Climate campaigners from Al Gore and John Kerry, down to the oddest imported student radical, are freaking out over the draft final text as the climate talks in Dubai near their conclusion.
At issue is whether the “outcome” will call for the “phase out” of fossil fuels, or merely call for fossil fuel “reduction” and similar “weasel words.”
Either term will leave nations with tons of wiggle room to avoid, or delay, destroying their economies through energy starvation.
As veterans of the UN climate process since the whole shebang began, CFACT has seen this drama play out before.
The UN conference nears its end with no agreement in sight and goes into late night extra innings.
No matter what happens, the conference officials emerge bleary-eyed and proclaim a major victory, leaving it up to the rest of us to sort through what happened and figure it out. Often, as is likely this time, the conference ends in de facto collapse.
“COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure,” Al Gore said Monday. “This obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is ‘Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates.” Gore concluded.
OPEC, along with Russia and China, did in fact write the text.
“The fact that the U.N. chose a petro-state, the United Arab Emirates, to host COP28 was an ominous sign to begin with.” Wrote Michael Mann of debunked temperature hockey stick fame. “The UAE’s appointment of a fossil fuel executive, Sultan Al Jaber, to preside as COP28 president made matters worse.”
CNN reports that, “The secretary-general of the oil-producing group OPEC, Haitham Al Ghais, called on members and allies last week to ‘proactively reject’ any language that targeted fossil fuels rather than emissions. The letter, written before the latest draft was posted, noted the previous option for a “fossil fuels phase out” and said it would be ‘unacceptable that politically motivated campaigns put our people’s prosperity and future at risk.’”
The announcement at COP 28 that next year’s climate summit will be held in Azerbaijan, another oil producing state, has team climate up in arms. Next year is Europe’s turn, but Russia vowed to veto any E.U. member nation as host in protest of E.U. support for Ukraine. Azerbaijan is a former member of the Soviet bloc, but not a member of the E.U. or NATO and was acceptable to Moscow.
Soon we will find out how far climate campaigners will be able to reshape the COP 28 outcome in the waning minutes of the summit.
The actual choice will be between a text which gives Russia, China and OPEC clear language enabling them to keep their fossil fuels, or whether they will agree to simply lie about “phasing them out.”
Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed “Climate Hustle 2” staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.
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The do nothing Congressional UniParty comprised of Republican socialists and Communist Democrats joyfully use your hard earned tax money in the most unconstitutional and imaginative ways.
Take for example the $7.5 billion dollars the UniParty congress allocated to the installed Marxist President Joe Biden to build 500,000 Electric Vehicle Chargers (EVs) across our constitutional republic.
This borrowed money from Communist China and or printed in the Treasury Department was included in the worthless 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. No jobs were created and no infrastructure has been built.
The only President and Congress in our history that actually funded any worthwhile infrastructure was under President Eisenhower with the freeways and interstates he signed off on. This significantly helped national security and grew our free market capitalist economy. These freeways and interstates have already paid for themselves.
But let’s review the EV debacle. First of all nobody is buying electric cars in large enough numbers to support 500,000 tax payer funded EV chargers in the USA.
The exception for EVs is probably in European socialist countries currently being overran with Muslims whose Muslim leadership won’t even let women drive a gasoline powered vehicle let alone an EV.
Out of this $7.5 billion dollars borrowed from Communist China and or printed by the U.S. Treasury Department (contributing to our economic destruction via massive inflation) only $2 billion has been redistributed and accepted by two out of the fifty states. (Ohio and Pennsylvania)
The other forty eight states have not submitted requests or proposals for this unconstitutional redistribution of our tax dollars due to lack of demand.
I’m surprised communist controlled California led by Marxist Governor Newsom and Communist controlled New York State did not jump on this free cash.
Not a single operational EV charger has been built with this borrowed money from Communist China.
So the question is what happened to all those billions of dollars ? It’s your money ladies and gentlemen.
These kind of expenditures from the Treasury Department is driving inflation way beyond our republics ability to handle.
Biden’s Communist answer was the inflation reduction act and massive tax increases. This included a budget proposal that would drive our republics deficit from $34 trillion up to $52 trillion dollars.
