Young Republicans push party to act on climate change - Roll Call

Act...act how? it's currently still winter; should we cease all burning of fossil fuels for electric power generation? Oh, I've got it...let's halt all the trucks crisscrossing the nation every day to re-supply towns and cities. Maybe we should pass a law outlawing every non-hybrid or electric vehicle currently in operation...or one that forces home owners to buy a solar system within twelve months.

Getting back to reality...here's what's really going on. The U.S. has some of the most (if not THE most) stringent environmental standards for emissions on the planet. Every natural gas power plant you see is emitting somewhere around .5-<5 ppm CO and VOCs at the stack, compliments of catalytic emissions control systems mandated by law in many high-emissions areas, and coming in at somewhere around a million and half in cost each, if controlling NOx. There are some of these plants putting out cleaner emissions than ambient.

Those scary columns of "smoke" seen on TV are mostly steam...

Water quality is up, even at sites close to nuclear facilities. The one big headache...coal...is already being slowly phased out, and what is infeasible to close is being equipped with improved CO, NOx, and mercury capture technologies; all without killing off thousands of jobs in some of the most economically challenged areas of the country. Renewables? Well, when they work...which isn't as often as you'd think...they pose their own problems, both technical and environmental. Even if we COULD go back to the energy profiles of say two centuries ago...we'd soon deforest the planet.

I fear the real secret to "Climate Change" is that fear is a great fulcrum for swaying political (and therefore financial) power. We've probably got better odds of being taken out in part by an asteroid, than "Climate Change"...and neither party seems wholly committed to the steps it would take to build an adequate defense against THAT threat.

First I hate how the articles lead uses fear mongering, I do like some of the initiatives they propose over the radical steps AOC has proposed. But I will point this out the U.S. again reduced its CO2 emissions, but as long as China, India and other countries go on unchecked our reductions are just a drop in the bucket compared to their total emissions output.

That guy in Switzerland that did the research and determined we need to plant 1.5 trillion trees has the right of it - a simple solution that would work.
The howls of disdain to that idea (since when do environmentalists dislike the notion of planting trees?) underscores the real agenda - seizing control of the government and the assets of likely opposition to finance their remodeling of the world.
And if they don't get their way at the ballot box, they will try and get it on the streets through violence.