Beto O’Rourke, who recently announced that he is running for President of the United States, has fully embraced Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ Green New Deal agenda, telling audiences that the United States has only twelve years to make drastic changes to prevent climate change-induced disaster that would spell the end of the nation as we know it.
The former Texas congressman is telling prospective voters that the twelve-year deadline was reached by unanimous scientific agreement, and that the climate change proposals that he endorses are on par with the soldiers who fought at Normandy in World War II. In other words, Beto has fully embraced the far-left’s climate change hysteria.
O’Rourke, who’s campaign has been compared to Barack Obama’s 2008 run in terms of vagueness, told audiences that the United States is facing the greatest challenges in living memory. He said that mankind now has a last chance to take drastic action on the matter. Given the fact that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already made clear what sort of drastic action the Democratic Party is in favor of, it is not secret that taking “bold action” would mean eliminating the airline industry and the millions of jobs that go with it, somehow remodeling every single building in the United States for maximum energy efficiency, obliterating the use of fossil fuels in the next ten years, and other disastrous goals.
As Beto O’Rourke likely calculated, his full-fledged embrace of climate change hysteria didn’t hurt his presidential campaign in the least. In fact, it only helped his efforts as he raised more money in the first day of his campaign than any of his challengers did on the first day of their campaigns. This is apparently the attitude progressive primary voters are looking for.
However, a number of experts are calling Beto out for using selective statements made by certain scientists and ignoring scientific facts that don’t support his “world is ending in twelve years” statement.
Andrea Dutton, a paleoclimate researcher at the University of Florida, notes that the twelve-year deadline actually mischaracterizes what the UN’s scientific report says about climate change. NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel notes that the world isn’t going to end in twelve years even if governments take no action on climate change. Gavin Schmidt, the leader of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, points out the carbon emissions are set to rise in twelve years, but that the time limited frames are wildly inaccurate.
Unfortunately, common sense-based comments made by these and other prominent scientists aren’t generating much media attention.
The United States does face many climate-related challenges. However, the notion that the country has only twelve years to deal with the problem by implementing full communism is dishonest and dangerous. Unfortunately, hysteria seems to be making more news that scientific facts as Democrat presidential candidates such as Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others jump on the climate change bandwagon in an effort to set themselves apart from the crowd.
Beto O’Rourke, in an effort to promote his own campaign, has obviously decided to go one step further and repeat the “twelve-year deadline” to audiences in the hopes of standing out from his fellow competitors. At present, the strategy seems to be working as he is not only popular but also doing well with raising funds for his campaign.
What does this tell us? Climate hysteria is now the mainstream position in the Democratic Party — and that should worry every American.
Regards,
Ethan Warrick
Editor
Wealth Authority
