How the Biden-Harris Administration will transform America and the world

[Into the Night]

President Biden will build a stronger, more resilient America.

On day one, President Biden will make smart infrastructure investments to rebuild the nation and to ensure that our buildings, water, transportation, and energy infrastructure can withstand the impacts of climate change.

Every dollar spent toward rebuilding our roads, bridges, buildings, the electric grid, and our water infrastructure will be used to prevent, reduce, and withstand man-made climate change.

As our President, Joe Biden will use the convening power of government to boost climate resilience efforts by developing regional climate resilience plans, in partnership with local universities and national labs, for local access to the most relevant science, data, information, tools, and training.

Define 'climate change'. There is no theory of science about an undefined buzzword. So he doesn't want to rebuild roads, bridges, etc.?

 

[Into the Night]

President Biden will rally the rest of the world to meet the threat of man-made climate change.

Man-made climate change is a proven global challenge that requires decisive action from every country around the world.

Joe Biden knows how to stand with America’s allies, stand up to adversaries, and level with any world leader about what must be done.

As our president, Joe Biden will not only recommit the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change, he will go much further than that.

He will lead an effort to get every major country to ramp up the ambition of their domestic climate targets.

He will make sure those commitments are transparent and enforceable, and stop countries from cheating by using America’s economic leverage and power of example.

He will fully integrate the reduction of man-made climate change into our foreign policy and national security strategies, as well as our approach to trade.

Define 'climate change'.

 

[Into the Night]

Says the old pig fucker living in FARMVILLE North Carolina!

Bigotry. Bulverism.

 

[StoneByStone]

Who's a fascist? Trump? LMFAO Prove it. Bet you never do. You fuckers always fail.

LMFAO

He's openly encouraged voter fraud and talked about his plans to steal the election. He opposes Democracy.

 

[Diogenes]

The United States must have a bold plan to achieve a 100% clean energy economy and net-zero emissions no later than 2050 here at home.

On day one, President Biden will sign a series of executive orders that put us on this track. And, he will demand that Congress enacts legislation in the first year of his presidency that
1) establishes an enforcement mechanism to achieve the 2050 goal, including a target no later than the end of his first term in 2025 to ensure we get to the finish line,
2) makes a historic investment in energy and climate research and innovation,
3) incentivizes the rapid deployment of clean energy innovations across the economy.

Failure is not an option. If Congress falls short of its duty to act, President Biden will hold them accountable.

 

[Into the Night]

President Biden will stand up to abuse by polluters who disproportionately harm communities of color and low-income communities.

Vulnerable communities are disproportionately impacted by the man-made climate emergency and pollution.

The Biden-Harris Administration will take action against fossil fuel companies and other polluters who put profits over people and knowingly harm our environment and poison our communities’ air, land, and water, or conceal information regarding potential environmental and health risks.

The Biden plan will ensure that communities across the country will have access to pure, clean, safe drinking water, and he’ll make sure the development of solutions is an inclusive, community-driven process.

Define 'pollution'. Define 'climate change'. We already have safe drinking water.

 

[Into the Night]

As our president, Joe Biden will fulfill our obligations to the workers and communities who powered our industrial revolution and subsequent decades of economic growth.

By shutting their business down???

President Biden is not going to leave any workers or communities behind.

So he's going to shut down ALL the economy???

Joe Biden has never taken contributions from oil, gas and coal corporations or executives.

Lie. Remember Hunter Biden in the Ukraine???

 

[Diogenes]

On day one, President Biden will use the full authority of the executive branch to significantly reduce emissions.

Joe Biden recognizes we must go further, faster and more aggressively than ever before, by:

• Requiring aggressive methane pollution limits for new and existing oil and gas operations.
• Using the Federal government procurement system – which spends $500 billion every year – to drive towards 100% clean energy and zero-emissions vehicles.
• Ensuring that all U.S. government installations, buildings, and facilities are more efficient and climate-ready, harnessing the purchasing power and supply chains to drive innovation.
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation – the fastest growing source of U.S. climate pollution – by preserving and implementing the existing Clean Air Act, and developing rigorous new fuel economy standards aimed at ensuring 100% of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be electrified and annual improvements for heavy duty vehicles.
• Doubling down on the liquid fuels of the future, which make agriculture a key part of the solution to climate change. Advanced biofuels are now closer than ever as we begin to build the first plants for biofuels, creating jobs and new solutions to reduce emissions in planes, ocean-going vessels, and more.
• Saving consumers money and reduce emissions through new, aggressive appliance- and building-efficiency standards.
• Committing that every federal infrastructure investment should reduce climate pollution, and require any federal permitting decision to consider the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
• Requiring public companies to disclose climate risks and the greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains.
• Protecting biodiversity, slowing extinction rates and helping leverage natural climate solutions by conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030.
• Protecting America’s natural treasures by permanently protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other areas impacted by President Trump’s attack on federal lands and waters, establishing national parks and monuments that reflect America’s natural heritage, banning new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters, modifying royalties to account for climate costs, and establishing targeted programs to enhance reforestation and develop renewables on federal lands and waters with the goal of doubling offshore wind by 2030.

