Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Despite early suggestions of a walkback, Joe Biden now appears to be doubling down on his promise to destroy US fossil fuel jobs, by naming climate change the “number one issue facing humanity”.
Joe Biden calls climate change the ‘number one issue facing humanity’
PUBLISHED SAT, OCT 24 20201:34 PM EDTUPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Emma Newburger@EMMA_NEWBURGER
- Joe Biden declared climate change the “number one issue facing humanity” and vowed a national transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy that he says will create millions of new jobs.
- Biden has a $2 trillion plan that puts the U.S. on a path to zero carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2050.
- Scientists say that Biden’s transition plan is required to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.
- Climate change has fueled record-setting wildfires in the U.S. West and one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons this year.
Joe Biden declared climate change the “number one issue facing humanity” and vowed a national transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy that could create millions of new jobs.
“It’s the number one issue facing humanity. And it’s the number one issue for me,” Biden said of climate change during an episode of Pod Save America released Saturday. He was interviewed by Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
“Climate change is the existential threat to humanity,” the former vice president said. “Unchecked, it is going to actually bake this planet. This is not hyperbole. It’s real. And we have a moral obligation.”
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“It’s going to create millions of jobs … We can’t be cavalier about the impact it’s going to have on how we’re going to transition to do all this,” Biden said of his plan on the podcast. “But I just think it’s a gigantic opportunity, a gigantic opportunity to create really good jobs.”
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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/24/joe-biden-climate-change-is-number-one-issue-facing-humanity.html
It has to be said, doubling down on a controversial issue looks decisive. Some people will give Biden points for his appearance of honesty on this issue.
On the other hand, I suspect Biden has made a classic political mistake. Promising to destroy fossil fuel jobs will play very well with many of Biden’s core supporters. But Biden already has their vote, strategically there is no need to impress motivated core supporters.
Biden’s threat to destroy oil jobs and, by implication, drive up the price of gasoline risks alienating swing voters and undecideds. And for oil workers and people whose jobs depend on fossil fuel, they now have a really good reason to make it to the polling booth on election day, and vote for Trump.
Other elections where leaders have played the climate card offer little guidance. Australia’s Bill Shorten and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern both tried to win on a platform of hardline commitment to climate action. Australia’s Bill Shorten failed spectacularly, lost an election many described as “unlosable”. New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern won an increased share of the vote.
Australia has a much larger oil, gas and coal industry than New Zealand.
There was never a genuine opportunity for Biden to walk back his promise to destroy jobs, after Biden made such a clear announcement during the Presidential Debate. My personal view, I suspect the firm Democrat commitment to job destruction will contribute significantly to a Trump victory.
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I’d like to ask him: If it is that dire how will you get China to stop their ongoing construction projects on more than 60 new coal fired power plants? If we get net zero by 2050 and we are alone in that effort will we still all die?
That’s the hypocrisy DMA. America has reduced it’s emissions of CO2 significantly already, even though it’s not a problem.
If Joe wants to go down the Green New Deal route, and assuming that most of America’s panels come from China, then China will need those coal fired power plants. They will need to manufacture billions of solar panels thereby creating massive amounts of CO2. Many of Joe’s ‘jobs’ will in fact be offshore, in China. I wonder if that’s what his secret deal was about…in reality Joe is doing nothing to reduce CO2, he’s simply sending that offshore too. Massive amounts of it. Of course China is ‘allowed’ to emit to their hearts content, the UN has even sanctioned it.
Then China need to ship these panels over to America. Thus creating substantially more emissions.
If Joe really believes that CO2 emissions are going to ‘bake’ the planet then he is going to turn the heat up to ‘crispy’ with his plan.
The left really do take us for fools. We all know that in reality their ‘Climate’ plan is about wealth redistribution. Power and Greed.
Oh, and none of that even takes into account the environmental, humanitarian and economic damage that will be done by implementing his plan. Or the future toxic waste that he has yet to find a solution for.
Anyone who votes for Joe Biden because they believe he will save the planet is nuts. The fear that leftists have instilled in their children that the planet will end within 8 to 10 years is nothing short of criminal.
It’s the ‘cure’ for a none existent CO2 problem, all forms of renewables, that will destroy life as we knew it. And I used a past tense, because it’s already started.
What is it with well known people like David Attenborough who once bought the wonder and beauty of our truly magnificent planet into our living rooms? I can’t even bring myself to watch him now, such is his betrayal.
What is it about him, Prince Charles and other royal members and famous actors, that give them the right to promote the trashing of our planet? And they are so ignorant of the truth they don’t even know that they are being used as marketing tools to drive a money making scheme.
The Emporer must be exposed!
That was Obama’s folly selling that to the leftist fools to stay in the Paris accords which Biden wants to restore
Our economy would be wrecked and China would be king
…good reason to make it to the polling booth on election day, and vote for Trump….
