The Leftist Perspective on AGW for This Election?

[DGS49]

Do tell.

What should the next President do - consistent with her Constitutional powers - to combat AGW?

Please be specific. And not "sign treaties" and such, REAL, tangible initiatives. And setting a goal for 50-years out doesn't count.

 

[Crick]

Submit bills to congress to:
o legislate a carbon trading scheme
o arrange taxation on the purchase of motor cars to increase cost with emissions
o steepen the curve of the CAFE standards
o arrange taxation on power utilities to encourage efficiency and investments in new and alternative technologies
o increase the tax on all fossil fuels
o subsidize alternative energy technologies
o fund research into further improvements
o push mass transit, bike lanes, walking, energy efficiency in homes and businesses
o use trade controls to encourage our trading partners to also move towards efficient, low-carbon technologies

 

[Old Rocks]

One might add to that, build grids into very rural areas that have high wind, solar, and geothermal potential. Pay for those grids by charging a fee for the electricity passing through them. Southeastern Oregon comes to mind. Solar, geothermal, and wind potential all high in that area. The Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming have enough wind potential to supply most of the needs of this nation.

Invest bigtime in further storage technologies for electricity. Both at the generation and use end.

 

[skookerasbil]

Leave it to hard left fantasy bubble dwellers to come up things that have zero chance of happening.

Why?

No public support s0ns!! Not even debatable.

Some people evidently missed the debates!!

Oh............and even when Obama had BOTH the Senate and House, nobody in congress has stomach for this shit.......don't have to elaborate where we are now politically on this stuff.........its radioactive in our Capitol in 2016.


Senate Halts Effort to Cap CO2 Emissions

 

[skookerasbil]

Oh.........and this little bitty piece of information >> Pew: Most Americans Don’t Believe in ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change


Don't forget s0ns...........AGW alarmist folks have the political IQ of a small soap dish. Always have...........always will.

 

[skookerasbil]

Didn't happen in 2010 ( Soetero had both the Senate and House )..........most definitely wont happen any time soon. Not even debatable.

Senate Halts Effort to Cap CO2 Emissions


Nobody likes the idea of having their electric bill double like the German people had to find out the hard way!! Politicians don't like voting themselves out of congress with bad legislation that not only sticks their constituencies with higher taxes, but also higher utility bills. duh

 

[skookerasbil]

DG set the suckers up on this one!!

 

[flacaltenn]

Do tell.

What should the next President do - consistent with her Constitutional powers - to combat AGW?

Please be specific. And not "sign treaties" and such, REAL, tangible initiatives. And setting a goal for 50-years out doesn't count.

Before ANYTHING is done about "it" --- I'd convene a series of Debates at the WHouse. Something that actually has not really happened. Get it televised. Invite the top proponents and skeptics. Hash it out.

It's clear NOW -- that the original hysterical estimates that started this whole circus have been continually revised downward. And in fact for the last decade, not many paper authors have stuck their necks out with wild predictions. Because the 30 yr old predictions are now considered ludicrous.

Shouldn't be politicians in Wash and the UN making commitments that are not based on the latest and greatest "likely scenarios".

And secondly --- most of ANYTHING we do -- should be done on OUR energy and CO2 adjustments. Should not be paying damages (enviro ransom) to Marshall Islands or Bangladesh before we can afford to do our share to change OUR contributions (if any) to catastrophic future climate changes.

 

[flacaltenn]

It's been awfully quiet in the AGW media blitz for about 4 years now. Hasn't it? No monthly bombshells about 9degC by 2100 kind of scare headlines. No weekly blitz of new records. No widespread panic about weather and natural disasters being DIRECTLY related to that 0.6degC rise in your lifetimes.

Sounds like a cause that's hit the beach actually. Nature is not cooperating.

 

[Crick]

Air pollution? Water pollution? Overpopulation? Drinking water supplies? Ebola? Hunger? Are those issues still screaming from our headlines on a daily basis? No. Do you thus conclude that those are problems that have "hit the beach"? Your position here is nearly identical to poster Skookerasbil. Impressive company you're keeping.

 

[Old Rocks]

It's been awfully quiet in the AGW media blitz for about 4 years now. Hasn't it? No monthly bombshells about 9degC by 2100 kind of scare headlines. No weekly blitz of new records. No widespread panic about weather and natural disasters being DIRECTLY related to that 0.6degC rise in your lifetimes.

Sounds like a cause that's hit the beach actually. Nature is not cooperating.

This time series plot shows Arctic-wide (65°N-90°N) daily mean temperature departures, or anomalies, of 1951–2000 climatology for the first 15 days of October from 1948–2016. A record-warm temperature anomaly registered at 6.6 C on Oct. 7, 2016. Other notable extremes are labeled for reference. The bold black line represents 15-day averages for each year. These temperature anomaly estimates are based on output from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the National Center for Atmospheric Research Reanalysis. Unprocessed data files are obtained from NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research/Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado (esrl.noaa.gov/psd).

Record early-October warmth across the Arctic - UMaine News - University of Maine

Sounds to me like you are living in an alternative universe. Record global temperature 2014, warmer even 2015, and this year, with an essentially neutral ENSO, even warmer. Now the Arctic is warmer for this time of year than it has ever been, and the ice is the lower this time of year than it has ever been. Both the Arctic, and the Antarctic sea ice are below two standard deviations from normal.

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag