Biden taps John Kerry as Presidential climate envoy – Expect merging of COVID & Climate – Kerry: ‘You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19’

Australia is a nation that has labored for some 60 decades under the epithet – “poor fella my country”

I think this baton has just been passed to Uncle Sam.

COVID-19 related. This is the first story I have read about an airline needing a “vaccine” passport to travel with;

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/qantas-looks-at-smartphone-app-for-covid-19-vaccine-passport-20201124-p56hjc.html

So you cannot travel, on Qantas at least, without a smartphone app to show you have had your “shots”. Biometric passports not enough now? I wonder how many other “infectious” diseases will require similar vaccine passports?

With Trump gone, US can get back on the path of hobbling their industry while sourcing energy intensive manufactured goods from China. Will put upward price pressure on Aussie coal again.

Gas guzzlers will be mandated off the roads making it less crowded for the favoured few who qualify for the Tesla subsidies.

Gee you’re lucky!

What a combination, sleepy Joe and lurch! What could possibly go wrong?

The one major industry and its employees chugging on unabated in this pandemic episode is the Public Service. But it won’t be long before the dwindling tax base takes care of that.

They’re all climate refugees now-
https://cis.org/Bensman/Will-We-See-Biden-Effect-Border
Good luck without a big moat as they see more potential votes with US citizens’ taxes.

Envoy, a messenger. Kerry likes to dress up like when he appeared before congress in fatigues wearing medals to trash the US military. You can bet his message will be no better for the US.

The good news, he has not got it yet.

Biden and Kerry: Truly a tale of two Climate Idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Kerry is sort of correct. There will be a reset.

The great ‘Reset’ is coming January, 2021. US Milt presentation in January. Covid Origins, US Election, and How the US is Going to Go Forward.

Great news for the American people. Day 1, the covid problem will be solved.

The US Milt got blood samples from local Chinese in October and now understand why covid is not a problem in China.

The CIA Frankfort server, which the US Milt captured, completely documents plots/illegal activities with the Chinese, Dems, and CIA and the entire 2020 Election frauds/illegal activities. (It is the biggest find in intelligence history due to modern technology and piles and piles of idiots running the shows.)

The Dems thought there was no way they could lose, as the CIA, FBI, Masters of the Universe, and most of the other countries, are in on the party/plots. So, the idiots talked and talked in their emails which are on the server. The server has time stamped US election changes and the correspondence back and forth, when the changes are made. Nice to have emails discussing the fixes/frauds/illegal activities on the same server to help the investigators put the puzzle together. Great news for the American people.

The SUPPLY SIDE CARBON EMISSION CONTROL PLAN (SSCECP).

Commenting on another article on WUWT, David Wojick said earlier this month that:

“The American system is specifically designed so that the President has far less power than in the parliamentary system, where he would be head of Congress as well. No kings. Checks and balances. Biden can do very little without full Congressional support, which he will not have.”

The last paragraph from Wojick’s article Biden’s False Climate Promises says this:

“People running for President should only promise to do what Presidents can actually do. They cannot speak for Congress so should not pretend to. Biden’s climate promises are so false they are absurd. You can’t get there from here.”

The reality here is this. Congressional buy-in isn’t needed if the goal is simply to achieve a quick reduction in America’s GHG emissions by any means necessary and without regard to the political consequences. Drawing upon existing legislation in the areas of environmental protection and national security, the president and the Executive Branch already have all the authority needed to enforce a steep reduction in America’s carbon emissions on a fast track schedule.

What would constitute a ‘fast track schedule’? It would be President Obama’s original goal, as he stated it in 2012, of an 80% reduction in America’s GHG emissions by 2050, using 2005 as the baseline.

Climate activist politicians can spend all the money they want to on low carbon energy technology and on Green New Deal projects. Energy conservation is the only way to close the gap between what low-carbon technology can accomplish and what the 80% GHG reduction target demands. In making the transition to the 80% target, strictly enforced energy conservation measures can and must be the most important resource management tool being applied.

The bottom line is that if the 80% GHG reduction target is to be met, Americans must be using half as much energy on a per-capita basis in 2050 as we do today in 2020. If climate change is to be managed in the way the incoming Biden administration will be managing the COVID-19 pandemic, then what amounts to a fossil energy lockdown must be imposed, a.k.a. fuel rationing.