Also, early in 2022 Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unconstitutionally and illegally mandated (in violation of the US commerce clause of the U.S. constitution) that half of all vehicles sold in the USA by 2030 must be electric.
The EPA has no such authority to make this a mandatory requirement in a free market capitalist economy. Zero authority. None.
The American people make this decision by their freedom of choice not a communist ran EPA bureaucracy funded by us tax payers.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s Marxist tyrannical utopia using your hard earned tax payer money on the congressional roulette wheel of inflation and economic destruction.
Be prepared for more future losses to our republic by these Communists.
Don’t forget the Communist Obama – Solyndra solar panel failure with a $500 million tax payer loss in 2005 which is still being paid back to communist Chinese plus interest.
This unconstitutional economic insanity falls squarely on the shoulders of the socialist Republican and Communist Democrat controlled UniParty congress who approved it.
These Republican in Name Only (RINO) socialists are holding our tax payers arms behind our backs while the Communist democrats steal our wallets.
If you are still a member of the Republican Party I send you my deepest condolences.
Left unchecked, UN climate politics will trap the poor in poverty and drag down millions of others to join them.
They would destroy the democratic state of Israel as well.
These are not exaggerations.
I am at the UN conference in Dubai and have seen and heard these dangerous pronouncements and more from the UN stage with my own eyes and ears.
Pete Murphy posted a series of insightful reports from Dubai to CFACT.org. Alice Aedy, co-founder and CEO of Earthrise Studio, appeared on a UN panel entitled “Democratizing Access to Climate Information.” Murph’ took the microphone and, addressing Ms. Aedy, said, “Is it just to have a colonialist mindset towards developing countries that do not enjoy the prosperity that you and I have? This is a kind of new colonialism that we are imposing on people by denying them the prosperity that oil had brought… This is not justice.”
Denying millions in the developing world access to the energy we take for granted is an outrage. So is bribing their (often unelected) leaders with climate cash to fall into line with the UN climate agenda.
Every person on Earth is entitled to freedom and the prosperity that comes with it.
Every nation on Earth is entitled to security and safety. For climate radicals, the exception apparently is Israel.
Peter Murphy also reported on a panel we attended featuring “The Climate Justice Alliance,” “The Global Grassroots Justice Alliance,” and the “Indigenous Environmental Network” that repeatedly charged Israel and the United States with “genocide” in Gaza. As Murph further reported, “At no time did any panelist acknowledge the massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians, including young women, men, children, and infants, on October 7th by Gaza militants, nor their kidnapping of more than 200 hostages for ransom. It is as though it all never happened.”
How’s that for outrageous?
The radicalism on display at COP 28 underscores an essential reality. The global Left views climate as a means to achieve ends that have nothing to do with the temperature of the Earth.
Every radical cause has been shoehorned into the climate agenda. Socialism, wealth redistribution, an end to meat eating, gender politics, ending cars, wrecking our energy economy, and even now the destruction of Israel, a successful democracy, along with so much more, are all being pushed upon us in the name of climate.
Climate radicalism cannot stand.
Thank you to everyone who has joined CFACT in pushing back.
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Gore and Kerry demand phase-out of fossil fuels – ‘Clothing limited to 3 new items per person’.
DUBAI — CFACT’s Climate Depot’s Marc Morano Special Reports from DUBAI COP 28 UN Climate Summit
Morano: “This is the 18th UN COP climate summit that I have attended in person since my first in 2004. I have also attended two UN Earth Summits (2002 & 2012), for a total of 20 (so far) of these UN summits. Let’s all hope for the total failure of the UN climate agenda and Net Zero goals!”
Morano Comment: “The UN scientists were jealous when they saw how public health officials could implement authoritarian policies during COVID & and now they want Fauci-like powers!”
CFACT is at the UN climate conference in Dubai which “Simple Flying” reports “will have the highest carbon footprint in history.”
They write that “while Dubai is more commonly known as the hub for aviation giant Emirates, its home at Dubai International Airport (DXB) has also seen a flurry of private jets over COP28.”
OK, the unique security concerns and huge entourages that are inherent when major world leaders travel are one thing.
There are a few people who need to fly private. However, most government officials and business people simply do not. That goes triple for a destination such as Dubai that is principally known for its fanciful architecture and major travel hub.
