Podcast #22 CO2, Asian Hate Crimes and Hamas

Welcome back friends to In My Right Mind. I am Russ Andrews and as always, I am joined by the silver tongued PJ Jaycox. How goes it PJ?

SOVIET ERA CENTRAL PLANNING AND THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX:

Now PJ, do you remember how the Soviet Union would publish 5 yr and 10 yr economic plans. Remember how many of the plans they actually met? ZERO. Exactly ZERO. China still promulgates 5-yr economic plans.

The reason I ask is that Pres. Joey Dingbats now has a 10-year version of central economic planning. In reality, it is more religious doctrine than it is economic policy because it has to do with a 10-yr plan to drastically reduce CO2 emissions here in the racist, misogynist, polluting US of A. PJ, what percent of global CO2 emissions are generated here in our miserable, horrible country? According to Joe Dementia and the WSJ, “The U.S. accounts for less than 15% of all global CO2 emissions.”

“Emissions in the U.S. and Europe have been falling since 2005 as natural gas and renewables have replaced coal power. But rising emissions from China have swamped these declines. At the Paris climate summit in 2015, China committed only to begin reducing emissions in 2030, and it has continued to build coal plants and expand industrial production. China’s CO2 emissions increased by more between 2015 and 2018 than the U.K.’s total emissions in 2018.

“All of the CO2 commitments made in Paris, including Barack Obama’s to reduce U.S. emissions by 26% to 28%, would reduce the Earth’s temperature increase by a mere 0.17 degree Celsius by 2100—not even close to the 1.5 degrees that is supposedly needed to head off doomsday. Yet Joey Dingbats now wants to double down on Mr. Obama’s futile climate gesture” to a 50% reduction in CO2 by 2030.

BTW, the economic cost to achieve the 0.17 degree C reduction in temperature…that’s 0.3 deg F would be approx $100 tyn, or 41.6% of the planet’s current net worth. Now PJ, does your thermostat even allow you to turn the temp down by 0.3 deg F? Try that at home folks, and let us know how it works out…at a cost of $100 tyn. The Party of Science and full-blown idiots! The POS!

“Amid last year’s Covid-19 lockdowns, greenhouse gas emissions fell to about 21% below 2005 levels. In other words, even with the economy shut down and a large share of the population stuck at home, the U.S. was less than halfway (42%) to Mr. Biden’s goal.

The Biden goal will require the electric grid to be totally rebuilt in 10 years. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, the U.S. will also have to double its share of carbon-free power to 80% from 40% today—half of which is now provided by nuclear—to have any hope of achieving Mr. Biden’s pledge.

All coal plants would have to shut down, and natural gas plants would be phased into obsolescence. Think of the wasted infra-structure and loss of capital…Wind and solar energy would have to increase six to seven-fold. The Obama Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court blocked in 2016, looks modest by comparison. It sought to reduce CO2 power emissions by 32%. Most homes would also have to be electrified. So if you like your gas stove, you won’t be able to keep it.

Now, what would achieving Biden’s climate goals look like in practice? Following is from the May 11 WSJ:

“The International Energy Agency, the world’s pre-eminent source of energy information for governments, has entered the political debate over whether the U.S. should spend trillions of dollars to accelerate the energy transition favored by Biden. Again, the plan to use far more “clean energy” and far less hydrocarbons—the oil, natural gas and coal that today supply 84% of global energy needs. The IEA’s 287-page report released this month, “The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions,” is devastating to those ambitions. A better title would have been: “Clean Energy Transitions: Not Soon, Not Easy and Not Clean.”...