Why rely on the EPA and the Executive Branch?

Fifty years of environmental legislation places responsibility for controlling and reducing emissions of substances identified as dangerous pollutants into the hands of the president and the Environmental Protection Agency. The US Supreme Court has ruled that the process Obama’s EPA followed in identifying carbon emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act was proper and so let stand the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding for carbon.

Other legislation places responsibility for management of critical national security issues into the hands of the president. If the world is indeed burning up because of human-generated carbon emissions, then it is easy enough for the president to argue that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a national security threat as well as a global security threat and so falls under the scope of existing national security law.

What will Joe Biden and his climate envoy John Kerry actually do after Biden assumes office?

If human-driven climate change is in fact the urgent crisis climate activists say that it is, a newly inaugurated President Biden has no other choice morally or ethically but to immediately impose a program of carbon fuel rationing on the American people. He must do so as soon as he enters the White House.

How could Joe Biden develop and then enforce a thirty-year carbon fuel rationing program?

Back in mid-September, 2020, I posted a plan on WUWT for reducing America’s carbon emissions 80% by 2050. That target was former President Obama’s original goal as he stated it in 2012. My intention back then, and still is now, to demonstrate how steep reductions in America’s GHG emissions can be accomplished in the absence of any new legislation from Congress.

The plan is entitled the Supply Side Carbon Emission Control Plan (SSCECP). It uses a series of executive orders which combine existing provisions of the Clean Air Act with existing provisions of national security legislation to create an integrated regulatory approach for increasing the cost of all carbon fuels and for systematically restricting their future production and commercial availability.

The SSCECP uses the power of the federal government to create and enforce an artificial shortage of fossil fuels. It directly raises the price of all carbon fuels while directly reducing their future supply and availability, doing so through a process of imposing increasingly severe restrictions on their extraction, import, production, and distribution. In COVID-19 terms, the SSCECP can accurately be described as a phased fossil energy lockdown lasting as long as thirty years.

The plan employs EPA-administered carbon pollution fines as the functional equivalent of a legislated tax on carbon. This approach supplies a powerful incentive for the state governments to participate in directly regulating America’s carbon emissions by assigning them the great bulk of the revenues produced from the EPA’s carbon pollution fines.

As a further measure, a joint inter-agency Carbon Fuels Control Board (CFCB) is established to manage and enforce a phased systematic reduction in the production and distribution of all carbon fuel products. This board would report directly to the president’s Climate Envoy, John Kerry.

As a practical expediency, the SSCECP keeps the import, production, and distribution of carbon fuels in private hands. Rather than nationalizing the oil and gas industry, the plan enlists private corporations as contracted agents in managing the government’s energy rationing programs.

The federal government also guarantees a healthy profit and a steady rate return from the sale of all carbon fuels produced by those private corporations which choose to cooperate in managing the SSCECP’s phased series of GHG reductions. This approach makes the oil and gas industry an ally, not an adversary, in quickly reducing America’s GHG emissions.

The SUPPLY SIDE CARBON EMISSION CONTROL PLAN (SSCECP) — the Major Phases:

The start and end dates listed for each major phase assume Joe Biden is inauagurated as President on January 20th, 2020.

Phase I: Establish a legal basis for regulating all of America’s carbon emissions. (2007-2020. Status complete.)
Phase II: Expand and extend regulation of carbon GHG’s to all major sources of America’s carbon emissions. (01/22/2021 – 12/31/2021)
Phase III: Establish a fully comprehensive regulatory framework for carbon. (01/01/2022 – 12/31/2022)
Phase IV: Implement the carbon pollution regulatory framework. (Year 2023 through the Year 2049)
Phase V: Declare success in reducing America’s carbon emissions 80% by 2050. (If complete by 2050 or some earlier date.)

The SUPPLY SIDE CARBON EMISSION CONTROL PLAN (SSCECP) — a Detailed Description:.

Here are the details of the plan:

Phase I: Establish a legal basis for regulating all of America’s carbon emissions. (2007-2020. Status complete.)

