Ten Things China Joe Plans To Do To Combat Climate Crisis (scam)

China Joe has plans. None of them include reducing his own use of fossil fuels, nor making the White House run on 100% renewables. Nor doing away with grand parties for foreign dignitaries flying to the U.S. on fossil fueled private jets

How Joe Biden plans to use executive powers to fight climate change

Democrats have won control of the Senate, thanks to two tight Tuesday runoff races in Georgia.

With the Senate question largely resolved, President-elect Joe Biden can now start to focus on policy, including his ambitious agenda to deal with climate change, which calls for an aggressive shift to clean energy, carbon neutrality by the middle of the century, and massive federal investment to drive these changes. Contrast that with President Donald Trump, who put forth no plan to deal with climate change and actively undermined existing policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

OK, lets skip past the typical Voxwhining and Voxcomplaining to the salient 10 points

Campaign press secretary Jamal Brown told us that Biden has come up with at least 10 executive actions to pursue off the bat:

  • Requiring aggressive methane pollution limits for new oil and gas operations. (skyrocketing energy prices)
  • Using the federal government procurement system — which spends $500 billion every year — to drive toward 100 percent clean energy and zero-emissions vehicles. (Bet Joe and Kamala won’t use them)
  • Ensuring that all US government installations, buildings, and facilities are more efficient and climate-ready, harnessing the purchasing power and supply chains to drive innovation. (your taxes are going up to pay for this)
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation — the fastest growing source of US climate pollution — by preserving and implementing the existing Clean Air Act, and developing rigorous new fuel economy standards aimed at ensuring 100 percent of new light- and medium-duty vehicles will be electrified and annual improvements are made for heavy-duty vehicles. (the cost of even compact cars will soon become unaffordable to the lower and lower-middle class folks. Heck, even for the middle-middle class folks)
  • Doubling down on the liquid fuels of the future, which make agriculture a key part of the solution to climate change. Advanced biofuels, made with materials like switchgrass and algae, can create jobs and new solutions to reduce emissions in planes, oceangoing vessels, and more. (because those have worked so well)
  • Saving consumers money and reducing emissions through new, aggressive appliance and building efficiency standards. (you “save” money by having to purchase more expensive appliances and such that die before you recoup the extra costs)
  • Committing that every federal infrastructure investment should reduce climate pollution, and require any federal permitting decision to consider the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. (taxation and inefficiency)
  • Requiring public companies to disclose climate risks and the greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains. (I don’t believe this is legal without a new law)
  • Protecting biodiversity, slowing extinction rates and helping leverage natural climate solutions by conserving 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030. (he’s going to take a run at the Waters of The USA rule again, which was shot down as un-Constitutional. It basically gives the feds a say in what people do with their private lands)
  • Protecting America’s natural treasures by permanently protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other areas impacted by President Trump’s attacks on federal lands and waters, establishing national parks and monuments that reflect America’s natural heritage, banning new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters, modifying royalties to account for climate costs, and establishing targeted programs to enhance reforestation and develop renewables on federal lands and waters, with the goal of doubling offshore wind by 2030. (we’ll become a net importer of oil again, with much higher prices, which lead to a higher cost of living)

These actions are only a slice of how Biden plans to address climate change, and there may be more. There are also more contentious executive actions Biden could potentially take, like revoking authorization for the Keystone XL pipeline or denying oil and liquefied natural gas export licenses.

I’ve got a slap in my pocket, as the Brits say, for any China Joe voter who complains about their cost of living skyrocketing. And those who can no longer afford a compact fossil fueled vehicle. Who’s energy bill skyrockets. This is what you schmucks voted for, regardless of whether you were actually a China Joe voter or were voting against Trump, letting your Trump Derangement Syndrome guide you to vote against your best interests.

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If All You See…

…is a wonderful open space that would be perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on some flakes on a train.

