If you’ve been taking the latest climate warnings from the White House seriously and literally, you believe the Earth is about to become either a ball of fire or an enormous ocean. 

I humbly suggest a more likely possibility: You are being blitzed by a government snow job. 

The claim that the end is near is the latest example of how the Biden administration is creating more problems for itself than it is solving. That the climate scare effort employs a whole-of-government approach doesn’t make it any more credible. 

Quite the contrary. The sudden storm of dystopian scenarios churned out by the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, financial regulators and other administration mouthpieces is part of a desperate public-relations campaign to boost a sagging President Biden at home and on the global stage. 

The aim is to scare Americans into supporting the left’s moribund Build Back Better monstrosity and convince world leaders the president is a committed climate soldier at a United Nations summit in Scotland next week. 

So far, no luck on either front. 

The Wall Street Journal, in its headline on the choreographed reports , declared Biden “Wants to Show World He’s Serious About Cutting Emissions Despite US Congress Pushback.” 

But as The New York Times put it the same day, the president “has little progress to tout in Glasgow, where the administration had hoped to re-establish United States leadership on addressing warming.” 

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“They can deny him his place of honor, but not his prescience, which is coming more and more to the fore: 

“When the government fears the people, you have democracy . . . When the people fear the government, you have revolution.”

Thomas Jefferson is exactly right!

…It’s a noble aim, except for the fact Powell Jobs seems to be blithely abetting the climate change crisis by traveling to and from her multiple homes (three more in Silicon Valley, a $25 million horse ranch in Florida, another in San Francisco) on one of the two Gulfstream jets she owns . (She also has a Philippe Starck-designed mega yacht .) 

She is not alone in her hypocrisy. Private jet travel has surged so much during the pandemic , according to The New York Times, there’s a shortage of pilots, and wait times to book a jet have tripled. Yet it’s hard to catch eco-warriors Bill Gates (who wrote a book on climate change , yet owns four private planes — a collection he calls his “guilty pleasure”), Richard Branson (who once created a Global Warming Prize for the first person to figure out how to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere), Jeff Bezos (who has his own climate change philanthropy ) and Elon Musk on anything but their own jets — or even their own rocket. Branson, Bezos and Musk are so cavalier about fossil fuels they’re guzzling them like camels at the last oasis to blast into space, filling our sky with satellites and polluting the atmosphere with space junk along the way. 

Musk, who has made his billions on (among other things) electric cars, has even offered a $100 million prize for anyone who can solve the problem of carbon removal. But as the Institute for Policy Studies notes : “Musk owes his billions [partly to] the billions more in taxpayer-funded research into rocket technology and other high-tech fields of knowledge.”

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Meanwhile, the electric cars made by Musk’s Tesla are not emissions free. According to The Wall Street Journal , building one of his cars actually generates more emissions because of the metals needed for its lithium-ion batteries. These nifty batteries, which are often not recycled by most car producers, are made of rare earth metals like lithium, copper and nickel, create radioactive and toxic waste, and rely on fossil fuels to be created in the first place. 

Ignoring all this, the eco-frauds will pull up in their electric fleets, ramble on about their pet cause of the day using popular buzzwords like “carbon-neutral,” “eco-friendly” and “green.” Prince Harry went so far as to brag about his pro-environmental family planning (just two kids maximum! ) and then chartered a private jet after giving a speech about climate change at Global Citizen Live. When all else fails, the eco-hypocrites adamantly claim their right to fly private, use gas-belching yachts and generally do whatever they feel like by arguing they’ve paid a carbon tax — so therefore their folly is forgivable, laudable, even. 

Why don’t these hyper-aware eco-gazillionaires, many of whom have claimed they will give all their money away before they die, simply go for broke and use their own cash to plug holes, build reefs, fill rivers and lakes, and refreeze the glaciers right now? 

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Because it doesn’t work like that. Things like the carbon tax, electric-based anything and the majority of environmental charities are, for the most part, simply a way for these megalomaniacs to justify doing whatever the hell they want to do. 

I am not advocating that we go back to gas-guzzling mega-pickup trucks, air-choking coal plants or one-room, wood-burning fireplace-heated cabins. Instead, maybe, just maybe, try and find a middle ground while proselytizing to the minions...  

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The blatant hypocrisy and double standards of the bi coastal secular progressive elites know no bounds.  If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.  Except for do as we say not as we do!  They excel at that.  From the pandemic rules to economics to the environment they are one and the same. We will not comply.  

The blatant hypocrisy and double standards of the bi coastal secular progressive elites know no bounds.  

