PARTITION II OF II

(III) Alarmist Threats

The alarmists are proposing actions that
are severe threats:

(III.1) Big Mistakes

For the issue of the ALARMIST CLAIM and
quite generally, if we are willing to go
forward with big disruptive, risky changes
without good evidence, then we are leaving
ourselves open to nonsense from bad
information, superstition, ignorance, and
fear and neglecting the science that
provided high quality information and
means to reject the nonsense, leaving
ourselves open to some of the biggest
mistakes in all of civilization.

Here we mention two such mistakes:

(III.1.1) Chinese Medicine

A current example of such mistakes is
killing off the rhinoceroses to get their
horns for use in Chinese medicine.

(III.1.2) Bloody Mayan Charlatans

Another such mistake is from page 76 of

Susan Milbrath, Star Gods of the Maya:
Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
(The Linda Schele Series in Maya and
Pre-Columbian Studies), ISBN-13
978-0292752269, University of Texas Press,
2000.

with

> Indeed, blood sacrifice is required for
the sun to move, according to Aztec
cosmology (Durian 1971:179; Sahaguin 1950
- 1982, 7:8).

That is, the Mayan charlatans killed
people to pour their blood on a rock to
keep the sun moving across the sky. No
doubt the sun actually did keep moving
across the sky.

If from the ALARMIST CLAIM we go forward
with the alarmist proposals (see below),
then we will be making a mistake as big,
dangerous, and irrational as in (III.1.1)
the Chinese medicine and (III.1.2) the
Mayans.

(III.2) Costs

(III.2.1) Replacing Current Fossil Fueled
Equipment

The climate alarmists would force us to
replace fossil fueled vehicles and to
replace building heating with electric
powered equipment.

The vehicles they would force us to
replace include cars, trucks, farm
tractors, big earth moving equipment,
locomotives, and ships.

The climate alarmists would force us to
replace fossil fueled electric power
generation with wind, solar, etc.

Emergency electric generators are most
easily powered with fossil fuels --
natural gas, gasoline, or Diesel oil --
and would be difficult and expensive to
replace with anything that would please
the climate alarmists.

(III.2.2) Unreliable Renewables

Electric power from wind and solar needs
huge, expensive batteries and can still be
unreliable and cause power instabilities
on an electric grid. The instabilities
and protecting against them would be
expensive. Electric rates would stand to
go up significantly.

(III.2.3) Green New Deal

As in

https://cei.org/blog/how-much-will-green-new-deal-cost-your-...

the Green New Deal is estimated to cost
$90+ trillion.

That much spending would massively disrupt
the whole US economy and, indirectly but
significantly, nearly all the economies of
the world.

(III.3) Standard of Living

The costs of the proposals of the climate
alarmists would devastate the standard of
living in the US.

As in the video documentary The Great
Global Warming Swindle, the effects on
poor countries, e.g., essentially all of
Africa trying to develop their economies,
would stop their progress and push them
back in time.

(III.4) World Economic Stability

The proposals of the climate alarmists
would so disrupt the economies of the
world so strongly that the world economy
could go unstable leading to WWIII and,
then, global nuclear war.

Warning

It appears that now the sun is entering
the part of the 11 year or so sunspot
cycle with fewer sun spots. So, we are in
line for a few years of cooling. So,
don't believe a claim of the global
warming alarmists that their efforts
caused the cooling.

Main Conclusion

At this point, continuing with
entertaining the ALARMIST CLAIM is just
nonsense, expensive, destructive,
dangerous nonsense.