A winter storm has caused a rare cold spell in Texas, with low temperatures causing widespread power outages in Texas. As of the afternoon of Feb. 15, nearly 4 million homes in Texas were without power. Nearly half of Texas’ wind turbines were frozen, hurting the state’s power supply, the Texas grid operator said.
Wind power supplies 23 percent of the energy in Texas and wind energy is growing rapidly in the state. As the Biden administration plans to advance a green energy policy, moving away from fossil fuels and toward an all-power system that generates electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar. But this Texas blackout highlights the drawbacks of renewable energy generation, and questions are growing against the green energy policy.
Dr. Zhang Tianliang, a famous history scholar, current political analyst and commentator, made a comprehensive and unique analysis and commentary from scientific, historical and political perspectives on the left’s promotion of the “Green New Deal” on the grounds of “global warming”.
Zhang Tianliang: Now the so-called “Green New Deal” or the so-called “global warming” has become a religious form of existence. (Image source: video screenshot)
Global warming, which is not supported by rigorous scientific evidence, has become a leftist religion
The Texas blackout should be a big warning, because I believe that “global warming” has become a religion of the left, and that rigorous science does not support the evidence for climate change, let alone the urgency of it. The “Green New Deal” issue raised by the left, as we see it, has become a religion.
When Trump was in the election debate, the first thing the debate moderator asked Trump was: Do you not believe in science? Are you still against “global warming”? It seems that “global warming” has become a science. In fact, it’s not true at all. Global Warming has actually become a leftist religion. The Texas winter storm that led to the blackout was a real slap in the face.
Texas is at the southernmost tip of the United States, belonging to the Sunshine Belt, with Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, California, are sunny states, called the Sunshine Belt, the temperature in winter is generally higher. But Texas suddenly came a cold spell, after the cold spell, about 4 million people in Texas suffered power outages. Why did the power go out? Because the wind turbines in Texas were frozen by the cold snap.
The Texas blackout is exactly what Trump foresaw when he disagreed with the leftist “green energy”
Trump has always disliked wind power. Trump believes that wind power is generated when the sun shines the brightest, when you need it the least, and when you need it the most in the winter, it can’t generate electricity. This is Trump’s reasoning. Trump believes that the wind turbines of wind power will kill birds when they are spinning. So Trump thinks that wind power actually sounds good and is a “green energy”, but it is actually unsustainable.
Ms. He Qinglian sent a tweet saying that Biden’s “green energy” has been thwarted again, and Texas is now like this, completely frozen, the wind turbines in Texas are all frozen up by ice, so they have to send helicopters to melt the ice on the wind turbines, which is equivalent to burning a lot of gasoline. The “green energy” originally said that wind power should not burn gasoline, but now it is like burning a lot of extra gasoline to melt the ice on the wind turbine, and then the wind turbine can turn up. At the same Time, Texas is now frozen, and many families who use electricity to heat their homes are suffering from power outages.
We can also see that in Germany, when the sun is needed most in the winter, the solar panels are covered with snow. In fact, even if they are not covered with snow, the solar panels will be much less effective in winter. We all know that in winter, the sunshine time is short, plus the sunlight it is not direct but oblique, so then the efficiency of power generation is much lower. So the efficiency of solar panels in winter may be 75% lower than in summer, only about a quarter of the summer. So you need the most electricity in winter, the most need to heat the time, solar panels do not work; summer you do not care when the solar panels are working efficiently. This is actually one of Trump’s ideas against wind power.
So we can see, when Trump mentioned this wind power has problems, the Associated Press even did a fact-check to see whether Trump’s evaluation of wind power is right or wrong. Anyway, they are anti-Trump, and as long as they can be anti-Trump they can start to make things up, saying how extreme Trump is. As a result, we see that the phenomenon that Trump foresaw is really happening now, in the winter time, the wind power in Texas is not working, a large area of power outages. So we will find a problem: the left, as long as it can be anti-Trump, it does not care whether what it says is true or not, is not the truth, they can make up something and return to the problem of “warming”.
