BTW, you can’t feel global warming

The sort of ‘climate change’ that our politicians and scientists are concerned about isn’t the sort of ‘change’ you can feel month-to-month or year-to-year. We’re talking about slight changes of 1 or 2 degrees over years. This morning I was listening to NPR’s visit to Montana where they interviewed a wedding planner. She was talking about how much global warming has impacted her business and was suggesting she’d vote for a candidate who was willing to provide special help to small businesses impacted by global warming.

Global Warming’s Real Victims: The American Taxpayer

While you can’t feel global warming on your skin you can feel it in your wallet. Over the past two decades we’ve seen a pause in the change of global temperatures; however, the ‘impact’ of global warming politics are being felt in the pockets of everyday American taxpayers. Billions of dollars are flowing from citizens in cities like Detroit, Flint, Atlanta, Orlando and into the pockets of citizens in cities like San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose and Mountain View. When it is all said and done global warming (regardless of the final temperature of the earth) will have resulted in the biggest transfer of wealth in human history.

For example, billions of federal dollars are flowing into hundreds of solar energy startups despite the fact that they lack sustainable business models. It is a a HUGE transfer of wealth from average Americans in ‘flyover country’ to those who live in Silicon Valley. The transfer is driving up housing prices in the Bay Area to levels that make it impossible for normal working people to afford even a modest apartment.

Here are just a few of the solar companies that have run through billions of dollars in investment and are now out of business: OptiSolar, Solasta, SV Solar, Senergen, Signet Solar, Sunfilm, Wakonda, EPV Solar, Evergreen, Solyndra, SpectraWatt, Stirling Energy Systems, Abound Solar, AQT, Ampulse, Arise Technology, Azuray, BP, Centrotherm, CSG, Day4 Energy, ECD, Energy Innovations, Flexcell, GlobalWatt, GreenVolts, Global Solar Energy, G24i, Hoku, Inventux, Konarka, Odersun, Pramac, Pairan, Ralos, REC Wafer, Satcon, Schott, Schuco, Sencera, Siliken, Skyline Solar, Solar Millennium, Solarhybrid, Sovello, SolarDay, Solar Power Industries, Soltecture, Sun Concept, Oelmaier, Q.Cells, Sharp, Solibro, Solon, Scheuten Solar, SolFocus, Sunways, Concentrator Optics, and Suntech Wuxi.

Americans outside of the Bay Area are angry. They want their ‘global warming dividend’ too (just talk to that wedding planner in Montana). President Obama promised to bankrupt traditional fossil fuel companies in the east and south if he was elected president. He kept his promise. Just last month the largest American coal company filed for bankruptcy. Here is a list of the other coal companies that have filed for bankruptcy since Obama took office:

Corporations are made of people — the real victims of global warming politics are shareholders and workers. Of course the coal miners in Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio were supposed to get new jobs building solar panels, right? It didn’t turn out that way. Cleantech funding is flowing primarily into Silicon Valley where workers are making a KILLING off of the government’s financial and regulatory support of solar and wind companies. While these jobs may be short lived — as the companies tend to go out of business as a rate far higher than traditional businesses — they do inject billions of dollars in the San Francisco Bay Area. Americans outside of Silicon Valley must do their part to save the planet from global warming. They need to sacrifice their tax dollars and their jobs.