Spend less time nurturing your pet stereotypes and more time objectively reviewing facts (that would mean both sides).   For example (per @ 2 ):   Electric vehicles and battery production

A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative found that the battery and fuel production for an EV generates higher emissions than the manufacturing of an automobile. But those higher environmental costs are offset by EVs’ superior energy efficiency over time.

Do you reject the wisdom (  ) of the long-term strategy of moving from internal combustion engines into greener energy sources?

That doesn’t take into account the 2nd battery and disposal of the first nor the impact of slave labor to mine the materials and produce the components. Nor does it deal with where the electricity to operate the car comes from or their high cost meaning people holding on to less efficient old cars longer rather than a high gas mileage new gas engine car or clean burning natural gas ones.  I’ve got a 2000 Nissan pre CVT transmission Maxima and plan to use it for another decade since it was a one owner car previously kept in top shape/garage parked and only now has 135k miles on it.  That care barring an accident totaling it will be driven until it’s wheels fall off.  I had been considering a gas/electric plug in hybrid with a small gas engine and a short range electric engine in the same car like the Kia Niro and may go that route when one is old enough to afford it.  

Do you reject the wisdom (  ) of the long-term strategy of moving from internal combustion engines into greener energy sources?

I'm pretty sure he rejects the fact the earth is 4.5 billion years old and rejects any science that proves evolution and anthropogenic climate change because if he didn't he would have to admit that he and likely another 40% of the country are only sucking big oils dick because that keeps them employed. As long as they get a big tip and can claim, based on big oils hired scientists, that the "evidence is inconclusive" they're more than glad to keep giving the high paid executives of non-renewable fossil fuel companies their happy endings.

And cars aren’t the only issue.  Manufacturing and operating factories, heating homes in hard winters, providing peek energy for communities total needs.  Flying airplanes, operating ships, running freight trains.  

Key word is long term.  Also doing it as it’s economically reasonable.  Not trying to coerce it or to socialize the economy over.  I’m all for all of the above in energy development and industry fuel sources.  I bought into coal companies and oil and natural gas futures when Biden killed keystone.  

That doesn’t take into account the 2nd battery and disposal of the first nor the impact of slave labor to mine the materials and produce the components. Nor does it deal with where the electricity to operate the car comes from or their high cost meaning people holding on to less efficient old cars longer rather than a high gas mileage new gas engine car or clean burning natural gas ones

Here, XX, read this supporting article (linked in the article of my link) and trace the citations if you question the validity of their conclusions.

Seems to me you are just tossing out excuses to dismiss the technology.   What a surprise.

And cars aren’t the only issue.  Manufacturing and operating factories, heating homes in hard winters, providing peek energy for communities total needs.  Flying airplanes, operating ships, running freight trains.  

You listed forms of energy consumption.   What you forget to do is tie that to a point.

No, I didn’t.  

I’m not dismissing the technology at all.  Just the authoritarian means that it’s disrupting our economy and being crammed down our throats.  

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Key word is long term.

We've had renewable resources available for the last half century at least. The "long term strategy" will never materialize if we continue to stall and suck at the teat of non-renewables.

doing it as it’s economically reasonable

Of course from some low IQ perspectives waiting till the very last minute would be the most "economically reasonable". The problem is that those types of dipshits couldn't tell their assholes from a hole in the ground. They obviously have zero foresight and thus are incapable of predicting the crisis which is just around the corner for humanity when it comes to energy consumption and non-renewable resources.

I bought into coal companies and oil and natural gas futures when Biden killed keystone.

Well that's dumb. First, the Keystone pipeline has exactly zero to do with American coal, oil or gas, it's Canadian oil. I guess if you're investing in Canadian oil futures you might do well for a while if the pipeline were approved, but are you really investing in Canadian oil? Second, while there may be some short term gain from investing in the lying non-renewable companies who continue to profit off the rape of the planet, by their very nature they are temporary. No matter how much they want to ignore it, they sell something that is, by very definition, "non-renewable" and thus unsustainable.

We've had renewable resources available for the last half century at least. The "long term strategy" will never materialize if we continue to stall and suck at the teat of non-renewables.

Yes we have.  And they are getting better and cheaper.  Still not competitive price wise but getting closer.  We should still work on them and use them when viable. We will need fossil fuels for key industry and economy of scale for the rest of our life times as the others grow and mature.  

Of course from some low IQ perspectives waiting till the very last minute would be the most "economically reasonable". The problem is that those types of dip⋅s couldn't tell their ⋅ from a hole in the ground. They obviously have zero foresight and thus are incapable of predicting the crisis which is just around the corner for humanity when it comes to energy consumption and non-renewable resources.

In the real world, economics and prices of things still matter.  That is why all of the above when it comes to energy development is the only reality that makes any sense.  The fossil fuel natural gas is clean enough that it should be considered a green energy and it can meet high capacity and large scale needs.  

