The world is going to end in 12 years unless the government takes action, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said recently.  “And I think the part of it that is generational is that millenials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.  You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II.”  If you are asking yourself, “Say what?” you are not alone. AOC (Arrogant Obstinate-Cuckoo), continued, “How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down.  It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King [Dr. Martin Luther] spoke of. That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable.” Being so much smarter than the rest of us must be such a burden.  It’s not the first time AOC has warned us we only have 12 years until the world comes to an end, so it must be true, right?  Uh, I wouldn’t start thinking of skipping the payments on your mortgage just yet.  The one thing the global warming/climate change alarmists have in common is that they have been dead wrong for almost 50 years.  Next week is the 49th anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970.  The first Earth Day was organized by Stanford University professor Paul Erlich, who in 1968, predicted that by the 1980’s world population would outstrip the ability of our economic system to produce more food, and as a result up to 200 million people would starve to death.  He might have been wrong there.  The world’s population has doubled since 1968 without the predicted mass starvation.   Other “experts” also made dire predictions in 1970.  North Texas State University Professor Peter Gunter predicted world-wide famine from 1975 to 2000. Ecologist Kenneth Watt predicted that nitrogen buildup in the atmosphere would filter out all light, making all farm land unusable.  I must have missed that one.  Watt wasn’t done, though.  He also predicted that by 2000 there would be no crude oil left on the Earth.  As I write this, we are running out of storage tanks and tankers for the excess crude oil we are producing, and we are exporting oil.  In 2006, Al Gore no less, and there is no less, warned that the world would end in 10 years.  That didn’t happen either.  Regardless, the claim of global warming is still being made in the face of a 17 year history of flat temperatures.  Since 1880, global average temperature has gone up 1.5 degrees, that’s 1.5 degrees in nearly 140 years.  The United Nations, that organization that we are supposed to believe never lies and is always right (I don’t know about that one) claims that “It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010.”  Translation – the U.N. “thinks” humans “may” be responsible for a temperature increase of less than 1 degree.  They must have irrefutable evidence for that, right?  Well, not really.  There is evidence that CO2 levels have increased.  The U.N. is worried about that.  Now, CO2 levels have been 4 to 18 times higher in the past, but these are “experts” you understand, and they have a solution.  As you might guess, the solution is for the United States to undergo “a radical transformation.”  Uh, where have we heard that term before?  That’s right, from Il Duce Obama.  To be fair, the U.N. says all nations must radically transform, but what are the odds of that happening?  The radical transformation entails the absolute shut down of all coal-fired energy plants by 2050.  That’s part of the Green New Deal, remember?  No coal, no oil, no gasoline, no internal combustion engines, no cow farts, and ultimately, no wealth in the United States.  Yeah, that should be an improvement.  We’ll have a worldwide depression that puts the Great Depression of the 1930’s to shame, but we have no choice if we want to live.  The real question is who would want to live in that world?  The transformation would see large swaths of land currently used to produce food converted to growing trees that store carbon and crops designated for energy use. The latter would be used as part of a currently nonexistent program to get power from trees or plants and then bury the resulting carbon dioxide emissions in the ground, leading to a net subtraction of the gas from the air.  The result?  Millions will starve, but CO2 levels “may” decrease.  The Leftist Greens, formerly known as Reds, are willing to condemn America to a bleak future of poverty and despair so long as they can dictate (isn’t that what dictators do?) every aspect of our lives, if you call that living.  America may lead the world, protect the world and feed the world, but once the whole world is equally miserable and destitute, their work will be done.  The Greens would give us the world envisioned by philosopher Thomas Hobbes, where the life of Man is “cold, solitary, nasty, brutish and short.”  I’ll pass.  How about the truth?  I know that truth has little impact on the Left, but the truth is that, if reducing CO2 is important, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation that has reduced its output of CO2 in recent years.  We’ve done that without sacrificing our way of life, and along the way, we’ve grown stronger and improved the lives of Americans.  Too bad we can’t continue making things better for Americans.  AOC has spoken.  Here’s a thought.  AOC should shut her pie hole for 12 years, and get out of the way.  Happy Earth Day!  Well at least for the next 11 years.