This email received from the White House Press Office this evening.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2020
ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the Paris Agreement, done at Paris on December 12, 2015, do hereby accept the said Agreement and every article and clause thereof on behalf of the United States of America.
Done at Washington this 20th day of January, 2021.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
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For the power of the state to deny a citizenry’s civil liberties requires due process.
Due process requires evidence for or against the use/abuse of that power.
Evidence against:
The Radiative GreenHouse Effect theory three-legged stool toppled – together with all the pseudo-scientific, confirmation bias, correlation = cause, climate change, Gorebal warming rubbish stacked on top.
1: By reflecting away 30% +/- of the incoming solar radiation the albedo, which could not/would not exist without the atmosphere, makes the earth cooler not warmer much like that reflective panel behind a car’s windshield. Remove the atmosphere and the albedo goes with, i.e. no water vapor or clouds, no snow or ice, no vegetation, no oceans, the earth becomes a barren, airless, celestial rock. And much like the moon, having an albedo of 10% with 20% more incoming kJ/h, hot^3 lit side, cold^3 dark. Nikolov, Kramm (U of AK) and UCLA Diviner mission all tacitly admit this scenario thereby refuting RGHE’s claim that the naked earth would become 33 C cooler and a -430 F frozen ball of ice.
2:The upwelling “trapped”, “absorbed” or “delayed” the subsequent downwelling “back” radiated energy of the GHG loop must first be removed from the terrestrial system. Removing this “extra” energy would diminish the energy balance at ToA and must be balanced by “extra” upwelling energy. LoT emphatically PROHIBIT such “extra” energy.
3: The “extra” upwelling LWIR of RGHE originates from an assumption that the earth’s surface radiates as an ideal black body. Because of the non-radiative heat transfer participation of the contiguous atmospheric molecules, LWIR provides only a share (emissivity = actual/theoretical) of the upwelling energy rendering “extra” upwelling LWIR impossible. In the case of the ubiquitous K-T power flux balance graphic: theoretical emissivity ε=63/396=0.16 or actual emissivity ε=63/160=0.39. There is no “extra” upwelling LWIR, no “extra” energy for the GHGs to “trap” and “back” radiate and no downwelling LWIR.
As demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicholas-schroeder-55934820_climatechange-greenhouse-co2-activity-6749812735246254080-bc6K
1 + 2 + 3 = 0 RGHE + 0 GHG warming + 0 CAGW
Nick, I have no idea what you’re trying to say in that comment, but you’ve expressed before that you don’t believe that the so-called “radiative greenhouse effect” is real.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01/24/first-detection-of-climate-change-on-another-planet/#comment-2603121
You’re wrong about that. The “greenhouse effect” is misnamed (because greenhouses don’t work like that), but it is real (and beneficial). If you want to learn how it works, here are some resources:
https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html#physics
Call it what it is: the Paris Climate Treaty.
When the Left calls it an “Agreement” or “Accord,” the purpose is to obfuscate the fact that it is an unconstitutional unratified treaty.
https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/treaty-clause/
Democrats, like leftists everywhere, are at war with science, but they are also at war with the U.S. Constitution, and the rule of law.
London’s House of Lords has always been at war with the U.S. Constitution, and will not stop until Leibniz’s “Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness” is replaced with their John Lock’s “Life, Liberty, and Property”. Elections, Electoral College and 1st Amendment are already collateral damage.
Pursuit of happiness is already impossible, and the Great Reset, as Prince Charles says is a unique opportunity, is to make “property” of the 1% constitutional. Notice the wealth transfer over the Corona bailout….
You were doing so well on the new meds. What happened hun? Fell off the wagon again?
Traitor Joe has hit the ground running. In the wrong direction. Impressive. Let’s see if the Republicans have the cajones. Trouble is, there are a lot of RINOs who are onboard the climate choo-choo. Our own, popular governor Chris Sununu is one such critter. Loves masks too. Go figure.
“Trouble is, there are a lot of RINOs who are onboard the climate choo-choo.”
Yes, that is a big problem.
Some Republican politicians are easily misled on the subject of Human-caused Climate Change. Just like a lot of other people.
Evidence! We need evidence that CO2 is evil. Republican politicians should be required to “put up” or “shut up” about our lovely, benign CO2.
They shouldn’t go around disparaging CO2 for no good reason. And they don’t have a good reason. That would become apparent as soon as they tried to explain themselves. We should make them explain themselves.
Wow, I didn’t know about the Junior President part! “Joseph R. Biden Jr., President …”. Imagine that, Dopey Joe, Junior President.
