Presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that humanity only has 12 years left to tackle global warming or face catastrophic consequences.
“And I’m sure you’re familiar with the scientific reports that tell us that we have all of 12 years to significantly cut carbon emissions or else they will be irreparable damage to the United States and countries all over the world,” Sanders said during a town hall with Fox News Monday night.
So we have a moral responsibility, in my view, to transform our energy system and leave this planet healthy and habitable for our children and our grandchildren, and by the way, when we do that, we create millions of good-paying jobs,” Sanders said during the Fox News town hall.
The “12 years left” talking point originates from an October United Nations climate report that found global greenhouse gas emissions need to fall 45 percent by 2030 to keep future warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100.
Environmental activists and the media took that to mean the world had 12 years left to avoid catastrophic global warming — prominent climate scientists did little to moderate or fact-check those claims for months.
The claim gained steam as youth activists blared it at protests and as prominent politicians, like Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, warned there were only 12 years left in promoting the Green New Deal.
When questioned by fact-checkers, however, experts admitted there was no 12-year deadline to avert climate catastrophe.
Sanders also told the town hall audience “we should phase out” nuclear power plants — the country’s largest source of greenhouse gas-emissions free electricity. Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum pushed back, however, questioning Sanders’ opposition to nuclear power.
“You think we should eliminate nuclear power, which I know they did in Vermont, but it ended up actually moving her emissions higher by 16 percent in Vermont because nuclear doesn’t have any emissions,” MacCallum said.
Sanders disagreed with MacCallum, but state-level data shows emissions did, in fact, increase after the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant closed in 2014. That plant provided 70 percent of Vermont’s electricity.
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Bernie looks like his head will explode everytime he has the mike .
Did his wife beat the charges for number fudging ?
Now in fairness Hillary owned the DNC last time and Bernie was
window dressing for a while so maybe he can sell his socialist message .
People in New York and California seem to like big government and servitude .
Sanders said, “And I’m sure you’re familiar with the scientific reports.” I’m sure I’m more familiar with them than he is. Take the IPCC report that sets the 2030 dead line. The scientific part of the reports are written by people who support the climate change dogma. Diversity of opinions is not allowed. Then the politicians write a summery that is supposed to be based on the science reports. They often come to conclusions not supported or that contradict the science reports, so they have to go back and revise them. This is the type of science that people like Sanders use to justify “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.”
Sanders says that energy transformation would “create millions of good-paying jobs,” This sure didn’t work for Germany. As I say often, liberals are incapable of learning from the mistakes of others if doing so interferes with their political agendas.
I wish there was something we could do to warm Canada by at least 1.5 Celsius degrees, right now! Why wait 80 years?
I’m trying to build next winter’s wood pile, in the middle of April, in the cold rain.
The Dem’s are going to have to find a saviour. Bernie and the current roster of candidates are laughable.
So you are building a wood pile which indicates you cut down trees there by eliminating the process to which CO2 is absorbed and you will be using the same CO2 elimination device to warm your home and then spew a ton of CO2 back into the atmosphere, Way to go, if what the dems say had any truth you will get credit from me in 12 years when they are proved wrong. Keep up the good work (LOL)!!!!!
No Bernie it’s now about 11 years and free medical won’t be necessary .
Funny how all these dire predictions just get punted down the road
as the world greens with that lovely CO2 plant fertilizer .
Do all these candidates have to parrot the same crap to get their money ?
Here is a much safer bet . Not one of these auditioning socialists will
make it to the finish line and win .
As Pelosi says … You could stick a D on a glass of water and it would get elected in some areas . First you have Democrat labeling the people
who don’t vote for them as deplorable’s and now their own candidates
with the fire power of a glass of water . AOC explained , Waters explained , Booker explained, etc .
Why is it necessary in this day to have so many politicians anyway ?
435 representatives for what … to say no ? One from each state could do that .
the same job .
Right on Amber. The fake deadline is 2030 to save the planet. In 2018 that was 12 years but it is now 2019 and last I knew 2030 – 2019 = 11. It is actually less than that. There is no way the Green New Deal could implemented without a landslide victory for the radicals in the 2020 election. 2030 – 2020 = 10. However, these people wouldn’t take office until 2021, dropping it to 9 years.
It is crap like this that lets you know they are unserious about their proposal to cut CO2 emissions. That or their ignorance about power generation knows no bounds with their magical thinking that wind and solar can do the trick. Or perhaps a combination of both.
it’s both