2020 Biden Presidential transition thread

[TBoneTX 45,524]

Get China, India, Pakistan, Russia, the African countries, Europe, and other Asian countries to buy in completely, and then perhaps something can happen along those lines.  Otherwise, the hit is nearly 100% on the U.S.

 

Global warming/climate change has all been discussed in depth in previous threads.  If you're interested, contribute to a recent such thread that's pertinent.

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4 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Get China, India, Pakistan, Russia, the African countries, Europe, and other Asian countries to buy in completely, and then perhaps something can happen along those lines.  Otherwise, the hit is nearly 100% on the U.S.

 

Global warming/climate change has all been discussed in depth in previous threads.  If you're interested, contribute to a recent such thread that's pertinent.

Are you suggesting we resurrect an old thread? 

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7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Otherwise, the hit is nearly 100% on the U.S.

That's simply not true, if we're talking about the Paris Agreement. Sweden has contributed the most per capita. USA was 11th. It is global warming, irrespective of national borders. The global community is overwhelmingly relieved that the president-elect isn't a climate change denier. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

10 hours ago, fip & jim said:

That's simply not true, if we're talking about the Paris Agreement. Sweden has contributed the most per capita. USA was 11th. It is global warming, irrespective of national borders. The global community is overwhelmingly relieved that the president-elect isn't a climate change denier. 

As @TBoneTX knows we completely understand that it is GLOBAL Climate Change but us as a country can not shoulder the whole burden of this. The Paris Agreement still treats China as a 3rd world development in regards to output when they have surpassed us. 

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11 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

As @TBoneTX knows we completely understand that it is GLOBAL Climate Change but us as a country can not shoulder the whole burden of this. The Paris Agreement still treats China as a 3rd world development in regards to output when they have surpassed us. 

The US does not shoulder the whole burden. As I said, Sweden contributes the most per capita, followed by Luxembourg, Norway, Monaco, Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, then the US. The US emits more greenhouse gases per capita than China and India combined. So one could argue that all those European countries and Japan shoulder the burden of the US. 

[Boiler 45,665]

The nice thing about this is that you can sign up make all sorts of promises knowing quite well you will be long gone before anything needs to actually be achieved. And with such a long time period most people forget meanwhile you get the brownie points from the usual suspects.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

14 minutes ago, fip & jim said:

The US does not shoulder the whole burden. As I said, Sweden contributes the most per capita, followed by Luxembourg, Norway, Monaco, Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, then the US. The US emits more greenhouse gases per capita than China and India combined. So one could argue that all those European countries and Japan shoulder the burden of the US. 

As a developed country according to the Paris Accord we being the developed countries must shoulder the largest amount of burden. You are right on a per capita basis we contribute more but as a whole China actually produces more than we do. Also since we left the Paris Accord we have actually met the target and even increased it by 15%. Which is due in large part from switching our coal fired power plants to natural gas. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/us-leads-greenhouse-gas-emissions-on-a-per-capita-basis-report-finds.html

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7 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

As a developed country according to the Paris Accord we being the developed countries must shoulder the largest amount of burden. You are right on a per capita basis we contribute more but as a whole China actually produces more than we do. Also since we left the Paris Accord we have actually met the target and even increased it by 15%. Which is due in large part from switching our coal fired power plants to natural gas. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/us-leads-greenhouse-gas-emissions-on-a-per-capita-basis-report-finds.html

I am also right about Sweden contributing the most per capita. I don't need the Paris Agreement explained to me. T-Bone said: 

19 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Get China, India, Pakistan, Russia, the African countries, Europe, and other Asian countries to buy in completely, and then perhaps something can happen along those lines.  Otherwise, the hit is nearly 100% on the U.S.

I was correcting that because that is obviously not a true statement. Sweden contributes $59.31 per capita already. Luxembourg contributes $58.63 pc and will be the largest contributor at nearly $94 pc if it follows through on its pledge. If the US did follow through on its $3 billion pledge it would be in 11th place at $9.41 pc. It's important to put these figures in to perspective because yes, China and India have larger populations than the US, but per capita they pollute less. Saying that "the hit is 100% on the US" is not true.  

