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   From: science@ny.gov   
      
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   City Comptroller Brad Lander no doubt thought he was helping the climate   
   war (and scoring points with warriors) when he boasted of his “dashboard”   
   on climate progress last week, in advance of Saturday’s celebration of   
   Earth Day.   
      
   Instead, he wound up exposing the utter folly of New York’s pricey efforts   
   to lower Earth’s temperature.   
      
   Start with Lander’s revelation that the city’s reliance on fossil fuels   
   for power has grown since 2019 — from 75% to 89%.   
      
   That’s largely thanks to the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant,   
   which accounted for 25% of the city’s juice.   
      
   The city plans to make up for that by expanding solar, with 72 megawatts   
   installed last year, putting Gotham on pace to meet its 2030 goal.   
      
   Yet that goal,1,000 MW, is just half of the 2,000 MW Indian Point could   
   put out.   
      
   And just a fraction of the 13,000 MW the city needs.   
      
   Lander’s term for the goal, “modest,” is the understatement of the   
   century. (And Indian Point didn’t need cloudless skies to generate power.)   
      
   There’s more: The city is “committed” to limiting its greenhouse-gas   
   emissions to 12 metric tons a year, an 80% cut by 2050, the dashboard   
   notes.   
      
   Yet over the decade since 2011, it brought them down by less than 4%, to   
   53.9 metric tons in 2021.   
      
   And added cuts will only get harder as low-hanging fruit vanishes.   
      
   Lander’s dashboard also brags of a $3.8 billion divestment from fossil   
   fuels, in pursuit of “net zero greenhouse gas emissions,” by companies in   
   the city’s pension funds by 2040.   
      
   Yet divesting from an entire economic sector will inevitably narrow the   
   funds’ diversity, boost risks and preclude the opportunity for greater   
   returns. (Remember: Taxpayers must make up any pension-fund shortfalls.)   
      
   And the greenies continue to demand ever more pain, including a push for   
   all-electric buildings that’ll require vast infrastructure upgrades — and   
   spell the end of gas stoves — without actually reducing emissions, since   
   fossil fuels still generate the most electricity.   
      
   Meanwhile, the left’s Climate Change Superfund Act aims to make fossil-   
   fuel companies pay for their past, perfectly legal business operations.   
      
   If it actually became law and survived court challenges, it might help   
   cover the monster tab — as much as a half trillion dollars — of meeting   
   the state’s emission goals.   
      
   Then again, New York consumers would get socked with hefty new costs as   
   the firms pass along that charge.   
      
   And the big picture is all about futility: Even if the city and state   
   somehow meet their goals (at enormous pain and expense), it won’t budge   
   global temps one bit, especially as nations like China and India continue   
   to increase their greenhouse-gas output.   
      
   Yet if the entire world stopped doing anything more to combat it, climate   
   change would still have a negligible impact on worldwide GDP by 2100, per   
   the UN’s own climate-change panel.   
      
   Lander’s inadvertent admission about the failures of the city’s climate   
   agenda, in short, is just a case study of the futility of the entire   
   global campaign.   
      
      
      
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