Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Democrats have released a bill to shut down all US fossil fuel industries, because of climate change.
House Democrats Introduce Ambitious Climate Change Plan
Legislation will call for a 100% clean U.S. economy by 2050.
By Randy Showstack 6 hours ago
Democrats in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have released the legislative framework for what they are calling a bold, ambitious, and sweeping plan to achieve the goal of a 100% clean U.S. economy by 2050.
“We’re really treating climate change like the existential emergency that it is,” said committee chair Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) at an 8 January briefing. He said that the legislation, which grew from a series of congressional hearings, is one of the committee’s top priorities.
“The climate crisis is here, and we can no longer afford to address this issue along the margins,” he said. The 2050 goal would respond to a 2018 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that stated that limiting global warming this century to 1.5°C would require net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide to be reduced to zero by about 2050.
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“But there’s a fundamental problem here, which I’d be crazy not to acknowledge, that most of them are climate deniers. The president, the [Republican] leadership, won’t admit that there’s a human element to the climate disaster that we face. So that’s a huge problem to get them to participate,” he said. Pallone added that he doesn’t know of a single Republican who has agreed to the target of 100% clean energy by 2050.
“What choice do we have? Australia is burning. We can’t just sit here and say, ‘Oh, the Republicans may not like this or the president may not like this.’ We’ve got to keep going and see what we can achieve,” Pallone said.
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Read more: https://eos.org/articles/house-democrats-introduce-ambitious-climate-change-plan
Representative Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), I think it is very sweet of you to offer to bomb the US economy back to the stone age because you support Australia, but I think most of my fellow Australians would prefer free tickets to Disneyland. Or maybe you could help the Australian Navy deliver emergency beer supplies to pubs cut off by the fires.
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THE RENEWABLE GREEN ENERGY MYTH: 50,000 Tons Of Non-Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Dumped In The Landfill
https://srsroccoreport.com/the-renewable-green-energy-myth-50000-tons-of-non-recyclable-wind-turbine-blades-dumped-in-the-landfill/
It appears the woke have awaken in Australia and have decided swe’ll leave fuel reduction alone and instead we’re going to put up more windmills and solar panels …..the windmills apparently capture the wind and send it off in another direction, away from the fires and the solar panels will reflect the heat of the sun and send it back to the sun.
Should do the trick.
Wait a minute, So your telling me that the mighty USA, caused the Australian fires 😐 And if all Americans live like the Amish, Australians will enjoy perfect weather? Sunny days with a lite breeze, cool rains and patchy white fluffy clouds???
I wonder how the Aboriginal natives lived in Australia for between 60-80 thousand years, peacefully, without destroying the land and water 😐 Would that mean the native americans were peaceful as well, and low co2 producers?
Like I posted before, the bush fires are because of wet years. Plants grow very little in very dry years and if Oz had been going through the forecasted “mega drought” that has never materialized there would be considerably less combustible material.
Like California, the areas that have had fires won’t be having them again for many years. But the wet years will return, the trees and undergrowth will grow back and assuming no one learns from this experience sometime in the future there will be another very dry year and the fires will return.
Has this idiot laid out a plan to achieve a “100% clean economy” by 2050 and has he provided a full costed plan?
How much does it cost to bury 300 million people in open pits? That would be a rough order of magnitude.
In a hot-dry weather event 500 years ago, there would be much less fire compared to what they have now in the modern world.
About 87% of the fires are caused by humans in these conditions.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/arson-mischief-and-recklessness-87-per-cent-of-fires-are-man-made-20191117-p53bcl.html
IF ANYONE ACTUALLY CARED, and they do not, this can be stopped instantly. SHUT IT DOWN NOW. But it won’t happen because no one cares, wants to fix it, etc. When we have the ability to stop something and DO NOTHING, that means we WANT THAT SOMETHING. Why bother to write all this when PEOPLE WANT THIS?????????
You don’t even have to shut down oil. Just have the gumption St. Greta had and park your fannies outside your local government idiot palaces. But you won’t….And you’ll be angry at Greta.
(No, I don’t care. If future generations want their kids to live in hell and life destroyed, I don’t care. Not a whit.)
Did you have a point? Not to your posted irrational rant, to your life?
Yeah, I post rant that idiots like you won’t understand. It’s really really fun. Thank you for making my day, there, Chas buddy.
“St. Greta”. You mean Greta the Climate Puppet?
