Consumer prices are soaring. The southern border is wide open. Control of Congress hinges on a handful of extremely close races that have yet to be decided. So, what are President Joe Biden and the Democrats worried about?

Climate change.

The debate continues over the extent to which our climate is affected by human activity. In the 1970s, they said human pollution would send the globe into a deep freeze. When that didn’t work, they shifted their focus from global cooling to global warming.

But let’s just assume for a moment that left-wing scientists who’ve been predicting doom and gloom for the past 50 years are actually onto something. Are we to believe the only way to battle climate change is to embrace socialism? After all, that’s what the Democrats keep screaming. Give up your gas-guzzling cars, install solar panels on your home, embrace green energy — all heavily regulated and/or subsidized by government. That’s the sort of thing we keep hearing.

And yet despite this, the globalists want the United States to cough up more money to other countries as a form of climate reparations.

Last year’s United Nations Climate Change conference, also known as COP26, “demanded that wealthy nations ‘make significant progress’ to fulfill an overdue promise to provide at least $100 billion per year in financial aid to developing countries as they cope with the devastating effects of climate change,” reports The Washington Post. “Importantly, these funds are supposed to be ‘new and additional’ to nations’ existing aid budgets — ensuring that support for climate doesn’t take away from education, public health and other development concerns.” Yeah, the fanatics wouldn’t want that.

At this year’s COP27, countries continue to demand more money for what’s called “loss and damage” from climate change.

Even The New York Times admits it’s skeptical: “For decades, rich, polluting nations have repelled calls for loss and damage money. As a legal and a practical matter, it has been extraordinarily difficult to define ‘loss and damage’ and determine what it might cost and who should pay how much.”

The Times adds that Biden has already committed to significantly increasing funding to help underdeveloped countries build sea walls and implement drought readiness measures to help alleviate the consequences of powerful storms. Of course, no one asks where the money is coming from or how the funds will be monitored upon arrival.

Moreover, even if funneling American money to less developed countries could help fight climate change, it would be negated by countries like China and India, which are heading in the opposite direction by tapping into the power of coal, natural gas, and oil. In other words, no degree of socialism can stop the climate from changing.

“Crazy goals such as carbon-free electricity by 2035 and a 32% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 highlight the insanity of Biden’s radical climate activism, writes economist Larry Kudlow. "Renewables have proven unreliable and unsustainable.” He then adds, “The war against fossil fuels — including extremist environmental restrictions that have ended permitting for drilling, pipelining, and refining — has taken a huge toll on the economy and delivered a massive inflation tax on the middle class.”

Meanwhile, there are alternatives to pushing far-left policies. “Global electricity markets with the fewest restraints are realizing greater declines in CO2 releases,” says Rod Richardson, cofounder of the Clean Capitalist Leadership Council. “Tax cuts would stimulate clean energy markets even more,” according to Forbes.

And as West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito points out: “America’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) is 30 percent cleaner than Russian natural gas. Increasing domestic energy production here — where it’s produced, refined, and transported in a much ‘greener’ way than in other nations — isn’t just good for business; it’s good for the planet.”

If political and environmental leftists really wanted to address climate change, they’d consider other approaches beyond asking the American people to surrender their way of life in order to appease the likes of Al Gore and Greta Thunberg.

No wonder so many people realize the truth: Fearmongering over climate change is ultimately more about power and politics than climate.