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Weird: DC Judge Orders Proud Boys Leader To Leave And Not Come Back

It’s like something out of an old west movie. Or the Lord Of The Rings

Proud Boys Leader Released From Police Custody And Ordered To Leave D.C.

The leader of the right-wing group Proud Boys was released from police custody on Tuesday and ordered by a judge to leave Washington, D.C. — and stay away.

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, was arrested Monday shortly after his arrival in the District, where Trump supporters are gathering to rally during Congress’ official certification of the Electoral College ballots on Wednesday.

Tarrio was charged with destruction of property and possession of high-capacity firearm magazines.

In media interviews, Tarrio has claimed responsibility for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church last month.

Tarrio appeared in court on Tuesday. A judge ordered him to leave the District and banned him from returning except for very limited conditions, including meeting with his attorney or attending a court date, The Associated Press reports. His next hearing is scheduled for June, according to WAMU.

Again, I’m not defending Tarrio’s destruction of property, he did it, he admits it, and it is wrong. It’s wrong for BLM/Antifa nutters to do it, but, interestingly, have you ever heard of a D.C. judge ordering one of them to leave the capital city of the United States of America and not come back except for court stuff? Can the judge legally do this, order a U.S. citizen to stay out of the People’s capital? Sure, a judge can order someone to stay away from a very specific place, but, a whole city? Especially the nation’s capital? What if Tarrio wants to go to the office of his Representative or Senators? Or witness what happens in Congress?

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The “Smart Solution” To Climate Crisis (scam)? A Multi-Nation Carbon Tax!

Climate cultists just refuse to give up on their taxation schemes, evolving them, massaging them, and now, expanding them

Here’s a Smart Solution to Climate Change

There’s a great way the U.S. and the European Union could together address two huge challenges in one policy sweep. It’s to create a transatlantic “carbon club,” which I’ll describe in a moment.

The geopolitical promise of this idea is to resurrect the notion of the “West” at a time when the U.S. and Europe are drifting apart but still hoping to rejuvenate their alliance after Joe Biden becomes president. The even bigger goal is to win the struggle against global warming, which both Biden and the EU cite as their priority.

The only way to slow climate change is to dramatically reduce our planetwide emissions of greenhouse gases. And the best approach to that is to put a price on carbon that’s both high and rising. This signal will make producers and consumers adopt behaviors and technologies to pollute less.

Guess who ultimately ends up paying for this? The average citizen. Their cost of living will skyrocket. I suggest that we implement this tax scheme on all news providers who believe in anthropogenic climate change, starting with the above Washington Post. Let’s see how they like it.

Within a given jurisdiction, we already know how to set such a carbon price. You can tax emissions directly. Or you can limit their overall amount by law, then issue carbon allowances which firms can buy and sell in an open market, at a price that constantly changes. This way emissions will be cut fastest wherever it’s easiest and cheapest to do so.

Of these cap-and-trade systems, the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein jointly have the world’s largest. Still, it only covers sectors — from power generators to steelmakers and airlines — that account for 40% of European emissions, so the system must be expanded. Even then it still faces a bigger problem.

It’s that the rest of the world isn’t in the system. This both slants the economic playing field against European companies and leads to “carbon leakage.” Take a European steel company, for example. It must buy allowances to emit carbon, which is a cost. To avoid that cost, it can invest in technology that makes production cleaner, but that’s also expensive.

In other words, countries like China and India will benefit while the US and EU will handicap themselves. Is there something that can be done?

The solution to the free-riding dilemma is the club model proposed by Nordhaus and now endorsed by sharp minds such as Guntram Wolff, the director of Bruegel, a think tank in Brussels. Here a group of countries would agree on a minimum international carbon price.

All club members would then set about reaching that price with either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, the equivalent of their club dues. As long as their domestic carbon prices are high enough and comparable, there’s no need for club members to punish each other’s imports, so they trade freely (if you ignore other tariffs and quotas for the moment).

