The Church of Climate Hysteria Just Got a Reality Check

Turns out “green energy” needs more than good vibes and government grants. Because sunbeams and sermons don’t keep the lights on...

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The Great Energy Detour: How We Spent a Trillion Bucks to End Up Back at the Coal Pile

Let me guess. You’ve heard the sermon.

Solar panels will save us. Wind turbines will feed the children. Oil and gas? Dirty relics of a greedy past. And if you so much as question this, you’re labeled a heretic by the Cult of the Sacred Breeze.

That’s right. We’ve gone full televangelist on energy policy. The Church of Global Warming has pews full of self-righteous believers, High Priests in Patagonia fleece, and a climate gospel that cannot be questioned. Saint Al Gore leads the choir, crooning about melting glaciers while he boards his private jet with a carbon footprint the size of Kansas.

Here’s the punchline: after decades of fear-mongering, scolding, and government handouts bigger than Oprah’s car giveaways, the only thing wind and solar have reliably powered is their own PR departments.

Meanwhile, out in the real world, the one without trust funds and academic tenure’ people need energy that works when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.

Which, by the way, happens a lot.

You want to subsidize solar? Knock yourself out. Build wind farms that slice up bald eagles like a blender on high? Fine. But when the grid fails during a week of cloudy skies and calm air, don’t come crying to the folks who warned you.

And here’s the kicker: the energy sources that the Greenie Messiah Club spent years mocking, natural gas, cleaner coal, and nuclear which require little to no government subsidy. They’ve carried the load for over a century. Every modern convenience you enjoy? Brought to you by hydrocarbons.

Electric cars? Charged by coal. Your laptop? Brought to you by natural gas. The Zoom calls where bureaucrats tell us to reduce emissions? Fueled by oil-powered data centers.

This is the kind of irony that would be hilarious if it weren’t DOOMED-level tragic.

The Greenie Messiah Club doesn’t want facts. They want faith. Faith in magical batteries. Faith in sunbeams solving global logistics. Faith in windmills that only work when the weather cooperates. It’s not an energy policy, it’s a religion with kale smoothies and smug bumper stickers.

They’ve declared war on reality and handed out participation trophies to every fantasy they can subsidize. Meanwhile, back on Earth, someone has to keep the lights on.

But now, after chasing unicorns through solar fields and wind-blown fantasy lands, the adults are quietly stepping back in. They’re reopening coal plants. They’re reinvesting in nuclear. They’re admitting, if only in hushed tones behind closed doors that reliable energy is not optional.

Because when the lights go out, nobody gives a damn about your carbon offset.

So to the Church of Global Warming, I say this: keep your sermons. Keep your climate guilt. Keep your pie charts and hashtags and smug TED Talks. And, maybe even stick them where the sun don't shine!

And here in the real world, we’re going back to basics.

And praise be to natural gas.

Part 2 is lit and running hot. “Turns Out Grandpa Was Right” walks us straight into the solution, where grown-ups are quietly getting things done while the green dreamers are still tweeting in circles.

Tomorrow: we crank the dial up on common sense. The smart people; yes, they still exist and are building the future with energy that works. Not someday. Not maybe. But now.

Modular nuclear. Scalable natural gas. Real solutions from real grown-ups.

Part 2 drops tomorrow. Bring your hard hat and leave your hashtags at the door.