Newsom, Xi AWOL at Scotland Climate Conference
My Epoch Times Article from Nov. 5:
At the last minute, Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled his much-anticipated trip to COP26—the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. The world’s fifth-largest economy, California, went unrepresented by its leader. So too the first- or second-largest economy, depending on how it’s figured, as Chinese President Xi Jinping also stayed home.
There’s a close relationship between the two economies, as shown by the California-China Climate Institute established in 2019 by former Gov. Jerry Brown at Berkeley’s School of Law and College of Natural Resources. Back when he was governor, Brown showed the seriousness of his “climate change” principles by always flying to climate conferences on private jets.
Russian President Putin also stayed away. President Joe Biden did attend, and when not sleeping through presentations, he attacked Xi and Putin for skipping out. Biden said, “The fact that China is trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader—not showing up, come on, big mistake.” Tuesday was the day Biden’s Democratic Party lost a major election for governor of Virginia.
The United States, Russia, and China also are the world’s top nuclear powers. Meaning, they decide their own policies.
And on Tuesday in Glasgow, Biden announced a major crackdown on methane production—only in the United States, of course. The White House Fact Sheet from Nov. 2 read, “President Biden is unveiling a U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan that redoubles efforts from across the government to dramatically reduce U.S. methane emissions, cut consumer costs, protect workers and communities, maintain and create high-quality, union-friendly jobs, and promote U.S. innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies.”
The Biden administration also is going to skirt Congress by imposing new regulations. Appearing on MSNBC, White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy promised—I’m leaving in the verbiage about “investments” so you can read how these people think—“Well, what I would say is there’s room for regulation. But this package, this framework that the president is looking at is all about investments. It’s not about penalties. It’s all about how we use our economic muscle to move forward and, again, win the jobs of today and the jobs of the future. So, they can talk about regulation all they want. There’s a place for it. We’re going to use it. Because there’s opportunities that can’t be captured otherwise. But right now, if you look at this framework, you don’t see regulations and rules. You see opportunity after opportunity.”
It’s the old trick of “creating” jobs in a favored sector by taxing and regulating an unfavored sector. The result always is fewer jobs, especially for the middle class.
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