Non-members of the club, by contrast, would have to pay countervailing carbon duties on their exports to the club. The EU calls this a “carbon border adjustment mechanism” (CBAM). Unlike ordinary tariffs, the surcharges wouldn’t aim at making domestic producers more competitive but at spreading the cost of global carbon abatement. So they should be allowed by the World Trade Organization.

And guess were the extra cost goes for those duties? Correct, right to the consumer! And those countries continue to blow up on “Doing Something” about their own carbon footprints, instead, telling the consumers in those climahysteric nations they should be blaming the climahysteric politicians for the high prices.

And, no, no, this merging of international markets shouldn’t give Globalist conspiracy theory folks any ammunition

If we still have a shot at controlling global warming, this might be it. Moreover, this kind of positive cooperation between rivals in east and west would have other benefits. Anxiety is growing that the enmity between the U.S. and China could one day end as the contest between Imperial Germany and the British Empire once did: in war. A successful collaboration against the common enemy, global warming, could defuse this conflict — and save the planet along the way.

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Bat Soup Today: New Variant Found In South Africa, China Blocking WHO Inquiry

See, viruses mutate all the time. Perhaps someone sciencey could explain one mutating at least 5-6 times in a year

Covid variant found in South Africa is worrying experts: Here’s what we know so far

Viruses mutate all the time and it’s come as no surprise to experts the coronavirus that emerged in China at the end of 2019 has undergone several significant mutations as the virus replicates and spreads.

But a new strain of the virus that has emerged in South Africa is causing concern. Like a variant that has been discovered in the U.K. in recent months, the one that has emerged in South Africa is proving to be far more transmissible.

While being able to spread more easily, so far, scientists do not believe either new variant is more deadly. But being more transmissible means more people can get infected, and this could mean more serious infections and more fatalities as a result.

Questions are now being raised over whether the coronavirus vaccines developed at breakneck speed in the last year, the western frontrunners being those developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, will be effective against significant mutations of the virus, such as the one identified in South Africa.

While scientists believe that the U.K. variant is not likely to affect the efficacy of the vaccines currently being rolled out in the West, there is more uncertainty regarding the South Africa strain.

If I was a conspiracy theory type person, I’d be wondering if this is just government propaganda to continue to keep people locked down, controlled, and more and more used to being controlled by government. Also, that China was doing shady things with a virus that made it so likely to be able to mutate so easily

Covid: WHO team investigating virus origins denied entry to China

A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.

Two members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.

However, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.

The long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.

The virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.

Well, now that WHO did all they kid to cover for China in 2019 and through mid-2020, they are no longer needed as Useful Idiots by China. Because they might actually find something out with Bat Soup Virus that shows this had zero to do with a wet market and everything to do with a research facility.

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LA County Tells Ambulance Crews Not To Transport Those With Little Chance Of Survival

Is Los Angeles County looking for lawsuits? Because this is the way you get lawsuits

Ambulance crews told not to transport patients who have little chance of survival

The situation in Los Angeles County hospitals is so critical that ambulance crews have been advised to cut back on their use of oxygen and to not bring to hospitals patients who have virtually no chance of survival. Officials say they need to focus on patients with a greater chance of surviving.

The measures were taken as circumstances are expected to become even worse in coming weeks, when patients sickened over the Christmas holiday will need treatment, leaving officials desperate for ways to increase capacity and triage care to focus on the sickest patients.

Already, “many hospitals have reached a point of crisis and are having to make very tough decisions about patient care,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, the L.A. County director of health services. (snip)

In a sign of the strain the surge is putting on medical supplies needed for severely ill patients, the L.A. County Emergency Medical Services Agency issued a directive Monday that ambulance crews should conserve oxygen by administering it only to patients who have oxygen saturation levels below 90%. To reduce demand on hospitals, the agency issued memos directing ambulance staff not to transfer to hospitals most patients who have virtually no chance of survival.

