Steve Milloy, in his article for The Hill, presents a critical analysis of President Biden’s climate plan, questioning its practicality and potential impact on the US economy. Milloy begins by discussing the revelations from this year’s United Nations Climate Week, particularly focusing on China’s stance on fossil fuels and emissions.
First, China finally dropped its “net zero” pose. The world’s largest emitter had promised to reach net zero by 2060. But its climate envoy now says that “completely phasing out fossil fuel is unrealistic” because “fossil fuels are essential to maintain grid stability and energy security given the sometimes unreliable nature of renewables.
Milloy contrasts China’s practical approach with the Biden administration’s ambitious climate policies, suggesting that the US is on a path to economic self-sabotage. He points out the administration’s efforts to phase out coal and gas plants and promote the adoption of electric vehicles without ensuring grid stability.
The Biden administration, on the other hand, is determined to cripple the U.S. It is engaged in simultaneous EPA rulemakings to zero out coal and gas plants, and to mandate the adoption of electric vehicles, even if the grid will not be able to sustain so many of them.
The author also highlights the US’s dependency on China for critical minerals necessary for electric vehicles and solar panels, questioning the wisdom of this economic reliance on a geopolitical rival.
We also learned from the UN event that the Biden administration has given up hope of trying to be independent of China with respect to electric vehicles and solar panels. A top Biden administration official told Bloomberg News that we “won’t be able to cut China out of the critical minerals supply chain”, even as Washington seeks to diversify its sources of the ingredients that go into everything from electric vehicle” for electric vehicle batteries and solar panels.
In conclusion, Milloy’s article raises significant questions about the feasibility and strategic soundness of the Biden administration’s climate policies. He encourages a critical evaluation of these policies, considering their economic implications and the realistic assessment of global emission reduction efforts.
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It’s all according to the plan to cripple Capitalism and there are more than enough useful idiots to keep it going. Success won’t happen because before it could succeed the world would be relegated to a pre industrial time that cannot support current lifestyles or populations …. yes, part of the plan but the people won’t buy it.
Yippeeee! A Biden-policy-bashing thread…almost as much fun to read as a Mann-bashing thread.
See ya later,
Bob
right – facts don’t really matter to those afflicted with climate alarmists disease – until of course electricity, as is in Germany, become a luxury item that is not affordable by many- if you can get it at all
The unreliable grid is Texas, not Germany.
The Texas grid is generally reliable, except when wind and solar fail.
Just this afternoon, Texas hit over $1000/MWh, briefly, yes, but that is an unheard-of price until recently. And yes, solar and wind also dropped off, especially wind.
You are forgetting that Texas can easily recover with its fairly plentiful real fuel driven plants. Germany has none. They just had to re-fire a coal plant.
Germany also has lots of nukes they could “refire”. Resources is not the problem. It’s their dysfunctional political system (too many parties, too much compromise).
There are plenty of Biden policies worthy of bashing, however we generally stick to the climate related ones here.
I notice you didn’t write anything concrete in support of Dear Leader…
confirmed by a former head of the UNIPCC who stated in a speech that the real goal of environmentalists is the destruction of capitalism
I really wonder just how much Joe Biden actually understands of what “his” policies are.
Just a senile old man being told where to go and what to say. Not that most other politicians are any better.
I don’t know which is worse, inexperienced youth or senile aged
Inexperienced youth has time to learn from their mistakes. Senile old men? Not so much. Plus, they have less incentive. They won’t live long enough to suffer the consequences.
That’s the problem, Tom, Joe Biden is not the Biden Administration. The persons writing the crap Joe struggles to read are defacto puppet masters. The most consistent comments about this are involving hold-overs and transplants from the Obama Administration, taking orders from Barry himself. This is a very ugly situation.
From Barry’s beach home palace on Martha’s Vineyard.
That for some strange reason isn’t under water yet.
Regardless of political stripe, one would think the POTUS would have the guts to call time on the insanity, after all it’s his legacy.
