Biden is Dramatically Upping Our Game

    The things the Biden administration just did to address climate change are of no small significance. Look at the commitments at the recent international meeting on climate conference, the COP28 meeting held in Dubai.
   1.) No more new coal plants. We are done building them. And the existing ones? We are going to put a nice set of new restrictions on them.
  Coal plants spew billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, accounting for an estimate 26 percent of global emissions. If we can end the coal-plant reign, it will go a long way toward freeing the world from greenhouse emissions. 
   2.) We will impose sharp new restrictions on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
   These moves by the Biden administration are drawing an angered response from many. "Eliminating methane is a de facto ban on natural-gas power plants," says a New York Post article. The article goes on to note that 40 percent of the nation's energy comes from natural gas. It says another 20 percent comes from coal-powered plants. Together, that is 60 percent of America's energy that is being swept away. The Post warns the Biden administration mandates "might just destroy the 21st-century American industrial economy as we know it."
   "Eradicating coal and natural gas plants will ravage America's electric-power capacity," the Post warns "These regulations will cause rolling blackouts and brownouts across the country."
   While the Post might be joining Chicken Little in a the-sky-is-falling mentality, things are not so dire. Although the Post suggests that wind and solar are not as dependable, a mix of wind, solar, geothermal, and nuclear (and perhaps some others) can reliably replace fossil fuels. Why does the Post say otherwise? Well, for one thing, the author of the article is an official at the Heritage Foundation, which has been funded by ExxonMobil. What do we expect the oil industry to say?
   These moves by the Biden administration are significant, and they come at a time experts on climate change are warning that we must dramatically up our game if we are to avoid severe climate-change damages. But the Biden administration efforts will be swept away with the stroke of a pen if Trump gets back in the White House. And other Republican candidates are sure to do the same if they are elected. It becomes imperative that Biden is reelected. His line-in-the-sand approach to climate change is vital. 

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