Starting Sunday, Climate Week NYC will blare out propaganda aiming to \u201cdrive the transition,\u201d shift \u201centire systems\u201d and \u201cspeed up progress\u201d toward \u201cchanging climate.\u201d<\/p>\n
God help us.<\/p>\n
The event, much like the entire climate-apocalypse movement, will use fear to push draconian measures that\u2019ll slow the economy and sow widespread misery<\/a>.<\/p>\n Organizers boast of 1,000 events over the course of the week, all in a vain bid to lower the planet\u2019s temperature.<\/p>\n Climate change is real and worthy of concern \u2014 but the climate warriors\u2019 worries are woefully overblown and their plans far more costly than any possible benefits.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n In a recent study, Dutch engineer Hessel Voortman and researcher Rob de Vos\u00a0showed<\/a> sea levels are not rising faster than a century ago, despite alarmists\u2019 contentions.<\/p>\n Hysteria over the Great Barrier Reef\u2019s decline has also proved unfounded<\/a>: Yes, the reef shrank between 2000 and 2012, but then started growing, and despite some decline this year, it\u2019s at its fourth-largest size ever.<\/p>\n Media reports incessantly blame wildfires on global warming, but data shows the world has been experiencing fewer of them.<\/p>\n Nor have polar bears or the ice caps vanished, as predicted.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n On the other hand, the radicals\u2019 \u201csolutions\u201d \u2014 giving up fossil fuels and switching to extremely expensive<\/a> and less reliable renewable energy \u2014 will only sock the world\u2019s economy and make it harder to take practical steps (e.g., building berms to guard against sea surges) to address climate threats.<\/p>\n And consider this: Even if climate change is left unchecked, it won\u2019t slow the global economy much, as even estimates by UN climate experts themselves show.<\/p>\n