Energy Secretary Tells Europe To Break Up With The Climate Cult

Is there ever a point where the European people revolt over the climate insanity so many of them have voted for?

Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity, Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans

Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the Trump administration’s pivot away from renewable energy in Italy on Wednesday, saying their plans to sharply expand U.S. fossil fuel exports were crucial to “peace and prosperity.”

The secretaries are swinging through Europe this week on a mission to secure contracts to sell more American fossil fuels and lobby the European Union to loosen environmental regulations that they have said are too onerous.

Mr. Wright said he would be in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the European Union’s requirements that oil and gas companies limit leaks of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, and a law requiring companies to prevent adverse human rights and environmental effects in their production process.

Just a quick note: I do think we should do things to limit methane. It is a very potent GHG. It may not last that long in the atmosphere, but, it is considerably more of a GHG than CO2, and it most likely doesn’t have a doubling effect like CO2

The United States is currently the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas as well as the largest producer of oil. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe has largely replaced its purchase of Russian fuels with American ones, while heavily investing in wind and solar power. Renewable energy has taken off in Europe in part because many countries see it as a way of not having to rely on anyone else for their supply when they themselves don’t have significant reserves of fossil fuels.

But European policymakers have also taken the threat of climate change much more seriously. The European Union has a law that mandates a 55 percent reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and zeroing them out by 2050.

Yeah, well, the Elites in those nations sure do not seem to act like fossil fuels and GHG emissions from their own personal actions are a big deal. Only those for the peasants.

Mr. Burgum said that such “climate ideology” had infiltrated Western policymaking and required reversal if Western countries were to compete with adversaries on artificial intelligence, which he cast as a more pressing concern than climate change.

“What’s going to save the planet is winning the A.I. arms race. We need power to do that and we need it now,” he said. “We need to worry about the humans that are on the planet today. The real existential threat right now is not one degree of climate change.”

China really doesn’t care about ‘climate change’, for all the noise they make. They do care about AI, robotics, and more high tech, which is stifled in the West because of the insane climate cult requirements.