Short editorial

Some may ask: Why are you are climate skeptic?  I think that it is a silly question, but I'll provide a simple answer anyway. 

My answer is this:  Why should I believe in it? 

It is the liberals who say that the ordinary American voters are too stupid to act in their own self interest.  So, is paying higher prices for fossil fuels in my best interest? 

I will not believe it when they may counter that this cost can be shifted to others.  With that way of thinking, somebody is going to get hit with the bill.  History may show that the people getting hit are going to be those who are least organized politically to oppose it.  Eventually, you will fall into one of those groups because you can't watch these politicians all the time.

The cost shifting suggestion isn't an intellectual argument anyway.

The argument in favor of self interest is.  Why should anyone act against their own self interest?  The only way they can win this argument intellectually is to not to have an argument at all.  Isn't this is what is being attempted?

I am not going to drink that Kool Aid, thank you very much.  Try somebody else.


Update:

I have a few more thoughts to add:

Wouldn't it be better to actually get something for your money, as opposed to someone telling you that you have to pay more in order to feel better about yourself?  Isn't that all there is to what the warmistas are offering?  Their offer is for you to pay more, so you can feel less guilty.  What if it was this instead:  Pay some money and we can bring you "this".  The "this" thing that they would bring would be an actual tangible object that makes sense economically and is usable and desirable in its own right.  Whatever they might claim, this is not what they are offering.