Here's an example of how supposedly good advice actually has bad effects.

People sleep better in cooler rooms. Sleep disruptions from warm weather cause declines in economic productivity and health problems.

And you know who in particular warns us about those problems? Global warming activists warning of the effects of a warmer world.

But they're also part of the problem of insufficient electricity resources. The cost of unreliable renewables - solar particularly - have dropped enough that higher cost reliable electricity is going off-line. That's why the Palisades nuclear plant is closing early.

But paying for reliability is a good thing. A cheaper car, for example, sounds nice, but it's not so great a deal if it doesn't always run when you need it to. The problem of reliability will get worse when we start shutting down natural gas plants without any reliable backup.

Then you may be sleeping in even warmer temps, just to try to keep the power own, or yet warmer because the power has gone out, because there just isn't enough to go around anymore.

The solutions aren't technologically that hard. But politically they're very challenging, both because climate activists are hell bent on nothing but wind, solar, and maybe hydro, and because nobody wants big transmission lines running through their neighborhood to move energy from where its produced to where its consumed.

The U.S. is declining to second country status on an energy level.