 

[Diogenes]

As our president, Joe Biden will establish an enforcement mechanism to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050, including a target no later than the end of his first term in 2025 to ensure we get to the finish line.

This enforcement mechanism will be based on the principles that polluters must bear the full cost of the carbon pollution they are emitting and that our economy must achieve ambitious reductions in emissions economy-wide instead of having just a few sectors carry the burden of change.

The enforcement mechanism will achieve clear, legally-binding emissions reductions with environmental integrity.

 

[Diogenes]

As our president, Joe Biden will make a historic investment in energy and climate research and innovation, as well as clean and resilient infrastructure and communities.

Notwithstanding the progress we have made in reducing emissions in the power sector, fossil fuels still comprise nearly 80% of global energy use.

There is much more work to be done to identify affordable solutions.

Today, we are on the cusp of breakthroughs in technologies, such as batteries that can more efficiently store energy for use at moments of peak demand, more efficient controls and sensors for advanced manufacturing, more effective and thinner insulation for buildings, and cybersecurity improvements to make smart grids more resilient to right-wing terror attacks.

 

[Into the Night]

The Biden plan will make a historic investment in our clean energy future and environmental justice, paid for by rolling back the Trump tax cuts that enriched corporations at the expense of American jobs and the environment.

Define 'clean energy'. Define 'environmental justice'. Increasing taxes on corporation causes those corporations to relocate overseas and/or limit how many people they can hire, since that money went to pay abusive taxes.

President Biden’s climate and environmental justice proposal will make a federal investment of $1.7 trillion over the next ten years, leveraging additional private sector and state and local investments to total to more than $5 trillion.

So...no purpose in spending this money, eh?

President Trump’s tax cut led to trillions in stock buybacks and created new incentives to shift profits abroad.

Quite the opposite happened, dumbass.

Joe Biden will invest in a Clean Energy Revolution that creates jobs here at home.

Define 'clean energy'. Fascism is illegal.

The Biden plan will be paid for by reversing the excesses of the Trump tax cuts for corporations and the rich, reducing incentives for tax havens, evasion, and outsourcing, ensuring corporations pay their fair share, closing other loopholes in our tax code that reward wealth, and ending subsidies for fossil fuels.

We don't use fossils for fuel. Fossils don't burn. There are no subsidies for using fossils as fuel.
Taxing only the rich violates the 14th amendment.

 

[Into the Night]

Joe Biden has long appreciated the enormity of climate change and has always believed that we have a moral and economic imperative to address it.

In 1986, he introduced one of the first-ever climate bills in Congress. Politifact recently called him a “climate change pioneer” and dubbed his early leadership “a watershed moment.”

As Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, he organized several hearings on climate change and rallied support on a number of nonbinding resolutions on the issue, in an attempt to build momentum for action to address global climate change.

In 1998, he was a key champion for the Tropical Forest Conservation Act, which allowed the U.S. to reach agreements with foreign governments to conserve tropical forests in exchange for debt relief (commonly referred to as debt-for-nature swaps).

In 2006, Senator Biden took executives from BP and Chevron to task for the subsidies going to the oil industry.

As Vice President, he oversaw the Recovery Act, the largest single investment in clean energy in U.S. history.

The Obama-Biden Administration placed historic limits on carbon pollution, doubled fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, unleashed the potential of renewable, clean energy, and rallied the world to achieve the groundbreaking Paris Climate Accords.

Joe Biden also understands that the movement towards a cleaner future comes from all of us. At a recent speech at the United States Conference of Mayors, he applauded efforts cities and states have taken on their own as the federal government has been absent for the last three years.

Define 'climate change'. Biden was in charge of the co-called 'recovery' under Obama??? No thanks!

 

[Diogenes]

We have to get rid of the old way of thinking that the clean economy and jobs don’t go together.

They do!

There are currently more than three million people in the United States employed in the clean energy economy.

