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Vivek: Carbon Dioxide Is Plant Food
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: Vivek is the only guy out there saying stuff that is 90% right on the money. He just schooled another idiot talking head.
“Carbon Dioxide is Plant Food.” Isn’t it amazing it has taken this long to find a single wannabe-president who will say it?!
Published in GeneralHere’s the TRUTH: the climate disaster death rate has *declined* by 98% over the last century, even as carbon emissions have risen. The average person is 50X less likely to die of a climate-related cause than in 1920. Why? Fossil fuels. And 8x as many people die from cold temperatures as warm ones. The right answer to all temperature-related deaths is, again, more abundance of fossil fuels. These are inconvenient truths for the climate cult. The real emergency isn’t climate change, it’s the man-made disaster of climate change policies that threaten U.S. prosperity.
Speaking truth to power is hard, but if GOP politicians are not willing to do hard things, they should stay out of politics. I hope that our timid GOP politicians can at least follow Vivek’s lead.
But they won’t. This is no longer about ideas, it’s about money. They are all afraid of losing their donors. Did you see at the debate how they all acquiesced to the ‘climate change’ catechism?
What a revelevation! This is simple 5th grade science.
How sad that Vivek and IWe need to point out this basic scientific standard.
It is imperative that our generation understand that the next few generations have been totally, fully indoctrinated into the religion of man-made climate change.
I was at my sons wedding a few (8) years ago, and listened to his best friends lamenting about manmade climate change. In addition to the world ending forecasts because of flooding, , they also added the climate change issue of species extinction BECAUSE OF POACHERS! ummm, when I pointed out that poachers and” climate change” were not related, they reverted to claiming agrarian lands would be turned into dust bowls and Saharan-like landscapes. It went on…
These weren’t radical kids, they were normal kids radicalized by their university.
“You literally just quoted me one person’s opinion!”
I almost felt sorry for her, but then I remembered she was Andrea Mitchell. She was not prepared for pushback.
If I were Vivek, I’d immediately source the statistics and put the citation on my website.
I’m glad someone with at least a moderate sized megaphone is saying it.
This makes me like him even more. For those who don’t already know about him, Alex Epstein’s Energy Talking Points is an invaluable resource for climate and energy policy debates. This organization, CLINTEL, I just discovered today and am still exploring, but they look sane and intelligent on environmental questions: https://clintel.org/
I am so glad to hear Vivek say this.
I wish I could find something I agree with in his foreign policy statements.
His parents were born in India, and I suppose the world looks different from India sitting in between Russia and China than it looks from the United States. India has, of course, been working with Russia and China successfully for centuries, and in fact the country is part of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) alliance. It has made India very smart to be constantly on their toes in their relationships with their neighbors.
However, handing Ukraine over to Putin is not the way the EU and the United States should go. I think we need to take a united stand against Russia on this.
Trump seems a little conciliatory to Russia as well, but Vivek seems extremely so, from what I’ve been reading the last few days. I don’t think that’s a good idea.
I think his Taiwan approach is fine – it is clear and does not coddle China at all.
I like Vivek’s Israel approach. Israel is a grown-up country now and does not need US taxpayer dollars. The US and Israel should be partners, not patron-client.
Ukraine is where Vivek is naive and wrong in principle. IMO, the US must stand against “Might Makes Right” – but only as a proxy, and only with sending weapons, not dollars.
But as I have said, I hope the war is over before it matters.
It is simultaneously simple (scientific method and measuring temperature) and yet beyond our technology to calculate (fluid dynamics and cloud formation). The experts pretend they are smart enough, but they are not.
Right. Because the earth definitely isn’t getting greener, and if it is that’s definitely nothing to do with trees liking carbon dioxide.