Biden Takes On Mother Nature

I know climate change is a hotly debated issue. Our hearts and prayers go out to those still struggling in the wake of Hurricane Ida. But after every major storm, the left and its media allies insist, "There's never been anything like this extreme weather." 

Joe Biden went to New Jersey yesterday and used the backdrop of the damage from Ida to push for his $3.5 trillion climate change/infrastructure bill, saying, "We don't have any more time." He also made some bizarre comment about tornadoes, but I digress. 

That got me thinking about the 1937 Ohio River flood that my parents used to talk about. Three hundred and fifty people were killed and one million were left homeless. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed 10,000 people. 

These examples of "extreme weather" occurred many decades ago, well before SUVs and the massive industrialization of the past 50 years. Was that global warming? 

Contrary to the claims of climate alarmists, research indicates that hurricanes have not been hitting the U.S. with greater frequency, and that "observational bias" likely plays a role in the number of "named storms." 

Nevertheless, the left is all in on crushing the American energy industry, dictating what kind of car you can drive and what kind of appliances you can use in your home. 

But is America really the problem? 

A recent survey of major world cities that are contributing the most to greenhouse gases found that 25 "megacities" produce 52% of all urban greenhouse gases. Guess what? Twenty-three of them are in communist China. 

The first American city that appears on the list is New York City, and it's 26th. Only four American cities appear in the top 50. 

The bottom line is that we are an insignificant part of the problem. But Joe Biden just sent John Kerry to negotiate global warming issues with the Chinese Communist Party, and the CCP not-so-politely refused to meet with him in person.

Every free market conservative in Congress, every free market governor and state legislator should be bringing up the fact that communist China is responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas pollution. 

Why aren't we telling woke American CEOs, who are all in on "sustainable investing," that it is no longer acceptable to do business in communist China, which is destroying the environment? 

Any politician, Democrat or Republican, who accepts money from companies doing business in communist China should be pressured to return that "dirty money" for a variety of reasons – genocide, human rights abuses, espionage or polluting the planet.