Democrats are running ads to vote early. Why do you suppose that it is? Here’s what you mail in when you vote absentee:
Voting early may be a little different, I’ll have to check it out.
Regardless how “baked” that Earth becomes, it will never be as damaged as Joe’s brain.
Fools intend to rearrange the world industrial and civil society based upon something about which they have been totally deceived. Only a fool would want to do this when the fool clearly understands nothing about the subject.
“Follow the science” they say with pervasive ignorance and dishonor.
Eric
“My personal view, I suspect the firm Democrat commitment to job destruction will contribute significantly to a Trump victory.”
You seem like a reasonable bloke ( a gentleman). I would be happy to put a small wager on you being wrong. I think there are almost no swing voters now so it matters not what anyone says from here on in.
Mr. Simon: If the firm Dem commitment to job destruction is not a “significant” factor because it’s so well-established that folks absorbed it long ago, but Firm commitment by Dems to destroy cities is the prime reason for big Trump win, do you lose the wager?
paul courtney
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With his 47 years of government jobs joe is a perfect example of the types of government folks who broke all of their promises to the American Indians and assisted their population decline from an estimated 10,000,000 in 1800 to 500,000 by 1900. Given the opportunity he will do the same to us today.
Speaking of cookery, Biden is crackers about climate and on energy, and if elected the US will be in a pickle, and our goose will be cooked. With a Biden/Harris presidency, you can stick a fork in America, we’re done.
Actually, Bruce, the U.S. will have Congressional elections in 2022 where about 1/3 of the Senate and all of the House of Representatives will be up for election. If the Democratic Party is the winner in 2020 and attempts their looney taxing and spending ideas, they will be voted out in 2022.
Biden wouldn’t make that statement unless the election is already in the bag.
Postal vote anyone?
He can say anything crazy, stupid or otherwise.
What was going on in his addled brain that he would associate voter fraud with his voter identification and outreach program? Hmmmm?
Did his aides recently explain to him how they are planning to use the information to commit voter fraud and he’s lost his filter on not revealing derogatory information?
Seriously, what other explanation comes to mind? The only time Democrats ever discuss voter fraud is to angrily deny that it ever happens.
Tell us more Big Guy!
Wasn’t there a millions+ survey of people all around the world done by the UN that showed that they rated climate change / global warming LAST of 16 or so major concerns about life challenges?
(I can’t find the link)
Mr., are you asking about the UN’s MyWorld2015 poll?
http://myworld2015.org/
Regards,
Bob
PS: I can’t reach the data pages today.
Obviously the liberal media have rated them as invalid information.
Thanks Bob.
I can’t get the data page for that link either.
The survey I recall finished up a getting several million responses from all around the world, but it was published a couple of years ago now.
It seems to have disappeared from google results.
Recently our federal Liberal Govt here in canada did some internal polling that showed Canadians could care less about “climate emergency” BS, hence massive climb down by these clowns on what they are publicly discussing
“Climate change has fueled record-setting wildfires in the U.S. West…”
I thought climate change was global. Why is it only affecting the U.S. West? Wildfires worldwide have actually decreased in recent years. So, on a worldwide basis, climate change is causing fewer wildfires. But you can’t look at it that way because it isn’t scary. Only the scary results of climate change can be reported to support fearmongering.
Eric
Labor did not win the NZ election based on climate change issues. All new Zealand parties support the same action. Your comments are simplistic to suit your bias.
May I suggest you do a little research.
“All NZ parties support the same action”
No, the New Conservative Party (admittedly only 1.5% of votes) actually supports scrapping the ETS and pulling out of Paris.
The ACT party, previously under Rodney Hide, (I think he was the only politician with a science degree) was fervently anti- “climate change”.
Earliest heaviest snowfall ever here in MN. Hardly baking. Dammit I detest these pathetic leftists and all their followers. Unfortunately that includes people I know.
I went tobogganing with my kids today in calgary
First time ever in October
Clearly need some warming, was 22c below normal on Saturday
I’d love me some global warmin’
Joe Biden bragged Saturday about having the most extensive voter fraud organization in history.
You can either MUST conclude he is:
1) telling the truth, or
2) he misspoke and his dementia is getting worse.
You can’t have it both ways.
Watch this unedited video clip and decide for yourself:
Today, Camulus Harris the goa’uld attracted 200 people to a “rally” in Detroit, and Slow Joe Dementia Lyin’ Biden knocked off work at 9:00 am to head back to the basement lair.
Love the Star Gate SG1 reference. Amanda Tapping was and still is a fantasy date. for me. She was fake USAF Major at the time, I was real USAF major flying IS missions at the time. Didn’t have time to watch it when it ran 20 years ago. Now since I’ve retired, she’s still my fantasy.
