AP admits climate ‘action’ is meaningless!? Biden ‘faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions’
https://apnews.com/article/biden-emissions-goals-climate-summit-c02ea56b944d01c812644900fce803e7 By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday with 40 world leaders, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will have a tangible impact on climate change efforts not only in the […]
‘A coming out party for the U.S.’! – Biden’s Earth Day Summit Aims for Reset on Climate Change
https://www.voanews.com/usa/bidens-earth-day-summit-aims-reset-climate-change By Steve Baragona A “coming-out party for the United States on climate change.” That’s how University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability Director Nathan Hultman describes the virtual summit President Joe Biden is hosting with dozens of world leaders April 22-23. After four years of disregard for the issue under former President […]
Here comes the ‘Climate Reset’! – Wash Post: ‘The U.S. embarks on a huge climate reset’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/19/us-embarks-huge-climate-reset/ The Biden administration is trying to undo the work of its predecessor in many ways. But the most striking — and likely most consequential — reversal is on climate. For four years under President Donald Trump, the federal government of the United States cut itself adrift from the broad international consensus. It turned its […]
Progressives claim: ‘Capitalism itself has led us towards…a climate catastrophe’ – ‘Rescuing the Planet Is Still Possible: The Case for a Global Green New Deal’
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/18/rescuing-planet-still-possible-case-global-green-new-deal by C.J. Polychroniou The theme of the 51st Anniversary of Earth Day is “Restore Our Earth.” To be sure, while there has been a growing level of environmental consciousness since the first Earth Day, and some progress has been made with respect to environmental protection, we are really in a race to save the […]
It’s Back! AOC & Group Of Democrats To Reintroduce The Green New Deal
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/19/democrats-alexandria-ocasico-cortez-reintroduce-green-new-deal/ Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and other progressive lawmakers are planning on reintroducing the Green New Deal on Tuesday. The proposed legislation, introduced by Ocasio-Cortez in 2019, aims to tackle climate change and other environmental concerns at a cost as high as $93 trillion over ten years, or $653,000 […]
Scientists Dr. Lindzen & Happer: ‘There is no climate emergency. Americans should not be stampeded into a disastrous climate crusade’
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/climate-emergency-not-so-fast/ Climate ‘Emergency’? Not So Fast Americans should not be stampeded into a disastrous climate crusade. By RICHARD LINDZEN & WILLIAM HAPPER By obligating the United States once more to the Paris agreement, and by signaling very clearly that “climate” will be central to its policies, the Biden administration has joined other governments in […]
Ready to fight ‘climate disorders’!? French Prez Macron: ‘We are living the first consequences of basically climate disorders. It’s time to rush’
We are living the first consequences of basically climate disorders. It's time to rush. pic.twitter.com/InOywgv6D0 — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 19, 2021 Where is the climate disorder? What parameters are we talking about? Which Index is he referring to?Is it agriculture success? cumulative increase in Freshwater access? is it poverty reduction? And May I know […]
UN Chief: U.S. must halve emissions (in relation to 2010 levels) to galvanize global climate action
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-must-halve-emissions-galvanize-global-climate-action-un-chief-2021-04-19/ United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres wants the United States to commit this week to at least halving its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — a move he said could unlock similar action from the world’s other large emitters. The United States, the world’s biggest economy and second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China, […]
Markey Urges U.S. to Cut Methane in Revising Its Climate Pledge – Reality Check: ‘Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas’
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/markey-urges-u-s-to-cut-methane-in-revising-its-climate-pledge U.S. pledge would prod global action, senator writes Argues 40% by 2030 cut already technically feasible President Joe Biden must pursue deep reductions in methane from the oil and gas industry as he moves to ramp up an Obama-era pledge to cut planet-warming emissions, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote in a letter […]
CLIMATE CONTROL?! Secretary of State Blinken Says U.S. will ‘miss the chance to shape the world’s climate future’
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/blinken-says-u-s-falls-behind-china-in-shaping-climate-future Secretary of State Antony Blinken will say the U.S. is falling behind China in the race to seize opportunities created by climate change, in a speech that will cast the challenge of a warming planet as a chance to create more jobs and export American values. In an address in Maryland on Monday afternoon, Blinken […]