“The Trump years could have been the demise rattle of influential folks [climate] Denialism ”- Watts Up With That?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

According to the Guardian, Biden’s transformative first week will set the course for America’s future despite the “uneasiness of some unions” about destroyed jobs. But no one has a conclusive explanation of how Biden is going to get everything working.

The dizzying pace of Biden’s climate protection sounds like an era of denialism

Oliver Milman @olliemilman
Sat 30 Jan 2021 6.30 p.m. AEDT

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The vision set out in the actions signed by Biden on Wednesdayhowever, it was transformative. One way in which oil and gas drilling can be banned from public property. A third of America’s land and ocean is protected. The government has removed the internal combustion engine from its entire vehicle fleet and offers a future in which battery-powered trucks will deliver America’s mail and electric tanks operated from the US military.Biden signals a radical change from the Trump era with executive orders on climate change

Biden may avoid the politically controversial drafting of the Green New Deal, but there was even an echo of the original New Deal with its plan for a civilian climate corps to restore public properties and waterways. “The whole approach is classic Biden; Working class values, getting people to work“Said Tim Profeta, an environmental policy expert at Duke University.

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“It really is a new day for climate action,” said Carol Browner, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton. “President Joe Biden is taking unprecedented action and sending a distinctive message to the world The United States is back and taking the climate crisis seriously.”

Biden is apparently pulling every possible government lever to cut emissions, but is also aware of the Republicans’ attacks, and Discomfort among some unionsthat trench projects like the Keystone XL oil pipeline will destroy jobs. The battle lines have already formed – the Republicans are trying to prevent the drilling from being stopped. Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, promises to “protect the oil and gas industry from any hostile attack from Washington DC”.

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There are likely to be bipartisan agreements in certain areas, e.g. B. Tax breaks for wind and sun as well as the modernization of the aging infrastructure, which is increasingly plagued by floods, storms and forest fires. Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senate, is confident that some climate spending can creep into the overall budget. Schumer has suggested that Biden could act more unilaterally if he declares a state of emergency because of the climate. “Trump used that emergency to create a stupid wall that wasn’t an emergency. But if there ever was an emergency the climate is oneSaid the New York Senator last week.

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The Trump years may have been the death rattle of influential denialism. American public concern about the climate crisis is at record levels. Even a majority of Republican voters support the government’s intervention after a year of unprecedented wildfires and hurricanes that cost hundreds of lives and tens of billions of dollars. The question now is whether the US can change fast enough to avert further disasters rather than change at all.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/30/joe-biden-climate-change-action

So far, Biden’s plan seems to have been to kill the fossil fuel industry, which generates massive tax revenues without government aid, and replace it with a renewable industry whose agents always have their hands on government money.

What’s the plan if Biden blows the $ 2 trillion incentive and renewable energy companies still want more money? Does anyone seriously believe that two trillion will be enough to kickstart the renewable economy? After all, Obama’s $ 1 trillion green stimulus disappeared without a trace, apart from a frightening surge in US national debt. Why should Biden’s $ 2 trillion stimulus be any different?

An inescapable fact is that green energy costs more than fossil fuels. Renewable energies will always be expensive – the use of materials for the construction and maintenance of a renewable system is orders of magnitude higher than for an equivalent system for fossil fuels. Another point of view: If renewable energies stopped costing, proponents would no longer have to ask for government handouts.

Somehow, these additional costs have to be borne by ordinary Americans, either through higher taxes, higher costs, a weaker economy, or passing the debt on to grandchildren through increased government borrowing.

When I say Biden has no plan for everything to work, it’s the money I’m talking about. Even the US can’t borrow indefinitely to fund the Democrat’s bright green impossibilities – especially after it crashed state revenues by destroying the taxable fossil fuel industry.

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