2020 California wildfires negate almost all the state’s greenhouse gas reduction initiatives. So much for electric cars, solar panels and windmills saving the planet. Environmental scientists find that forest fires put twice as much greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere as the state’s total reduction in such emissions from 2003-2019. The work of those years is at risk of being swept aside by the smoke produced in a single year of record-breaking wildfires.
Forest fires could be combatted with better forest management. It would take one-tenth the cost of tens of $-billions thrown at green energy programs that make gas at the pump and electric power costs much more expensive. But, California and the feds can’t do that because, without government subsidies, the green energy companies that give tens of $-millions in campaign contributions to the Democrats, would all go bankrupt.
Committee to Unleash Prosperity, 10/19/2022
