Does he have a point? He claims his “My proposal resists the flawed reasoning of the radical Left while embracing market-based solutions to reduce carbon emissions”
It’s Time for Conservatives to Own the Climate-Change Issue
There is an interesting political tactic often employed by the Left, and it follows a predictable pattern. First, identify a problem most of us can agree on. Second, elevate the problem to a crisis. Third, propose an extreme solution to said crisis that inevitably results in a massive transfer of power to government authorities. Fourth, watch as conservatives take the bait and vociferously reject the extreme solutions proposed. Fifth and finally, accuse those same conservatives of being too heartless or too stupid to solve the original problem on which we all thought we agreed.
This is the pattern we have seen play out with respect to climate change. With ever-more-extreme “solutions†such as the Green New Deal being proposed, conservatives have quickly taken the bait, falling into the tired political trap set by leftists. But I believe we no longer have to do this. We can fight back against the alarmism with tangible solutions based on reason, science, and the free market.
I recently joined House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in unveiling a proposal that takes existing innovative technologies — ones that have proven to reduce emissions here in the United States — that the U.S. can then market and export to the world. After all, climate change is a global issue, and with global energy demand expected to increase by 25 percent over the next 20 years, there is a distinct need for the U.S. to export cleaner energy sources to the developing world, as well as to the biggest CO2 emitters, such as China and India. Crushing our own economy, as the Green New Deal would have us do, will not stop worldwide growth in emissions or decrease worldwide energy demand.
He goes on for quite a bit, I’d recommend reading the whole thing. That said, is he right? Dan is a pretty reliable conservative, right?
No. He’s involved in two big fallacies. First, in order to “fix” the climate crisis caused by Mankind means admitting that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s action, which it is not. Second, he lays out the five parts of the predictable pattern. There is a 6th, which Dan, and other Republicans, are falling for, namely, that Republicans have to show that they are Doing Something so they don’t appear heartless or too stupid, when they know that the issue is a load of mule fritters at its base. Why respond to something that they know is false?
There’s nothing wrong with pushing for better R&D into alternative energy sources, in modernization, etc. They don’t have to have anything to do with the climate crisis scam. As soon as Republicans admit there is a crisis from anthropogenic climate change, they’ve lost. And fell right into the trap. And become Useful Idiots. Don’t be a Useful Idiot.