Consider the hypocrisy of the private jet setting solar/wind industry executive, obscure government official, or climate campaigner traveling to Dubai to cut deals to limit your over-the-top lifestyle. Those for whom the commercial lie flat, first class accommodations CFACT’s delegation walks past on the way to our economy seats just aren’t good enough, reveal their true goal to be living a fast lifestyle, not “saving the planet.”
You certainly won’t find John Kerry flying commercial.
You will, however, find Kerry advocating ruinously mistaken energy policy.
CFACT’s Marc Morano appeared on Fox where he told Laura Ingaham that Kerry proclaiming the end of American energy from coal while giving China a pass, is a surefire way to weaken the free and strengthen the autocracies.
Hypocrisy and ruinous policy abound at the UN climate conference in Dubai. Don’t let the dangerous bureaucrats, ideologues and profiteers assembled here in the desert cut their deals in darkness. Help CFACT shine a light and expose their true agendas while there is still time. Please make the most generous contribution you can right now.
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They are talking about limiting your access to fashion at the UN climate conference in Dubai. Really.
However, V.P. Kamala Harris isn’t worried about limits on her power under the U.S. Constitution. Kamala just pledged $3 billion of your money (Congress didn’t appropriate) to the UN Green Climate Fund.
Watch Marc Morano’s exclusive interview with fashionista Dame Ellen MacArthur. Marc asked Dame Ellen at COP 28 about the “C40” Mayors group plan to limit you to three clothing purchases per year.
“It’s how they have access to the product,” MacArthur explained, “as much as the product itself. And there are different ways to have access to clothing products.”
Maybe the UN could create a clothing wait list modeled after the way the old East Germany distributed cars to the unconnected. It was very efficient. It only took 13 years to put you behind the wheel of a cramped little Trabant with a noisy two cycle engine. You know, like your lawn mower. Think how well that could work for a pair of coveralls or a prom dress.
V.P. Kamala Harris spoke at COP 28 after President Biden gave it a pass. Peter Murphy reports at CFACT.org that the V.P. came bearing gifts for the UN in the form of a pile of Kamala climate cash. Murphy asks: “on a $34 trillion U.S. debt, what’s another $3 billion?” If only the Biden Administration would ask hard questions and act responsibly.
Murph’ interviewed a project coordinator for a group called “The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. They want developing nations to forego reliable electricity and “leapfrog” to wind and solar. Like so many walking the UN’s halls of climate power, they expect the U.S. to fork over “the lion’s share” of the expense.
As Murphy explains, that’s where Kamala Harris and the UN Green Climate Fund come into play. “The U.S. Department of Treasury said at the tail end of its statement issued last week that the Vice President’s pledge ‘is subject to the availability of funds.’ Exactly. The U.S. Constitution stipulates that Congress, not the Executive branch, authorizes spending by the federal government.”
Can the Constitution stop the Biden Administration from sending your tax dollars to the UN?
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As Marc reports, Vice President Kamala Harris just pledged $3 billion American dollars to the UN’s “Green Climate Fund.” When precisely did Congress appropriate that?
John Kerry took the UN stage and promised to shut down ALL “unabated” American coal power plants. Meanwhile China is building 182 new ones!
The UN is not only targeting American energy and tax dollars, they are coming for our food supply as well. They aim to eliminate fifty percent of American meat consumption and ninety percent of American beef!
There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5°C” above preindustrial levels … Show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuels that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.
Thanks for the honesty, Sultan! Let’s hope the UN does not succeed in silencing you before you reveal again.
Murphy further reports on another moment of revealing candor when Isabela Tagomori, who works on integrated assessment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at Utrecht University, told a UN panel that, it is essential to inject “fairness principles” and “distributional justice” into climate policy.
“Murph” pulled no punches. He took the microphone and told the speaker that her redistribution talk smacked of “Marxism.”
You should have seen how fast she backpedaled!
“Oh, no,” she countered, rather her organization’s effort was merely to collect “many different dimensions.”
When threatened with the facts, climate campaigners retreat to vague, opaque language.
Who is lining up to pocket the billions of dollars Kamala Harris and the rest are throwing at climate?
Investors, dictators, and incredibly well-funded left-wing climate pressure groups.
