Freezing weather and the left's charlatans
As I started writing this on the balmy, if increasingly socialist, left coast on Jan. 27, the U.S. media were full of dire predictions of a catastrophic cold snap in the Midwest and New England. That same day, in Brussels, 70,000 people (35,000 of them clueless schoolchildren) demonstrated with slogans such as: “Winter is not coming anymore,” “Nature grows, capitalism blows,” and “Stop denying the earth is dying.”
Alas, winter did come to both the Midwest and Europe, and did so with a vengeance. Twenty-one people have died of hypothermia in the U.S. so far, and at least 10 in Poland. Temperatures dipped to a hellish minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit (- 30.5 Celsius) in Chicago, and minus 14 degrees Celsius ( 7 F) in Poland. Eleven U.S. states recorded temperatures lower than –14 F, or below those measured north of the Arctic Circle in Barrow, Alaska.
More to the point, as Power Line’s John Hinderaker tells us in a perceptive piece, the deep freeze affecting his home state of Minnesota has much to tell us about the futility of green energy as the putative panacea of global warming doom. It turns out that as Minnesotans were freezing, renewable energy was nowhere to be found. The wind wasn’t blowing, and in the entire MISO area (15 states in the Midwest and the South) it generated a measly 4% of the energy, operating at a miserable 24% of installed capacity. That prompted Hinderaker to ask pointedly: “Why do we need wind farms?" Why indeed? To answer this question it is worth delving into some of the other figures, which Hinderaker provides.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/freezing_weather_and_leftist_charlatans.html