Biden’s Arbitrary Social Cost of Carbon: What You Need to Know
28 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
The news on Friday was Biden signing another order, this one restoring the so-called “Social Cost of Carbon” to Obama’s $51 a ton, along with threats to raise it up to $125 a ton. The whole notion is an exercise in imagination for the sake of adding regulatory costs to everything involving energy, that is to everything. A background post below describes the history of how this ruse started and the manipulations and arbitrary assumptions to gin up a number high enough to hobble the economy.
Background from 2018 post: US House Votes Down Social Cost of Carbon
The House GOP on Friday took a step forward in reining in the Obama administration’s method of assessing the cost of carbon dioxide pollution when developing regulations.
The House voted 212-201, along party lines, to include a rider blocking the use of the climate change cost metric to an energy and water…
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A Resounding Victory – German Morale Plummets I THE GREAT WAR Week 212
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Net-Zero Hero: Climate Bureaucrat Busted For Revealing State’s ‘Kill the Poor’ Energy Policy
27 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
Not content with depriving the poor of electricity, the climate-industrial complex is determined to “break their will” to heat their hovels and drive their beat up Chevies.
Apparently, the punishment meted out by renewables driven power price hikes wasn’t enough to break their selfish mettle.
Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker is a card-carrying member of the climate cult, as is his ever-faithful sidekick, David Ismay.
In a moment of telling candour, Ismay dropped all pretense when he informed a group of fellow travellers engaged in a videoconference that – in order meet Massachusetts’ zero-emissions target – the State’s real target is:
“you, the person across the street, the senior on fixed income, right … there is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts to point the finger at, to turn the screws on, and you know, to break their will, so they stop emitting. That’s you. We have to break…
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Isn’t that a criticism, not a compliment? @ClimateCommnz
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Milton Friedman Speaks: Who Protects the Worker?
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The outbreak of the First World War. A.J.P.Taylor. How wars begin. 1977.
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John Monash, the Australian Corps and WW1
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Monstrous Morality: ‘Progressives’ Love Costly & Unreliable Wind & Solar But Detest The Poor
26 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
So-called ‘progressives’ are long on moral posturing, but short on human compassion. Enamoured with costly wind and solar, and determined to outlaw every last reliable power source, they couldn’t care less about the inevitable spike in power prices that follows, that disproportionately punishes the least fortunate souls among us.
Letting granny freeze in the dark is a sacrifice that the renewable energy zealot is always ready to make. It’s all about saving the planet, don’t you know?
As broadband Internet took off a decade ago, policy wonks talked about a ‘digital divide’ between rich and poor.
These days – with the recent emergence of ‘energy poverty’ amongst first world nations – a growing proportion won’t have power at all and, accordingly, no hope of connecting their dimly lit homes to the Internet, either.
Where policymakers once saw electricity as a commodity to be provided universally, a literal beacon of light…
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The Great Escape
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Prey: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Relationship between Immigration and Sexual Assaults in Europe
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