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
So they really have no clue.
Yes they do. They know exactly what they are doing.
This is evil and designed to do one thing.
Bankrupt every western nation and collapse their economies so that it can be “built back better”
You don’t hear about China, India, or Russia, or any of the other big polluters “doing their part” in this global warming, climate change ponsi scheme.
You’d think we would have learned from the last climate emergency, you remember, global cooling and the coming ice age…….
10% of this will be quite a bit even in inflated digital money.
Send j brilliant as usual. But completely meaningless. Changed no minds. Violence only solution.
CO2 content in our atmosphere is 0.04%. According to “scientists” it recently went to 0.04% after being 0.03% at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1760. So in 260 years it increased 0.01%! And this is if you believe the scientists computer modeling projections which have proven to be all over the map over the years. Remember AL Gore’s ranting? According to him and his scientists we should all be dead by now.
Reuters covers for this family of climate grifters (see second link (BBC) for different figures and interpretation:
20 Jan 2023: ABC Australia: Reuters: King Charles III pledges to give back billions in wind farm profits
King Charles has told the British government he would like an expected surge in profit from a 900 million pound ($1.6 billion)-a-year wind farm deal for his Crown Estate to go to the “wider public good” rather than to the royal family.
Under agreements announced on Thursday, the Crown Estate will lease sites for six new offshore wind projects that are capable of generating enough green electricity to power more than seven million homes by 2030...
A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said King Charles’s treasurer, known as the Keeper of the Privy Purse, had written to the prime minister and finance minister “to share the King’s wish that this windfall be directed for wider public good, rather than to the Sovereign Grant”.
Under an agreement with the government, the royal family receives a Sovereign Grant that covers the running costs of the royal households and travel expenses.
It is based on 15 per cent of surplus revenue from the Crown Estate — a property portfolio belonging to the monarchy.
The portfolio includes virtually all of the seabed around the United Kingdom, some of the most expensive land in London and city shopping centres...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-20/king-charles-to-give-back-billions-wind-farm-profits/101875156
19 Jan 2023: BBC: King Charles to divert Crown Estate windfall to ‘public good’
The Royal Household’s public funding is based on 25% of Crown Estate profits...
At present, the Sovereign Grant is based on 25% of Crown Estate profits - a temporary increase on the usual 15% - with the extra funding used for repairs and renovations for Buckingham Palace.
The grant is used for paying for the costs of working royals, such as travel for official engagements, and for the upkeep of royal palaces...
Sir Michael Stevens, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, has written to the prime minister and chancellor to propose an “appropriate reduction”.
But anti-monarchy campaigners, Republic, have rejected the move as “cynical PR to pre-empt a government decision to reduce the percentage”.
The group’s chief executive Graham Smith said the King’s statement “reflected an arrangement he had no power to change”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64319323
Nancy said we just have to do it to find out
When President Trump becomes POTUS again, I want him to lock every one of these insane LIEberals in a SuperMax for life!
There is no evidence that atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is a forcing agent in climate change.
People can rant all day about being “carbon neutral”; variations in global climate have nuttin to do with carbon dioxide.
here’s question to ask your liberal “sky is falling” chicken little types.
So, Carbon Dioxide is bad, and it’s increasing you say, and we spend lots of effort and money to reduce it. Please tell me, what is the percentage of the atmosphere that is currently CO2, and what has it been historically, what’s the growth here? from what percent to what percent? please let me know so I can help.
They won’t know the answer. ask them to guess. Then ask them to guess what happens if if drops too low. They probably won’t know.
Living in Canada, which is ALREADY a carbon sink, I’d really like to feel for you and the pain you suffer, but my carbon taxes have just gone up by 30%.
I love Senator John Kennedy. He asks the straight, logical direct questions that they all should be asking. He repeats the questions. The questioners dumbfoundedness tells us all we have to know about how idiotic and vastly illogical and non=scientific their big spending tall tale projects are.
The US cannot pay the way for other countries. We have to have a reasonable budget..we can’t handle one spending like we have an endless supply.
We are not the rich uncle any more.
For those heavily invested in a scam they all know about and support
Senator Kennedy is a national treasure.
Global warming will be a good thing. Don’t spend the money. Don’t neuter Man-bear-pig. Warm it, baby!
It is all - ALL - a ruse.
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