But, there is a huge opportunity to revitalize the U.S. energy sector, boost growth economy-wide, and re-claim the mantle as the world’s clean energy leader and top exporter.

As our president, Joe Biden will ensure that clean economy jobs are good jobs, jobs for life!

 

[Diogenes]

To accelerate this progress, as our president, Joe Biden will make the largest-ever investment in history in clean energy research and innovation.

After World War II, public investment in research and collaboration between universities and the private sector spurred American innovation, led to rapid economic and job growth, and helped build a strong middle class.

The Biden plan will double down on this approach to create the industries of the future by investing $400 billion over ten years.

That’s twice the investment of the Apollo program which put a man on the moon, in today’s dollars.

This investment will enable us to develop new technological break-throughs that will create millions of jobs and drastically reduce emissions.

 

[Into the Night]

The Biden Promise – Science, Not Fiction

“Humans have released an increasing amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent, deforestation and land-use change. […] This change has intensified the natural greenhouse effect, driving an increase in surface temperatures and other widespread changes in Earth’s climate that are unprecedented in the history of modern civilization.” – Fourth National Climate Assessment

Humans’ contribution to the greenhouse effect is indisputable. Top climate experts, including the authors of the Fourth National Climate Assessment and the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Special Report, have all concluded that human activities are estimated to have caused an approximate 1.0°C rise in the Earth’s global temperature to date. Excessive CO2 emissions caused by human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, have contributed to a severe exacerbation of a natural phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect. This natural occurrence takes place when solar radiation directed toward earth reaches the atmosphere. The atmosphere reflects some of the radiation, but approximately 70% of the radiation is absorbed by the land and water thereby heating the earth. Due to the additional greenhouse gases emitted by humans – such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons – more heat than normal is being trapped, contributing to an overall rise in global temperature.

If the global temperature continues to increase at the current rate and surpasses 1.5°C, the existential threat to life will not be limited to just ecological systems, but will extend to human life as well. We have already begun to witness the impacts on biodiversity and the ecosystem, as species loss and extinction have disturbingly accelerated as a result of increasing ocean temperature, shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels, and much more. As the effects of global warming worsen, human health, livelihood, food security, water supply, and economic growth will be jeopardized. It is incumbent on us to implement a plan in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and begin to combat the consequential long-term and short-term effects of global warming on both the environment and on humans.

Impacts of Climate Change According to NASA:

“Warming Oceans: The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of more than 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.
“Shrinking Ice Sheets: The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost about 127 billion tons of ice per year during the same time period. The rate of Antarctica ice mass loss has tripled in the last decade.
“Glacier Retreat: Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world – including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa.
“Sea Level Rise: Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century and is accelerating slightly every year.
“Extreme Events: The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events.”

Define 'global warming'. Carbon dioxide has absolutely no capability to warm the Earth. No gas or vapor does. You can't create energy out of nothing. You cannot trap heat. You cannot trap light. You cannot trap thermal energy. There is always heat.

This is scripture from the Church of Global Warming. It is not science. It denies the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics and the Stefan-Boltzmann law. It denies mathematics. It is not possible measure the temperature of the Earth. We don't have enough thermometers. NASA propaganda is just that...government propaganda.

It is not possible to measure the temperature of the oceans. Math error.
It is not possible to measure the global snow and ice on the Earth. Math error.
Antarctica's ice sheet had a record MAXIMUM winter ice extent in 2014...the largest ever recorded.
Glaciers are advancing around the world too. You keep leaving that part out.
It is not possible to measure the global sea level. No valid reference point. Math error. Base rate fallacy.
Define 'extreme event'. Define 'intense rainfall'. It is not possible to measure the global rainfall on Earth. Math error.

 

[Diogenes]

As our president, Joe Biden will bring together America’s top talent to innovate on climate. America – with the leadership of government – has led the way on many technologies and innovations, from the GPS to computer networking.

President Biden will establish ARPA-C, a new, cross-agency Advanced Research Projects Agency focused on climate.

