That’s right! Bernie Sanders, who says Global Warming (Oops, I mean climate change, since warming isn’t) is the largest global threat (he agrees with President Obama) is proposing to INCREASE the United States CO2 emissions!
Our emissions of CO2 have been falling as a percent of GNP for a couple of decades, and in actual tons for the last ten years, https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/usinventoryreport.html. China and India continue to rise and the former is the largest emitter now. The recent Paris accords allows them to continue to increase a couple of decades into our globe’s future.
Yet, Bernie wants to reverse the trend of reducing U.S. emissions! No you say! Tell me it isn’t true! How can that be! Bernie is my buddy! Well, Bernie is a science non believer, wait, science is the basis for progressive thinking I thought! Only when convenient.
Bernie wants to ban fracking. Fracking produces natural gas, a much cleaner source of electricity and industrial heating. Fracking has NEVER been associated with water table pollution, after many studies. Fracking does however involve roads where there are none today, and does involve drilling mud that has to be taken care of. But again, no long term affects.
Bernie also wants to eliminate nuclear. He has proposed as president he will not renew any licenses. Nuclear has ZERO emissions to produce electricity. Roughly a third of our emissions come from electricity. Think of that, no emissions for all our electricity. We can send our coal to China and India since they are allowed to use it. Maybe in twenty years we will figure out a way to burn coal cleanly, since we have the worlds’ second largest reserves of the stuff (http://www.worldenergy.org/data/resources/resource/coal/). France produces most of their electricity from nuclear, even they think it is a good idea. A new technology, molten salt reactors (fuelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor), is now being put into a test reactor that will use the fuel currently stored at our nuclear facilities as its’ fuel. Instead only using 5% of the fuel and storing the other 95% for 10,000 years as we currently do, this new technology will use almost all of that stored fuel requiring a “short” 100 years or so of storage. Maybe Harry Reid will have passed on by then and the many billion dollar site we have paid for can be utilized for that short period.
Well, science loses again to fuzzy headed populist politicians.