Posted on 05/06/2023 8:30:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Biden Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk highlighted the absurdity of the climate grift this week during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, when Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) couldn't get a straight answer out of him over the cost of going 'carbon neutral.'
In a tense exchange, Kennedy repeatedly attempted to get Turk to give a straightforward answer to just how much American taxpayers will have to pay to achieve the Biden administration's goal of reaching US carbon neutrality by 2050.
When Kennedy asked whether some of the "experts" Turk referred to earlier were correct in a $50 trillion estimate, Turk nodded his head, and said "It’s gonna cost trillions of dollars, there’s no doubt about it."
"f we spend $50 trillion to become carbon neutral by 2050 in the United States of America, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?" Kennedy replied. The conversation continued (transcription via the Daily Caller)
Turk: “So, every country around the world needs to get its act together. Our emissions are about 13% of global emissions right now…”
Kennedy: “Yeah, but if you could answer my question. If we spend $50 trillion to become carbon neutral in the U.S. by 2050, you’re the Deputy Secretary of Energy, give me your estimate of how much that is going to reduce world temperatures.”
Turk: “So, first of all, it’s a net cost. It’s what, um, benefits we’re having from getting our act together and reducing all of those costs and climate benefits…”
Kennedy: “Let me ask you. Maybe I’m not being clear. If we spend $50 trillion to become carbon neutral by 2050 in the United States of America, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?”
Turk: “This is a global problem, so we need to reduce our emissions and we need to do everything to, uh…”
Kennedy: “How much of we do our part is it going to reduce global temperatures?”
Turk: “So, we’re 13% of global emissions…”
Kennedy: “You don’t know, do you? You don’t know, do you?”
A fully flabbergasted Turk then says "In my heart of hearts, there is no way the world gets its act together on climate change unless the U.S. leads."
Watch (with full exchange here):
Biden official: It's going to cost trillions of dollars. There's no doubt about it.⁰⁰
Me: So, if the U.S. spent $50T to become carbon neutral by 2050, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?⁰⁰
Biden official: *No answer* pic.twitter.com/6u8QmeJRdq — John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) May 4, 2023
As energy expert David Blackmon writes in the Daily Caller;
And there we have it. Americans are being asked to accept the force-feeding of an incredibly radical set of policies with a price tag that is unprecedented in global history to achieve a “carbon neutrality” goal, whose benefits are so nebulous, negligible and wholly reliant on the cooperative actions of other countries beyond U.S. control that they cannot be measured in any reliable way.
Instead, we are being told by senior political appointees forcing those policies into being that we should simply trust them because they think it is the right thing to do in their “heart of hearts.”
This is madness. For some context, $50 trillion is an amount that exceeds the gross domestic product of the U.S., China, India, Germany and Japan, combined. It is a number that drastically exceeds total U.S. national debt. It is more than 135 times the $369 billion in green energy subsidies contained in last year’s Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
That is five new IRAs each year for the next 27 years. Madness.
Madness indeed.
Global warming risk is overblown in the short term, but significant in the long term — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2023
If we drive full on for “carbon neutrality” we will never get there. The nation will be so weakened that China will add North America to the Middle Empire. Then the competition will resolve into the Heavenly Throne vs. Mohammedanism.
To really try to attain carbon neutrality would require the extinction of life.
If humans never evolved on earth the climate would still be changing.
Climate cultist are a direct threat to mankind.
EVERYTHING about “global warming/climate change/extreme weather” is a LIE.
Cute staffers behind Kennedy.
Democrats don’t give a damned where fed money gets spent it’s to ensure they get kickbacks.
One of many Nancy Pelosi
Earns 200 Thousand per year
Net worth 140 Million
And the focus group term of the day, “GET OUR ACT TOGETHER.”
If they cared on bit they would seal up the border.
Global warming is a long con, Mr. Musk. Don’t fall for it.
They don’t know because they don’t care. That is not the point of this exercise, control is the point.
Senator Kennedy does it again...proving Turk is - like 100% of this administration - a moronic idiotic Jerk!
I have fun with the science illiterates by asking them, “if carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant, what is the CO2 concentration in a submarine?”
Exactly!
Gotta give the left credit, they have successfully dumbed down this nation to the point where people will believe anything.
Stick to making cars, Elon...you have enough problems doing that, even with taxpayer money helping.
In my mind, a “fiery” exchange should involve at least one raised voice. This exchange doesn’t pass.
But Turk doesn’t have the slightest idea of benefit. To be honest, nobody does. This leads me to question the value of green energy. No promise of the benefit of green energy has proven to be true.
Turk’s head really IS shaped like a penis.
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