My thanks to you for your service. Despite it being a largely Canadian production filmed in Vancouver Springs, they went out of their way to make the USAF backdrop as realistic as possible; there was even an episode where the real AF Secretary four-star did a cameo.
“Camulus” was too many syllables for Jack O’Neill so he just called him “Cammy”, which popped into my head when the stuff about the right way to pronounce Harris’ name was taking up news bandwidth. (I had a thing for Nirte).
As I said above, it seems an inescapable conclusion that it’s not either-or, it’s both-and.
He BOTH associates the program with his voter fraud initiatives, AND his dementia has advanced to the point of impairing his ability to filter his thoughts and avoid saying things that reveal damaging information. Instead of saying the euphemistic “voter identification and outreach”, he just blurts out the truth as he understands it.
I’ve seen this loss of a social filter in other dementia patients.
When the Democrats are accusing the GOP of doing something unethical one can be sure it’s because the Dems are already doing it and they hate competition.
Hey, Emma Newburger,
As the fourth bullet in your article that is boxed in the above WUWT article, you state: “Climate change has fueled record-setting wildfires in the U.S. West and one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons this year.”
Do you have any facts—any smidgen of facts at all—to support that wildfire claim?
For example, most intelligent people would know that fires result from three basic, necessary factors that must coexist: a fuel, a supply of oxygen to react (“combust”) with the fuel, and a temperature hot enough to initiate combustion. Which of these factors do you specifically conclude originates with “climate change”?
— did climate change alone increase the amount of foliage that the fires feed on?
— did climate change alone increase the amount of oxygen that the fires feed on?
— did climate change alone create the flames or sparks that were necessary to start the 46,000-plus wild fires that have occurred in North America as of October 23, 2020 (see https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/2020-california-wildfires/#:~:text=NIFC%20reports%20that%20as%20of,the%2010%2Dyear%2Daverage. )?
Of course, these questions are based on fundamental science, and therefore I most certainly don’t presume that you would know the answer to my question, let alone be willing to respond objectively to such.
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Scientists say that Biden’s transition plan is required to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.
The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine published a joint statement recently declaring the necessity of keeping politics out of science.
It’s too late for that, as former VP Albert Gore has literally screwed up climate science for over 30 years, and Dr. Anthony Fauci has done about the same for medical science, both promoting a clear conflict of interest in pursuit of policy changes that will enrich and empower themselves (& Bill Gates) and exclusively Democrats.
No such transition plan is ‘required’ for something natural that we can’t stop.
Climate change has fueled record-setting wildfires in the U.S. West and one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons this year.
I alone predicted the conditions for this year two years ago in my 2018 AGU poster, “Extreme Weather Events and Climate Extremes are Limited by the Duration of Solar Cycle Irradiance Extremes”.
The “Cold Winters, Hot Dry SW US Summers” in Fig13k applies to Fig14c “Cold and Dry Extremes”
The 2020 US (and Australian) fires were a direct result of high UV index and subsequent high heat index from clearer skies due to less tropical evaporation from low solar activity, building on a trend since 2017.
This is the biggest story of the year because it also drove sun/heat sicknesses expecially in the southern US, India and Brazil among other places this year, mistaken for CV19.
The NAS/NAM and IPCC know nothing of the consequences of the Solar Cycle Influence on the Ocean, so it doesn’t surprise me that VP Biden & Co are still banging on about MME like a pack of braying donkeys.
Come on, man!
Lockdown carbon not the country!
The new day that will live in infamy is Nov. 4th. the day after the election when Joe and the radical Party claim a lot of mandates that were not really talked about much earlier or with any details.
Joe Biden does not know what he is talking about. Based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, one can conclude that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is effectively zero. Hence there is no climate crisis. There may be many good reasons to be conserving on the use of fossil fuels but climate change is not one of them. There is no climate crisis and committing economic suicide will not help matters either.
AGW is a conjecture based on only partial science and is full of holes. For example, the AGW conjecture depends upon the existence of a radiant greenhouse effect caused by trace gases in the Earth’s atmosphere with LWIR absorption bands. A real greenhouse does not stay warm because of so called greenhouse gases or because IR radiation is trapped inside the greenhouse. A real greenhouse stays warm because the glass limits cooling by convection. It is entirely a convective greenhouse effect that keeps a real greenhouse warm. So too on Earth where instead of glass, gravity and the heat capacity of the atmosphere limits cooling by convection. It is entirely a convective greenhouse effect that keeps the surface of the Earth on average 33 degrees C warmer than it would otherwise be. 33 degrees C is the amount of warming derived from first principals and 33 degrees C is what has been measured. Any additional warming caused by a radiant greenhouse effect has not been detected. If CO2 really affected climate one would expect that the increase in CO2 over the past 30 years would have caused at least a measurable increase in the dry lapse rate in the troposphere but that has not happened. A radiant greenhouse effect has not been detected in a real greenhouse, in the Earth’s atmosphere, or anywhere else in the solar system. The radiant greenhouse effect is hence science fiction so hence the AGW conjecture is science fiction as well.