He could still be an “Environmental President” (tweaks to policies, or even better put the focus back on real pollutants and off of CO2 and methane) without going along with the crazy policies attacking natural gas use and development – that gas could be the saving grace to any wind/solar/storage fantasy, and yet the green mob is attacking even basic uses of it like home heating and cooking.
Why would any sane person go after those things now when electrical supply, of any flavour – fossil or not – is no where near enough and will never be enough this century at least.
I guess the first part of the question contains the answer.
You understand politics, a rarity. I lobbied for energy development for a few years. Enlightening.
Once President Joe Biden ceases all oil production in America, when will he educate the public about his alternative source for the products and components to support the Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, and Space programs that are now reliant on crude oil for those products and fuels?
Alternative? You really think anyone in the White House has thought that far ahead? Or thought much at all, really?
Plug in your electric tanks overnight. Sheesh! Who drives these things in the dark anyway? Electric bombers can be recharged from glider batteries towed by the bombers. This tech is just around the corner… er… sarc!
Shouldn’t he educate the public BEFORE he ceases all oil production?
Shouldn’t he educate HIMSELF before ceasing oil production?
Coward-Piven, take a big bow. It’s working.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
Yes, it is the “Biden administration”, most of them hold-overs from previous administrations of both parties, that are dragging the US into economic disaster. Biden himself probably isn’t cognizant enough to even understand the issues, which are determined by academia. The EPA is made up of mostly academics, But it doesn’t matter. The policies and processes of the federal government and its state children produce one failure after another. Like this one.
I think we have now seen a good example the value of, and state of academia today with all the riots at leading universities.
Student behavior isn’t a part of this, the reason students do it is because they have no other kind of power. The administration and faculty are a different story. They discover and define problems of both a scientific and social nature. recommending solutions in exchange for millions in research funding that erects labs and admin buildings and hires researchers. Students and researchers that don’t reach the highest levels in their world move over to government bureaucracies or even elected offices and if successful there can have a route back to academe, where they can influence their former colleagues in government. Each of the members of the Association of American Universities, an organization devoted to maintaining the members research reputation, has staff members communicating with past and potential donors, government financing agencies, foundations and NGOs. The students themselves are a minor distraction in the affairs of a highly ranked research university that resembles nothing so much as a gigantic, publicly funded corporation.
There are a lot of faculty involved in the ‘protests’ on behalf of Hamas terrorists.
and the Zionist terrorists, also.
Those exist only in the minds of those with no connection to reality.
You have your history just bass-ackwards, or you are an idiot.
Don’t you know that killing people who are trying to kill you, is just another form of terrorism.
“…Milloy’s article raises significant questions about the feasibility and strategic soundness of the Biden administration’s climate policies.”
It’s a shame he is just joining a long list of people who have realized the same. Here, he’s preaching to the choir. Maybe someone will finally come up with a way to convince the left of their incompetence, but I guess it’s still almost impossible to contradict someone’s religion.
“Just joining…” are you serious??? I was following Milloy’s JunkScience.com blog 20 years ago, covering the same topics as here. Back then though the big insanity was the DDT ban based on flimsy evidence – that caused millions of deaths.
Video tip – YT video – climate protesters – Bus driver rams Just Stop Oil protesters blockade nearly running them over – YouTube
He did not “ram” them, neither did he nearly run them over. He should have done both.
No of course he shouldn’t have! He did an excellent job of resisting the protestors without hurting anyone, denying the eco-nazis of victim status, the come off looking as idiots instead of eco-heros.
I see a business oportunity in cow-catchers…
From The Hill article:
“So even if you believe that emissions are going to end the world in a few years, the Chinese clearly don’t, and they don’t plan to do anything about it. So, what’s the point? And why is Biden so intent on crashing our economy and national security in the name of climate shibboleths?”
Three words: Stupidity and Scientific Illiteracy. The American people have what they voted for from the [Let’s Go] Brandon Administration.
Maurice Strong quote:
Oh look, they spelt ‘shibboleth’s’ with 2 b’s.