— File and win lawsuits to allow regulation of CO2 and other carbon GHG’s as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. (2007)
— Publish a CAA Section 202 Endangerment Finding as a prototype test case for regulation of carbon GHG’s. (2009)
— Defend the Section 202 Endangerment Finding in the courts. (2010-2012)
— Establish a recent precedent, the COVID-19 pandemic, for taking strong government action in response to a declared national emergency. (2020)

Phase II: Expand and extend regulation of carbon GHG’s to all major sources of America’s carbon emissions. (01/22/2021 – 12/31/2021)

II.A: – Presidential Actions (Joe Biden), Phase II

II.A.1 — Issue an Executive Order declaring a carbon pollution emergency.
II.A.2 — Assign a joint task force of the US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA), the US Department of Homeland Security (US-DHS), and the US Department of Energy (US-DOE) to manage the declared emergency.
II.A.3 — Create a joint interagency Carbon Fuels Control Board (CFCB) to manage a phased systematic reduction in the production and distribution of all carbon fuels.
II.A.4 — Place the joint task force and the carbon fuels control board under the direct supervision of the president and his national security staff.
II.A.5 — Issue a series of Executive Orders as needed to define and implement America’s carbon emissions regulatory framework.
II.A.6 — Establish a public relations outreach program to explain and defend the actions being taken.
II.A.7 — Defend the president’s executive orders in the courts.

II.B: – EPA Actions (Carbon Emission Regulation), Phase II

II.B.1 — Publish a Clean Air Act Section 108 Endangerment Finding which complements 2009’s Section 202 finding.
II.B.2 — Declare carbon emissions as Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) under CAA Section 112.
II.B.3 — Establish a National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for carbon pollution.
II.B.4 — Use the NAAQS for carbon pollution as America’s tie-in to international climate change agreements.
II.B.5 — Defend the Section 108 Endangerment Finding, the NAAQS, and the Section 112 HAP Declaration in the courts.

II.C: – CFCB Actions (Carbon Fuel Rationing), Phase II

II.C.1 — Research and publish a provisional system for government-enforced carbon fuel rationing.
II.C.2 — Defend the provisional system of carbon fuel rationing in the courts.

Phase III: Establish a fully comprehensive regulatory framework for carbon. (01/01/2022 – 12/31/2022)

III.A: – Presidential Actions (Joe Biden), Phase III

III.A.1 — Issue a series of Executive Orders as needed to further define and further implement America’s carbon emissions regulatory framework.
III.A.2 — Monitor and coordinate the activities the US-EPA, the US-DHS, and the US-DOE in response to the carbon pollution emergency.
III.A.3 — Monitor the activities of the Carbon Fuels Control Board (CFCB) in reducing the import, production, and distribution of all carbon fuels.
III.A.4 — Maintain and expand the public relations outreach program needed to explain and defend the anti-carbon actions being taken.
III.A.5 — Defend the president’s executive orders in the courts.

III.B: – EPA Actions (Carbon Emission Regulation), Phase III

III.B.1 — Publish a regulatory framework for carbon pollution under Clean Air Act sections 108, 111, 112, 202, and other CAA sections as applicable.
III.B.2 — Establish cooperative agreements with the states to enforce the EPA’s anti-carbon regulations.
III.B.3 — Establish a system of carbon pollution fines which is the functional equivalent of a legislated tax on carbon.
III.B.4 — Establish the legal basis for assigning all revenues collected from these carbon pollution fines to the states.
III.B.5 — Defend the comprehensive system of carbon pollution regulations in the courts.

III.C: – CFCB Actions (Carbon Fuel Rationing), Phase III

III.C.1 — Establish cooperative agreements with the states to enforce the government’s system of carbon fuel rationing.
III.C.2 — Establish a time-phased, hard-target schedule for reducing the production and distribution of all carbon fuels.
III.C.3 — Establish production control agreements with private sector fossil fuel producers and distributors.
III.C.4 — Establish a guaranteed profit schedule for the carbon fuels industry in return for production & distribution cutbacks.
III.C.5 — Defend the government’s system of carbon fuel rationing in the courts.

