Funny timing: Environmentalist donates $1M to WA campaigns as study shows Northwest climate change natural

Taken from Tuesday’s edition of The David Boze Show.

I find it fascinating that at the same time we get news that the billionaire climate alarmist Tom Steyer is going to dump $1 million into our state senate races, that the next day in The Seattle Times, a study comes out that indicates that warming in the Pacific Northwest is because of winds, natural factors.

“The rise in temperatures along the West Coast over the past century is almost entirely due to natural forces — not human emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a major new study,” says the report at The Seattle Times that is of course also quick to point out, “that doesn’t refute the idea that humans are contributing to global climate change, the authors say.”

But compare that to Washington Governor Jay Inslee or to Tom Steyer, who is going to spend $1 million in our state senate races.

This year, the ongoing power struggle in the Washington state Senate continues with several seats in play. Currently, a mostly Republican majority called the Majority Coalition Caucus holds a 26-23 majority in the upper chamber, while Democrats control the House. This Republican majority in the Senate is the check on Inslee’s agenda.

Whenever you hear a “green” agenda, that generally means new restrictions, new regulations, new costs, new taxes, and new limitations on how you power up.

Now, Inslee didn’t run on this agenda. He ran on I am Mr. Moderate, I’m a guy on a forklift who wants to put you to work. He didn’t run on I’m Jay Inslee, author of “Apollo’s Fire,” the Al Gore-like book. Basically, he waited to get elected, then suddenly his number one concern as governor is climate change.

This week, we also have John Kerry, who has said climate change is like a weapon of mass destruction. He reiterated this at the climate summit. John Kerry says climate change is an international security concern that rivals terrorism and may even surpass it.

“As everybody here knows too often, climate change is put into an environmental challenge box when, in fact, it’s a major set of economic opportunities and economic challenges. It’s a public health challenge and it’s also unquestionably – this is something the American security project is deeply focused on – an international security challenge […]” said Kerry. “You could make a powerful argument that it may be, in fact, the most serious challenge we face on the planet because it’s about the planet itself.”

But it’s funny because here we are saying that terrorism right now is so important that we’re launching airstrikes within the sovereign territory of Syria, and yet Kerry is claiming that, arguably, climate change is an even more serious problem.

There, of course, are differing views about the level of climate change we can expect, what the causes are and what the solutions might be. Most often, what they’re truly arguing is we have some big government solutions and unless you follow our big government solutions, then you’re anti-science.

All the time we’re subjected to constant alarmism when it comes to climate change. This is huge that at The Seattle Times, you have two scientists stepping forward saying that any warming experienced in the Northwest in the past 100 years is natural.

Climate change alarmists, like Tom Steyer, will say people who disagree with them on climate change are evil people. People will try to use the phrase “climate change denier” as an indicator you’re like a Nazi, like a holocaust denier, or a horrible person.

Yet over and over again, the alarmists are proven wrong. There is really no reason to panic.

Taken from Tuesday’s edition of The David Boze Show.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

JS