The frozen warming crisis
The Guardian, which heartily endorsed all the policies that led to high energy prices while denying the reality that they make freezing weather a disaster.
Complains that “Nine million homes will face higher energy bills from Wednesday as Britain braces for freezing temperatures and snow warnings for the new year period.” Snow?
The stuff we were told in 2007 children wouldn’t recognize? And what of the miracle of reliable, cheap alternative energy to run the massive air conditioning units that will replace probably-banned furnaces as the UK boils? It seems someone has blundered… and a lot of other people are going to pay a high price for their ignorant arrogance.
Who saw that one coming? Well, as Margaret Thatcher warned that same nation, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
And, we add, the problem with the sort of economists who scoffed at Thatcher is that, as Henry Hazlitt warned all of us back when Thatcher was still studying chemistry at Oxford, “Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.”
Thus it is that in Britain today that tomorrow has arrived:
“The average energy bill for households across England, Scotland and Wales will rise by 1.2% from New Year’s Day to £1,738 a year for a typical household after the energy regulator raised its cap on gas and electricity charges.”
The authorities just can’t afford to pretend any longer that energy isn’t getting more expensive due to the green transition, especially given the collapse of a great many other less climate-related fatuities in their budgeting process. And what about the weather, since if it’s cold it can’t be climate, a word that does not appear anywhere in the story? Not looking good:
“Britain enters the new year with a series of weather warnings across the country for heavy rain, wind and snow. By the weekend, temperatures across many areas of the country are expected to fall below zero, which fuel poverty campaigners fear will take a toll on the more than 8 million customers living in cold, damp homes.”
We didn’t use to have a profession, or whatever it is, called “fuel poverty campaigner”. But if we do now have it, the obvious conclusion other than Rudyard Kipling’s that giving something a long name doesn’t make it better, is that we need reliable conventional energy to survive the cold weather that still comes regularly in the winter, despite the same fools who said we didn’t need the former declaring that the latter wouldn’t happen any more.
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