Posted on 11/24/2020 4:47:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Here we are in the midst of the second wave of a once-in-a-half-century pandemic, with the economy flattened and millions of Americans unemployed and race riots in the streets of our major cities. And Joe Biden says that one of his highest priorities as president will be to ... reenter the Paris Climate Accord.
Trump kept his America First promise and pulled America out of this Obama-era treaty. Biden wants us back in -- immediately.
Why? Paris is an unmitigated failure. You don't have to take my word for it. National Geographic, a supporter of climate change action, recently ran the numbers and admits in its recent headline: "Most Countries Aren't Hitting 2030 Climate Goals." That's putting it mildly. Most haven't even reached half their pledged target for emission reductions.
Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, laments: "Countries need to double and triple their 2030 reduction commitments to be aligned with the Paris target."
Gee, this sounds like a treaty we definitely should be part of and pay the bills for.
The one country making substantial progress in reducing carbon emissions is the U.S. under President Donald Trump. Even though our gross domestic product is way up over the past four years, our carbon dioxide emissions are DOWN. Our air pollution levels and emissions of lead, carbon monoxide and other pollutants are at record-low levels.
Meanwhile, Beijing is far and away the largest polluter. Year after year, it makes hollow promises to stop climate change while they build dozens of new coal plants. India and its 1 billion people are hooked on coal, too.
Here is Paris in nutshell: We put our coal miners out of their jobs and cripple our $1 trillion oil and gas industry while China and India keep polluting and laugh at us behind our back.
These nations have bigger and more immediate development priorities than worrying about climate change models and their guestimates of the global temperature in 50 years.
China has much deeper and sinister ambitions. Those don't involve cleaning up the planet. The communists in Beijing's are obsessed with seizing world superpower status away from the U.S. The China 2025 plan for technology domination doesn't involve switching to expensive and unreliable energy sources. Their plan is to goad the U.S. into doing that.
The tragedy of all this is that we have a clean and efficient source of energy. Thanks to the shale oil and gas revolution, the cost of fossil fuels has fallen by 70% to 80% -- and the costs will continue to fall, thanks to the superabundance of these energy sources. The U.S. has more fossil fuel energy than virtually any other nation. We are technologically ahead of the rest of the world in drilling productivity and have become a net exporter.
Gas is the planet's wonder-fuel. It should be the 21st-century power source. It makes no sense economically or ecologically to switch to windmills and solar panels, unless you are an investor in these expensive 19th-century energy sources.
Across the globe, world leaders are overjoyed that under a Biden administration, the U.S. will reenter the Paris Accord. Why wouldn't they be? We pay the bills. We hang our booming free market economy on a cross of climate change regulation. We pretend that the world is complying -- when their actions speak much louder than their words. We trust, but we don't verify.
If Paris is one of Biden's first official acts as president, he will be announcing to the world that putting America First has been replaced with putting America Last.
It’s not a treaty
Or did I miss the Senate vote?
We owe 27 trillion.
We will owe close to 40 trillion by 2024 if biden wins.
Hell he’ll spend 6 trillion at least on the “stimulus” bills and completely bail out the blue cities. among other things
Article assumes that man-made climate change is a thing.
The Paris Treaty isn’t a failure because nobody is committing to it.
Its a failure because its assumptions are wrong, and anyone committing to it would just compound & reinforce the basic error.
The Sun heats the planet. CO2 is plant-food.
23 Nov: Climate Depot: Marc Morano: Biden taps John Kerry as Presidential climate envoy – Expect merging of COVID & Climate – Kerry: ‘You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19’
Biden Transition: “Former Secretary of State John Kerry will fight climate change full-time as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and will sit on the National Security Council. This marks the first time that the NSC will include an official dedicated to climate change.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 23, 2020...
A superb choice by President-elect @JoeBiden of @JohnKerry as Climate Envoy. Kerry’s experience and passion are exactly what we need to restore American leadership abroad and repair the alliances that are crucial to solving the climate crisis.
— Al Gore (@algore) November 23, 2020...
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/11/23/biden-taps-john-kerry-as-presidential-envoy-for-climate-expect-a-merging-of-climate-covid-kerry-you-could-just-as-easily-replace-the-words-climate-change-with-covid-19/
19 Nov: Breitbart: John Kerry Talks ‘Great Reset’: ‘We’re at the Dawn of Extremely Exciting Time’
by John Binder
In a panel discussion by the World Economic Forum, Kerry said Biden is ready to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement...
Kerry said the U.S. rejoining the job-killing, industry-gutting Parish Climate Agreement is “not enough.”
“I know Joe Biden believes this. It’s not enough just to rejoin [the Paris Climate Agreement] for the United States. It’s not enough for us to do just the minimum of what [the agreement] requires,” Kerry said...
Biden already adopted the World Economic Forum’s “Build Back Better” slogan used for the Great Reset by using the phrase on the campaign trail this year...
The establishment media will play a role in the Great Reset, the World Economic Forum suggests. New York Times columnist Ben Smith said the media sees themselves as rule-makers where they set the national agenda — not Americans.
“I think in this election you saw major media outlets just much more careful about picking up, for instance, these stories about Hunter Biden just because they were on the internet in a way that Wikileaks came to dominate the campaign last cycle,” Smith said.
“I think that you’re seeing the mainstream media institutions become a bit more confident in trying to set the national agenda, trying to establish priorities that they think are the priorities rather than simply reacting to what’s happening on social media,” Smith continued.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/19/john-kerry-talks-great-reset-were-at-the-dawn-of-extremely-exciting-time/
It means nothing
and the Senate needs to Scream that and not fund a penny.
Scream that every day to the Globalist Commie Propagandists outlets .
Why doesn’t China have to abide by this when they are responsible for a majority of the Earth’s pollution?
Hmmm, Bejing Biden?
It’s just a tool in their war on the developed west, a huge transfer of wealth and power to the have not nations of the marxist-muslim alliance.
The last sentence of the story states it best. Biden would,in putting us in line with the Paris Climate Accord, put us last. Some of the emissions stated are dangerous chemicals but the main thing they seem to be worried about is CO2 emissions. It is not a worry & never has been. CO2 has been correctly stated many times as plant food, a necessary element in our atmosphere. These folks wanting to decrease it must have flunked high school science. I think it was Obama that got us into this mess in the first place & we know what a mistake he was. Now they want to get Biden elected & perpetuate this mistake. Unbelievable. Taking our fat out of the kettle & throwing it into the fire.
May I suggest learning all about tax fraud and lying and cheating as much as possible on those taxes? If vote fraud is ok, tax fraud should be a cakewalk, no?
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>> The last sentence of the story states it best.
Maybe so, but how many people are going to get that far?
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