Climate change means Democrats aren't having to answer for their failures

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Washington Examiner

The most convenient thing about climate change is that it means whatever Democrats and their media allies want it to mean.

Climate change is now to blame for California’s latest energy failures. That is the headline from the Hill, and it has been the go-to excuse for Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) whenever there are rolling blackouts as there are now. Newsom has also trotted out the excuse for wildfires and for the state’s water troubles.

 

But climate change did not force California to shut down its nuclear plants and begin moving exclusively toward wind and solar energy when neither source could keep the state’s energy grid running. Climate change didn’t force the state to begin phasing out natural gas, which accounted for 46% of the energy generated in the state in 2018. It was California Democrats, not climate change, who spurned reliable forms of energy, including carbon-free nuclear, for its billion-dollar green boondoggles.