Yes, that is an official government agency, which is telling ambulance crews to follow these directives. First off, do EMTs have the authority to make these calls, particularly on who has a chance of survival? Sure, their experience will give them a clue as to those who won’t survive, but, that should be the call of a doctor. So, lawsuit time.

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The Earth Is Spinning Faster Than Anytime In the Past 50 Years

Science stuff is cool. Just wait till you get to the end

The Earth is spinning faster now than at any time in the past half century

If 2020 felt like a drag, you may be surprised to discover it actually went faster than you thought … and this year is set to be even speedier.

The Earth has been spinning unusually quickly lately, and July 19 saw the shortest day since records began, with the planet completing its rotation in 1.4602 milliseconds less than the usual 86,400 seconds.

The previous shortest day in 2005 was beaten 28 times last year, and 2021 is on track to be the most nippy year ever, with the average day passing 0.5 milliseconds faster than usual.

The changes to the length of a standard day were only discovered after highly accurate atomic clocks were developed in the 1960s and compared to fixed stars in the sky.

In recent decades, Earth’s average rotational speed has consistently decreased and timekeepers have been forced to add 27 leap seconds to atomic time since the 1970s to keep clocks in sync with the slowing planet.

Lots of atomic clock stuff, going to

The speed of the Earth’s rotation varies constantly because of the complex motion of its molten core, oceans and atmosphere, as well as the effect of celestial bodies such as the Moon.

The friction of the tides and the change in distance between the Earth and the Moon all make for daily variations in the speed the planet rotates on its axis.

And now for something completely different

Even the snow building up on mountains and melting in the summer can shift the rotation.

Global warming will also have an effect by melting ice and snow at higher elevations, causing the Earth to spin faster, although only by a small amount.

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If All You See…

…are wonderful carbon sucking trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Knuckledraggin My Life Away, with a post on the results of releasing people from jail early due to COVID.

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Proud Boys Leader Arrested For Burning BLM Flag

The politicized, dual justice system at work

Proud Boys leader arrested on charges related to burning of Black Lives Matter banner, police say

Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was arrested Monday afternoon in Washington, D.C., shortly after landing in the nation’s capital to attend rallies protesting President Donald Trump’s loss in November’s election.

Tarrio, 36, was on a phone call with a USA TODAY reporter when the call was interrupted by loud sirens. He joked that “They’re for me,” and then, sounding confused, asked the driver of the car he was riding in to pull over. Tarrio told the reporter, “Here’s something to write about,” before hanging up the call.

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police Department said Tarrio was arrested and charged with destruction of property in connection with an incident last month where Tarrio set fire to a Black Lives Matter banner after a Trump rally. The banner had been taken from a historic Black church.

Tarrio later boasted about it on social media. Officials said Tarrio, who is a convicted felon, was arrested while in possession of two high-capacity firearm magazines and was additionally charged with “Possession of High Capacity Feeding Device.”

I’m in no way a fan of the Proud Boys. Exactly the opposite. But, let’s consider that the BLM protesters have been allowed to run roughshod over the District Of Columbia for a goodly chunk of this year. Arson, mayhem, assault, property destruction, vandalism, harassment, criminal intimidation, and so much more. They were allowed to paint BLM and other stuff on the streets with no government response. Those few arrested, even for assaulting law enforcement and private citizens, have mostly been let go, charges dropped.

In this case, the D.C. police literally sent officers to arrest him for burning a banner. Were they tracking him? How’d they know he just flew in and what car he was in? Further, he had no firearm, just some magazines, and that’s illegal? He should not have taken and burned the banner, that was wrong, but, you can see a dual, politicized justice system here.

On the social media site Parler, favored by the Proud Boys, Tarrio’s followers expressed anger and frustration at the news of his arrest.

“They are going to try there hardest to STOP PATRIOTS from getting into DC” one user wrote.

The arrest of Tarrio will likely have implications for a slew of protests planned for the capital on Wednesday. Local law enforcement officials are already on high alert and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser warned residents to avoid the downtown area during the protests. She said she is evaluating whether a curfew is necessary to discourage violence, according to local media reports.

