Project 2025 . . .
July 28, 2023 in g’da said
Reprise from a Thirsty Thor’sday link. Homeless on the High Desert, Ten Bears
‘Battle plan’: How the far right will dismantle climate programs
A coalition of conservative groups has assembled a plan to systematically target most of the federal government’s work on climate and clean energy.
It proposes a sweeping deconstruction of government programs that goes far beyond what former President Donald Trump attempted to do by targeting “deep state” employees in federal agencies. And it’s designed to be implemented on the first day of a Republican presidency.
Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the EPA environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s electric car standards; and give Republican state officials more power to regulate polluting industries.
It was written by hundreds of conservative policy experts, energy lobbyists, industry consultants and former Trump administration officials. If enacted, it could decimate the federal government’s climate work, stymie the clean energy transition and shift agencies toward servicing and nurturing the fossil fuel industry rather than regulating it.
“Never before has the whole conservative movement banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one and deconstruct the administrative state.”
“Project 2025 is not a white paper. We are not tinkering at the edges. We are writing a battle plan, and we are marshaling our forces,” said Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation. “Never before has the whole conservative movement banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one and deconstruct the administrative state.”
The comprehensive plan — which runs 920 pages and covers virtually all operations of the federal government, not just energy and climate programs — was compiled by the Heritage Foundation as a road map for the first 180 days of the next GOP administration.
Its details were crafted by more than 400 people, including former Trump officials who could earn top spots in his next administration, if he is reelected.
Republican primary candidates all pledged to go after President Joe Biden’s signature piece of climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden’s climate executive orders would also likely be rolled back the day he leaves office.
But the ideas laid out in Project 2025 show that conservative organizations want to move federal agencies away from public health protections and environmental regulations in order to help the industries they have been tasked with overseeing, said Andrew Rosenberg, a senior NOAA official in the Clinton administration and a senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy.
“What this does is it basically undermines not only society but the economic capacity of the country at the same time as it’s doing gross violence to the environment,” Rosenberg said. /”
A concerted effort to destroy not just the environment but America
At least they’ll profit from it but also in the Biblical sense, gaining the whole world while losing their souls
exactly.
and what do we lose if we only stand and watch?
https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geront/gnad050/7146279
April 28, 2023
Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21st Century: Which U.S. Regions Are at Greatest Risk and Why?
By Deborah Carr, Giacomo Falchetta and Ian Sue Wing
Abstract
Background and Objectives
The co-occurring trends of population aging and climate change mean that rising numbers of U.S. older adults are at risk of intensifying heat exposure. We estimate county-level variations in older populations’ heat exposure in the early (1995–2014) and mid (2050) 21st century. We identify the extent to which rising exposures are attributable to climate change versus population aging.
Declaring their intent to by any means overthrow the US government
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
August 4, 2023
A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy
Project 2025, a conservative “battle plan” for the next Republican president, would stop attempts to cut the pollution that is heating the planet and encourage more emissions.
By Lisa Friedman
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
August 31, 1946
Hiroshima
By JOHN HERSEY
I—A NOISELESS FLASH
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital, overhanging one of the seven deltaic rivers which divide Hiroshima; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor’s widow, stood by the window of her kitchen, watching a neighbor tearing down his house because it lay in the path of an air-raid-defense fire lane; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order’s three-story mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city’s large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassermann test in his hand; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi, the city’s western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer. A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything….
Appropriate to remind us of this shameful anniversary in a post about threats to the green momentum!
Recently, I believe a high level state department official equated risks and outcomes of nuclear war, which seems to be in the Biden administration “risk model” over Ukraine, similar to anthro climate change.
As a passing student of both I am concerned with how lightly the administration views nuclear warfare!
“Recently, I believe a high level state department official equated risks and outcomes of nuclear war, which seems to be in the Biden administration “risk model” over Ukraine, similar to anthro climate change.”
Link, please.
Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Amelia Adams of 60 Minutes Australia – United States Department of State
Amelia asked a question about nuclear war and climate crisis which is worse.
he said something about ‘multitasking’, not a word about dealing with risks of nuclear war.
risking nuke exchange happens like Hemingway’s character going broke, a nip at it bit by bit and blow the world up all at once.
and i was in strategic air command and
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/science/obama-unlikely-to-vow-no-first-use-of-nuclear-weapons.html
September 5, 2016
Obama Unlikely to Rule Out First Use of a Nuclear Weapon
By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD
Aides have told the president that such a guarantee would undermine allies and embolden Russia and China.
@paddy,
Thanks. So your statement “a high level state department official equated risks and outcomes of nuclear war, which seems to be in the Biden administration “risk model” over Ukraine, similar to anthro climate change” was complete fiction, as I suspected.
Recently, I believe a high level state department official equated risks and outcomes of nuclear war, which seems to be in the Biden administration “risk model” over Ukraine, similar to anthro climate change.
As a passing student of both I am concerned with how lightly the administration views nuclear warfare!