[Dashinka 24,594]

9 hours ago, fip & jim said:

I am also right about Sweden contributing the most per capita. I don't need the Paris Agreement explained to me. T-Bone said: 

I was correcting that because that is obviously not a true statement. Sweden contributes $59.31 per capita already. Luxembourg contributes $58.63 pc and will be the largest contributor at nearly $94 pc if it follows through on its pledge. If the US did follow through on its $3 billion pledge it would be in 11th place at $9.41 pc. It's important to put these figures in to perspective because yes, China and India have larger populations than the US, but per capita they pollute less. Saying that "the hit is 100% on the US" is not true.  

Doesn't each country get to define their own measures?

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13 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Doesn't each country get to define their own measures?

Does not each country? 

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Biden picks Antony Blinken as secretary of state, emphasizing experience and the foreign policy establishment

Vice President Joe Biden with Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Secretary of State John F. Kerry listen as President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki address reporters in November 2013. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

By 

Annie Linskey, 

Matt Viser and 

John Hudson

November 22, 2020 at 8:46 p.m. PST

 

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Antony Blinken, one of his closest and longest-serving foreign policy advisers, as secretary of state as he prepares to unveil a slate of new nominees this week that will emphasize a deep well of experience in the foreign policy and national security establishment.

 

Blinken will be nominated toone of the highest-profile Cabinet positions at a time when Biden is planning to prioritize foreign policy as a major pillar in his administration, with vows to reassemble global alliances and insert the United States into a more prominent position on the world stage.

Soon after taking office, Biden plans to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, stop the U.S. exit from the World Health Organization and resuscitate the Iran nuclear deal. Blinken has been described as having a “mind meld” with Biden on a range of issues that will be important in his early tenure.

[Dashinka 24,594]

13 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

Biden picks Antony Blinken as secretary of state, emphasizing experience and the foreign policy establishment

Vice President Joe Biden with Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Secretary of State John F. Kerry listen as President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki address reporters in November 2013. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

By 

Annie Linskey, 

Matt Viser and 

John Hudson

November 22, 2020 at 8:46 p.m. PST

 

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Antony Blinken, one of his closest and longest-serving foreign policy advisers, as secretary of state as he prepares to unveil a slate of new nominees this week that will emphasize a deep well of experience in the foreign policy and national security establishment.

 

Blinken will be nominated toone of the highest-profile Cabinet positions at a time when Biden is planning to prioritize foreign policy as a major pillar in his administration, with vows to reassemble global alliances and insert the United States into a more prominent position on the world stage.

Soon after taking office, Biden plans to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, stop the U.S. exit from the World Health Organization and resuscitate the Iran nuclear deal. Blinken has been described as having a “mind meld” with Biden on a range of issues that will be important in his early tenure.

So a neocon?  Wasn’t it Blinken that convinced Biden to support the Iraq war in the early 2000’s?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

15 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

So a neocon?  Wasn’t it Blinken that convinced Biden to support the Iraq war in the early 2000’s?

It's amusing watching how incongruous the Democratic party is on the local level vs federal. The local party is becoming inundated with Marxists, already saturated with them in coastal states. Federally they're ignoring the left and as predicted trying to put together a last hurrah GW-Bama neocon-neoliberal faction. Watching them foam at the mouth from Trump undermining their warmongering puts a smile on my face. 

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Only the best, central casting or

Biden chooses former Fed Chair Janet Yellen to be Treasury secretary

PUBLISHED MON, NOV 23 2020 3:05 PM EST

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KEY POINTS

• President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary.
• If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would be the first woman to lead the department.
• Yellen was the first woman to serve as Federal Reserve's chair after her Senate confirmation in 2014.

1 hour ago, Dashinka said:

So a neocon?  Wasn’t it Blinken that convinced Biden to support the Iraq war in the early 2000’s?

Source?

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With John Kerry Pick, Biden Selects a ‘Climate Envoy’ With Stature https://nyti.ms/3fyH9Zq