The effects of global climate change are difficult to ignore. We keep setting new temperature records; there are more extreme weather events, and the wildfire season that lasts longer and longer. Glaciers are melting, and sea levels are rising. The overwhelming consensus of climate scientists is that this is due to human use of fossil fuels leading to increases in greenhouse gases.
Set against this, the current administration has given about $4 billion of taxpayer money to at least six offshore renewable energy leaseholders, not to develop clean, nonpolluting wind energy, but to pay them not to develop offshore wind projects and instead redirect investment toward fossil fuel development. The most recent buyback was a project that could have provided about 7 gigawatts of power, enough for more than five million homes.