There is an attempt to stop people from using their 1st Amendment Rights. Keep the Democratic Party supporting people in BLM and Antifa away and there won’t be violence.

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Massachusetts Pledges To Go On Greenhouse Gas Diet Or Something

This is a great pledge. Citizens are pledging to give up their fossil fueled vehicles. The government is going to stop using fossil fueled trucks and buses. They’re going to get rid of all their airports. No more fossil fueled boats will be allowed at the harbors….oh, wait

Mass. Is Going On A Greenhouse Gas Diet. So Should Every Other State In The Northeast

From hosting the first Thanksgiving to creating the country’s first public park, first public secondary school, and first university, Massachusetts has experience in setting the national pace. So it’s fitting that the Bay State is one of just three, plus Washington, D.C., making a New Year’s resolution to go on a greenhouse gas diet.

Inked also by Connecticut and Rhode Island shortly before 2020 expired, the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) sets a gradually tightening cap on signatories’ motor vehicle emissions. Fuel suppliers will bid at auction for pollution rights under the cap, with states putting the proceeds — totaling an estimated $3 billion over the next decade for the four early adopters — toward cleaner transportation, direct and indirect: mass transit, e-vehicle incentives, walking and bike trails, and commute-cutters like more broadband.

You know what this does? Make it a lot harder for lower income and lower middle class people to have reliable personal transportation. The “fuel suppliers” will just raise their cost of goods, passing it on to the consumer. It would be funny if they all said “nah, we’re out”. Same in those other states and D.C. Especially D.C., which wouldn’t be able to operate without fossil fuels. How would all the politicians and bureaucrats do their work without fossil fuels? All the visitors? International airports?

If a Beacon Hill bill committing to net-zero emissions from all sources by 2050 is signed into law, the state that saw the first shots in the Revolution will fire a policy fusillade against climate change.

Kinda strange mentioning the beginning of freedom and hatred of taxation in the same paragraph about a bill that removes freedom, liberty, and choice along with increasing taxation, eh?

The TCI, based on a similar Northeast compact controlling power plant emissions, won’t kick in for another two years, until 2023. Eight other Northeastern states are dawdling on the deal, their concerns ranging from surmountable to stupid — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s “boondoggle” charge winning blue ribbon for the latter. (Has Sununu similarly described the $649 billion that taxpayers shovel at fossil fuel companies?)

See, it’s so damned important that they won’t bother starting for another two years.

If that’s so, we should be throwing everything we have at it. Yet the progressive governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, while endorsing the TCI “conceptually,” is pocketing his signing pen for now. “I’m conscious of the sticker shock,” he said, that could result from higher gas prices under the plan (an estimated five to nine cents a gallon).

Well, yes. Cleaner transportation requires making pollution, hence gasoline, more expensive, as a business consultant’s paper concedes (while opposing fuel taxes as burdensome for commerce). But there are better ways to cushion the hit on struggling families than frying the globe.

If crazy Phil Murphy is balking at how expensive this will be for citizens, should give pause for thought. They think it’s just 5-9 cents a gallon, but, it will be more, and that will effect most everything. But, how to cushion the blow?

The TCI calls for member states to spend on affordable mass transit, an undertaking for which they’ve been promised a partner in the incoming Biden administration. Rural areas lack mass transit because they lack masses, but Vermont is one place where environmental groups and the government are test-driving alternatives like clean electric buses. How about helping such initiatives by diverting some of those aforementioned fossil fuel subsidies?

Oh, so they’ll just drive you to using buses rather than your own personal vehicle. It takes me 15 minutes to get to work in my car. It would take almost an hour on the bus, which would also require me to walk a mile and a half to get to the stop. And switch multiple times. The big wigs who won’t give up their own fossil fueled vehicles have no problem forcing everyone else to give up theirs.

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