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Nancy Thorner is a writer, cellist, and Tea Party activist based in suburban Chicago who writes regularly for Western Free Press, Illinois Review, and The Heartland Institute's Freedom Pub blog. Nancy is active in the following organizations: The Heartland Institute, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, Illinois Family Institute, Family-Pac, Republican Assembly of Lake County, and the Women's Republican Club of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff.
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In a YouTube presentation on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, The Heartland Institute presented its second in a series to promote its big climate conference (ICCC-14) from October 15-17, 2021 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. “The Green Reset, Climate Realism Versus Climate Socialism” is the timely theme of the 14th International Climate Change Conference.
Marc Morano, as Heartland’s 2nd featured presenter, spoke about his new book, Green Fraud, Why the Green New Deal is even worse than you think.
Sterling Burnett, Heartland Institute’s senior fellow and managing editor of Environment Climate News, introduced Mr. Morano as a longtime Heartland Institute friend, ally, and publisher of the award-winning Climate Depo , a global warming and eco-news center founded in 2009 as part of a Committee for a Climate Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. Thorner was surprised to learn that Mr. Morano served for three years as senior advisor, speech writer, and climate researcher for U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma.
Mr. Burnett further noted: “Joe Biden has filled his agencies and cabinet departments with climate alarmists. Whether they are true believers or simply Socialist opportunists, they use the climate issue to further their own influence and power. I’ll leave it to you to decide. What is clear though is that Biden and his team’s efforts to fight climate change demand even greater government control of the economy.”
“Underpinning and serving as a touchstone of the Democratic Party’s climate effort is the Green New Deal. From Biden’s supposed infrastructure to his American Jobs Act and beyond, every policy and cabinet appointment Biden pushes is linked to furthering policies contained in the Green New Deal.”
“The Green New Deal would replace our Constitutional Republic with rulers from the economic, political, and bureaucratic elite. People will be told where to live, how to live, where to work, what kind of work they can do. People may even be told what to eat, because of a dislike of meat.”
Said Burnett about Moran’s new book ( Green Fraud, Why the Green New Deal is even worse than you think), “Marc has written the definitive analysis, expose, and refutation of the Green New Deal, if you can imagine that!”
In describing his own book, Morano noted how it was “actually about remaking society, using a climate scare (global warming) in order to impose this upon us.”
Mark Steyn wrote a hilarious forward to the book, to which Morano remarked, “The book is worth it just for that.”
Mr. Morano’s previous book, A Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, came out in 2018 and was updated in 2019.
Marc Moran’s slide presentation was excellent. Following are facts that Thorner determined were of important to convey to readers, although the choices were not easy for Thorner to make. Buying Moran’s book is highly recommended.
Debunking 97%
Early on in Morano’s presentation it was noted how Professor Philip of the UK dismissed as scientific nunsense the following:
“Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictability by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor (CO2), is as misguided as it gets.”
This important point was followed by the debunking of a wide held belief that 97% of scientists believe in Climate Change, that there is a consensus. “Only 77 anonymous scientists make up this study according to one study. The other study was done by John Cook and was reported by UN lead author, Richard Toid who said, “Essentially the number is pulled from thin air; it’s not based on any credible research but it’s a talking point that the climate community can’t get rid of.” Why? “Because if you claim 97%, you don’t have to knows a darn thing. All you need to know is all scientists agree or you must be a climate denier.”
Moran than suggested that the Left has now found something even more powerful than Carbon Dioxide to try to regulate and that is viruses. “If you can shut a world down to stop a virus, that also means it is possible to do the same for climate change. Treat all emergencies like emergencies.”
“As to what the world would look like when the world actually decides to take on the climate crisis, not unlike what we experience with COVID.”
An apology was made by Marc Morano. He used to think that the greatest threat were regulations and so-called solutions to our liberty and freedom, our market economy, and human liberty and dignity. Morano now believes that trying to control a virus through the heavy-handed government lock downs and mandates is an even greater threat than climate. What they (the Left) are going to do is to morph climate and COVID together (climate and viruses).
Global Reset fueled by pandemic
The UN Sec. Gen. Antonio Guterres, as reported by Scientific America, said “the pandemic could create an opportunity to rebuild the global economy along more sustainable lines.”
Said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum: “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”
“The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions, a Great Reset agenda.”
“There will be a global price on carbon. This will help make fossil fuels history.”
Bill Gates said on Aug. 6, 2020: “The actual economic and death toll from climate change will be much, much, much greater than what we have with the pandemic.”
Many Climate Deadlines
The first was by a professor of climate excess in 1864.
Al Gore said in 2006: “Humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.”
In 1970, biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
Ehrlich’s 1968 book, The Population Bomb , argued that many of the day’s most alarming events had a single, underlying cause: Too many people, packed into too-tight spaces, taking too much from the earth.
Ocasio-Cortez predicted we only had 12 years left to live.
If we had only done more . . . According to a NYT article of Aug. 25, 2012 by Robert H. Frank: “By taxing ourselves to better weather – a carbon tax would result in climate stability and prevent the end of life as we know it.”
Climate Change as cause of death?
Moran revealed how there are calls to add climate change to death certificates. If climate change becomes a cause of death, it could result in some interesting reading, such as:
“Car crashes = climate death?!
Cancer death = Climate death?! (New study in an American Cancer Society Journal claims that climate change is already increasing cancer risk.)
Organ failure = Climate Death?! (Gore’s new health warning: “Every organ system can be affected by climate change.”)
Cannabalism + Climate Death?! Overpopulation Guru Paul Ehrlich: “’Climate Change’ will force humans to eat bodies of dead.”
Will all drownings be classified as a climate death due to rising sea levels?”
Toxic Masculinity
Moran then opined on “what more 2019-20 will bring.”
“Identity politics has invaded the climate change debate. What if ‘Toxic Masculinity’ is the reason for climate change?”
Warmist Bill McKibben laments, “White America has failed. They have fallen short by voting for ‘climate deniers'”.
NASSA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘climate change’ to ‘white supremacy’. “We’ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy.” She calls for climate and racial justice.
According to NASA Climate scientist Peter Kalmus, “Race justice and climate justice are one in the same: Oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize and kill black bodies and colonize and kill our planet are one in the same.”
Al Gore also decries the “nexus between climate crisis and racism.”
Warmist Eric Holthaus admits: “The climate emergency isn’t about science, it’s about justice.”
Green New Deal Climate Bans
“Climate bans have been proposed on everything from plastic straws, fracking, coal plants, light bulbs, oil drilling and meat, etc. Suggested is that we might be eating insects soon. Might pets be cancelled because they gobble up the planet?”
Yang has suggested that climate change may require the elimination of car ownership. Andrew Yang is running on the Democrat ticket for mayor of NYC.
Is having a baby in 2020 also pure environmental vandalism?
Concluding thoughts
“We have redefined evidence for climate change: No longer do we look at typical metrics of global warming like global temperature, or polar bears, or sea level.”
“Do you want to know how global warming is faring? Look at airline turbulence, rape statistics, crime statistics, vehicle theft statistics, train derailments, police shooting, ‘toxic masculinity’/white supremacy, and car accidents…”
[Originally posted on Illinois Review]
