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 must have missed it; what part of Joe’s plan reduces the emissions from China and India?
Wasn’t Biden VP of an administration that signed an Exec Agreement with the UN (following a previous “agreement” with China) that allowed them an unlimited number of new coal plants until 2030, at which time they would consider reductions in the future?
(BTW, what is the lower threshold of CO2 emissions where wildfires, hurricanes and floods disappear and we have no more weather catastrophes?)
As someone once said “Cum’on, Man!”
Multiple choice quiz:
For his campaign, Creepy Joe & his bandwagon charter:
a) A few horse buggies
b) A formerly Aeroflot owned VIP rigged 737-500 late series twinjet
All of the people that Biden beat during the primary took a much tougher line on climate change than he did.
Climate change has never been a top issue for American voters.
Joe Biden – there’s no fool like an old fool…
The CO2 that bothers me is that which exits creepy* uncle joey’s mouth.
To experience the prediction of a century in the future move 120 mi. toward the equator.
* what’s with his daughter’s diary?
My own reply to climate change alarmists is this: Do you remember what the climate was like in your hometown in 2000? Has the climate changed noticeably in the last 20 years? (No.) Why then would it change in the next 20 years? This is of course gets you lectures on tipping points and incorrect assumptions of constancy, but it makes a dent.
my challenge to Biden
https://www.cfact.org/2020/10/24/challenge-to-joe-biden-spend-a-month-without-fossil-fuels/
Sorry Mr. Bastardi, Joe Dementia has put another kid on himself and is stuck in the basement again
Climate change is the number 450th issue facing humanity.
How strong is CO2?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows the climate sensitivity numbers.
Despite 40 years of guessing, clinging to a tarnished concept.
Time to admit defeat and move on. Geoff S
Geoff
They know very well that it’s much lower than originally predicted. (They know that observational studies show 1.1-1.8 degrees per doubling of CO2).
They can’t narrow the range like that because it would put an end to the whole charade and take away their hopes of ending capitalism. (And ironically endanger their crony capitalist schemes to make billions off non-solutions to a non-problem).
Instead they cling to the convenient fiction of an estimate of 1.5-4.5 from what, 50 years ago?, and churn out nonsense papers based on nonsense models that yield “much worse than we thought” results. Pure politics.
As pure politics, there will NEVER be an honest reassessment by this dishonest crowd. They must be defeated politically and then when none of their disasters come to pass, eventually the next group of lefty politicians will claim that nobody ever said any of the things that they are screaming today.
(Just like the claims that nobody ever switched overnight from next ice age coming fear-mongering that required ending fossil fuel use to global warming fear-mongering that requires ending fossil fuel use).
Geoff asked “How strong is CO2?”
Well, the molecular bond strength (aka bond enthalpy) of the C=O bond in carbon dioxide is +805 kJ/mol (ref: https://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/energetics/bondenthalpies.html ), and there are two of these double-bonds in every CO2 molecule.
Ask and ye shall receive. 🙂
The number 1 issue facing humanity is the same as it’s always been – how to keep morons like Joe Biden from having dictatorial power over the rest of us…
Didn’t Hansen say the oceans should already be boiling by now way-back-when?
Joe, c’mon mann, you’re behind the times!
And where are all those “Storms of My Grandchildren” that Hansen wrote his book about? He’s well and truely a grand-daddy now. Why aren’t his and everybody’s grandchidren in the midst of the apocalypse right now?
Climate Change might be no. 1 issue for Joe … doesn’t make the top 10 with voters:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/13/important-issues-in-the-2020-election/
“But I just think it’s a gigantic opportunity, a gigantic opportunity to create really good jobs.”
So says Biden. Well, if he wants ‘gigantic opportunities to create jobs’, just declare war on some other nation. After all, there were many millions of paid jobs in WWI and WWII (and other conflicts). It also helped with the so-called population crisis. There you are, Joe, go for it, declare war on China (say).
And, of course, the only reason he’s doubling down on climate is because his masters in China have told him to.
LOL! This trucker is team driving from Anderson, IN to Nogales AZ. We had ice build up on our mirrors while driving through the OK, TX panhandles this afternoon and evening on US 54. The ice did not start to melt until we got to Vaughn, NM!
At Vaughn where I took over driving it was 42 deg F with a howling wind. When I got 32 miles further south on US 54 it was 72 deg. F.!
What could explain that happening in October other than climate change? Right Griff? LOL!
Why Kamala Harris can make Biden lose Indian votes?
https://theliberacy.com/2020/10/26/why-kamala-harris-can-make-biden-lose-indian-votes/
Biden is right in a few billion years, but we won’t see it.
How does a guy who often does not know where he is and confuses who people are know that?? More importantly how does two inept socialists make it to the top of the ticket for the presidency?
Olen says :
How does a guy who often does not know where he is and confuses who people are know that?? More importantly how does two inept socialists make it to the top of the ticket for the presidency?
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There was no real small “d” democratic process in the “Democratic Party” nominations.
They were chosen by I’ll call them “backroom dark forces” … no different than the way candidates were, and are “pretend elected” in old and current communist regimes.
“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’”
https://medium.com/theyoungturks/dnc-we-can-legally-choose-candidate-over-cigars-in-back-room-e3026730e252
It reminds me of a time where I shared a messed up photo of cars in Las Vegas that made it look like they were melting, saying it was “global warming” and people ACTUALLY BELIEVED IT.
It’s not hyperbole, in that people really do believe that the planet will “bake”, that the oceans will boil. And they somehow seem to think that if this were to happen we’ll still be around to see it.
Correction. Since 2016 or maybe earlier the W.H.O. said climate change was the major issue on the planet and as a result ensured that covid took its place when it would have been a non issue if handled as a threat right from the start, as more than one investigation in more than one country has shown. As long as mainstream press can block simple balanced reporting which includes a list of predictions correct and false to put the science in context climate change has all the integrity of a broadcast by Goebbels.