Billions have been wasted on UNs climate change lies

The United Nations-backed International Panel on Climate Change is responsible for the “climate catastrophe” and “the world is burning” scenarios that environmentalists, academics and many politicians have promoted to force high-cost, coercive energy policies on Americans.Yet last month, the IPCC quietly determined that those extreme scenarios are “implausible” — by which they mean impossible.The most notorious of them — Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5, or “RCP 8.5” — posited a hellish world of 12 billion people in the year 2100.The projection assumed the world would be burning more coal than exists, without such likely technological improvements as emissions-free nuclear plants.RCP 8.5 was meant to represent a worst-case scenario for climate change.But disaster sells, so environmentalists and politicians embraced it to make all manner of crazy claims.They relied on academics whose careers depended on using RCP 8.5 and several other worst-case scenarios to predict everything from the demise of French wines and the end of pasta to aliens destroying the earth.(No, really.)The claims were ludicrous, but the money that flowed to green groups and politicians to promote them and their preferred “solutions” was only too real.Not for nothing did environmental groups like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council collect hundreds of millions of dollars to institute bans on natural gas for heating and cooking.And the economic and, ironically, environmental damages from the policies we’ve adopted to “save us” from climate change have been disastrous.It’s safe to say that many hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars have been wasted on them worldwide.In New York, these policies have included former Gov.

Andrew Cuomo’s ban on fracking, which would bring lower natural gas prices to all New Yorkers and an upstate economic boom, creating thousands of high-paying jobs.It also included shutting down all fossil-f...