Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
A Fox News article by Liz Peek deals with a major change in Biden’s address from the President on April 28, 2021 to the Joint Congressional Session that was not included in the speech distributed to the press prior to the speech. The speech protocol includes an additional phrase used by Biden to acknowledge that US emissions reductions “don’t matter” as stated in the heading of the article.
The Fox article states:
“This is what he said, according to a transcript of statements made by the President of the New York Times:” The United States, as you all know, produces less than 15 percent of all carbon emissions. The rest of the world makes up 85 percent. That is why I made a commitment to rejoin the Paris Agreement, because if we do everything perfectly, it won’t matter.”
“It was a Whopper that went unnoticed on Wednesday evening. In just a few poorly chosen words, Biden has completely overturned any justification for the Green New Deal, which is central to its US $ 2.3 trillion employment plan and which undoubtedly threatens our economy. ”
“And once in his life Joe Biden was absolutely right. Even if the White House in Biden hurts our economy, puts every last miner and oil drill out of work, and cuts fossil fuel production and consumption in the US, it is unlikely to bend the curve of rising global emissions. “
“It’s the rest of the world that we have to worry about. The EIA assumes that emissions from non-OECD countries will increase by 1% per year between 2018 and 2050. China now accounts for 28% of global carbon production; India produces 7%. The US, as Biden precisely noted, only contributes 15%. “
China is a leader in the world’s developing countries, which control 65% of total global emissions (see below at around 22 billion tons of CO2), and these countries have no interest or desire in the economic suicide programs implemented by the world’s industrialized countries to reduce emissions follow, including the US Democratic Party’s proposal to cut the country’s emissions 50% below 2005 levels by 2030.
Regardless of what the US and the EU propose (the EU proposes to cut emissions by 55% from 1990 levels by 2030), the rise in global emissions will continue unabated. It should be noted that Germany, by far the largest emissions company in the EU by more than a factor of two, has not achieved its emissions reduction target for 2020.
Today’s total global emissions (hereafter around 34 billion tons of CO2) will increase by another billion tons by 2030, even if the US and EU spend many trillions of dollars and euros on economically devastating efforts that pretend to be save the world from “climate change”.
Between 2007 and 2019, the US cut emissions by over 900 million tons of CO2, mainly through the use of increased natural gas to replace the use of coal fuel, thereby reducing energy costs and increasing energy efficiency. The EU has also reduced emissions by around 900 million tonnes of CO2 during this period, mainly through the mandatory use of more expensive renewable energies, which have kept their electricity tariffs as the highest in the world.
It was most appropriate for Biden to give “truth” to his speech by recognizing the utter futility of his program of calling on the US to make costly and ineffective efforts on his ridiculous 2030 emission reduction proposal.
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