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- Unlike In Europe, The US Approach To ‘Climate Change’ Is Actually Working — ‘Unleashing the power of the free market’
European leaders have spent years trying and pointedly failing to solve the climate crisis with regulation. Whether intentionally or not, U.S. policymakers have mostly avoided top-down solutions. And counterintuitively, or perhaps it should have been intuitive, the U.S. now leads the developed world in reducing carbon emissions.
Policymakers can learn an important lesson from this. The key to fighting climate change is to unleash the power of the free market, not to embrace every green politician's or activist's nutty new idea.
- USA Led Entire World In Reducing CO2 Emissions In 2019 – International Energy Agency Report
The United States led the entire world in reducing CO2 emissions last year while also experiencing solid economic growth, according to a newly released report. “The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt,” The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported on Tuesday. “US emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.”
“A 15% reduction in the use of coal for power generation underpinned the decline in overall US emissions in 2019,” the IEA continued. “Coal-fired power plants faced even stronger competition from natural gas-fired generation, with benchmark gas prices an average of 45% lower than 2018 levels. As a result, gas increased its share in electricity generation to a record high of 37%. Overall electricity demand declined because demand for air-conditioning and heating was lower as a result of milder summer and winter weather. The IEA noted that 80% of the increase in CO2 emissions came from Asia and that China and India both contributed significantly to the increase.
- GOP’s ‘climate’ plan denounced as ‘Romney liberal climate regulations’
Club for Growth: “Besides hurting our economy, these measures will not make a single environmentalist vote for a Republican and only alienate conservatives across the country."
- CEI: Climate Bills Supported by Some House Republicans are Bad Policy – ‘Not only bad policy, but will not bring any political relief’
- Settled Science?! Trees both cause & solve ‘global warming’?! – GOP climate pandering seeks to plant billions of trees
GOP climate bill will seek to commit US to planting 3.3 billion trees annually
Plant or not plant trees to fight "global warming?! It's all so confusing! This is what the (allegedly) settled science says:
Christian Science Monitor: Why planting some trees could make global warming worse - 2016
Live Science: Want to Fight Climate Change? Plant 1 Trillion Trees - 2019
Discover Mag: We Can’t Just Plant Billions of Trees to Stop Climate Change - 2019
AP: Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees - 2019
Climate News Network: Planting trees will not slow global warming - 2017
- NYT reveals how Trump administration was duped into promoting planting trees as a climate ‘solution’ – Meanwhile, even UN IPCC and journal Nature ‘find that global-scale deforestation has a net cooling influence on Earth’s climate’
- Trump: Ending Obama-Era Regs Made USA #1 Producer Of Oil And Gas
- GOP bill will seek to commit US to planting 3.3 billion trees annually
- Sen. Warren blames ‘global warming’ for cold-loving influenza – Warns U.S. exit from UN Paris pact may fuel next epidemic
Under a tab on her website titled, “Preventing, Containing, and Treating Infectious Disease Outbreaks at Home and Abroad,” Warren states, “Experts believe the world is due for another bout of pandemic influenza. The latest threat comes from coronavirus….” She later adds, “On the global stage, his [President Trump’s] decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement demonstrates reckless denial about the role of climate change in fueling epidemics.”
- Ivanka Trump praises Greta Thunberg: ‘She’s elevated awareness and that’s a positive thing’