Please Mr. Watts and moderators, can we please avoid making presidential politics out of dung beetle piles? I just went through my bookmarks deleting clickbait sites that try to convince me of the latest hysteria, and I see plenty of adds supporting WUWT.
So, you don’t believe that the US “rejoining” the Paris Agreement is something that we should be talking about?
Or is it that you want the moderators to delete any post that you aren’t interested in reading?
Off to a bad start in the “truth and unity” theme
You may start your resort “conference” trip planning now. Remember those drinks from the bar with the little parasols in them as Mike Mann wrote about. The nebulous taxpayer at the end of the bar is picking up the tab for all. Drink up!
WORLD AND US PRIMARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CAPITAL COST
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-total-energy-consumption
World energy consumption is projected to increase to 736 quads in 2040 from 575 quads in 2015, an increase of 28%, according to the latest from the US Energy Information Administration, EIA.
See URL and click on PPT to access data, click on to page 4 of PowerPoint
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/
Most of this growth is expected to come from countries that are not in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and especially from countries where demand is driven by strong economic growth, particularly in Asia.
Non-OECD Asia, which includes China and India, accounted for more than 60% of the world’s total increase in energy consumption from 2015 through 2040.
PARIS AGREEMENTS
China, India, and other developing Asian countries, and Africa, and Middle and South America need to use low-cost energy, such as coal, to be competitive.
They would not have signed up for “Paris”, if they had not been allowed to be more or less exempt from the Paris agreements
Obama agreed to commit the US to the Paris agreements, i.e., be subject to its financial and other obligations for decades.
However, he never submitted the commitment to the US Senate for ratification, as required by the US Constitution.
Trump rescinded the commitment. It became effective 3 years later, one day after the US presidential elections on November 3, 2020.
If the US had not left “Paris”, a UN Council likely would have determined a level of renewable energy, RE, spending, say $500 billion/y, for distributing to various poorer countries by UN bureaucrats.
The Council would have assessed OECD members, likely in proportion to their GDPs.
The US and Europe would have been assessed at 100 to 150 billion dollars/y each.
The non-OECD countries likely would continue to be more or less exempt from paying for the Paris agreements.
The Paris Climate Accord was never constitutionally ratified and, except that our garbage elite see it as a moneymaking opportunity for them, is not legally binding. Leftists have invented a fiction that if the document doesn’t call itself “treaty” but instead other euphemisms to describe itself, then all it takes is a simple Senate majority to impose it on Americans. Of course, Republicans spinelessly allowed Sen. Cocker to introduce legislation to pass the Iran Nuclear “deal” by simple majority, after it was obvious it didn’t command 67 Senate votes. All this is yet another insult to citizens’ intelligence, because the assumption apparently is we’re to stupid to know synonyms for treaty include, contract, deal, accord, arrangement, convention, concord, pact, settlement, understanding, and a host of similar terms. But then, unconstitutional is SOP for DC tyrants.
Restart the brainwashing! The beatings will stop when we’re all happy to be paying much more for much less, for blackout risks (hello Germany, Australia, California, UK) for intermittent, unreliable, much more expensive electricity, for more expensive food and consumer goods, which depend on the transportation sector. Goodbye to millions of jobs. Remember Obama’s promise? Prices (for energy) will necessarily skyrocket. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Stop voting for far lefties if you don’t want far leftism.
Germany has the world’s most reliable electric grid – far, far more reliable than any part of the USA
They now have the world HIGHEST electric prices.
Without stats to back up your claim, Griff, you are chewing crud.
The stats have been provided by others. Many times. griff believes what it’s handlers tell it to believe.
Only after making sure that they can shut down huge swathes of it at need – which need will become increasingly more common. Doesn’t really fit the bill as ‘reliable’ though does it? You could describe anything as ‘reliable’ if it’s shut down and not used – by that metric the N.Korean energy grid is by far the most ‘reliable’ as it almost non-existent.
I guess it doesn’t count as a black out if it’s done on purpose.
Germany HAD the world’s most reliable electric grid.
There… fixed your ignorant LIES
Its got SO BAD now that the ignorant “greenies-in-charge” are looking at making it legal to intentionally turn off people’s power whenever their incompetence leads to electricity grid problems.
https://notrickszone.com/2021/01/19/last-ditch-effort-germany-weighs-electricity-rationing-scheme-to-stabilize-its-now-shaky-green-power-grid/
This has been refuted so many times, but as usual, griff doesn’t care.
He has his propaganda to push. No time left to deal with reality.
