By Larry Bell ~
President Biden and his handlers certainly have a very strange strategy to protect us against the world’s greatest existential threat.
I’m referring, of course, to climate change – certainly not to Democrat apathy regarding Marxism, China, or even Russia now that Trump is out of power to “collude” with.
Joe launched his party’s battle campaign against planet-ravaging American petroleum use and export on his very first day in office by capping off the Keystone XL pipeline at the Canadian border along with about 11,000 U.S. jobs and 830,000 barrels of oil per day it would have delivered. That same day, he placed moratoriums on oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters.
Isn’t it remarkably paradoxical then, to wonder why the very same administration would now decide to lift Trump’s sanctions on the corporate entity and its CEO who are overseeing the construction of Russia’s Arctic Gazprom Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea into Germany which will bypass and isolate the fledgling democracy of Ukraine from Western Europe?
After all, didn’t Biden promise to draw a contrast between himself and Trump by vowing there would be no more “rolling over in the face of Russia’s aggressive actions”?
The White House is now setting up an empty rhetoric of U.S. objection to Nord Stream 2 completion in which the Biden administration will continue to sanction ships involved in finishing the project while refusing to sanction the company and its chairman (Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig) who are in charge and accountable.
This move seems bizarrely out of touch with U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken’s confirmation hearing statement, “I am determined to do whatever we can to prevent that completion” of Nord Stream 2.
Michael McCaul, the top-ranking House Republican on foreign affairs, characterized Nord Stream 2 as “a Russian malign influence project that threatens to deepen Europe’s energy dependence on Moscow, render Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian aggression and provide billions of dollars to Putin’s coffers.”
Even a member of the president’s own party, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Menendez said in a statement: “I urge the administration to rip off the Band-Aid, lift these waivers and move forward with the congressionally mandated sanctions.”
Pipeline completion, which may occur this summer without intervention, will give Putin enormous leverage in Europe. Russia has a long record of withholding critical supplies to neighbors during disputes, including cutting off gas to Ukraine.
Timing for lifting the sanctions is particularly ironic, occurring just weeks following a Russian-origin May ransomware cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline which left thousands of petrol stations across the US south-east with fuel shortages.
Although U.S. officials have stated that they don’t believe the Russian government was directly responsible, in Russia, China and elsewhere, the line between criminal hacking groups and state-backed cyber operations is often murky.
As discussed in my book, Cyberwarfare: Targeting America, Our Infrastructure, and Our Future, governments often recruit hackers and services from deniably independent groups to carry out their own objectives.
Russia, one of the world’s three largest oil producers and second biggest natural gas exporter, will also be a big winner in the Biden administration’s reversal of Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the 2015 Paris climate accord.
With an economy smaller than Italy’s, oil and gas provides 40%-50% of the government’s operating budget, 55%-60% of export earnings, and an estimated 30% of Russia’s GDP.
Accordingly, those oil and gas revenues are key to financing Russia’s global military power and projecting Moscow’s presence as an important supply source to China and other import-dependent nations.
Meanwhile, Nord Stream 2 natural gas supplies will be a big boon to another big Paris party, the EU, as well … most particularly to its big Economic powerhouse Germany.
In attempting to meet its carbon emission reduction commitments, Germany installed more wind capacity than any other EU nation and ranked as third largest by 2018.
Between 1999 and 2013, Germany also installed more solar capacity than any other nation, much of it imported from China. Of the two, solar was 40% less efficient than wind.
As a result, 40 million German households witnessed the total amount they paid for electricity increase an estimated 50% in nine years between 2006 and 2015.
Over eight years up to 2014, large business and industrial users wound up paying about one-quarter more for electricity than the EU average.
Along with spiraling costs, adding intermittent wind and solar electricity also challenged power reliability.
Up until 2008, Germany’s grid had never been interrupted. In 2012 there were 1,000 brownouts, followed by more than 2,500 in 2013.
Sometimes wind or solar generate more power than the grid can safely handle or that its consumers can use. This has necessitated Germany having to pay Switzerland and the Netherlands to take “garbage power” off their grid.
In short, the Biden energy agenda will benefit Russia, cut off oil and gas independence and exports, and terminate an American energy resource advantage that has stimulated over $200 billion of investment in new factories, generated millions of jobs, produced vital federal and state revenues, and reduced the U.S. trade deficit by several hundred billion dollars.
And after all, wasn’t the original idea behind the far-left Democrat war against fossil fuels supposed to be about finally protecting the planet from the menace of billions of years of climate change?
How does a plan that does nothing to reduce carbon emissions – only relocates them – hope to save Bambi and drowning polar bears?
Seems to me that terminating our own fossil-fueled pipeline to energy independence from hostile adversaries while de facto condoning another that reduces our markets and makes our leveraged allies reliant on Russian supplies isn’t a winning green new deal for America.
