Posted on 09/30/2023 10:43:42 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The maximum carbon emissions that several leading green energy states could reduce would only counter a small amount of China’s expected increase in emissions, according to a report published by the John Locke Foundation.
The report assessed the costs of “decarbonizing” electricity production across every state, standardizing each state’s maximum possible reduction in carbon dioxide emissions relative to 2005 levels in terms of how many daily minutes of new Chinese emissions those reductions would offset. The report found that states with carbon-free electricity goals, including California, New York and Minnesota, would not make much impact relative to newly-generated Chinese carbon dioxide emissions.
While California, New York and Minnesota have committed to reaching 100% carbon-free energy production between 2040 and 2045, China permitted two coal plants on average in 2022, according to a report by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air. China’s de facto dictator, Xi Jinping, insinuated in July that the country would not be bound by external factors and agreements, such as the United Nations’ Paris Accords, when it comes to charting its energy future, according to the Heritage Foundation.
If California reduced its emissions by the maximum of 55 million metric tons of emissions, its “decarbonized” energy production would offset less than 18 minutes’ worth of new Chinese emissions each day, and if New York’s prospective elimination of its nearly 61 million tons of energy-related emissions would nix less than 20 daily minutes of Chinese emissions, according to the report.
Minnesota’s planned elimination of nearly 40 million tons of carbon dioxide from its energy production would offset less than 13 daily minutes of Chinese emissions, according to the report.
In contrast to the policies of the four Democrat-controlled states, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zenhua said Thursday that the complete elimination of fossil fuels is an “unrealistic” goal. California, New York and New Mexico have each passed laws tying themselves to their carbon-free energy pledges, while Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy did so in his state via executive action.
“Because GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions spread out and mix within the troposphere, the climatic impact of GHG emissions does not depend upon source location,” according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. So, any decrease to emissions in the U.S. are functionally equivalent to any increases from elsewhere in the world, including China.
The report only looks at new Chinese emissions, excluding any potential increases in the emissions produced by developing countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
“A state can destroy working power plants and impoverish and endanger its own citizens, but it won’t affect the world’s climate one bit,” Jon Sanders, director of the Center for Food, Power and Life for the John Locke Foundation and the report’s author, wrote. “It can’t.”
The offices of Democratic Govs. Kathy Hochul of New York, Tim Walz of Minnesota and Gavin Newsom of California all did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The lie is a drain on everything. There is NO SUCH THING as net zero carbon. Fidiots!
China, Russia/CSTO, India, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa don’t care.
It is not intended to.
Its goal is to wreck the US and turn us into grubbing serfs in a third would country.
The reason the Dems continue to do irrational seeming things is that whatever it’s about, it’s really about the revolution. Logic and reason don’t count because the logic and reason would be about whatever they’re seemingly trying to do. But what they’re really trying to do is forward the revolution, which means damaging society so society will accept whatever bullshit they come up with...*trans* as an example. And trans is to stop people from reproducing because if you can’t absolutely control everyone then new people are a problem for the revolution. The idea is to tear down everything that exists and replace it with...I have no idea and they don’t either. It’s just that everything that exists now has not resulted in utopia. Therefore the first step to utopia is to eliminate everything that exists now. (Except for iPHones, Starbucks, pot and Mercedes.)
That is the plan. Shackle us and let the communists win.
It is like having 8 dogs in the house-—and trying to figure out which one refuses to be housebroken and the others get blamed.
> China, Russia/CSTO, India, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa don’t care. <
As far as China and Russia go, our foolishness must amaze them.
And if I were the president of China, I’d be quietly contributing to various American green energy lobbying groups. The more radical the group, the more money they get.
net zero is democide
the carbon they want to get rid of is you
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia.
New study finds Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.
MIT News Office ^ | : November 16, 2022 | Jennifer Chu
Posted on 9/29/2023, 3:03:43 PM by daniel1212
https://news.mit.edu/2022/earth-stabilizing-temperature-1116
The Earth’s climate has undergone some big changes, from global volcanism to planet-cooling ice ages and dramatic shifts in solar radiation. And yet life, for the last 3.7 billion years, has kept on beating.
Now, a study by MIT researchers in Science Advances confirms that the planet harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to pull the climate back from the brink, keeping global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.
Just how does it accomplish this? A likely mechanism is “silicate weathering” — a geological process by which the slow and steady weathering of silicate rocks involves chemical reactions that ultimately draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into ocean sediments, trapping the gas in rocks...
“You have a planet whose climate was subjected to so many dramatic external changes. Why did life survive all this time? One argument is that we need some sort of stabilizing mechanism to keep temperatures suitable for life,” Arnscheidt says..
In other words, as the Earth’s temperatures fluctuate over longer stretches, these fluctuations may just happen to be small enough in the geologic sense, to be within a range that a stabilizing feedback, such as silicate weathering, could periodically keep the climate in check, and more to the point, within a habitable zone.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.mit.edu …
https://news.mit.edu/2022/earth-stabilizing-temperature-1116
“Barely make a dent In China’s projected emissions” is a highly suspect conclusion. Chances are, the total cession of virtually ALL US “carbon emissions” will vastly INCREASE the output of China’s total emissions. There is still the demand for industrial output everywhere else in the world, and if the US is no longer in position to serve those demands, then China would gladly step in and take over the markets for the expansion of the world’s industrial base. And they would not be farting around with anything like OSHA or EPA rules on emissions standards.
We need a REPORT to know that? Everybody on FR could have told them that.
We are shutting down coal plants every day and China is starting up a couple of new ones every week.
Where’s my $250k consulting fee?
+1 000 000 !
It’s a good thing that China is located on another planet, or we’d be in trouble.
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is ALWAYS The Revolution.
They are not carbon emissions. They mean CO2 but are too stupid to know the difference.
The West destroying itself for the Chinese Communist Party
” it’s really about the revolution”
If the GD Fidiots win and they complete their “revolution,” then we will be communist to the core. What will the communists do?
#1. Kill all the revolutionaries that installed them. It’s what they always do because their useful idiots that installed them are no longer radical enough or useful.
#2. Build LOTS of coal fired power plants.
So, irony of ironies, we are right back where we started!
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