When the German grid operator has to force/order industrial companies to shutdown operations to conserve electricity to prevent a black-out, that’s some weird definition of “reliable” there Griff. Being ordered to shutdown to prevent a black-out would not be called reliable energy in my book.
It just needs the minor footnote that the “truth and unity” actually refers to promotional agenda truths and the unity thing is with advocacy groups and UN agency funding goals.
Did Biden call for unity, before or after CNN demanded all Trump supporters be deprogrammed?
Such unification! Re-joining a controversial “agreement” without dialog. The great UNIFIER!
As usual, the evil will persist, Trump opened our eyes, but failed to do the job that needed to be done, protect us from these evil doer’s. We can only hope for Biden and his USA policies to screw up so bad, that even ANTIFA will be calling for Trumps return.
As we here, that keep up with the stories that WUWT has provided for us and the brilliant comments and debates that go into this site know, that the climate scientist will keep their ears flapped over and sit back and enjoy their lucrative pay outs from climate activist and scamsters from around the world.
The obvious change will be in the carbon credit market. We will now need to pay to put the co2 into the atmosphere. But as regulars to this site know, paying more for the permit to use more co2 doesn’t reduce the co2 it just makes it more expensive for consumers, ergo, inflation.
Here are a couple of links. One is pro carbon credits, of course it comes with a “how great it shall be” scammers read.
https://native.eco/product/carbon-offsets/
The other is from, Christian Science Monitor, telling us that the market is ripe for fraud. I think the current market in the EU is around 3-6 dollars per ton. But with the USA getting on board, this amount could soar.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0420/Buying-carbon-offsets-may-ease-eco-guilt-but-not-global-warming
Screwing up badly is what Antifa wants. They want the system to collapse. They believe that in the resulting chaos, they will be able to take over. It’s worked before.
I wonder if it is Simon or Loydo who’s gone through and down voted every one of my posts?
Sounds to me like the Chinese, Ukrainians and Russians have gotten what they paid for.
The CCP still has paid-up contracts waiting for fulfillment from The Big Guy.
Now the Ununited Soviet States of America is rolled out. They have control of ALL branches of your government now.
Only 2/7 supreme court justices, 13/100 senators, 120/435 congress, 0/8 joint chiefs of staff, 0/1 VP think free & FAIR elections matter. The rest are going along with the most blatant, in your face, over the top cheating since Marcos in the Philippines.
They will not only rejoin they will pass it in the senate. Freedom was nice while it lasted but it’s over unless some states leave the union.
Wish I was wrong on this but stop hoping for the best and prepare for the worst because it’s coming like a freight train.
</blockquote>…having seen and considered the Paris Agreement</blockquote>Like hell, he has.
<blockquote>…having seen and considered the Paris Agreement</blockquote>Like hell, he has.
<blockquote>…having seen and considered the Paris Agreement</blockquote>Like hell, he has.
(I will get it working!!)
I guess old <> formatting doesn’t work..
No, it doesn’t. The new input box is a WYSIWYG editor. You should see formatting options along the bottom.
That’s not how it works, Joe.
The Butterfly Effect is in full force today. Who knew that in 1988 the manipulation of a thermostat in the Congressional hearing room would distort world policy to this extent.
The Hansen forecasts 30 years later – Watts Up With That?
Each 1/10th turn of the thermostat back then is worth $1 trillion in spending today on bad public policy!
It set the tone for policy gimmicks that were to follow.
This will be remembered as the moment the oceans stopped their rising.
With his pen, he parted the waters of the sea–vertically.
That reminds me. Joe forgot the Roman Pillars for his inauguration.
This actually has me kind of pissed off at Trump, for “leaving” the accord. He should have just come out and said that we were never in it to begin with due to it being an unratified treaty. Back in June of 2017!
That would have had the advantage of being undeniably true, and getting us ‘out’ instantly. Instead, by indulging the fiction that we were in the treaty, and had to abide by its terms for leaving, he lends Biden’s ‘reentry’ a gloss of legitimacy it shouldn’t have.
Strictly speaking, this was a proclamation from the new POTUS, President Xi…
Not to worry, it takes time to undo a shale revolution and dim the prospects and incentives for risk taking in a continental-scale country. It may appear that advocacy group numbers and their exec directors are all that matter but there will be other tests of that reality. The coal will sit and wait as it always does and technology will be both overestimated and underestimated in different areas.
“Not to worry, it takes time to undo a shale revolution”
Good point.
O Canada! You wasted over a billion dollars keeping the Keystone XL project alive. Go for the super refinery to save yourselves.