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The Net-Zero Shell Game and Joe Biden’s Deceptions
realclearenergy.org ^ | 4/29/2021 | Rupert Darwall

Posted on 05/02/2021 7:11:05 AM PDT by rktman

President Biden’s Earth Day announcement that the United States is to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels (equivalent to a 42% cut of 2019’s pre-Covid emission levels) within nine years comes with a double deception – one of cause and the other of effect. It aims to force America to reach net-zero no later than 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This, the White House claims, is what “the science demands.”

In fact, it is the first deception.

The 1.5-degree limit has nothing to do with science and everything to do with politics and green ideology. The 1992 UN framework convention on climate change set the aim of avoiding “dangerous anthropogenic interference” with the climate system, a problem it left undefined. Four years later, the European Council’s environment ministers filled in the gap. On behalf of the European Union, it declared that “the Council believes that global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level.” The pre-industrial baseline is the giveaway that this is ideology, not science. No one can be sure what average global temperature was back then, but according to green ideology, the industrial revolution is the original sin of modern civilization.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climageddon; ecowankers; gangreen; lyingliars
Correction there Rupert. The first deception is that there is a problem related to "man made". But, we know what you're saying. Sadly, the elite don't care since they'll be profiting BIGLY from this and any actions won't effect them. Don't see any of them "sacrificing" their life styles to save the planet that doesn't need "saving" since it doesn't care. Not to mention that it sure seems no one bothers to mention that survival is a lot more doable in warm weather than sub-zero weather. Keep on truckin' there fidiots.
1 posted on 05/02/2021 7:11:05 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

How will the armed forces operate when the fuel that every armored and flight vehicle consumes is no longer considered important?


2 posted on 05/02/2021 7:20:35 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

Armed forces? That’s crazy since we’ll all be existing in “unity”. :-{


3 posted on 05/02/2021 7:23:29 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: rktman

They got theirs. You’re on your own.


4 posted on 05/02/2021 7:27:35 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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LOL! Hey at least the act like they care about us.


5 posted on 05/02/2021 7:40:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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