Are the Dems really that stupid?? Hope that Trump wins the coming election, otherwise US will be economically destroyed. Obama killed the economy, the free speech in science and free climate science in particular. This may never happen again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAauV6QcqTs
“Are the Dems really that stupid??”
They’re being paid to destroy America. They’ve been promised a spot in the elite bunkers in New Zealand when the country collapses.
The stupid part is that the spot in the bunker is a lie. None of the ‘elite’ will want these losers around after SHTF.
In the proposed bill there are Recommendations to for committees on:
“(A) environmental justice;
(B) climate justice;
(C) fairness and equity for workers; and
(D) the transition of communities dependent upon fossil fuels.”
I don’t know what A and B even mean, C is just trolling for votes as we already have laws regarding non discrimination and D would entail every single community in the country
And to show how confident the sponsors are in achieving zero fossil fuels, the committees disband on December 31, 2050. As this is 30 years hence maybe a nice cushy job leading to retirement for a niece, nephew, grandchild…
A and B are code words for minority reparations. Since minority/ poor/people of color/ indigenous people are hardest hit by the middle and upper class use of carbon based fuels… a hefty “justice” tax needs to be in-acted and monthly checks cut to said impacted people.
Democrats consistently do the wrong things for the wrong reasons. This is a prime example.
Here’s the solution. Make Fosters free and mandatory until everyone fills their tanks. Then unleash upon the fires. Very portable and tastes good.
Fosters? Taste good?
In some parallel universe, maybe. We don’t drink it here, we just export it to gullible foreigners 🙂
In a blind tasting of Fosters, lye, turpentine, and curdled milk, Foster’s tied for second with the turpentine.
I’d say that’s a respectable finish so go easy on the Fosters criticism.
“In some parallel universe, maybe. We don’t drink it here, we just export it to gullible foreigners 🙂”
Please take it back. Along with the “no worries” meme that’s pervaded everything since Crocodile Dundee.
I can get behind the idea to go green when it comes to energy. So when are we going to start building more nuclear power plants?
I like your sentiment, but still have a problem with endorsing that “Green” means something opposite of what alarmists think it means. CO2 is by definition the single ingredient needed for green life to form… well that and magnesium and water.
As the average voter consistently puts climate change at the bottom of their list of priorities, if not in the trash bucket, this is a great way for the Democrats to display their total lack of suitability to govern. Makes decision-making next fall so much easier for the undecided. Those who want to continue a lifestyle of reliable food, shelter, energy and opportunity can vote for rational thought, those who favour economic suicide just learned who can deliver it with a minimum of delay.
Every time they fail they get crazier.
He must be terrified every time the wind blows or rain falls or he is a bad liar with special interests.
He reminds me of Rodney Piper’s role in the movie They Live. With special glasses he can see what no one else can see. What glass is he looking through?
Rowdy Roddy Piper and Kieth David They Live. Best fight scene ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyue1tT-uE&list=PLJakxDVfSEVvvr_WIgh_1NGFjzjsvNTGi&index=5
For every factual report of over 180 arsonists arrested since Australia’s fire season started, two dozen over this latest, there’s a a fake news story denying it to peddle fear porn over the tragic losses in Australia. And no one is asking ‘Who Benefits?’ from the fires when there is ONE obvious beneficiary: the AGW fraud. How many arsonists were paid and by whom? It’ll surely be covered up from the top down, so we’ll likely never know.
REAL NEWS:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nearly-200-people-arrested-in-australia-for-deliberately-lighting-bushfires_3195827.html
Police Take Legal Action Against More Than 180 in Australia’s Most Populous State for Alleged Bushfire-Related Offenses
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bushfires-firebugs-fuelling-crisis-asarson-arresttollhits183/news-story/52536dc9ca9bb87b7c76d36ed1acf53f
Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as national arson arrest toll hits 183
Professor Ogloff said for many firesetters, bushfire season was like being “a kid in a candy shop”.
“Everywhere you look there’s fire and everywhere you look there’s opportunity,” he said.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/07/c_138684643.htm
Hundreds arrested for deliberately starting catastrophic Australian bushfires
The Australianreported on Tuesday that 183 people have been arrested for lighting bushfires in New South Wales (NSW), Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
In Queensland, where the fires were worst in November, 101 people have been arrested for deliberately starting fires, almost 70 percent of whom were juveniles.
According to James Ogloff, the director of the Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University, approximately 50 percent of Australia’s bushfires are started by arsonists.