This article originally appeared at NewsMax
Larry Bell contributes posts at the CFACT site. He heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of “Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax.”
Read more excellent articles at CFACT http://www.cfact.org/
gds44
Sun 06/06/2021
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nickreality65
Fri 06/04/2021
1) By reflecting away 30% of ISR the albedo, which would not exist w/o the atmosphere/GHGs, makes the earth cooler than it would be without that atmosphere like that reflective panel set behind the windshield. Remove the atmosphere/GHGs and the earth would become much like the Moon and Mercury, a barren rock with a 0.1 albedo, 20% more kJ/h, hot^3 on the lit side, cold^3 on the dark. Nikolov, Kramm (U of AK) and UCLA Diviner mission all tacitly agree.
2) the GHG up/down welling, “trapping”/”back” radiating/delaying/intercepting, 100 % efficient, perpetual warming loop requires “extra” energy which according to RGHE theory comes from
3) the terrestrial surface radiating that “extra” energy as a LWIR ideal black body which
4) cannot happen because of the non-radiative heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules and as demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science:
https://principia-scientific.org/debunking-the-greenhouse-gas-theory-with-a-boiling-water-pot/
1+2+3+4 = 0 Greenhouse Effect + 0 Greenhouse gas warming + 0 man caused climate change.
How the Earth actually heats and cools with Mr. 3 Legged Stool – Trailer – YouTube
Version 1.0 060421
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Lawrence Morra
Fri 06/04/2021
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That’s right Larry absolutely spot-on and we can be sure there are some backdoor deals being had by Biden and Company, the Family Politically Organized Deep Swamp Crime Syndicate Racketeers in the form of secret payola or money laundering going on; let us not forget the team of Biden Obama are at work here now fulfilling Obama’s dream, the first actual fraud POTUS ahead of Biden being the second; giving that Anti-America Obama his 3rd term he so desperately dreamed of having with the Killery in 2016! Now they’re doing all they can to run America into the ditch and crush the American Citizen while propping up all manner of despots around the planet from Xi to now Putin, and of course the Iranian Ayatollah with his mullahs who will control the Middle East along with all that oil asset, just like Obama and Kerry did in their favoritism of Jihadists! Especially with that Iran Nuclear Deal where boat loads of American Green Backs were personally delivered and divvied up by those two clowns in the middle of the night flown in on US air transports by these dudes of the Green New Deal! I guess they just love that Color, and are doing the same thing in Spades again; now that there’s nobody around to stop them from chewing America up like so much Cows Cud and play let’s favor the tyrants of the world while we destroy the big bad evil Satan America! That is of course of as long as these lying devils get to be some of those tyrants in the process too!
Oh and just a reminder lest we forget, during the Obama/Biden years the National Deficit grew from about 9.5 $Trillion to 20.5 $Trillion which is a financial nut that will stick in the throats of future generations chocking the life out of them here in America never to be paid down at this rate the Biden administration is going, already having spent Trillions more in just a few months in office. Under those two same despots Obama/Biden the unemployment rate hovered around 7% putting America’s workers and economy at a 60 year low since having been in those economic dumps so badly; while the GDP barely got over 1% third world status during those eight long dark years in America!
Contrast any of these factors with the Trump administration’s accomplishments and you quickly see that they were all just the opposite and America was riding high on the saddle once again like it should have been, along with unemployment at a 60 year low, more Blacks and Hispanics working than in any other period in history, a GDP pushing over 3% continually on toward 3.5% and higher, being once again a Great Good Republic under God. So now, we have the despots and clueless lunacy of AOC mental midgets of the Squad, all taking the helm with Biden/Obama along with the infamous Crazy as they come Nancy pushing them hard with her Gestapo boots on; as she cracks her whip from behind them! If they get to continue this administration’s term to its end I tell you it will be the End of America and the Rise of the Tyrannical Powers of the world China and Russia like you won’t believe! And, Green won’t mean diddlysquat unless you’re talking cash!
Lawrence Morra III
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PA Pundits - International
Fri 06/04/2021
Hi Lawrence Morra,
Thank you for visiting and commenting.
Wow! Great comment.
You could have made this into an article.
We do have a generic guest post if you didn’t want to get your own login.
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Lawrence Morra
Fri 06/04/2021
Great Idea! I’m game, because not that I want to be an outspoken strong opinioned man when it comes to putting the Truth out there to counter all the lies and propaganda; but it’s a dirty or somewhat thankless job these days and somebody has to do it!
So I’m not afraid of anything or anyone in this world, long story as to why; but I will always speak my mind, lukewarm will not do the job or cut the mustard as they say! Of course I’m trying my best not to make fake news myself!
Let me know what you think about this further and how it can work or fit the mission!
Thank you.
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willingwheeling
Fri 06/04/2021
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