Eco-Marxist theory has hijacked the whole world
We all know that this so-called “global warming”, including the “ecological crisis” and so on, is a theory made up by the leftists. The first two people who made up this ecological theory were Ry Lancaster and Arthur Tessley, both of whom were Marxists and members of the Fabian Society. One of these men, Ry Lancaster, was very close to Marx and often went to Marx’s house for a sit-down, and he was one of several people who attended Marx’s funeral after his death. This man was the first to propose the concept of ecology.
It was actually this group of socialists or Marxists who came up with a concept called ecological Marxism. What does it mean? It means that Marx believed that the contradiction between capitalists and workers belongs to the productive forces and relations of production, and this contradiction is one of the reasons why capitalism is going to perish; they added to this contradiction between productive forces and relations of production a contradiction between capitalism and ecology, which became the second contradiction. The first contradiction leads to an economic crisis, an endogenous problem of capitalism, which causes the economy to fluctuate and to have this economic crisis. Then the second contradiction is the crisis between capitalism and ecology. They sensationally say that the destruction of ecology by human production will eventually lead to the extinction of human beings. They have hijacked the whole world with such a theory, as if anyone who opposes their theory is against all mankind, creating such a sense of absolute supremacy.
The left’s sensationalist environmental climate theory is not science at all, but ideology
I remember when Trump decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, a CNN report said that Trump had betrayed the death penalty for the planet. It felt as if the sky had fallen and the earth had died once Trump withdrew from the agreement. This includes far-left legislators like AOC, Bernie Sanders, Gore, Bill Gates and many others, all of whom belong to the so-called “green energy”, what “sustainable development” and similar theories of advocates. In fact, what they say is so sensational that they are not talking about science at all, they are talking about ideology.
By 2001, eco-Marxism had developed into eco-socialism. At that time, some socialists, including members of Trotsky’s Fourth International, became advocates of eco-socialism.
Discussions and questions about “global warming” were suppressed and discouraged
I would like to say, is this “global warming” a scientific problem or not? From the current perspective, it is not a scientific issue at all, it has become a political issue. Why do you say so? You have a point of view, I have a point of view, I disagree with your point of view, I can put my evidence on display. For example, classical mechanics and relativity, relativity is the denial of classical mechanics, not because classical mechanics is now the consensus of the scientific community, then as long as the opposition to classical mechanics will not be published, then put Einstein in prison, said Einstein is anti-human. You can’t do that, right? But now the issue of “global warming” has become an absolutely undiscussable issue, and Trump is being ridiculed by many leftist media for questioning “global warming”, saying that Trump is “anti-science Trump was ridiculed by many leftist media for questioning “global warming”, saying that Trump is “anti-science”.
In fact, this “global warming” is now, I would say, like a religion. For example, a member of the Royal Meteorological Society, who is also the director of the European Centre for Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research. The so-called mesoscale is not the near-term weather forecast nor the long term, but the weather forecast within a certain range in the middle. The director of this research center is called Bogston, who joined the “Global Warming Policy Forum”, which is against the theory of “global warming” and “climate warming”. As a result, once he joined, he was subjected to tremendous pressure, equivalent to the kind of “cancel Culture” (cancel culture) like suppression, his papers could not be published, his colleagues no longer collaborated with him, and all the people who collaborated with him all withdrew from his project. If you talk about this topic and question it, you lose your credibility and all your contacts in the scientific circle, and you become an object of scorn. So the director of the research center had to resign two weeks after joining the forum.
Imagine, where is this a science? If it were science, it would be a discussion between your arguments and my arguments, between your papers and my papers. But now all those who oppose the theory of “global warming” are not allowed to publish, they are suppressed and discouraged.
I have read that when only one voice is allowed to exist, that voice must be a lie. If you hold the truth, of course you are not afraid of others to question you; only when you hold a lie you are afraid of the voice of opposition, because your lies may be punctured. So those so-called scientists, in order to push such “global warming” theory, they are not using a scientific research method at all, they are choosing some evidence in their favor, and the evidence against them they simply erase it from people’s view as much as possible.