For nature and people too.
TRANSCRIPT
Today I’m proud to announce a new 3 billion-dollar pledge to the green climate fund our collective pledge today to rapidly increase renewable energy also includes a call for all nations to stop building new on the bidding coal power plants plants.
Rachel: vice president Harris pushing the expensive green agenda on the world stage during the un annual climate action in dubai while climate envoy John Kerry promised to shut down all coal plants in America the announcement comes as the United Nations is expected to call on Americans to dramatically reduce their meat consumption in the name of climate change, Mark Morano joins us live from Dubai with more.
Rachel: I’m so glad you’re down there I’m always wondering what the control freaks in the billionaires are plotting over there what is happening what is the end goal.
Morano: A great question this conference in Dubai has more than doubled last year’s in Egypt the end goal is very simple to move more power to fewer and fewer people at the un as solon and the global corporations to billionaires of Bill Gates and King Charles and the corporations that are participating in the new form of fascism where the government cooperation to impose an agenda upon the world that we did not vote for. For Kamala Harris to give a speech saying $3 billion to the climate fund I was at the climate summit in South Africa and it was explained by its south African development the UN will take it and give it to the poor nation leaders who are best able to keep their citizens locked in poverty. Kamala Harris is saying we will get it to prevent development and fossil fuel energy in the poorest regions of the world they will give money to the leaders and they will ensure reelection of build monuments and keep the poor people from developing
This is immoral and the whole conference is gaining more control so we don’t have a say in our democracy anymore and how we liberal lives everything from freedom of movement to food to energy. Rachel: when you put it in those terms you’re right these poor countries need more energy so they can develop and have a better life and what they do is pay off the leaders to block them down and prevent development because they hate humans and they hate modern life and they want to lock us down John Kerry wants to shut down every coal plant in America how many coal plants have China open heaven into the open every month month.
One every two weeks one a week depending on the estimate China is not subject to the un climate regulations John Kerry says will shut down U.S. Domestic energy so we could be more reliant at the Biden Administration Venezuela, the Middle East China for rare-earth, I like to say China with rare-earth every EV battery half a million pounds of materials China is digging the earth nine brady bunch 1970 but fossil fuel intensive way and the earth they are exempt from this were offshore in our CO2 the U.S. has led the world in reducing CO2 admission if you care about that this conference make no mistake about it is the targeted at America you mentioned the meat-eating, the going for 90% reduction of meat eating in America that the new guidance coming from the un the same with the call with doctor guidance they’re coming after the American farmer Bill Gates said we don’t need farms he wants all meat grown in a lab from stem cells cal, she mixed with fetal blood put in a petri ds and printed on a 3d printer without eyes, bring this is frankenstein food that’s why they want to go after traditional meet.
Rachel: Bill Gates for example these are weirdos. No taking control of our food supply and energy in our currency those are the three things they need to control as a population and they’re doing it and you’re on the ground I only have a couple of sections you people know who you are and what you’re up to.
Had been arrested by climate cops at U.S. summit and people recognize me I may need a food taster to make sure I’m okay but the un does not like it and we have fun stuff planned while were here. Rachel: we will follow all of it my advice don’t eat the bugs. I know you want. Thank you so much we want more updates, come back to us.
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Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of this year’s United Nations (UN) climate summit, said that there is “no science” behind calls to eliminate fossil fuels to counter global warming, according to The Guardian.
Al Jaber also said that getting rid of fossil fuels would not allow for sustainable economic growth “unless you want to take the world back into caves,” according to The Guardian. He made the remarks during an exchange with Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, during a virtual event held on Nov. 21.
“There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5,” Al Jaber told Robinson, referencing the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold for increase in global average temperatures that many scientists and activists point to as critical to stay below, according to The Guardian.
“Please help me, show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves,” Al Jaber told Robinson, according to The Guardian.
Al Jaber’s comments drew the ire of other UN officials, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and climate activists, who advocate for a much stronger international effort to abandon fossil fuels and switch the world’s economy to relying on green energy generation, according to The Guardian.