But for those who still believe in the radiant greenhouse effect, initial calculations of the climate sensitivity came up with a nominal figure of 1.2 degrees C for a doubling of CO2 not including feedbacks. Christopher Monckton and associates came up with the conclusion, based on measurements, that if all the warming since 1850 were caused by CO2 then the climate sensitivity of CO2 could not possible be more than 1.2 degrees C including feedbacks. A researcher from Japan pointed out that the original radiametric calculations forgot to include that fact that a doubling of CO2 will cause a slight decrease in the dry lapse rate in the troposphere which is a cooling effect that lowers the climate sensitivity of CO2 by more than a factor of 20, from 1.2 degrees C to less than .06 degrees C which is too small to measure. So no wonder that no one has been able to measure the climate sensitivity of CO2 because there is nothing to measure.
Then there is the issue of H2O feedback. The AGW conjecture assumption is that CO2 based warming causes more H2O to enter the atmosphere which causes more warming that causes even more H2O to enter the atmosphere and so forth. Not only is H2O a greenhouse gas but molecule per molecule H2O is a stronger IR absorber than is CO2 and on average there is roughly 50 times more H2O in the atmosphere. Compared to H2O the contribution of CO2 to the overall radiant greenhouse effect must be trivial. What the AGW conjecture ignores is that besides being the primary greenhouse gas, H2O is a primary coolant in the Earth’s atmosphere. The overall cooling effect of H2O is evidenced by the fact that the wet lapse rate is significantly less than the dry lapse rate which is a cooling effect. So instead of a potentially unstable positive feedback, H2O provides a negative climate stabilizing feedback. So instead of multiplying the climate sensitivity of CO2 by a nominal 3 we should divide the climate sensitivity of CO2 by 3 yielding a climate sensitivity of CO2 os less than .02 degrees C which is too small to measure and is effectively zero. So all of this effort to reduce CO2 emissions because doing so might provide a better climate is a total waste of money. But even if we could somehow stop the Earth’s climate from changing as it has been doing for eons, extreme weather events and sea level rise would continue because they are both part of the current climate. If the future is anything like that past, the current interglacial period may gradually end but it may take many thousands of years to do so and the next ice age will be upon us for roughly 100,000 years so we should all learn to enjoy the warmth of the current interglacial period while it is still here.
Is Biden one of the new Braindead’s characters ?
griff read here. https://electroverse.net/nsidc-2020-polar-ice-doing-just-fine/
https://electroverse.net/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-currently-above-1981-2010-average-by-276000-km2/
As for the fires in Cali. Too much fuel, no clearing for years. Weather conditions have been burning forests there for hundreds of years. https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/california-is-on-fire-again-and-it-was-preventable/ . As for the most extensive voter fraud organization in history. It is the fraudulent Democratic party itself, lying to the world. Blaming Trump for everything they are already doing. Seen the “Vote for your Life” ads. As in you will die unless you vote democratic. BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Vote for them, you will.
Well, we did survive 8 years of Barry. That one got so cocky slinging taxpayer funds from the podium that he even threw some to Russia, right before they annexed Crimea. He was also so confident that he read a speech from the Sierra Club calling anyone who did not agree with the Whitehouse position as having their head in the sand. Today he splits time between beach estates…depending on the weather.
Barry is back and telling his whoppers again, trying to bail the iceberg-stricken and listing to port S.S. Biden:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/24/fact-check-19-false-claims-in-barack-obamas-speech-for-joe-biden-in-florida/
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. And I certainly would not invest in renewables.
Regardless of what naysayers believe, there is too much progress on alternate energy sources to be concerned with OPEC. Even NASA has recognized that strange things are going on in latitce confinement. https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fusiontokamak-not-included
I, personally, think other researchers have progressed much further than NASA, and that other systems that have nothing to do with fusion will begin to be commercialized in the next few years.
Holding my breath.
Trumps answer should have been
“In 2012 a solar flare erupted that had the sun been turned in our direction would have burned out every computer chip in our nation … every cell phone gone, every computer gone, every power plant gone every transformer gone. We need to prepare for what will really happen. This WILL . CO2 Climate Change isn’t even 27th on the list.”
This may come as a bit of a shock, but Biden critics have been having a very hard time of finding truth in anything Joe Biden or Kamala Harris states.
Both have actively told lies that prove their attempts to cater to their audience, not reality.
Baking, that represents a lower temperature than the Holocene has experienced multiple times earlier in this interglacial.
Biden must equate “bake” with the ‘Little tikes First Oven“.
Hours of fun for the weak brained pedophile.