{"id":606192,"date":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/by-attacking-biden-on-climate-the-far-left-risks-true-disaster-with-a-trump-win\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:00:00","slug":"by-attacking-biden-on-climate-the-far-left-risks-true-disaster-with-a-trump-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/by-attacking-biden-on-climate-the-far-left-risks-true-disaster-with-a-trump-win\/","title":{"rendered":"#By attacking Biden on climate, the far left risks true disaster with a Trump win\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/biden-vs-trump_samuels_111823_illo_SamanthaWongGregNash-AdobeStock.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>            <iframe title=\"Audio Article\" id=\"instaread_iframe\" name=\"instaread_playlist\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" style=\"display:block\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to climate change, Joe Biden has done what Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not \u2014 and now, what Donald Trump vows to destroy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has executed a deft policy strategy that joins job creation, economic growth and global competitiveness with emissions reductions, using powerful clean energy tax incentives for consumers and businesses as the driver. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In just 18 months since securing congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval of this approach, Biden\u2019s plan has unleashed\u00a0$370 billion in new private\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cleanpower.org\/investing-in-america\/\">clean energy investments<\/a>, and created over\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rmi.org\/the-top-12-climate-developments-of-2023\/#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20IRA%20led,toward%20traditionally%20Republican%2Dleaning%20regions.\">210,000 new clean energy jobs<\/a> and almost 50,000 manufacturing jobs.\u00a0U.S. companies are bringing dozens of major clean technologies to consumers while challenging China for global leadership in clean energy, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/forget-ai-100-trillion-investment-174838125.html\">the most important economic sector internationally over next two decades, worth $100 trillion<\/a> or more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also pursued uniquely ambitious regulatory, security and diplomatic policies, reestablishing American global climate leadership. He has correctly characterized climate change as an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/articles\/biden-calls-climate-change-existential-threat\">existential crisis<\/a>, crucial to America\u2019s long-term domestic safety and global security, bringing climate policy to key levels of government, including emergency response like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Security Council. He has rallied U.S. allies around the world, while both challenging and engaging with China, forcing Beijing to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/14\/climate\/us-china-climate-agreement.html\">announce new pledges<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In short, Biden is not just the most successful president on climate, he is the most important climate policymaker in world history.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what, you might ask, has been the reaction of far-left climate crusaders to such profound successes? To attack Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that such attacks risk tipping a razor-thin election to former President Donald Trump, whose <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/01\/12\/trump-second-term-climate-science-2024-00132289\">warped agenda<\/a> includes dismantling every climate protection and economic benefit that Biden has so painstakingly created. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How bad would climate policy be if Trump were reelected? It would be disastrous for U.S. public safety, economic growth and national security. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>From 2017 to 2021, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/climate\/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html\">Trump undermined every single climate protection he could<\/a>, gutting regulations on power plant pollution that would have led to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/09\/17\/climate\/emissions-trump-rollbacks-deregulation.html\">large increases<\/a> in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions had Biden not been elected to reverse them. Trump undermined U.S. climate leadership by withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, alienating our key allies while encouraging climate scofflaws like Vladimir Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s nothing compared to what he says he will do if he gets back in the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has made clear that he will try to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxnotes.com\/featured-news\/ill-scrap-ira-tax-credits-day-1-trump-says\/2023\/09\/28\/7hdjq\">repeal Biden\u2019s new clean energy incentives<\/a> \u201con day one,\u201d undermining not just emissions reductions but the source of hundreds of billions of dollars of new annual investment and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/watch\/rump-wins-new-hampshire-primary-cementing-status-as-clear-frontrunner-nbc-news-projects-202804805756\">Republican frontrunner<\/a> says he plans to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ed4b352b-5c06-4f8d-9df7-1b1f9fecb269\">\u201cmaximize fossil fuel production,\u201d<\/a> opening many new areas to oil drilling. Trump has bragged that he would gut essentially all climate regulations Biden has put in place, including preventing better fuel economy for American cars and trucks, allowing more pollution from U.S. powerplants, and overturning rules to reduce methane emissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Trump\u2019s allies like the