[ A devastating comment. ]
paddy
we’ve been pretty good at killing millions of people one at a time in war and other crimes against humanity.
environmental destruction is just the latest way of killing people and all life.
what are we going to do about it?
risking nuke exchange happens like Hemingway’s character going broke, a nip at it bit by bit and blow the world up all at once.
and i was in strategic air command and
risking nuke exchange happens like Hemingway’s character going broke, a nip at it bit by bit and blow the world up all at once.
Risking nuke exchange happens like Hemingway’s character going broke, a nip at it bit by bit and blow the world up all at once.
[ Again, a devastating comment. ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/science/obama-unlikely-to-vow-no-first-use-of-nuclear-weapons.html
September 5, 2016
Obama Unlikely to Rule Out First Use of a Nuclear Weapon
By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD
Aides have told the president that such a guarantee would undermine allies and embolden Russia and China.
September 5, 2016
Obama Unlikely to Vow No First Use of Nuclear Weapons
By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD
President Obama, who has weighed ruling out a first use of a nuclear weapon in a conflict, appears likely to abandon the proposal after top national security advisers argued that it could undermine allies and embolden Russia and China, according to several senior administration officials.
Mr. Obama considers a reduction in the role of nuclear weapons as critical to his legacy. But he has been chagrined to hear critics, including some former senior aides, argue that the administration’s second-term nuclear modernization plans, costing up to $1 trillion in coming decades, undermine commitments he made in 2009….
Coberly,
First off, not all life is at risk. Cockroaches and several strains of deadly algae are epochal survivors.
As far as doing something, then doing nothing may be the fastest route for turning things around now. Once we pass the tipping point, then it will all go quite fast. Human beings would never willfully and consciously depopulate the Earth, but that by no means diminishes the fatality and finality of our efforts. On the way, then we can continue to fight over the scraps; not like dogs because that would be an insult to dogs. We are the final canaries in this coal mine.
If a POTUS can commit treason in an attempt to overturn his failed re-election and still be free to run again in four years, then our hopes of dealing with anything as complex and impactful as global climate chaos are beyond slim. The only good thing that I can say about it (to end on a positive note) is that our circumstances make getting old and long in the tooth and near the end of our time a rather welcome heartwarming and reassuring experience.
What does any of this have to do with Project 2025, the plan to dismantle the administrative state beginning day one of the next NAZI administration?
Oh look! Shiny things …
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
August 4, 2023
A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy
Project 2025, a conservative “battle plan” for the next Republican president, would stop attempts to cut the pollution that is heating the planet and encourage more emissions.
By Lisa Friedman
During a summer of scorching heat that has broken records and forced Americans to confront the reality of climate change, conservatives are laying the groundwork for future Republican administration that would dismantle efforts to slow global warming.
The move is part of a sweeping strategy dubbed Project 2025 that Paul Dans of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank organizing the effort, has called a “battle plan” for the first 180 days of a future Republican presidency.
The climate and energy provisions would be among the most severe swings away from current federal policies.
The plan calls for shredding regulations to curb greenhouse gas pollution from cars, oil and gas wells and power plants, dismantling almost every clean energy program in the federal government and boosting the production of fossil fuels — the burning of which is the chief cause of planetary warming.
The New York Times asked the leading Republican presidential candidates whether they support the Project 2025 strategy but none of the campaigns responded. Still, several of the architects are veterans of the Trump administration, and their recommendations match positions held by former President Donald J. Trump, the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
The $22 million project also includes personnel lists and a transition strategy in the event a Republican wins the 2024 election. The nearly 1,000-page plan, which would reshape the executive branch to place more power into the president’s hands, outlines changes for nearly every agency across the government.
The Heritage Foundation worked on the plan with dozens of conservative groups ranging from the Heartland Institute, which has denied climate science, to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which says “climate change does not endanger the survival of civilization or the habitability of the planet.” …
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-08-05/World-s-oceans-set-new-surface-temperature-record-EU-monitor-1m12ALtmle8/index.html
August 5, 2023
World’s oceans set new surface temperature record: EU monitor
The world’s oceans set a new temperature record this week, raising concerns about knock-on effects on the planet’s climate, marine life and coastal communities.
The temperature of the oceans’ surface rose to 20.96 degrees Celsius on July 30, according to European Union climate observatory data.
The previous record was 20.95 degrees Celsius in March 2016, a spokeswoman for the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Friday.
The samples tested excluded polar regions.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which uses a different database, has also recorded a similar trend in recent months.
It said the average sea surface temperature record was reached on April 4 this year at 21.06 degrees Celsius, overtaking the previous high of 21.01 degrees Celsius in March 2016. On August 1, average temperatures were at 21.03 degrees Celsius, it said.
Oceans have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat produced by human activity since the dawn of the industrial age, according to scientists.
This excess heat continues to accumulate as greenhouse gases, mainly from burning oil, gas and coal, build up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Globally, the average ocean temperature has been topping seasonal heat records on a regular basis since April….
Ron
you are pretty much (probably) right. But I believe there are people in the world..running the world…who want to kill everything. Even cockroaches.
ten bears
my reply agreeing with your first comment could not be published. let me just say a time might come when we understand the people of Jan 6 better. why i have recommended a spirit of mercy toward the foot soldiers [called the infantry for good reasons] but not the instigators who are the same people planning for 2025.