“They’re interested in seeing fire, interested in setting fire and quite often the information around how fires burn and accelerate excites them,” he told News Corp. The University of Melbourne’s associate professor Janet Stanley said that arsonists, or “firebugs”, were typically young males aged either 12 to 24 or 60 and older.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/24-arrested-as-australian-police-crack-down-on-arsonists/ar-BBYFXHY
24 arrested as Australian police crack down on arsonists
https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/more-than-180-australians-accused-of-starting-blazes-during-bushfire-season/
Dozens of Australians accused of starting blazes during bushfire season
https://www.theblaze.com/news/australia-bushfires-two-dozen-arsonists
Two Dozen Arsonists arrested in connection with recent fires
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bushfires-firebugs-fuelling-crisis-asarson-arresttollhits183/news-story/52536dc9ca9bb87b7c76d36ed1acf53f
Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as national arson arrest toll hits 183
https://www.850wftl.com/hundreds-of-alleged-arsonists-arrested-for-starting-australia-wildfires/
Hundreds of Alleged Arsonists Arrested for Starting Australia Wildfires
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-dozens-arrested-starting-fires-a9273446.html
Australia wildfires: Dozens arrested for deliberately starting fires
24 Australians have been arrested in New South Wales for deliberately igniting fires since November, alongside 53 who failed to obey a total fire ban and 47 who allegedly threw lit cigarettes or matches.
Police have taken a strict no-tolerance approach to taking legal action against recklessness as the country struggles to gain control over thebushfire crisis that has destroyed over 2,000 homes so far.
NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys told reporters: “I know that all of those people aren’t [alleged] arsonists in a sense, I know a lot of them were doing things like using fireworks or lighting fires to camp or cook food or young children, in fact, that got the benefits of the Young Offenders Act and quite rightly so.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7860635/Australian-bushfire-crisis-183-people-arrested-24-charged-starting-fires.html
‘Arson is not caused by climate change’: Row breaks out over real cause of Australia’s bushfires after it emerges more than 180 people have been arrested for starting them
• Liberal MP has claimed arson to blame for bushfires, rather than climate change
• Craig Kelly, a climate change skepticism, appeared on Good Morning Britain
• 24 people have been charged with bushfire-related offences this fire season
• A further 53 people arrested for failing to comply with state-imposed fire bans
• At least 25 people have died, and 1,500 homes have been destroyed so far
• Some have seized on arrests to say that impact of climate change is overstated
FAKE NEWS:
https://www.upworthy.com/yes-arsonists-started-some-of-australias-fires-no-it-doesnt-mean-climate-change-is-fake
Yes, arsonists started some of Australia’s fires. No, it doesn’t mean climate change is fake
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/australias-fires-reveal-arson-not-a-major-cause/11855022
The truth about Australia’s fires — arsonists aren’t responsible for many this season
Only about 1 per cent of the land burnt in NSW this bushfire season can be officially attributed to arson, and it is even less in Victoria, the ABC can reveal.
Despite massive fires causing chaos in Victoria this season, authorities are treating only one blaze as suspicious.
The Euroa blaze on January 4 closed a section of the Hume Highway, burnt about 385 hectares, and destroyed no properties.
More than 1.3 million hectares has been burnt in Victoria so far this season.
The Country Fire Association (CFA) said the majority of fires were not arson-related.
“Most of the fires have been caused by lightning,” said Brett Mitchell, the CFA incident controller in Bairnsdale, in East Gippsland.
“Our intelligence suggests there are no deliberate lightings that we are aware of.”
Victoria Police had no arson figures available for this bushfire season, but said in the 12 months to September 2019, a dozen people had been arrested for causing bushfires.
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/9/21058332/australia-fires-arson-lightning-explained
The viral false claim that nearly 200 arsonists are behind the Australia fires, explained
Only a handful of fires were deliberately ignited. But that didn’t stop people from spreading misinformation.
https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2020/jan/10/facebook-posts/those-claims-about-nearly-200-arrested-arson-austr/
Those claims about nearly 200 arrested for arson in the Australia bushfires are wrong
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/surprise-surprise-don-jr-just-told-an-outrageous-lie-about-australias-wildfires/
Surprise! Surprise! Don Jr. Just Told an Outrageous Lie About Australia’s Wildfires
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/08/police-contradict-claims-spread-online-exaggerating-arsons-role-in-australian-bushfires
Police contradict claims spread online exaggerating arson’s role in Australian bush fires
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/australia-arrested-bushfires/
People Arrested for Deliberately Starting Australia Bushfires?