This initiative will target affordable, game-changing technologies to help America achieve our 100% clean energy target, with a specific focus on the following, as recommended by the founding director of ARPA-E:

• grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries;
• small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors;
• refrigeration and air conditioning using refrigerants with no global warming potential;
• zero net energy buildings at zero net cost;
• using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas;
• decarbonizing industrial heat needed to make steel, concrete, and chemicals and re-imagining carbon-neutral construction materials;
• decarbonizing the food and agriculture sector, and leveraging agriculture to remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the ground; and
• capturing carbon dioxide from power plant exhausts followed by sequestering it deep underground or using it make alternative products.
• Target airline emissions: Aviation accounts for nearly 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and that portion is expected to increase. Unfortunately today, few low-carbon technologies or fuels have been developed to tackle this challenge. Joe Biden recognizes that must change and as our president, he will pursue measures to incentivize the creation of new, sustainable fuels for aircraft, as well as other changes to aircraft technology and standards, and air traffic management.
• Accelerate the development and deployment of carbon capture sequestration technology. According to the Blue Green Alliance, “carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to create economic benefits for multiple industries while significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions.” Joe Biden shares the Carbon Capture Coalition’s goal “to make CCUS a widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.” Toward this end, he will double down on federal investments and enhance tax incentives for CCUS. At the same time, to bring new carbon capture technologies to market, President Biden will continue to fund carbon capture research, development, and demonstration.
• Identify the future of nuclear energy.

To address the climate emergency threatening our communities, economy, and national security, we must look at all low- and zero-carbon technologies.

That’s why President Biden will support a research agenda through ARPA-C to look at issues, ranging from cost to safety to waste disposal systems, that remain an ongoing challenge with nuclear power today.

 

[Into the Night]

Don't hold your breath. All the Left's got is rhetoric. Facts escape them.

I know they can't define 'clean energy' or 'climate change' or 'global warming'. They are just Holy buzzwords of the Church of Global Warming. The interesting thing about a religion is that they don't have to define what they worship.

 

[Into the Night]

LMFAO

He's openly encouraged voter fraud and talked about his plans to steal the election. He opposes Democracy.

You are describing Democrats. The United States is not a democracy and never was.

 

[Earl]

Boss, Burisma, Beijing Buyden (sic) has won nothing yet.

 

[Diogenes]

President Biden will immediately incentivize the deployment of clean technology throughout our economy.

Creating the best, most innovative clean technology in the world is not enough.

We also need to make sure it is used by households and industry in order to achieve aggressive emissions reductions.

Toward that end, President Biden will incentivize clean technology deployment in the following ways:

• Improving the energy efficiency of our buildings. Building on his efforts in the Recovery Act, Biden will set a target of reducing the carbon footprint of the U.S. building stock 50% by 2035, creating incentives for deep retrofits that combine appliance electrification, efficiency, and on-site clean power generation. He will work to identify barriers to help offset the upfront cost of building upgrades and put in place a national program to target a package of affordable energy efficiency retrofits in American homes. He will direct the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to make housing for low-income communities more efficient. He will direct the U.S. Department of Energy to redouble efforts to accelerate new efficiency standards for household appliances and equipment. And, he will repair and accelerate the building code process and create a new funding mechanism for states and cities to adopt strict building codes and train builders and inspectors.
• Accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles. There are now one million electric vehicles on the road in the United States. But a key barrier to further deployment of these greenhouse-gas reducing vehicles is the lack of charging stations and coordination across all levels of government. As President, Joe Biden will work with our nation’s governors and mayors to support the deployment of more than 500,000 new public charging outlets by the end of 2030. In addition, President Biden will restore the full electric vehicle tax credit to incentivize the purchase of these vehicles. He will ensure the tax credit is designed to targeted middle class consumers and, to the greatest extent possible, to prioritize the purchase of vehicles made in America. And, he will work to develop a new fuel economy standard that goes beyond what the Obama-Biden Administration put in place.
• Empowering local communities to develop transportation solutions. Communities across the country are experiencing a growing need for alternative and cleaner transportation options, including transit, dedicated bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares, and first- and last-mile connections. The Biden-Harris Administration will transform the way we fund local transportation, giving state and local governments, with input from community stakeholders, more flexibility to use any new transportation funds to build safer, cleaner, and more accessible transportation ecosystem.
• Partnering with farmers and ranchers so that better agriculture practices and deployment of digesters generate new sources of revenues. For our farmers, ranchers, and landowners the climate agenda is not just about growing nutritious food and making it accessible to all families, it’s also about having water they can rely on for growing that food. It’s about local farms and fresh food for every community. And it’s about making sure that floodwaters in the Midwest are not taking away farms that have fed our people for decades. President Biden will review regulatory roadblocks to new innovations and invest in climate-friendly farming such as conservation programs for cover crops and other practices aimed at restoring the soil and building soil carbon, and in the process, preventing run-off and helping family farmers deploy the latest technologies to maximize productivity. He will create new opportunities to support deployment of methane digesters to capture potent climate emissions and generate electricity. With these efforts, farmers can help lead the Clean Energy Revolution.