Phase IV: Implement the carbon pollution regulatory framework. (Year 2023 through the Year 2049)

IV.A: – Presidential Actions (Joe Biden and his successor climate activist presidents), Phase IV

IV.A.1 — Issue a series of Executive Orders as needed to further define and further implement America’s carbon emissions regulatory framework.
IV.A.2 — Monitor and coordinate the activities the US-EPA, the US-DHS, and the US-DOE in response to the carbon pollution emergency.
IV.A.3 — Monitor the activities of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in enforcing carbon emission regulations.
IV.A.4 — Monitor the activities of the Carbon Fuels Control Board (CFCB) in reducing the import, production, and distribution of all carbon fuels.
IV.A.5 — Maintain and expand the public relations outreach program as needed to further explain and further defend the anti-carbon actions being taken.
IV.A.6 — Defend the president’s executive orders in the courts.

IV.B: – EPA Actions (Carbon Emission Regulation), Phase IV

IV.B.1 — Commence operation of prior agreements with the states for enforcement of the EPA’s anti-carbon regulations.
IV.B.2 — Commence the collection of carbon pollution fines and the distribution of fine revenues to the states.
IV.B.3 — Monitor the effectiveness of the EPA’s carbon regulatory framework in reducing America’s GHG emissions.
IV.B.4 — Monitor the effectiveness of renewable energy projects in reducing America’s GHG emissions.
IV.B.5 — Monitor the effectiveness of energy conservation programs in reducing America’s GHG emissions.
IV.B.6 — Adjust the schedule of carbon pollution fines upward if progress in reducing America’s GHG emissions lags.
IV.B.7 — Defend the EPA’s system of carbon pollution regulations in the courts.

IV.C: – CFCB Actions (Carbon Fuel Rationing), Phase IV

IV.C.1 — Commence operation of prior agreements with the states for enforcement of the government’s system of carbon fuel rationing.
IV.C.2 — Commence operation of production control agreements with private sector fossil fuel producers and distributors.
IV.C.3 — Monitor the compliance of fossil fuel producers and distributors with their CFCB production control agreements.
IV.C.4 — Monitor the profit levels of fossil fuel producers and distributors for conformance with the CFCB’s guaranteed profit schedule.
IV.C.5 — Defend the government-mandated carbon fuel rationing program in the courts.

Phase V: Declare success in reducing America’s carbon emissions 80% by 2050. (If complete by 2050 or some earlier date.)

— The President issues a proclamation that the target of an 80% reduction has been achieved.
— The President, the US-EPA, the US-DHS, and the US-DOE assess the need for continuing the EPA’s anti-carbon regulations and the US Government’s mandatory fuel rationing program as necessary to maintain the 80% goal.
— If a determination is reached that the government’s system of carbon control measures must continue beyond 2050, existing agreements with the states and with private sector fossil fuel producers and distributors are extended with appropriate modifications.
— Defend the government’s anti-carbon measures against emerging lawsuits if these measures must continue beyond 2050

REMARKS:

The Supply Side Carbon Emission Control Plan is completely legal and constitutional. Under current law, it can be implemented unilaterally by the Executive Branch using its existing environmental protection and national security authorities. Not another word of new legislation is needed from Congress either to enable the plan legally or to fund its operation.

Nor does the plan require a separate line of funding in the federal government’s budget. The planning activities and regulation roll-out activities are easily accomplished within the existing spending authorities of the US-EPA, the US-DOE, and the US-DHS.

Even if the House of Representatives and the Senate were both in Republican hands at some point in the next four years, and passed legislation specifically forbidding the adoption of a plan like the SSCECP, a presidential veto can kill that legislation with the stroke of a pen.

A plan like the SSCECP will generate many lawsuits. If the plan is applied with equal force against all major sources of America’s carbon emissions and with equal impact upon all affected economic sectors and demographic groups, those lawsuits will go nowhere. It is specifically designed to survive any lawsuits brought against it.

SUMMARY:

The fact remains that the Executive Branch now has all the authority it needs to quickly reduce America’s carbon emissions on a highly aggressive fast-track schedule. A plan like the SSCECP fits entirely within that authority.

What remains to be seen is whether or not President Elect Biden will use that authority when he takes office in January, 2021.

If climate change is indeed the existential threat to our existence Joe Biden claims that it is, then he is ethically and morally obligated to act in accordance with his claims and to quickly reduce America’s carbon emissions just as far and as fast as current law allows him to do.