Posted on 04/19/2021 5:39:08 PM PDT by Meatspace
WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest coal miners’ union said Monday it would accept President Joe Biden’s plan to move away from coal and other fossil fuels in exchange for a “true energy transition” that includes thousands of jobs in renewable energy and spending on technology to make coal cleaner.
Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said ensuring jobs for displaced miners — including 7,000 coal workers who lost their jobs last year — is crucial to any infrastructure bill taken up by Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
Never trust unions, Democrats, communists ... but I’m being redundant.
“Let’s trade in this working vehicle for the promised flying 🦄 “
Suckers
They’ll be installing solar roof panels, right?
Who all is skeptical?
Buying votes on a promise, after proven non-delivery.
Even then, most men know a BS story when they hear one.
The union pres better put this position up for a vote.
“Miners’ union backs shift from coal in exchange for jobs”
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“Here ya go fellers. What you gonna be doing in the new alternative energy field is pulling these here solar panels out of this Chinese crate, peel off the “Made in China” sticker...and put on this here “Made in America” sticker, and put the panel in this new American create over here.”
says UNION BOSSES, not members.
Suckas.
manmade gloBULL warming is a hoax, created for the benefit of CHINA.
***good analysis, even tho WSJ leaves THE ORIGINS OF COVID-19 out of their list of topics China doesn’t want to discuss:
19 Apr: WSJ Editorial: John Kerry’s Climate Kowtow
How much will Biden trade away in exchange for empty promises?
(Appeared in the April 20, 2021, print edition)
Making climate the sole focus of an early visit tells the Chinese that the U.S. puts that single issue above everything else in the bilateral relationship.
***China is happy to jibber-jabber about climate with the Americans if it means not having to engage on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing’s repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang, the South China Sea, North Korea, or intellectual property theft.
But Beijing is clear that it will ignore any carbon-emissions commitments that might impinge on China’s economic growth. “Some countries are asking China to do more on climate change,” deputy foreign minister Le Yucheng said last week. “I am afraid this is not very realistic.”
Instead of triggering a rethink in Beijing, Mr. Kerry’s Shanghai jaunt gave China’s leaders a new opportunity to go on the public-relations offensive. “China welcomes the U.S. return to the Paris agreement and expects the U.S. side to uphold the agreement,” vice-premier Han Zheng told Mr. Kerry in a jab at Washington’s withdrawal from the pact under President Trump. Mr. Kerry also flattered Beijing by all but begging President Xi Jinping to join another global climate confab later this week...
Beijing’s rhetorical flourishes concerning the Paris agreement are especially rich. In the years since the Trump Administration withdrew from that pact in 2017, American carbon emissions have kept falling and in 2019 hit their lowest level since 1992, and their lowest per capita since 1950, thanks in large part to the revolution in shale drilling for natural gas.
China saw its emissions rise in the same period, and its commitment under Paris to reduce emissions doesn’t even begin until 2030. As a Reuters dispatch in February put it: “China approved the construction of a further 36.9 GW of coal-fired capacity last year, three times more than a year earlier, bringing the total under construction to 88.1 GW. It now has 247 GW of coal power under development, enough to supply the whole of Germany.”
Chinese leaders don’t mind Paris because they know it binds them to nothing while Western nations will harm their economies with new regulation and misallocated resources. The Chinese must be dumbfounded that a U.S. Administration wants to kill the shale natural gas boom that has kept energy prices low and made the U.S. less reliant on foreign oil...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-kerrys-climate-kowtow-11618873552
Buh bye Joe Manchin. November 2024.
...and what jobs are those? Learn to code, yes? Perhaps they mean those imaginary jobs, like the “Green Jobs” that were never created by the first “Great Stimulus Bill” of Obama’s administration?
Imaginary jobs from an imaginary industry! Of course!
The Traitors selling out our country (especially rich that John Kerry plays a starring role) will be 6 feet under by the time rationality returns to enough of the American electorate. But I’ll insist that the bodies be exhumed and put on trial anyway.
The only way non-coal energy products will have a major market is by federal law, through Congress.
“That’s right. 40 acres and a mule.” A line from GWTW 1939. They never got the mule or the 40 acres.
> says UNION BOSSES, not members. <
Right. I was a member of a teachers union for decades. And I never once got to vote for my state or national leaders. Those people were always picked by convention delegates. And how those delegates were chosen...Stalin would be proud.
I wonder if the United Mine Workers works the same way.
"I'm Proud To Be A Solar Installer's Daughter".
"From a Amazon web site
Money made from selling the hog"
16 Apr: National Review: Climate ‘Emergency’? Not So Fast
By RICHARD LINDZEN & WILLIAM HAPPER
Americans should not be stampeded into a disastrous climate crusade.
By obligating the United States once more to the Paris agreement, and by signaling very clearly that “climate” will be central to its policies, the Biden administration has joined other governments in the crusade against a supposed “climate emergency.” We use the word “crusade” advisedly, since the frenzy over climate resembles the medieval crusades against foreign infidels and home-grown heretics. There is even a children’s climate crusade...
We are both scientists who can attest that the research literature does not support the claim of a climate emergency. Nor will there be one. None of the lurid predictions — dangerously accelerating sea-level rise, increasingly extreme weather, more deadly forest fires, unprecedented warming, etc. — are any more accurate than the fire-and-brimstone sermons used to stoke fanaticism in medieval crusaders...
(Richard Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor, Emeritus, of atmospheric sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a fellow of numerous professional societies, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. William Happer is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor, Emeritus, of physics at Princeton University, a fellow of numerous professional societies, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/climate-emergency-not-so-fast/
“Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America..”
They voted for him..enjoy your unemployment you idiots.
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