From the regulate the masses anyway we can department:
NEW YORK (AFP) – US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Monday predicted that the world’s largest economy would have legislation by the end of the decade to combat climate change.
His optimism comes despite intense political debate in the United States with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowing to scrap the Paris climate accord if elected on November 8.
But Moniz, opening the annual Climate Week of events in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, said that US public opinion and state and local policymakers were moving toward reducing carbon responsible for the planet’s fast-rising temperatures.
“I will state quite frankly, I have a bet riding on the fact that we will have economy-wide legislation in the Congress by the end of this decade. I really believe that this is coming,” he said, joking that as a physicist he believed in “rationality.”
Legislation to create the first nationwide carbon caps in the United States, the world’s second-largest emitter after China, died in the Senate in 2010, with little prospect seen for action after the Republicans took control.
President Barack Obama instead has relied on executive authority to take measures such as regulating power plants and fuel standards.
Moniz said that the United States was confident it would meet its goal submitted under the Paris accord of reducing emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases by 26 to 28 percent by 2025, from 2005 levels.
“But I think there’s no issue that rather than a sectoral approach, which is inherent in using administrative authorities, a simplified economy-wide approach would be preferable and, frankly, would be a lot clearer in terms of the signals for business,” Moniz said.
The United Nations is hoping that this week’s meetings will put in force the Paris accord, which requires formal agreement by 55 countries accounting for 55 percent of global emissions.
The accord got a major boost earlier this month when Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping jointly committed themselves to the global climate pact.
It’s already happening. Even if Trump wins, and even if he can and will do what supporters hope, he’s not in charge of every city or state in the union. Legislatures in blue states simply impose regulation without press or public comment. Jerry Brown in California is now regulating Dairy cows.
They won’t talk about it – they’ll just do it. Real bad boys move in silence.
Remember, this is a trillion-dollar opportunity and they want their money.
Enforced Executive Orders become the law…temporarily….
oops wrong place sorry marcus.
Wouldn’t it be better to just dress warmer this winter and watch them freeze as they come to take your gun?
michael. 🙂
Watch out this is likely the next chapter in the environmental play book
“Plastic crockery and cutlery is to be banned in France unless it is made from biologically sourced materials.
The law comes into force in 2020. It is part of a French environmental initiative called the Energy Transition for Green Growth, part of a package aimed at tackling climate change.
But, the Independent reported, the move faces a challenge from Pack2Go Europe, a Brussels-based organisation representing European packaging manufacturers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/17/france-bans-the-use-of-plastic-crockery-and-cutlery-to-aid-battl/
@ur momisugly Cat, the Pack2go challenge will be:
” but plastics are made from biological sources”.
The Trudeau puppet in Canada is already drafting a national carbon tax that will enrich even more his handlers…
“{Ernst Moniz] said, joking that as a physicist he believed in “rationality.”” An inadvertent irony, given that he cannot have evaluated climate models.
The association of physicist and rationality does not have a greater irony than, “John Holdren” and “Science Advisor.”
I’m willing to take the bet. Too many people are getting wiser about the issue. I, for one, have never bought the CAGW stuff. I think common sense is to blame. (and I have been looking at all the pros & cons since the beginning of this charade).
The Washington DC plum book is driving this and much of the national politics. Anyone have any idea of what the total worth of all those positions is nowdays? Gotta say, this wonk looks like what he is.
Such diabolically insane rants are typical of the “ugly as a boot” syndrome.
Hummm, he may be right as soon as he gets a haircut and drops a couple chins that are directly attributed to his percieved problem. Just sayin, how did he get here anyhow?