Al Jaber’s presidency has also generated other controversies, as he runs the Emirati state-owned renewable firm and the state-owned oil and gas giant. Leaked documents showed that Emirati officials planned to use COP28-related meetings to discuss potential business dealings related to the two firms with foreign officials, and separate documents revealed how the companies viewed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry as a key player in efforts to secure their future financial success.
Despite Al Jaber’s comments and the appearances of potential conflicts of interest, the conference he is overseeing has resulted in several major developments. For example, several of the world’s developed countries, including the U.S., pledged hundreds of millions of dollars combined to a de facto international “climate reparations” fund, and American officials approved a new set of methane emissions regulations that could severely impact the domestic oil and gas industry.
The UN did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
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The Biden administration is set to announce regulatory guidance on subsidies for corn-based “sustainable aviation fuel” that could end up hiking food prices and incentivizing practices that damage the environment.
The guidance, expected to be released by the end of the year, would enable SAFs made from corn-based ethanol to more easily qualify for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) if finalized, according to Reuters. Provided the change occurs, corn-based ethanol would then be poised play a huge role in the administration’s goal to have SAFs meet 100% of demand by 2050 to counter climate change.
However, the corn-based ethanol aviation fuel could have environmental and economic hidden costs that may cause more problems than it solves, experts say.
Reliance on corn-based ethanol aviation fuel “is not going to do much for global warming, but it will do quite a lot to benefit the renewable fuel industry and it will also indirectly benefit corn prices,” Prof. C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The costs of corn ethanol aviation fuel will be “borne by consumers, taxpayers and the environment” as it has in the past when government policies have mandated its use in gasoline for automobiles, Runge told the DCNF. “These political, largely bipartisan, well-funded efforts by the renewable fuel lobby have been pretty successful, and they stumble on despite the evidence that ethanol is not particularly efficient or environmental.”
If the Biden administration’s targets are realized, 35 billion gallons of SAFs will be used each year to power air travel and commerce, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). The goal is to decrease carbon emissions, but corn ethanol aviation fuel may not reduce emissions enough to offset the other environmental and economic costs that are associated with its production.
“SAFs are definitely not a climate solution at all, let alone an effective solution,” Mark Jacobson, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, told the DCNF. “Ethanol production from corn increases CO2-equivalent emissions by 0 to 24% relative to gasoline and increases the price of corn (making it more expensive to eat).”
Currently, about 40% of the country’s corn crop is used to create ethanol, which increased from 10% in the mid-2000s, according to The New York Times. About 100 million acres of American land, almost all of it in the Midwest, is used for growing corn. Meanwhile, major airline companies are starting to invest in long-term SAF plans and facilities.
More ethanol production means that there is less corn available for animal feed, which forces farmers to pay higher prices to feed their animals; that cost increase is invariably passed along to consumers, according to Farm Aid, a farmers’ advocacy organization. On top of that, production tends to fall when farmers have to deal with increased feed costs, which also puts upward pressure on the prices consumers pay for chicken, beef, pork, eggs and dairy.
Corn products are also used in a wide array of processed foods, so those goods would be subject to the same dynamics, according to Farm Aid. Additionally, increased corn yields could force farmers to grow less wheat and soy; this outcome would make cereals and grains more expensive as well.
“There’s no clear evidence that biofuels, especially corn ethanol, have an edge in reducing emissions,” Runge, who has written about the downsides of ethanol in the past, told the DCNF.
Beyond the economic impacts that boosted corn ethanol production could have, a substantial increase in corn production is likely to have considerable environmental impacts as well.
Future reliance on corn-based ethanol SAF to meet the country’s flying needs would add strain on the country’s groundwater aquifers, according to the NYT. Corn is a water-intensive crop to produce, and it can take hundreds of gallons of water to produce just one gallon of ethanol; America’s aquifers, especially in places like Kansas and Nebraska, are already facing high levels of strain, in large part due to agricultural irrigation, according to a separate NYT data analysis.
Eventually, the corn is processed into ethanol, and then transported for use to power aircrafts.
“The combustion of the fuel (in this case, in the aircraft) is always the harshest on the environment in terms of air pollutants and carbon dioxide (and contrails in the case of aircraft),” Jacobson told the DCNF. “The production of the fuel is significant, though. Emissions occur due to fertilizing, watering, tilling, extracting the corn, transporting the corn to a refinery, refining the corn to ethanol, transporting the ethanol (by train, truck or barge, since ethanol can’t be transported in pipelines).”