https://mashable.com/article/arson-emergency-australian-bushfires/
The ‘arson emergency’ trending amid Australia’s bushfire crisis is actually not a thing
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arson-australia-fire-climate-change_n_5e166365c5b600960c5f6af6
Arson Misinformation Undermines Link Between Australia Fires And Climate Change
Conservatives including Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity have shared misleading figures about arsonists igniting wildfires.
https://junkee.com/arson-bushfires-australia/237148
Too Many Idiots Are Blaming Arsonists For The Bushfires
Climate change deniers have spent the last few months tying themselves in knots trying to pinpoint a cause for our unprecedented bushfires — anything other than the obvious, which is climate change.
The interesting thing about the long expected serious bushfires (due to a lack of adequate hazard reduction burns) and the nature of Australia, is that both liberal and labor state governments have the same terrible record on this issue, whats going on here ?, they are all still implementing the same failed policy’s revealed in eighteen separate enquiries.
What hidden hand behind the scenes has the power to ensure both party’s quietly adopt the same policy’s in different states while attempting to convince the public they are quite different.
Pete
Of course the reality is that the fires are caused by two factors , high fuel loads and drought, and global warming is not responsible for either, as per latest IPCC, and independent scientific work in Australia there is no link between global warming and drought.
Not even an indirect link.
Those who are convinced that an average increase of global temperature of between .3 deg c and .7 deg c will cause the end of the world as we know it should join the Scientologists at least someone will get some value out of their irrational commitment to what is in effect earth magic.
Pete
Caught myself watching horse racing from 5 different tracks throughout Australia last night. Presumed that the fires would have had an impact or been brought up as a topic of discussion. Nope. Watched for 3 hrs and not even a mention.
The only drama was stakes races at the Gold Coast had to be delayed because competitors (including later Magic Millions Guineas winner Alligator Blood) were stuck behind an accident involving an overturned fuel truck.
This just further convinces me that AGW is a quasi pagan religion.
“97% of our shaman tell us that if we make the appropriate sacrifices and changes in our lifestyles then we will have good weather and life will be blissful, but if we do not-right now- then life will become woeful and we soon cease to exist.”
I am amazed, once again, at the level of utter stupidity in government officials elected to office.
The “existential crises”, thus, is NOT what it is claimed to be. Rather it is precisely the growing level of stupidity supporting this ridiculous, popular claim.
Australia is no more burning than the USA was burning when California had their bushfires. This is emotive nonsense , as is drawing a direct line to climate in the absence of anything else.
We have bushfires every summer, usually numerous and small scale. If you look at the Emergency Services map it will not be unusual to tens of fires across the State at any point in time. Mainly caused by lightning and tourist stupidity. This is exacerbated by us being in a drought cycle, which some part of Australia is usually having.
Population pressures mean more humans are visiting the bush or living in it (the “tree change” phenomenon as people leave the cities to retire or reinvent in country areas)
There seems to be an unlimited supply of fools doing remote diagnostics on the Australian environment but precious little knowledge on what they are talking about. Most of the loudest alarmist voices are rarely seen more than 30klms from the city centre unless there is a photo opportunity in it. As per the US the clueless meme driven inner city “elites” seem to be the most prone to lecture on matters where they have no skin in the game beyond virtue signalling.
You think Australia will put the fires out by 2050?
Of course. Australia will be under water by 2050. Sheesh!
“We’ve got to keep going and see what we can achieve,” Pallone said.
Well the absolute best thing to achieve would be complete elimination of the CO2 endangerment finding and complete roll-back of ALL EPA rules to 1990. That would do immense wonders for the US, the middle class… and indeed the world.
These democrats are delusional. This plan will never pass through the Senate. Trump just announced that he would be doing away with all these climate plans, he won’t accept this plan.
The interesting thing about the long expected serious bushfires (due to a lack of adequate hazard reduction burns) and the nature of Australia, is that both liberal and labor state governments have the same terrible record on this issue, whats going on here ?, they are all still implementing the same failed policy’s revealed in eighteen separate enquiries.
What hidden hand behind the scenes has the power to ensure both party’s quietly adopt the same policy’s in different states while attempting to convince the public they are quite different.
Pete