Posted on 11/04/2020 6:10:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A failed Democratic drive to gain control the U.S. Senate could reduce the prospects for aggressive legislation to combat global climate change, even if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden were to win the White House.
By early Wednesday morning, the presidential race between Biden and incumbent Republican President Donald Trump was too close to call, but emerging results from down-ballot races pointed to Republicans maintaining a majority in the Senate.
“I don’t see any way for comprehensive climate legislation to get through the Senate. Off the table for at least two more years even if Biden squeaks out a victory,” said Scott Irwin, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois.
“No one is going to have an overwhelming mandate,” said Ed Hirs, economics professor at the University of Houston.
Biden has promised to guide the United States economy to net-zero emissions by 2050 to fight global warming if he is elected, a pledge that would require sweeping legislation to achieve.
Trump, meanwhile, has downplayed the risks of climate change and rolled back a slew of climate and other environmental protections to boost U.S. drilling and mining - an approach backed by many Republican senators.
He also withdrew the United States from the international accord to fight climate change called the Paris Agreement.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Many scams coming our way all of which we will pay for in some fashion
BS. Without Trump, the Senate will “reach across the isle” and do the left’s bidding.
We are seriously hosed.
FUSK
Good!
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
Don’t count on it. There are so many RINOs in the senate. They failed to do their duty over the past 4 years. They can confirm judges and that’s about all.
*sob*
Good.
So who says we need to chase a fart in a whirlwind anyway? Might as well bale up another pallet of cash & send it to the Iranians as to worry about climate change. There is One who changes the climate & we are not Him.
This is like posting a No Peeing Zone sign in a public swimming pool. Take a look at a global map of pollution sources. We cant solve this alone.
Pres. Abraham Lincoln in response to criticism about then Gen. Grant.
Mitt probably will be voted Majority Leader (sarc)
You can see a realtime map at:
Click on the “Earth” keyword (lower-left) and you can change the pollution type. You can also “drag” the earth to a different viewpoint by left-click-and-hold while you drag the earth’s viewpoint.
With Senate ratification of a treaty by a two-thirds vote, the Paris Accords are basically unenforceable under U.S. law. The Paris Accords will become nothing more than a mechanism to pursue fascist/crony-capitalist deals between U.S. governments (at all levels) and U.S. corporations looking to make money by selling overpriced sh!t that nobody would otherwise buy.
Here's a perfect example of how this would work (I'm very familiar with this case) ...
The government of Massachusetts has spent years catering to environmentalist pressure to block the construction of new pipelines from the Marcellus and Utica shale regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Their excuse for this is that they want to eliminate the carbon footprint of fossil fuels like natural gas.
But Massachusetts has done very little to replace the power generating capacity of their gas-fired power plants. So the state retains one of the only remaining liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the U.S., which is used to import natural gas on ships from Europe and Russia -- a process that has a much larger carbon footprint than a new pipeline from Pennsylvania.
P.S. -- In case anyone is wondering ... The example I provided above explains why @ssholes like Joe Biden and John Kerry send their family members to work for foreign energy companies even while they make every effort to curtail energy production here in the U.S.
Gore followers should set their thermostats to off and download their bus schedules.
Mitt is power crazed enough to go for that.
Energy companies need to pay more in Democratic family member assistance since their very existence is on the line.
>>A failed Democratic drive to gain control the U.S. Senate could reduce the prospects for aggressive legislation to combat global climate change<<
Well if they are doing their jobs, yeah.
AGW is so not science.
That includes all electricity produced by fossil fuels.
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