Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Scratch a climate activist, find a … ; Guardian author Katharine Murphy fantasising about the possibility a Biden administration would use America’s economic might to dictate climate policy to the freely elected government of Australia, and to the rest of the world.
A Joe Biden victory could push Scott Morrison – and the world – on climate change
Katharine Murphy
Sat 31 Oct 2020 06.00 AEDTInternational action on emissions reduction will get a huge shot in the arm if the US election goes to the Democratic leader
I’m a deeply superstitious person, so I can barely bring myself to utter the words “if Joe Biden wins the American presidency next week”, but for the purposes of where we are going this weekend, I need to utter those words, because that’s our starting point for unpacking a few things.
If Biden wins, obviously that’s the end of the Trump administration, which would be a boon on so many fronts. So, so many fronts. The compendium of boon would span many volumes, and we haven’t got all weekend, so let’s just hone in on one critical issue that impacts Australia, and that’s climate change.
If we take the former vice-president at his word (and if you want a recent interview that dives right in, have a look here), a Biden victory would be a massive shot in the arm for international action on emissions reduction.
Let’s whip through this quickly. Biden will bring America back into the Paris agreement. America will sign up to a net-zero emissions pledge by 2050, with an enforcement mechanism.
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Assuming Biden wins (and while I know what the polls say, I’m really not convinced he will – seriously, I will only believe that when I see it) – but assuming he and the Democratic machine can carry the day against a demagogue and a digital ecosystem flooding the zone with misinformation, and assuming he delivers on his pre-election commitments (which would be aided by the Democrats taking back the Senate), the world is in different territory on climate action.
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A Biden victory, and the global reset that heralds, would help.
It would help the people in the Coalition who understand that things need to change make a case for change. At a political level, if Labor can stop punching itself in the head post-election, if it can manage to get its own climate policy story straight and stop the self-indulgent navel gazing about who loves blue-collar workers and who is about as useless as a vegan in a butcher shop, a Biden victory also creates the opportunity to apply some productive political pressure on the Coalition.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/31/a-joe-biden-victory-could-push-scott-morrison-and-the-world-on-climate-change
To hope that a politician in another country could restrict the freedom of her own Australian people, to choose a climate policy course the Guardian doesn’t like – shame on you Guardian author Katharine Murphy.
But this is what heartfelt belief in the fake climate crisis does to people. Catastrophism is a moral slippery slope. Belief in the imminent end of the world is a license to do the unthinkable.
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In November, the Nino 3.4 index will drop to -2 C.
It is the usual innumerate fantasy. It depends on a concept of the USA and its position in the world that are back in the 1950s.
The US at the moment, on a current purchasing power basis, is not as large an economy as China. If you look at electricity generation or steel production, on these measures its a lot smaller. If you look at emissions, its only doing about 5 billion tons and falling out of close to 40 billion and rising globally
It has minimal influence as an example to be followed. All that vanished with the endless pointless wars and the well publicized internal political and social crisis.
Biden’s election, or Trump’s for that matter, will make zero difference to the total amount of CO2 emitted globally, or to any other country’s attitude to CO2 emissions. None. To think otherwise is to be living in an alternative universe.
In 2018 the US produced 87 million tons of steel. China produced 928. Its not your grandfather’s country, or planet either.
What’s her take on providing electricity to sub-Saharan Africa? Oh, sorry, the Guardian doesn’t think there’s a world outside the M25 ring road.
Another Marxist “bent” woman, in the media!
She not only is deeply superstitious, she also is profoundly gullible.
Two sides of the same coin.
This morning, for some strange reason I awoke with a song in my heart: it was the old classic western folk song, “Hone on the Range”, which goes;
Oh, give me a hone where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Hone, hone on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
etc. In these stay-at-hone times, we often resort to nostalgia, yearning for times gone by. In a similar vein, is the John Denver classic, “Take Me Hone, Country Roads”.
This lady is going to be sorely disappointed.
Trump has been astounding on the electoral stoop, making speeches brimming with positivity, ideas, provable results and of course, evidence of endless Democrat corruption and self-serving venality.
Trump will win by a bigger margin than 2016 and probably a landslide. (That’s by Electoral College votes, not necessarily the popular vote, which historically the Dem’s win)
I agree! 58,000 attended a rally in PA yesterday. Fourteen rallies in 3 days! I bet most of us posting here couldn’t keep up with that 74 year old man!
