19 Jan: Newsmax: Biden’s Return to Paris Climate Blunders Will Benefit Beijing
by Larry Bell (endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston)
As part of his $2 trillion “Equitable Clean Energy Future” agenda, President Biden has pledged to recommit America to the Paris Climate Agreement (drafted in 2015, signed in 2016) that proposes to eliminate carbon emissions from electricity by 2035, and shift from oil, natural gas and coal to achieve “net-zero carbon” emissions by 2050.
This would occur as China and India which have represented 80% of the emission increases and are not bound to the pact, are dramatically ramping up coal and oil development.
Although Beijing agreed to peak its emissions by 2030, they have a pass to do nothing to stem growth of CO2 emission growth during the 15 years leading up to that deadline...
President Trump wisely withdrew the U.S. from the Paris pact and President Obama’s commitments which included a pledge of $3 billion from American taxpayers to the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund by 2020 along with having developed countries eventually pay $100 billion annually to developing countries to ambiguously “mitigate climate change.”
In reality, the U.S. had never actually signed on to the agreement — which would have required Senate treaty ratification — something that wouldn’t previously have happened.
The Paris “agreement” was actually a non-treaty in any case, since each nation set their own emission goals with no penalties...
Under EPA chief, Gina McCarthy, the Obama-Biden CPP plan had proposed to install the equivalent electricity of 270,000 wind turbines (three times the total global installed capacity), or 750 GW of solar power (125 times the installed capacity globally.)...
McCarthy has now been nominated to serve as a Cabinet-level Biden administration “climate czar” who will be responsible for coordinating climate actions across numerous agencies and Congress.
Beijing energy oligarchs must be beaming with gratitude.
https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/epa-xijinping-mccarthy/2021/01/19/id/1006285/
learn from the mistakes of Germany:
19 Jan: Watts Up With That: Germany Weighs Electricity Rationing Scheme To Stabilize Its Now Shaky Green Power Grid
Reposted from the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin
Germany struggles to keep the lights on, looks for a law to prevent its power grid from crashing...
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/19/germany-weighs-electricity-rationing-scheme-to-stabilize-its-now-shaky-green-power-grid/
As I’ve said for a while, you can’t run what we think of in the US as a modern civilization on so-called Green Energy.
It is long past time to start calling people on this.
They can mess up a bunch of other stuff in the process, but nothing Lord Kerry or Sandy Cortez or anyone else does is going to have any impact on the climate, which will keep on changing like it has for millennia.