Moniz who is scientifically educated ought to know better than keep pushing carbon reduction as a rational choice because it isn’t. Carbon dioxide is not the cause of global warming and never was. The existence of a temperature standstill during the current hiatus ought to be enough to convince any rational being that global warming is not happening. Monckton observed nineteen years of no warming before the 3016 El Nino put an end to it. I will take three years off of it for the super El Nino he included that should not count. This current hiatus is not the only one we have experienced. There was also a hiatus in the eighties and nineties you cannot see because the greenhouse warming team is covering it up with a fake warming called “late twentieth century warming.” You will find this hiatus in my book “What Warming?” as figure 15. It is based on satellite temperature values for that era and it lasted from 1979 to 1997 (or 18 years). It so happens that during a hiatus atmospheric carbon dioxide keeps increasing but global temperature does not. That is against the the predictions of the Arrhenius greenhouse theory used by the IPCC. According to Arrhenius, there is a cause and effect relationship that requires that increasing carbon dioxide must cause temperature to rise because of the greenhouse effect. This has not happened during any known hiatus period. This means that Arrhenius has made a wrong prediction both in the twenty-first century and the eighties and nineties. The total number of hiatus years involved is the sum of 18 and 16 which is 34 years. From this we can say that the greenhouse emission that the Arrhenius theory predicts has failed. And having made such an extensive and wrong prediction the Arrhenius theory itself should no longer be used. The reason it does not work is that the only greenhouse gas it can handle is carbon dioxide. CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, not even a major one. Water vapor is. Of all the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water vapor constitutes 95 percent and carbon dioxide is less than 4 percent (just 3.6 percent according to one source). The only greenhouse theory that can handle atmospheric water vapor is MGT, the Miskolczi greenhouse theory. According to MGT, water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere form a joint absorption window in the IR whose optical thickness is 1.87. If you now add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere it will start to absorb in the IR, just as the Arrhenius theory says. But this will increase the optical thickness. And .as soon as this starts, water vapor starts to diminish, rains out, and the original optical thickness is restored. This reduction of water vapor also reduces total absorptivity to background level and thereby prevents the greenhouse effect that Arrhenius predicts from happening. A bystander looking at it from the side would notice that carbon dioxide is increasing but temperature is not because the greenhouse effect needed to raise the temperature is blocked. And that is exactly what is happening during a hiatus.
Sometimes I am tempted to get myself banned by remarking that the real cause of all humanity’s problems is indeed human emissions. Human male sperm emissions.
Well, I hope you’re not a full blown Malthusian misanthrope environmentalist who thinks you’re intelligent and wise enough to decide who should be alive. Have you seen the 10:10 “No Pressure” video?” If not, please go search for it and watch it, and report back on how it makes you feel. If it disgusts you, then I’d say there’s a good chance for your full recovery.
Anthropogenic climate obsession is going to get much worse.
Clearly he is confused. Last time I checked, this is still the USA, with a constitution, separation of powers, etc., not North Korea.
Unfortunately too many Americans do not know that.
So who will play the role of Dr. Grubber in this policy duping of the voters? It could be a cast of thousands scaled to match the big money grab.
Just so you all know, the latest round of SunShot grants is yet another splash of taxpayer funds onto startups and research teams with far less potential contribution to renewables than the established sector leaders in renewables. It’s another case of “we don’t pick winners” which translates as “we only pick losers…. and a tranche of political favorites mixed in too.”
Well, I believe only 19 nations out of the minimum 55 out of 195 attending have already signed it. Obama is merely making a fool out of himself. And so is Ernest Moniz.
For most of us it is obvious that this guy is a hopeless nut. But, having come from a meeting last evening where the HSUS was out in force to object to recently proposed predator controls for a study our state wildlife biologists were planning, I now know how lies and liars can win the day. And on the same note, California is leading the way to ignorant hell: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/limits-on-methane-for-dairy-farmers-in-california/ I am trying not to think it is too late, but I fear it is.
I see no evidence that more than a small hand full of senators and representatives want any form of climate laws.
Kyoto went down to defeat in the Senate 99-0 only a decade or so ago.
I’m not sure what it looks like state by state but political hacks are leading the charge to tax credit mining in a lot of places and deals. That has been going on for almost 8 years now.
Never let a good El Nino go to waste.
Ah … Well … Err … Ah … No …
Just not gonna happen. Obama has 121 day and some hour and minutes and seconds left to Fuck Up the USA.
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20170120T00&p0=263&msg=Time+left+until+Obama+leaves+office&csz=1
After that, All of his Executive and Top Secret Executive Orders will be NULL AND VOID.
Liberation Day
Ha ha
Tony Abbott was right, It’s all crap. My mate Trumpy will throw the lot out, whoopee.