Meanwhile Texans show how it’s done and escort Biden’s sorry butt right out of the state with their “Trump Train” swarming his bus as his campaign canceled stops all over the state. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/31/gtfo-team-trump-escorts-biden-harris-out-of-texas/
Watch Florida, a key battleground state. If Trump loses Florida, it is pretty much game over for him. And Florida could go either way. Even if he wins Florida, his path to victory is an uphill one. A likely scenario is that we won’t know who won for days, or even weeks after the election. Hold onto your hats folks. We’re in for a bumpy ride.
The MSM is suppressing information around the Biden scandals. Will they suppress communication of a Trump victory?
I’m hopeful that as rah discusses above, the electoral system works as the framers intended.
LOL! You could have written that 4 years ago for the MSM!
I ain’t buying it! 75,000 Hispanic vehicle train for Trump! Trump slated to take over 15% of the Black vote. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/29/miami-voter-turnout-democrats-433643
Nope. Florida is going to go Red by a considerableusoivargin over last year.
My worry is PA because of the cheating and Chief Justice Roberts setting up a debacle by refusing to take a case that obviously is repugnant to article 2 of the Constitution.
It was true 4 years ago, and is even more so this year. And cherry-picking and denial won’t change things. As for “cheating” in PA, that sounds like paranoid and conspiracy type thinking, and I suppose it is possible, but it would be just as likely to occur on the Republican side as the Democrat. Both sides are highly motivated.
LOL! PA has a Dem Governor. Philly is always a hotbed for fraud. During the midterms they had a precinct with 10% more votes than residents! https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-philadelphia-ward-leader-judge-of-elections-domenick-demuro-guilty-plea-20200521.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/philadelphias-horrible-record-democrat-voter-fraud-hits-new-low-voting-machine-laptop-memory-sticks-stolen/
Their State Supreme court just ruled to allow mail in ballots without matching signatures to be counted.
So your implication that the fraud will equal out is pure BS. Hell they won’t even allow Trump election observers into satellite voting facilities to observe in Philly!
As for Florida. We shall see.
There you go again, cherry-picking. So what if the guv is a Dem, their legislature is Rep. majority. These claims of “fraud” are always electioneering and finger-pointing, done by both sides, and it’s all nonsense.
Cherry picking? Actual cases? Please “cherry pick” some examples of Republican voter fraud in PA for me.
BTW the Russians have unleashed their Cuban Bots in Miami,
Dementia Slow Joe has already lost Florida, the Cuban-Americans have rejected the socialism of the Watermelons.
Well, we know one thing. If you pay Biden enough, he might give you what you want. He’s going to the highest bidder.
BTW Fauci has taken his tiny fig leaf off. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/01/white-house-unacceptable-dr-anthony-fauci-playing-politics-three-days-before-election/
Did Breitbart report about the US’s 100,000 daily new cases record?
How many hospitalizations or deaths? How many more being tested? Fauci would have us wearing masks through NEXT YEAR!
But no matter. A bureaucrat functionary has no business playing politics nor attacking a colleague less than three days before an election. Trump will probably can his butt after he is reelected.
And about those tests. How has COVID-19 nearly completely wiped out the flu?
https://realclimatescience.com/2020/10/covid-19-has-cured-the-flu/
It might push the world into wasting vast resources trying to control the planet’s climate, rather than reserving resources to adapt to whatever climate or other changes require.
Like pouring food and natural resources down into a subduction zone.
Yes and the conflict that comes from that will get all the attention rather than the root policy causes.
Could, but more likely he will lead it to all the high-cost providers and politically connected nonplayers in renewables. I’m not sure he could shut down science debate and inquiry any more than it already has been but he could try. President Harris will show us all the wrongheaded paths of the Party with taxpayer funds we don’t have while preaching all the advocacy sermons. Heading for the hills with broadband has already begun and will continue at high rates after the pandemic. The great policy exodus has begun. The Promised Land is lost.
I will be enormously surprised if Biden wins. He’s got the charisma of Clinton and his sitting on the sidelines while the country burned and www looted has given people very few reason to vote for him. Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on outsider status, while real kitchen table issues were raised by Covid lockdowns.