Michael Moore’s new climate change film has his usual liberal allies turning on him

There’s an alarming documentary just out that concludes the development of alternative methods of producing the nation’s energy have not only failed to reduce global warming but, instead, have made things worse.

Whenever these kinds of shocking revelations are offered for our edification, they always get my attention, for two reasons.

First is Texas’ role as the nation’s largest supplier of energy from fossil fuels and wind resources and the threat to our local economies and jobs that could be the consequences of “solutions” to what some see as a global crisis leading to our extinction.

Second are the implications on the future of the work of the Environmental Protection Agency, where I once served as a senior federal official.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s disturbing new movie, “Planet of the Humans,” is previewed with this scary opening text:

“The only thing worse than knowing the planet is on the brink of extinction is discovering we’ve put our hope for survival in illusions.”

Moore has caught flak from former admirers on the left in the national media and in Congress, and there have been requests that his film be removed from websites. Some environmentalists have demanded an apology from Moore for his “shockingly misleading and absurd” false claims about renewable energy.

The movie runs for an hour and 40 minutes. It opens with a clip from the 1958 Frank Capra film “The Unchanged Goddess.” The narrator explains that we are faced with “extremely dangerous questions” about changing the climate by melting polar icecaps thus drowning East and Gulf coast states and turning the center of the country into an “inland sea.”

Given the human-caused excessive levels of carbon dioxide, by now there should have been “tourists in glass bottom boats viewing the drowned towers of Miami through 150 feet of tropical water.”

At first, viewers may think Moore’s film is another attack on coal, oil, natural gas, capitalism, billionaires, President Donald Trump and the other usual targets of those supporting the so-called Green New Deal.

Indeed, it does all of that. Soon, however, you realize the assault includes a full-blown mugging of solar panels, wind farms, and biomass “renewables” (trees). The film concludes that those “solutions” have actually resulted in the release of more greenhouse gasses than would have occurred if we had just kept using fossil fuels.

Viewers are then treated to site visits of acres of abandoned solar panels, rotted and rusted wind turbines, clear-cut forests and great expanses of mining wastes resulting from the production of resources to develop alternative forms of energy.

Then — try not to hyperventilate here — the film exposes the hypocrisy and profiteering of the standard-bearer of the global warming movement, none other than Al Gore.

Moore said he made the film “because we don’t want to die.” He described the message from his critics as “wanting me to shut the [expletive] up.”

While short on solutions, the documentary says that the only way to prevent our extinction in another generation or two, is to “stop behaving like we behave.”

If there is a summary conclusion of what we must do to save ourselves, it is found in the need for our society to stop consuming and stop having kids.

There’s just too many of us, Moore argues, and we have to stop buying things that are produced by our current lifestyle — especially anything that comes from the production of rock concerts, automobiles, airplanes and everything else that defines life on the planet today.

There’s plenty of down time right now. Maybe you ought to see Moore’s latest work.