Earth’s temperature changes are cyclical; there were four Little Ice Ages in Chinese history that led to the demise of dynasties
For example, let’s say there’s a state university in Oklahoma, and one of the scientists, I won’t mention his name, said: We should go and use the ice cores of the Arctic to study the temperature of North America over 150 years of history. That makes so much sense, to study the change in temperature over the last 150 years of history. Why are people so supportive of him? Because you have to study forward, if you study forward you will find that actually the temperature of this earth changes periodically, just like there are four seasons in a year, spring, summer, autumn and winter.
In fact, the Earth’s temperature it is also on a larger scale to see the change of spring, summer, autumn and winter, it may also suddenly come like a cold wave. It is not a cold spell generated on this earth, like a cold spell in the universe, once it comes, the earth will enter the Little Ice Age. There have been four Little Ice Ages in Chinese history. The Little Ice Age caused the fall of the Shang Dynasty at the end of the Shang Dynasty; another one was during the Three Kingdoms period, which caused the Yellow Turban Rebellion; another was the Little Ice Age at the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty, which caused the fall of the Tang Dynasty; and then there was also the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which caused the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The Little Ice Age can last for decades or even a century.
Many of the parameters of climate change are not fully understood by humans; there are no exact and rigorous models to describe them.
Isn’t it a cold snap in the U.S. these days? It passes in a few days; it’s a winter cold snap on Earth. There may be seasonal changes like this in the entire universe, where a cold spell freezes the whole planet, and then it may slow down after 30 to 50 years. So in fact, there are times when the climate is cold and times when it is warm.
There is a Chinese meteorologist named Zhu Kezhen, he studied this climate change. He said, in fact, in the Shang Dynasty, when the Yellow River basin in China was very warm, to what extent? The Central Plains was a subtropical landscape, similar to the present Guangxi and Yunnan, with many elephants. We know that elephants are tropical creatures, and there are many records of hunting elephants in the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty, which means that the Central Plains region was quite hot at that time, much hotter than now. In the Middle Ages, for example, from 950 A.D. to 1150 A.D., it was also particularly warm in the North Atlantic region, and many tall churches were built at that time.
Is there any relationship between climate warming and human activities? There is no good model to describe it, because there are many possibilities for climate change. For example, on the earth, for example, less vegetation, different reflectivity of the sun’s rays, may cause climate change; or what changes in the interior of the earth’s crust, resulting in changes in soil and rocks, and then how that temperature can respond to the surface, and so on, there are too many things. There are many parameters that are completely unknown to humans.
Ecology, meteorology, astronomy, photochemistry, oceanography and so on, you have no idea, all kinds of factors it may affect the climate of the earth. So how can you attribute it entirely to CO2? You may be right, but at least I don’t think you’re conclusive, you don’t have a really rigorous model. Because there are too many parameters that you don’t know, you can’t determine them, so of course your model is not very appropriate.
The Left’s “Green New Deal” is destroying the U.S. economy so that the Chinese Communist Party can take over global dominance
So that means that the whole climate change is now being turned into a religion by the left to fight conservatism and to fight capitalism. They say, if you keep producing a lot of products and burning fossil fuels, it’s the end of humanity, it’s the end of the planet, so they say you can’t produce anymore. The U.S. economy will go down as a result.
What happens after you screw up the U.S. economy? Obviously the Chinese Communist Party can dominate the world, the Communist Party theory will dominate. Up to now they still indulge the Communist Party in the Paris Climate Agreement to emit carbon dioxide on a massive scale, but limit the emissions of the United States. So I think the whole so-called “Green New Deal” or the so-called “global warming” has now become a form of religion.
I think I am not 100% against it, but I think at least we should have such a scientific attitude, if we really believe in science, we should have a scientific spirit, at least this thing should be allowed to discuss and question. When you don’t allow questioning, people know it’s never a scientific issue, it becomes a political issue, or even a leftist religious issue. So we should have a clear understanding on this issue.
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