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Contrary to Biden’s Executive Orders, There Is No Climate Crisis By Anthony R. Lupo February 23, 2021 Flickr/The White House Also published in Washington Examiner
The Biden administration has hit the ground running, issuing more than 50 executive orders in its first three weeks. Many of these orders have been aimed at reversing the environmental policies of the preceding administration. The United States is back under the strictures of the Paris climate accord, for instance, and the Keystone XL pipeline is now canceled. With the stroke of a pen, President Biden has put thousands of people out of work and halted the development of new oil and gas activity on federal lands. A week after the inauguration, another executive order made climate change an essential part of not only U.S. foreign policy but also national security policy. But none of this economic carnage or policy misdirection was necessary. These executive actions assume that the planet has little time left to avoid catastrophic change. But since the late 19th century, the global average temperature has risen a mere 1.2 degrees to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In addition, even if the goals of the Paris accord are met, global temperature increases would still only be on the order of 1.0 degree Celsius or so by the year 2100—and that is being generous with the models. Fact is, observed global temperatures consistently register in the lowest, not the highest, range of the projected temperature increases.
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