Natural Gas Now Best Picks – August 26, 2023

This has been the summer of “extreme heat,” with the phrase being used over and over in news coverage as if to signal that a climate emergency has arrived.

We’re told 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, while two-thirds of Americans in a PBS/Marist Pollnow say Climate Change is affecting the weather.

Denver resident Mike Barela said, “People are starting to realize that there is an effect.” Miami resident Stephen Escudero said, “This definitely feels like we’re in that point of no return that people have talked about for a long time.”

Some are calling on President Biden to declare a ‘climate emergency’ after the deadly Maui wildfire and a summer of searing temperatures.

And UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for immediate action on climate change, saying, “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Weather history, however, tells a different story – that the worst weather events, including the hottest years, have all been in the past.

The worst hurricane in history? The Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed over 20,000 people in the Caribbean.

The worst wildfire in U.S. history? The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin in 1871 killed at least 1,500 people and burned over a million acres.

The worst flood in world history was in 1931 – the Yangtze River Flood in China, which killed almost 4 million people.

The worst flood in U.S. history was in 1889, in Johnston, Pennsylvania.

The deadliest tornado in recorded U.S. history was in 1925. The Tri-State Tornado, which struck Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing some 700 people.

And the hottest year was not 2023, but 1936.  In 1936, 21 states had their all-time temperature records.

Headline from Cincinnati Enquirer, July 17, 1936

Steve Milloy of Junkscience.com said, “We know in the United States that the 1930s were extremely hot – 1936 is the hottest year on record in the United States and probably throughout the northern Hemisphere.”

Some northern cities saw temperatures between 115 and 120 degrees that year. Many thousands died across the country and the resulting Dust Bowl forced the migration of 3 and half million climate refugees out of the Great Plains and Midwest.

All true and completely contrary to the climate scare “green eggs and scam” agenda threatened by natural gas, which is why the facts are buried by a mainstream press aligned with the big money schemers promoting fiat fuels.

Hat Tip: J.C.

China currently holds a commanding position in the clean energy industry, controlling the natural resources and manufacturing the components essential to the Biden administration’s desired alternative energy transition. Energy experts believe that its dominance will become more entrenched in the years ahead because of domestic environmentalist opposition to perceived “dirty” mining and refining operations, and the Biden administration’s “clean energy” spending blitz – which could provide Chinese companies and subsidiaries billions in subsidies. 

The Biden administration also considers it imperative to get buy-in from Beijing on dramatically reducing emissions, given it produces more than a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions globally. 

Biden crime family at work?

This too gives critics of the Biden administration’s green agenda pause. They see China as an unreliable partner that will leverage the Biden administration’s desire for it to go green to its own advantage. 

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