Energy Secretary Says Climate Cult Has Hurt Energy Development

Regardless of your opinion on global warming, whether it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, mostly/solely natural, or some mix, the actions of the Warmists, who became a full fledged cult, have made a real mess of things

In Colorado, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says climate change alarmism has hurt energy development

The new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright returned to his home state Thursday to tour the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, as the Trump administration continues to mull budget, staff and policy changes at the agency.

The department oversees a vast portfolio of national laboratories, maintains the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile and funds an innovation office to support new technology. The renewables laboratory in Golden has thousands of employees and has made key innovations in solar, wind and other clean-energy technologies meant to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

Wright praised the lab’s work during remarks to staff. But during remarks with reporters, Wright, the former head of the Denver-based fracking company now called Liberty Energy, said that calling climate change a crisis was a form of political theater that led to destructive policy choices.

“The biggest barrier in energy development the last few decades is people, for political reasons, calling climate change a crisis,” Wright said. He said climate alarmism led to policies that curtailed American infrastructure and may not actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“So factories that would’ve been here in Colorado are instead in Texas or in Asia. You can say this is all for climate change,” Wright said. “But most of that is just nonsense. Honestly, it’s just nonsense.”

He’s right. The doomsaying began 35 years or so ago, and continued to increase exponentially, until they called it a crisis. They Demanded that the only energy could be “green”, but, immediately started trying to nix hydropower, because it requires dams. And the extreme enviros do not like dams, because they might block a little fish. And then they sue to stop solar and wind because they may mess up a turtle, and sue to stop transmission lines. And most do not want nuclear, except a few like Michael “Robust Debate” Mann. So, they stymie energy production. They could have worked to slowly eliminate coal (I’m not a big fan), while moving towards more natural gas and nuclear, while slowly working to make hydro, solar, and wind a reality, especially putting R&D into them to make them produce way more energy for the money. And more for homes, so that people were not reliant on the grid. But, no, they went batguano insane.

Colorado is not exactly the best state for wind and solar. First, you have to clearcut massive acres. Then you have to do with high winds, at which turbines cannot operate, and snow for solar. Companies are not fans of unreliable and expensive power.

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