Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; “… One of the biggest hurdles to getting to net zero is that consumers still aren’t paying for putting carbon in the atmosphere …”
Trump Return Could See Climate Progress ‘Unraveled,’ Sally Jewell Says
The former Interior secretary said she’s “terrified” about what a second Trump administration could mean for climate and environmental policy.
By Zahra Hirji
12 July 2024 at 5:15 am AESTSally Jewell, who served as US Interior secretary from 2013 to 2017, said the climate stakes of the election in November “could not be higher” and that she’s “really afraid for the future of our planet” should former President Donald Trump return to the White House.
“To go backwards is not acceptable,” Jewell told attendees at the Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle on Thursday. “I can’t say enough about the importance of continuing the progress that has been made over the last three years” on climate change, she added, especially the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.
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One of the biggest hurdles to getting to net zero is that consumers still aren’t paying for putting carbon in the atmosphere, Jewell said. Economic incentives are needed: “Until we start shining a spotlight on the true impact, I don’t think people are going to begin to change their behaviors.”
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“We are all part of an ecosystem that needs to work together,” she said. “We need to pull all those levers now, because it’s a five-alarm fire.”
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/trump-return-could-see-climate-progress-unraveled-sally-jewell-says
A former Democrat interior secretary suggesting to reporters that a second Trump presidency could endanger the future of the planet. What could possibly go wrong?
Sally should do some homework. If she doesn’t she should avoid meddling in something she knows nothing about. Ie Climate change. Briefly carbon dioxide is a good gas and essential to life. Being saturated in the atmosphere at present, any more generated will have negligible effect on the climate.
There’s been zero progress, anywhere. According to the climate change industrial complex, the climate is still changing.
Maybe they need to read the room. Spending trillions (globally) with no results? Hmm…
As always, the best way to deal with any climate change is to roll with it. Adapt. Civilization has always adapted. Stop trying to control a word-wide system we in no way understand. Stop trying to control people’s lives. Stop taking our treasure to spend on your pet causes.
As a MechE, one would expect Sally to know better, but it looks like she has more in common with John Holdren than Steve Koonin re. climate alarmism.
Here in the UK, Just Stop Oil activists want doctors to lecture their patients on climate change. They must be really worried…but perhaps not about the weather.
Looked her up. Started with a college major in dental hygiene at U.Washington (?!), switched to mechanical engineering because then boyfriend had that major. Maybe dental hygiene was too hard? Couple of years working on Alaska pipeline. Then became an ardent environmentalist, eventually becoming long time COO and then long time CEO of Seattle based outdoor equipment retailer REI.
Zero qualifications for DoI except REI retail. Zero qualifications in ‘climate science’. Her opinion matters not. Her loud despair at Trump’s now very likely 5Nov win will grow worse as ‘Drill, baby drill’ returns to restore US energy independence lost under Biden and lower energy costs increased under Biden.
Just another dose of alarmist rhetoric since consumers have few intentions of accepting environmental levies that have done little to stop emissions while guaranteeing higher living costs. And when the really big emitters like China and India wouldn’t even consider such taxes, what difference would if the next US administration even tried. Rising emissions are with us probably until some major energy breakthrough occurs, so the doomsday forecasters should save their energies since few people are listening.
It’s remarkable that people today in the 21st century, beneficiaries of a college education, surrounded by people who are at the pinnacle of human education, progress and prosperity, could hold a belief that humans on the surface of the earth have the capacity to alter the planet – in any way. The mass of this planet, the volume and energy of the oceans, the movement and collisions of the tectonic plates, the energy involved in earth’s rotation, the interaction and energy delivered to earth from the sun, the movement and flux changes in our solar system and galaxy as it rotates and moves through space. More and more it seems to me that this panic about CAGW is just a proxy or symptom of a religion where Man has replaced God at the center of their belief system.
Apparently we the people need to pay a fine for exhaling!
“If Trump, I’m afraid for the future”.
We’re living the results of these toxic people poisoning minds.
“… One of the biggest hurdles to getting to net zero is that consumers still aren’t paying for putting carbon in the atmosphere …”
If the former secretary is worried about the amount of CO2 (“carbon”) we put into the atmosphere, she can be the first one to cease exhaling.
BTW, not surprised to see Bill Nye on the plane with Obama. Nye’s role in the Obama administration was probably as much political as anything else.
“Sally Jewell, who served as US Interior secretary from 2013 to 2017, said the climate stakes of the election in November “could not be higher” and that she’s “really afraid for the future of our planet” should former President Donald Trump return to the White House.”
I’d be more concerned for the people of the US (and the planet) if Trump doesn’t win and the GOP doesn’t gain control of both Houses of Congress.
(The Dems have been a disaster. JFK’s Democrat Party is long dead.)
Hint, little girl.
Once Trump is elected, Obama will no longer be running the country… into the ground
Get used to it. !
The lesson here is we see how bad Obama’s department head choices were. Did I understand that she said we need economic incentives for people to pay for the carbon they put in the air?
Trump has Sally Jewell’s panties in a wad?
That photo resembles the passenger compartment of Air Force One, or at least a rather comfortable private jet. Nothing says “we must save the planet” like indulging in luxury air travel.
It is time these people were put in stocks and pelted with rotten eggs and rotten tomatoes for all the hogwash they are spouting. Everyone walking past and laughing at them would silence them.
There’s that cooling rhetoric from the left.
How can you put ‘ carbon ‘ in the atmosphere ?
So… when are we going to bomb China and India’s coal plants? They’re making a hell of a lot of them, so many that no matter what the US does the CO2 will keep going up.
Well, looks like the usual hysteria about how we’s all gonna die if we don’t make lots of windmills and solar panels…
Being a member of the political party that lied about Trump Russia collusion (Hillary did), Ukraine quid pro quo (Biden did), about Charleston and J6, and of course, catastrophic human induced climate change she has zero credibility. The fact is if we were to continue the energy and agricultural policies they espouse while the WEF and Communist China would be happy, The United States would be in melt down and billions around the world would die from starvation.
Sally who?
Jewell grew up in the State of Washington** and attended the University of Washington. She was on the board of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI).
**The State of Washington has a Carbon fee {the word tax is not allowed to be written or spoken about by WA politicians}. Anyway (If I may use that term), she should know that WA residents are “paying for putting carbon in the atmosphere“. It does little good: my high temp today is 100°F while it was only 96° on Monday. 🥵
Jewell grew up in the State of Washington** and attended the University of Washington. She was on the board of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI).
**The State of Washington has a Carbon fee {the word tax is not allowed to be written or spoken about by WA politicians}. Anyway (If I may use that term), she should know that WA residents are “paying for putting carbon in the atmosphere“. It does little good: my high temp today is 100°F while it was only 96° on Monday. 🥵
Sally Jewell should take it up with Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping.
So the democrat party is referred to as “our planet” now?