Presidential Climate Commission Should Be Abolished

The contradictory notions on the issue of decarbonisation could not have been more starkly illustrated on back-to-back pages of Business Report of February 11. Contrasted with BP anticipating strong demand for oil products, having added 25 new fuel stations to its network, is the fervent appeal of Presidential Climate Commission spokesman, Dipak Patel, for President Ramaphosa to accelerate decarbonisation.

A constant refrain of the decarbonisation promoters is that “misinformation and disinformation are impeding global progress on climate change,” as UN Secretary Antonio Guterres insists. According to Guterres, the UN and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are the true custodians of “reliable and accurate information,” because they have science and the mass media on their side.

Yet historical evidence of past warming and cooling periods during which fossil fuel usage was negligible contradicts their narrative blaming carbon emissions for climate change.

This same decarbonisation lobby remains impervious to the reality that the inconsistent elliptical cycles of the Earth around the Sun and variations in the tilt of the Earth naturally account for climate change.

Nonetheless, money and population control are the two reasons why the UN, WEF, the bought scientists, media and politicians persevere in ignoring the fact that climate change is a natural phenomenon and not a man-made issue.

Until President Trump emphatically reinstated oil, gas and coal exploitation, companies like BP were content to repurpose their business into unreliable, hugely expensive so-called renewables and to be part of the contrived chorus disingenuously endorsing the so-called just transition from fossil fuels.

But because ‘follow the money’ is a natural business instinct, fossil fuel-based enterprise and industry have now happily abandoned the fantasy of a decarbonized world. Just as Trump has upended the globalists’ geopolitical order, so he has upended their Orwellian designs of a depopulated world, which decarbonisation would bring about as a result of mass unemployment and starvation.

Economic reality and common sense are steering Germany back to nuclear and coal as energy providers. Petroleum drives the engine room of industry. That is why the Presidential Climate Commission should be abolished. The call for more carbon taxes and debt-based billion-dollar green transformation loans is nothing less than criminal when South Africa is staring at the oil and gas bonanza off the Cape west coast.

By insisting on demonizing and abolishing the use of fossil fuels, the Presidential Climate Commission displays a Luddite-type mentality for insisting on pursuing what experience has already shown to be unaffordable, unreliable and retrogressive.