livestock numbers. This can only mean ever increasing food costs and widespread starvation.

Democrats, Republicans and world leaders seem to have no interest in peace for Ukraine. What will be left of their ability to grow wheat or produce oil and gas after a few more years of war? China will become the de facto superpower when the West and Russia have exhausted their military equipment and supplies.

The Biden Administration has worked overtime to hobble our U.S. oil industry, while we become more and more dependent on energy from people who don’t like us. Russia is paying for the Ukraine war through oil placed on the world market via India.

If we were serious about peace in Ukraine, we’d do everything we can to get our energy industry back to pre-Biden levels and beyond. Then we could support ourselves and our allies with affordable, reliable energy. Our economy and our freedom depend on it. Russia would become interested in a peaceful solution.

The world would be a better, safer place, but we won’t because of the religion of climate change with high priests named Gates, Gore and Kerry. Are you a Chicken Little or a freedom lover? Speak up and go plant a tree.

Jane Muhlenbruch-Yee is a Loveland resident. She has lived in northern Colorado for more than 35 years and has had careers as an engineer and stay-at-home mom.