Heritage Foundation are developing plans for killing off many \u201cEnergy Department agencies central to Biden\u2019s climate agenda, including the Loan Programs Office, which is disbursing $400 billion to help industries decarbonize, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the Clean Energy Corps,\u201d as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ed4b352b-5c06-4f8d-9df7-1b1f9fecb269\">reported<\/a> by The Financial Times. This is hugely dangerous because most of the Department of Energy\u2019s clean energy funding has not yet been injected into the economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While clean energy investments are being made in every state \u2014 and studies show red states have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2023-red-states-will-reap-the-biggest-rewards-from-biden-s-climate-package\/\">benefited most<\/a> \u2014 many swing states are also seeing large <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.renewableenergymagazine.com\/panorama\/nearly-200-us-clean-energy-projects-announced-20240119#:~:text=North%20Carolina%20received%20the%20most,and%20Nevada%20(%245.5%20billion).\">private-sector clean energy investments<\/a> in the last year, with North Carolina at about $11.2 billion, Georgia at $6.9 billion, Michigan at $5.7 billion and Nevada at $5.5 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You would think those on the far left of climate policy would get this. But for them it seems it\u2019s never enough; they attack even their best allies, like Biden, in the hopes of generating controversy, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> attention and, most of all, the funding that goes with it.\u00a0And although the \u201cfar left versus Biden\u201d storyline may be catnip for some click-chasing publications, it is utterly unrepresentative of the real stakes ahead. In fact, it turns reality on its head by ignoring key issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>For example, some climate activists have falsely suggested that natural gas is worse than coal in terms of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. Starting with this deliberately mistaken premise, which misuses massively <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/1943815X.2020.1789666\">out of date data,<\/a> they then claim that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/10\/17\/natural-gas-exports-climate-activists\/\">U.S. exports of natural gas are our biggest climate problem<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, U.S. gas exports have been the key to limiting Europe\u2019s morbid reliance Russia\u2019s natural gas, with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25650513\/\">cleaner U.S. gas<\/a> displacing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2021\/russia-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/\">Russian gas, which has far higher fugitive emissions of methane<\/a>.\u00a0U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) also cuts European Union (EU) coal use, which has higher CO2 emissions. And, of course, U.S. gas has helped the EU to stop filling Vladimir Putin\u2019s coffers and limited funding of Russia\u2019s brutal war against Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the Biden administration has led efforts to reduce methane emissions from gas, with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/11\/11\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-27th-conference-of-the-parties-to-the-framework-convention-on-climate-change-cop27-sharm-el-sheikh-egypt\/\">the president personally traveling to COP 27 in Egypt <\/a>to emphasize the critical <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccacoalition.org\/resources\/global-methane-assessment-full-report\">importance of cutting methane emissions to limit near-term temperatures<\/a>. Last year, Biden promulgated new regulations to reduce methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/biden-harris-administration-finalizes-standards-slash-methane-pollution-combat-climate\">by nearly 80 percent,<\/a> and in the administration\u2019s landmark climate legislation also adopted measures that tax methane emissions from gas and oil above regulated levels. These actions, and new EU rules regulating methane from gas imports, also helped compel new pledges at COP 28 by 50 international oil and gas companies to cut methane leaks to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/un-climate-cop28-methane-leak-agreement-rcna127496\">near-zero by 2030<\/a>, creating momentum for a global methane agreement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Many voters might not realize this when they see propaganda from both the far left and far right attacking Biden. And the lessons of recent presidential elections are startling.\u00a0Al Gore lost to George Bush in 2000 because <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-nader-effect\/\">some voters supported far-left Ralph Nader<\/a> in Florida, which Gore lost by a mere 537 votes. Then, in 2016, Jill Stein of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/10\/politics\/gary-johnson-jill-stein-spoiler\/index.html\">Green Party helped get Trump elected<\/a> by drawing votes away from Hillary Clinton in key states. Now new fringe candidates who run on the far left may tempt some voters with false characterizations of Biden and climate.\u00a0Self-described climate crusaders are playing with fire by attacking such a climate stalwart as Biden, whether or not he delays LNG permits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake \u2014 climate is on the ballot. Joe Biden is the only one who has, and who will, protect it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Bledsoe is professorial lecturer at American University\u2019s Center for Environmental Policy in Washington. He served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Interior Department and the White House Climate Change Task Force under former President Bill Clinton.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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