Interior Sec. Burgum Mic-Drops the Green New Scam – Europe Is Learning the Hard Way [WATCH]

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum criticized the European Union’s adoption of Green New Deal–style energy policies while arguing that past U.S. energy strategies were built on assumptions that later proved inaccurate.

Burgum’s remarks focused on how earlier energy policy discussions in the United States centered on concerns about dwindling domestic energy supplies, particularly during the late 2000s when debates over “peak oil” and fossil fuel limits shaped policy decisions.

“Whose all of our energy policies, when Obama took on in took over in 2008 it was all because all the energy policies were built around, we’ve reached peak oil, and it’s in written decline,” Burgum said.

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According to Burgum, those assumptions led policymakers to believe the United States would need to move away from traditional energy sources such as coal and natural gas.

“You know, we’re going to stop using coal as a fuel,” Burgum said.

“There is no more natural gas in this country.”

He argued that these beliefs encouraged reliance on outside sources of energy.

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“We’ve got it. We’ve got to start buying our you know, you know, intermittent, unreliable, foreign sources energy for us to be able to do this,” Burgum said.

Burgum also criticized the role of long-term climate models in shaping global energy policy.

He said government decisions increasingly relied on projections generated by computer models attempting to forecast conditions many decades into the future.

“And the number one, you know, the number one, top order bit was, was a belief in a computer models that predicted, somehow was certainly what was going to happen in the year 2100 you know, one degree of climate change,” Burgum said.

Drawing on his experience in the technology sector prior to entering politics, Burgum said predictive models often have significant limitations.

“I mean, there’s, I spent decades in in the software business, and I didn’t see models that were accurate for predicting next corners earnings,” Burgum said.

“I didn’t see models that were, you know, that would protect how fast innovation would occur.”

Burgum argued that projections and forecasts should be viewed as estimates rather than definitive outcomes.

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