The White House, the Department of Agriculture and the DOE did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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President Joe Biden’s administration is committing an additional $3 billion to help developing countries fight climate change, the White House announced Saturday.
The allotment will go toward the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund and will be pledged by Vice President Kamala Harris at the COP28 summit in Dubai, according to the White House. The U.S.’ pledge will bring the fund to its largest level so far, as other countries like France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan have already made similar commitments that totaled $9.3 billion, according to Bloomberg, who first reported the funding.
“Since day one, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the entire Biden-Harris Administration have treated climate change as the existential threat of our time,” the White House’s announcement reads. “After spearheading the most significant climate action in history at home and leading efforts to tackle the climate crisis abroad, the United States heads into the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with unprecedented momentum.”
The U.S. reached $5.8 million in international funding geared toward curbing climate change in 2022, compared to $1.5 billion allotted during 2021, according to the State Department. The Biden administration will exceed $9.5 billion this year, and the president is already planning on topping $11 million in 2024.
Wealthy countries are supposed to commit $100 billion per year to help developing countries fight climate change, a pledge that began in 2020, according to Bloomberg.
The Biden administration’s commitment follows a trend of funding green energy initiatives the president has focused on during his tenure, including his signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA approved $750 billion in new spending, $370 billion of which went toward Biden’s green energy initiatives aimed at curbing climate change.
The U.S. pledged over $17 million toward an international “climate reparations” fund at the summit on Thursday. The fund is also geared toward helping developing countries fight against the impacts of climate change.
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Kerry said the action forms part of America’s plan to limit global warming to 1.5 Celsius.
By Michael Dorgan Fox News, December 2, 2023 12:52pm EST
Biden admin shelling out millions for green energy projects in coal mining towns
The Biden Administration is forging ahead with its green agenda by committing the United States to not building any new coal plants and phasing out existing plants.
U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry announced at the annual United Nations climate change summit, known as COP28 and which is being held in Dubai, although no date was given for when the existing plants would have to go.
“We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities,” Kerry said in a statement.
“The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants.”
Kerry said America was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a pact of nearly 60 countries that have promised to accelerate the phasing out of coal-fired power stations, except the very few that have carbon capture and storage.
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The Biden administration proposed eligibility rules for electric vehicle (EV) tax credits on Friday that appear to leave the door open for Chinese suppliers, at least in the near-term.
The guidance, released by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Treasury Department, is not yet final, but it will likely reduce the number of EV models that are eligible to receive the credit by boxing out battery components made by Chinese companies starting in 2024. However, the rules allow EVs built with the minerals extracted and processed by Chinese companies to be eligible for the credit until 2025.
BIDEN: "Auto companies have significantly ramped up their investments in electric vehicles." pic.twitter.com/edVr2mblg9
The rules also cover Iran, North Korea and Russia in addition to China. The consumer tax credit, which is worth $7,500 for fully-qualified EVs, is a key policy tool for the administration’s EV push because it is designed to blunt the substantially higher costs of EVs relative to internal combustion engine vehicles.
The guidance also addresses eligibility limits for Chinese EV and battery companies doing business in the U.S. or in mineral-rich countries like Indonesia, where Chinese companies have a dominant position in the EV-related mineral supply chain. Those companies would be in compliance provided that less than 25% of their equity and board seats are controlled by Chinese entities.
China dominates the global supply chain for extraction and processing of the minerals that are essential for manufacturing EVs. In addition to the consumer tax credit, the administration has committed billions to subsidize retrofits for American manufacturing plants and the buildout of a national charging station network, as well as pursued several aggressiveregulations to push the market toward widespread EV adoption over the coming years. The administration is aiming to have EVs make up 50% of all new vehicle sales by 2030.
The EV market is currently in a tenuous position, with manufacturers taking considerable losses, consumer demand cooling off and executives starting to back off of some near-term production targets.
It is currently unclear how many Chinese firms might be negatively impacted by these standards. The rules state that “licensing agreements or other contractual agreements may also create control,” indicating that technology licensing deals could be allowed under the standards.
