Biden using 'climate change' to kill the economy

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Here’s the thing with all the climate change hysteria. The United States could go to zero emissions 10 years from now, a complete impossibility without destroying the world economy, and it still would represent only a small fraction of the change the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says is necessary to prevent large temperature rises over the next 100 years. In other words, if China and India don’t make big changes, there is almost nothing to be gained by Western countries nuking their own economies in the name of global warming.

With that fact on the table, understand that China is not going to stop building coal power plants. They are not going to stop burning coal. The communist nation is already in economic trouble and has taken an “anything goes” approach, from energy policy to monetary policy. While the United States under Joe Biden has been more than happy to cut its own leg off, the Chinese are smarter than that.

Put all this together and what you are getting from Blinken here is an admission that Biden is kneecapping the US economy for no reason whatsoever. If China isn’t on board with the president’s delusions about controlling the weather, then middle-class Americans are paying high energy prices while gaining nothing in return. Canceling Keystone XL accomplished what, exactly? Setting radical emissions goals for the US economy while China plans to keep upping their output until at least 2030 (and that assumes you believe their pledge, which you shouldn’t) is self-defeating and stupid.

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Democrats have been exaggerating the climate issues for decades and have been serially wrong in their projections.   They have about the same credibility on the issue as Henny Penny proclaiming that the sky is falling.  The poles are still not ice-free and New York City is still not underwater.

See, also:

Will Appeasement of Climate Change Hysteria Invite a Popular Rejection?