Well that's dumb. First, the Keystone pipeline has exactly zero to do with American coal, oil or gas, it's Canadian oil. I guess if you're investing in Canadian oil futures you might do well for a while if the pipeline were approved, but are you really investing in Canadian oil? Second, while there may be some short term gain from investing in the lying non-renewable companies who continue to profit off the rape of the planet, by their very nature they are temporary. No matter how much they want to ignore it, they sell something that is, by very definition, "non-renewable" and thus unsustainable.

canceling key stone isn’t stopping Canadian tar sands imports.  We will simply ship it on the interstates with auto traffic and on rail through the core of blue cities on the way to refineries but we will have it.  As to coal, if biDen is going to be so freaking stupid as to keep natural gas prices high, the coal plants won’t be converted and this winter we will burn more coal than in the last four or five years at least or your blue cities will freeze or buy heating oil which isn’t any better.  If biden is going to make my natural gas and gasoline more expensive I’m going to buy oil and NG up futures to defray the cost or even openly profit at your expense to show my utter contempt for prematurely shutting down fossil fuels before the other is ready.  As long as biden is President I’m all in on fossil fuels.  

First, the Keystone pipeline has exactly zero to do with American coal, oil or gas, it's Canadian oil.

Oil from the Keystone pipeline was processed in the US and sold in the US. Why else would they be running it into Nebraska?

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U.S. President Joe Biden canceled Keystone XL’s permit on his first day in office Wednesday, dealing a death blow to a long-gestating project that would have carried 830,000 barrels per day of heavy oil sands crude from Alberta to Nebraska.

Environmental activists and indigenous communities hailed the move, but traders and analysts said U.S.-Canada pipelines will have more than enough capacity to handle increasing volumes of crude out of Canada, the primary foreign supplier of oil to the United States.

Currently, Canada exports about 3.8 million bpd to the United States, according to U.S. Energy Department data. Analysts expect that to rise to between 4.2 million and 4.4 million bpd over the next few years. Pipeline expansions currently in progress will add more than 950,000 bpd of export capacity for Canadian producers before 2025, according to Rystad Energy.

Biden's move only made two heavy Democratic campaign contributors that are invested heavily in the rail very happy; because that is how all of the tar sand oil is going to be moving. On old, in badly need of repair, rail tankers. So next time you hear about one those trains derailing think of those two assholes George Soros and Warren Buffet. I am sure Biden's move had nothing to do with either of them. Because rail is so much safer than pipeline./S

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With Biden cutting oil production by restricting previously granted oil contracts for development by declaring lands federal nature reserves/sanctuaries; who would you rather pay to keep the country running Canada, OPEC, or Russia? Hint 2 of the three already gave Biden the big FU when he came begging.

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a series of executive orders that prioritize climate change across all levels of government and put the U.S. on track to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.

Biden’s orders direct the secretary of the Interior Department to halt new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters, and begin a thorough review of existing permits for fossil fuel development.

In addition to the pause on leasing, Biden will direct the federal government to conserve 30% of federal lands and water by 2030 and find ways to double offshore wind production by that time.

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U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday said it would suspend oil and gas leases that were handed out in an Alaska wildlife refuge during the final days of the Trump administration pending an environmental review.

The action reverses one of former President Donald Trump's signature efforts to expand fossil fuel development in the United States, and delivers a setback to the Alaskan state government which had hoped opening the enormous refuge would help revive its declining oil industry.

Trump's Interior Department sold the leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in January over the objections of environmentalists and indigenous groups. During his campaign, Biden had pledged to protect the 19.6 million-acre pristine habitat for polar bears, caribou and migratory birds.

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The Biden administration has cancelled a March 17 oil and gas lease sale that would have auctioned off over 78 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management also recently cancelled the public meetings and comment period for an upcoming fossil fuel lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

Both offshore oil auctions were scheduled for this year as part of the 2017-2022 federal offshore leasing program. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Jan. 27 directing federal agencies to suspend oil and gas leasing of federal lands and waters pending a review of the program.

“Cancelling this huge offshore Gulf oil auction helps protect our climate and life on Earth. President Biden understands the urgent need to keep this oil in the ground,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director with the Center for Biological Diversity. “This is a great step toward phasing out all offshore drilling and bringing environmental justice to the Gulf Coast and Alaska. We need to help restore coastal communities and marine life.”

BOEM announced today it is rescinding the record of decision for the March 17 lease sale, which effectively cancels the sale.

When it comes to be a fucking idiot that doesn't understand reality Biden wins first place. His defenders take a close second.

An excellent post documenting the truth of the actions of Biden and his administration.  Your own final words were perfect.