The licensing aspect of the guidance could be a win for the automobile manufacturers; some companies had paused their efforts to strike licensing deals with Chinese firms until the rules came out, while others, like Ford, had pushed ahead with partnerships despite the lack of clarity, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Morano: “COP 28 is shaping up to be a doubling down on the green agenda despite the massive failure on a grand global scale. We will report on the energy rationing, blackouts, and economic disruption from the failed UN-pushed policies globally. This UN climate summit is planning nothing short of a Great Food Reset for USA. See: COP28 UN climate summit to officially target meat eating! ‘Nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat’ to enforce UN plan for ‘food’s climate transition’Morano: “Make no mistake, this UN climate summit will continue the push for the collapse of our once plentiful energy, food supply, and transportation. COP 28 aims to force a ‘climate transition’ for our meat and food supply. All the usual suspects will be gathering once again: Bill Gates, King Charles, John Kerry, and the World Economic Forum. The UN’s COP 28 is nothing short of a climate/Great Reset summit in Dubai, where public health bureaucracy and climate merge & Democracy goes to die.” By Marc Morano – November 29, 2023
Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano will attend the UN’s COP 28 climate summit in Dubai, joining a rogue team of climate skeptics from CFACT to expose the climate agenda.
Roger Pielke Jr.: “Global Climate Policy Hasn’t Made Much Difference on Energy Transitions” … “COP28 is expecting 70,000 participants, more than double those of COP27. Climate is now a full-scale industry, with fortunes and careers to be made, and perhaps lost.”
Background on COP 28:
Washington Post: ‘He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change.’ John Clauser shared the Nobel in physics last year. Now he’s a self-described ‘denier’ of the overwhelming scientific consensus on a warming planet.
The UN COP 28 website explains: “COP28 UAE will take place at Expo City Dubai from November 30-December 12, 2023. The Conference is expected to convene over 70,000 participants.”
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The biggest and most dangerous UN climate conference of the year kicks off at the end of the month in the Arab Emirate of Dubai.
CFACT will be there!
CFACT has been actively participating in UN climate summits since day one. We assure you these UN summits are not about changing the weather but transferring money and power.
The UN is also just completing what it calls its “first global stocktake.” Here’s a surprise: their computer simulations conclude that you are not sacrificing enough to keep the global temperature from rising above their arbitrary 1.5 degree Celsius target. Apparently, the free world must throttle down our economies while China and the rest of the world’s autocracies power up. Meanwhile, “China emits more CO2 than the U.S. and EU combined” and manages to exempt itself from emissions reduction schemes by classifying itself as a “developing nation.” This is clearly absurd.
A major issue to be on your guard about is “loss and damage.” Last year, at the end of COP 27 in Egypt, the UN agreed to find a funding mechanism for a “loss and damage” scheme. Basically, we would accept liability when bad weather strikes poor countries. This is a blatant, open-ended financial demand on the free world that CFACT has warned about for years. Will Dubai be the place where President Biden and his climate ambassador, John Kerry cave in to this outrageous demand?
The UN’s new Climate boss, Simon Stiel predicts that UN “climate action” mandates are about to shift from “linear to an exponential” expansion.
What does that mean for you?
Unprecedented wealth transfer, wind turbines saturating our coasts and hillsides, and meadows and forests transformed into solar deserts. Does anyone truly believe we should permit so-called renewables to sterilize our natural world in order to protect it?
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres previously served as President of the Socialist International. This summer, Guterres shamelessly hyped hot summer days by proclaiming, “the era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived”. Surely, the era of unhinged rhetoric is what truly arrived.COP 28 President-Designate Dr. Sultan Al Jaber responded by calling for a “massive expansion of renewable energy” and even Pope Francis joined in and warned of a “point of no return.”
It appears that President Biden will give the UN climate summit a miss and send John Kerry in his place. The Pope, however, plans to spend three days at the UN climate conference in Dubai and will be joined by King Charles.
Since 1989, CFACT has warned America and the world that the Left, having lost the political and economic arguments for their failed ideologies, has turned to climate and the environment to rationalize their quest for power.
CFACT’s team of policy experts will be on the job in Dubai, exposing the real agendas lurking behind climate extremism and the danger they represent to our hard-won freedom and prosperity.
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