Back on topic – Maurice Strong isn’t talking about a ‘small group’ of countries, just a small group of leaders from only 1 or 2. He was, of course, very much in favour in China, his aunt or cousin being very close to Mao, he was an avowed Communist and fled to China as a refuge when investigations into past dealings came to light. Corrupt, anti-capitalist and very definitely anti-west.
Oh look, they spelt ‘shibboleth’s’ with 2 b’s.
Nobody’s perfect.
Not only advocating for EVs, but also for heat pumps replacing gas heat, even if the grid can’t support all of that either.
Perhaps a future generation will look back upon this era with a critical eye and see the climate hysteria as something rivaling the Darien project of the Scots in terms of destruction of a nation by its elite.
Climate hysteria is a mass mania unmoored from reality, careening into self-destruction, like some of the mass manias described in the 1841 book, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”
It’s not a mass mania at all. Ordinary folk comment on how hot or chilly the day might be but don’t go into fits over global warming or CO2 capture. Real estate on the sea shore still increases in value. Spectators at tennis tournaments in Beijing and horse races in NYC are wearing sweaters and jackets. Only those with a financial stake in the fraud promote the climate disaster. This includes the staid and reliable media, who are swept up by the Taylor Swift drama and the doings of the Kardashian girls. Sadly, we live in a celebrity culture consisting of truly unserious people who aren’t inclined to look very deeply into any complicated subject. When the bills start arriving, when the bankruptcies are filed, this too shall pass.
or before AI swamps the grid – what you describe is what will happen if dems steal the ’24 election
The media never mentions the fact that Biden is afflicted with persistent afib, a heart rhythm
disorder. Google afib dementia. Ol Joe needs to go.
(yet) another cause & effect error from modern science – both those things come from the same root. They are basically both = Nerve Disorders
Esp coming from overconsumption of either sugar or alcohol which creates/exacerbates deficiencies of Vitamin B and Magnesium
Vitamin B protects your nerves and Magnesium is your heart’s preferred neurotransmitter.
(‘most everywhere else uses Sodium)
i.e. Brandon had some rather naughty & bad habits when he was younger
To see what Magnesium deficiency does to critters with nervous systems, look up ‘grass staggers’ in cows = a (usually) fatal disorder with identical symptoms to Mad Cow Disease and to all intents, a mix of Parkinsons/Alzheimers in humans.
Now The Scary Bit:
(because of you know what that farmers do and causes climate change) it is reckoned that anywhere between 25% and 75% of everybody is chronically short of Magnesium
If you get cramps easily, especially in your legs at night, you are low on Magnesium
If we could get the youth of the US off psychoactive pharmaceuticals such as Ritalin and Adderall, we might have more young people who are capable of thinking for themselves, and managing their own lives.
Milloy points out the obvious. But it won’t end until there is sufficient Biden induced disaster obvious to a large majority of the public. That is unfortunately not likely during the remainder of the dotard’s term.
Rud, this is already happening in Europe. Right wing parties that haven’t been voted in for a number of generations are beginning to take over. NZ also scrapped the left and it looks like this will last for a generation after what the left did to the people they were supposed to represent.
“China finally dropped its “net zero” pose. The world’s largest emitter had promised to reach net zero by 2060. But its climate envoy now says that “completely phasing out fossil fuel is unrealistic” because “fossil fuels are essential to maintain grid stability and energy security given the sometimes unreliable nature of renewables” As I’ve said before the communists who run China are apparently smarter than the communists who run the USA.
“As I’ve said before the communists who run China are apparently smarter than the communists who run the USA.”
They may be working together. The Biden family has recieved millions of dollars from the Chicoms for something.
China never promised to hit New Zero by 2060. The deal Obama made with them was the Chicoms can generate as much CO2 as they desire until 2030, and then the Chicoms said they would reassess the situation.
In other words, Obama was willing to make any kind of deal just so he could say the Chicoms were onboard. So he made them a deal they couldn’t refuse, because it required nothing of them.
Obama = The Second Worst President Evah!
Shows just how bloody awful the present incumbent is if Obama is second worst!
Hard to say.
They both have the same goals, the destruction of the US and the elevation of China as a super power.
