STEVE MILLOY: Al Gore Got Climate Wars All Wrong

Al Gore said that climate change could lead to war. That has not happened. Instead, the climate alarm he helped foment has fueled war.

In his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Gore stated: “Climate refugees have migrated into areas already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions, increasing the potential for conflict.”

Less than 20 years later, we are amid two major wars and trying to prevent a third one. But none of these wars have anything to do with the imaginary phenomenon of “climate refugees.” Rather, they all related to energy policy disasters caused by Gore’s climate advocacy.

Europe’s industrial nations, especially the United Kingdom and Germany, were the first major economies to fall for the climate hoax. They created the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the late-1980s that set out to destroy fossil fuel-based energy systems.

In 1997, Europe signed on to the Kyoto protocol even though the world’s largest energy user (the United States), the world’s fastest growing energy user (China) and the world’s other fossil fuel powerhouse (Russia) made no commitments to reduce fossil fuel use.

Europe’s industrial economies began to drastically cut their production and use of coal and natural gas in order to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases per their Kyoto obligations. They doubled down on this fool’s errand in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, despite the U.S, China and Russia not following suit.

Though Europe dramatically cut its production of coal, oil and natural gas, it continued to burn coal and gas to generate electricity and for industrial purposes. Europe replaced its own fossil fuel production with fossil fuels imported from Russia. By 2022, Europe had made itself quite dependent on Russia for energy.

This dependence not only enriched Russia, it gave Russia economic leverage over Europe. As soon as President Joe Biden signaled American weakness, Russia made its move on Ukraine. This is the first climate war that can be traced exactly to emissions cuts.