It is time for the rest of the world to stop "hiding behind America" and it continual and on-going hard block on needed international progress for the climate, and put hard sanctions on trade with America until it relents. Those sanctions should allow only that trade which fosters America's rapid transition out of the production and use of fossil fuels. I am a patriotic American, but the situation is that desperate.
Bill, your article said: "the US Senate never even took up the Kyoto protocol, after a West Virginia Senator named Robert Byrd poisoned the deliberations with a resolution insisting that America (which had been pouring carbon into the air for a century) shouldn’t be asked to do more than developing countries."
That's accurate. Byrd was the King of Pork for West Virginia and brought to the state many pork barrel projects to WV such as the impressive 4 lane Route 48 .... from the west edge of Virginia (Interstate 81) to Davis, WV and the nearby Climate Haven of the Canaan Valley.
This Climate Haven is a 3 hour drive (electric car) from DC. In this century, with increased warming, it will likely become the place in the summer to escape the higher temps of Global Warming. I get out of Florida in the summer months and spend my time there.
IMHO, I would bet Manchin and his Big Oil / Big Coal friends have already bought up land there and are just waiting to sell with about 4F to 5 F degrees of additional global warming. That's a Climate GeoArbitrage play.
Terry McAuliffe in Virginia 'could possibly' stymie Manchin's plans by cutting off the Virginia part of Route 48. Sort of a play from the Chris Christie playbook,
It is time for the rest of the world to stop "hiding behind America" and it continual and on-going hard block on needed international progress for the climate, and put hard sanctions on trade with America until it relents. Those sanctions should allow only that trade which fosters America's rapid transition out of the production and use of fossil fuels. I am a patriotic American, but the situation is that desperate.
Bill, your article said: "the US Senate never even took up the Kyoto protocol, after a West Virginia Senator named Robert Byrd poisoned the deliberations with a resolution insisting that America (which had been pouring carbon into the air for a century) shouldn’t be asked to do more than developing countries."
That's accurate. Byrd was the King of Pork for West Virginia and brought to the state many pork barrel projects to WV such as the impressive 4 lane Route 48 .... from the west edge of Virginia (Interstate 81) to Davis, WV and the nearby Climate Haven of the Canaan Valley.
This Climate Haven is a 3 hour drive (electric car) from DC. In this century, with increased warming, it will likely become the place in the summer to escape the higher temps of Global Warming. I get out of Florida in the summer months and spend my time there.
IMHO, I would bet Manchin and his Big Oil / Big Coal friends have already bought up land there and are just waiting to sell with about 4F to 5 F degrees of additional global warming. That's a Climate GeoArbitrage play.
Terry McAuliffe in Virginia 'could possibly' stymie Manchin's plans by cutting off the Virginia part of Route 48. Sort of a play from the Chris Christie playbook,