Story tip
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/18/shut-down-britains-gas-network-roll-out-heat-pumps-and-ban-all-private-vehicles-from-cities-government-told-by-national-infrastructure-commission/
Meanwhile, back in the UK, the Govt advising quango, NIC, have been totally relieved of their senses and it’s 77 year old Chairman has a gloomy, miserable, dystopian vision for future generations to endure that resemble nothing his life has been blessed with
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/19/the-official-true-cost-of-net-zero-is-the-same-as-spending-1-a-second-for-the-next-31000-years/
That same old dystopian NIC loves spending taxpayers cash on nut zero codswallop – again, it’s 77 year old Chairman won’t have to suffer the results of his advice
If Biden isn’t a Traitor betraying his country, then what is he?
A cognitively impaired long time old school crooked politician.
Most of those crooked politicians, at least never stooped to selling out their own country.
A scared and lonely old man looking for some chocolate ice cream.
Biden is a traitor to his country. He and Obama used the federal government to investigate their chief political opponent, Donald Trump, based on Hillary Clinton’s fabricated lie that Trump and the Russians were colluding to give Trump the election.
Obama and Biden both knew, along with all the other Agency Heads that the Trump/Russia collusion narrative was a lie from the very beginning, yet these investigations carried on for years with Obama and Biden’s approval.
All Obama or Biden had to do was say this is a lie, and stop pursuing Trump, but they didn’t do that, instead they prosecuted Trump and his supporters.
Obama and Biden illegally used the federal government against their political opposition, undermining the U.S. Constitution in the process. And Biden is still doing so today.
So, yes, Joe Biden is a traitor to his counntry and the U.S. Constitution. Biden wants to use the power of the federal government to eliminate the political opposition, just like every other dictator in history.
Obama, Biden, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and all the Heads of the Intelligence Agencies would all be put in jail, in a rational world. They are all traitors to their country. They all knew the Trump/Russia collusion was a lie generated by Hillary Clinton. And used this lie as a weapon against Trump and his 75 million supporters.
Joe Biden is a traitor in so many ways.
Outstanding summary sir.
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BidenBiden’s handlers want to use the power of the federal government to eliminate the political opposition…”I afraid Biden himself is now just a pathetic old man that doesn’t even know where he is, much less what he’s reading or signing. It’s his handlers, probably foremost his wife, who are running that swamp in D.C. some call the ‘Executive Branch’.
Trump will fix the economy and lift the burden off the fossil fuel and nuclear industry with new regs that force grids to be reliable, but I hope he reviews and strikes most of the so called ‘charities’ off the list that are active anti-American supporters of foreign subversion and traitorous nationals. Tax them and charge them for their crimes into oblivion. Finish the job defunding the UN. It is an anti-American institution refitted to bring down the USA.
While he’s at it, raise the bar back up for education for schools, universities, teachers and professors and shutdown the wifty poofty faculties by cutting funding. There is a goodly number of ideologue traitors rotting minds of students who have no business being in institution of higher learning in other first place. Maybe create high caliber new schools that Harvard and all other asterisked schools would have to compete with to drag themselves out of the swamp.
Putting those two concepts in the same sentence is a crime against humanity.
“…. sometimes unreliable nature of renewables…”
Sometimes? Nice understatement.
The only thing that relates to strategy here is the political strategy of Party power and courting advocacy groups. Everything else is just a distant distraction like country, industries, families, voters, and their future.
DON’T….DON’T believe anything Joey sez…he is the Great Divider and creates a poisonous atmosphere….deport him to China…Iran….Venezuela….some place more in step with his “politics”.
Fixed income, some savings, 15 years life expectancy, planned on 2-3% inflation, don’t need this merd.
Overspending was the big pile of kindling, energy policy was the spark.
I presume you left off the “e” on “merd” on your description of Joe potato for discretion? ‘Cause I don’t think you meant “nerd”. That’s too kind.
Be interesting to see the response, when China, takes over Taiwan.
Surely, it must be obvious to some politicians and top gov’t staff, that being dependent on China, for critical materials, with a volatile political environment, is a foolhardy policy.