The Wall Road Journal Discusses Biden’s Mitigation Absorption Propaganda Applications – Watts Up With That?
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
The Wall Street Journal published another article that doubles the misrepresentations it made in a previous article, implying that due to the huge drop in US emissions in 2030, it would be easy for the US to cut Biden’s emissions by 50% by the year 2030 to reach the pandemic economic downturn year 2020.
In a recent WUWT article, these earlier Wall Street Journal articles, which contained highly misleading observations about Biden’s expected plan to reduce US emissions by 50% by 2030, were treated as follows:
“Biden government officials have announced that they will unveil a new US target for emissions reductions at a global climate summit in Washington next month. It sets a target for US emissions reductions over the next nine years. “
“In private meetings over the past few weeks, according to those involved in the discussions, external environmental groups and climate data analysts have encouraged the White House to almost double the emissions reduction target set by then President Barack Obama in 2014, and US emissions by up to.” In 2025 by 26% to 28% below the 2005 level. “
“The groups have presented models to the White House showing that a target in the range of 50% below the 2005-2030 level is achievable, given the measures already taken into account by cities, states, businesses and local governments. Last year, total US emissions were 21% lower than in 2005, partly due to the disruption to economic activity caused by the pandemic. “
This WUWT article pointed to the bias and deception in the WSJ article which implied that achieving this 50% emissions reduction scheme was no big deal like this:
“The WSJ article grossly underestimates the enormous economic damage that the Covid 19 pandemic has caused in reducing estimated US CO2 emissions in 2020 compared to 2019.
The reality is that between 2005 and 2019, the US GHG reduction level was around 12.5%, with that reduction level being huge at 21 for the period between 2005 and 2020 that includes the reductions from the 2020 pandemic year. 5% increase.
42% of the 21.5% reduction that occurred between 2005 and 2020 was attributable to the pandemic year 2020. This is wrongly referred to in the WSJ article as a 21.5% reduction in emissions between 2005 and 2020, which is “partially” due to the pandemic.
The average emission reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the US was only 1% per year between 2005 and 2019. The reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the pandemic year 2020 was more than ten times higher (10.3%) than the average of the previous 14-year interval. “
The most recent WSJ article contains the same idiotic, misguided, and misleading comments on the 21.5% emissions reduction in the US between 2005 and 2020, but escalates its absurd statements further by stating that Biden is calling for “rich nations to be more accountable take over the emission reduction “.
Furthermore, the WSJ article again hides the fact that over 70% of the emissions reductions in 2020 were made in the transport, industrial and building sectors, all of which need to step up their activities to get the country back to pre-pandemic economic levels bring.
Biden’s reduction program would roughly double Obama’s proposal that urged the US to cut emissions by 26% to 28% by 2025 by 2005. The latest WSJ article highlights China’s worthless “commitment” to zero net carbon emissions by 2060, as if that were to have any real credibility.
The WSJ article avoids any discussion of actual global emissions data, which of course would make the articles happy if they talked about “taking on more responsibility” look downright silly.
Let’s look at China and the US with emissions from 2005 to 2019, where China was during that time elevated Emissions by 4.4 billion tons and the US has reduced Emissions by 850 million tons.
Energy-related CO2 emissions from coal in the US decreased by more than 50% from 2007 to 2019, for a cumulative amount of more than a billion tons. In 2019, US emissions are nearly 5 billion tons less than Chinese emissions of 10.17 billion tons.
How did US emissions reductions decrease compared to Europe from 2005 to 2019? We will see.
US emissions have fallen below Europe, which the press sees as the world leader in emissions reduction efforts. The reduction in US emissions was primarily (62%) due to the substitution of natural gas for coal.
How did US emissions compare to Asia?
Asia has increased emissions by almost 8 billion tons.
Let’s look at emissions in the US and Europe compared to what the rest of the world is doing in the 2005-2019 time window.
The US and Europe cut emissions by around 1.8 billion tons, while the rest of the world increased emissions by over 7 billion tons.
The people of the U.S. are being sold down the river by unsuspecting Democratic climate alarmists who want trillions in the cost of more U.S. emissions reductions so the rest of the world can keep increasing emissions, as they have for decades, as below shown.
The Wall Street Journal has apparently left the deep end and has just become another irrational advocate of climate alarmists.
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