"Day three of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured meetings of the Black and Hispanic caucuses, the run-up to Senator Kamala Harris’s primetime speech, and delicate attempts by the Democratic National Committee and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign to explain why it dropped language from its platform about eliminating subsidies for fossil fuels.
In the weeks before the convention, delegates approved a draft of the party platform known as the “manager’s mark,” which included an amendment stating that “Democrats support eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuels.” By the time final draft was officially passed on night one of the convention, that language had disappeared.
The DNC platform is crafted by a committee of 15 members including politicians and key supporters such as union heads, but any party delegate can offer an amendment to be voted on. While neither party’s platform holds much sway over what a president or any of its members will do if elected, it is a public statement of values, and as such is closely watched by interest groups. As Rhiana Gunn-Wright, climate director at the Roosevelt Institute think tank, put it: “I don’t want to speculate on what removing the language from the platform means, but the reality is that it sends a signal about the potential limits of the Democratic Party’s commitment to climate action—and what they are willing to face.”
The removal, first reported by the Huffington Post, shocked environmental activists. The 2016 platform included similar language, making this a noticeable about-face. Both Biden and Harris, who mounted her own campaign for the presidency before signing on as Biden’s running mate, have made pledges to eliminate the subsidies, so the change also appears to put the party at odds with its nominees.
The DNC issued a statement saying the amendment wasn’t stripped out, but rather was “incorrectly included” in the first place. A spokesperson declined to give a reason for the change, but did say that the party hadn’t acted unilaterally: both Biden’s campaign and the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, as well as those who originally submitted the amendment, agreed that it should be withdrawn."
metmike: More evidence of them saying one thing to get votes and doing another.
They KNOW that there is not going to be a climate apocalypse in less than 10 years. There is no climate crisis(we are having a climate optimum). They know that there is a 0% chance of imposing the Green New Deal anywhere close to the form that its being sold as. It's defies the laws of physics/chemistry, energy and economics.
They are only selling the "save the planet" bs using the fairy tale Green New Deal to get votes.
They want to scare the crap out of you about a fake climate emergency(Bernie says "Major cities will be under water in 8 or 9 years") and tell you that THEY have the solution to save the planet so that you will vote for them.
Fossil fuels will continue to rule(because their is no magic green fairy dust) but they WILL impose increasing carbon taxes on all energy/fossil fuels..............with certainty.
And they will continue to lie to you about the climate and big oil for the political agenda.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/46122/
Sen. Sanders said that this means that climate change legislation must be enacted immediately:
“You talked about the need to make climate change a national emergency. I've introduced legislation to just do that. Now, I disagree with the thrust of the original question because your question has said, ‘What with we going to do in decades?’ We don't have decades.
“What the scientists are telling us, if we don't get our act together within the next 8 or 9 years, we're talking about cities all over the world, major cities, going under water.
“We're talking about increased drought. We're talking about increased extreme weather disturbances. The United Nations is telling us that, in the years to come, there are going to be hundreds of millions of climate refugees causing national security issues all over the world.”
The truth?
Sea levels will be up around 1 inch in the next 8 or 9 years and the planet will be even greener.
More that here:
Bernie Sanders fake climate scare
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/46122/
Sanders Touts $16 Trillion Climate Plan: Anti Science Bernie = the complete opposite of the truth! August 2019
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/37437/
metmike: I am not using politics, other than to show you what the crooked politicians say about the fake climate crisis..........then, show you the authentic science based on the truth.
I'm actually for the Sanders health care plan.
The truth:
Renewable vs fossil fuels: Diffuse solar vs dense fossil fuels. Benefits of CO2. September 2019
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/39321/
Another secret about fossil fuels: Haber Bosch process-fertilizers feeding the planet using natural gas-doubling food production/crop yields. September 2019
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/39215/
Green New Deal-corn ethanol: Good bye corn ethanol, Hello $2 corn prices again....$5 soybeans/supply gluts/ August 2019
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/38089/
Renewable energy: When can it replace fossil fuels? August 2019
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/35846/
The truth about sea levels:
Antarctic ice and sea levels/previous warmings-climate scientist corruption-IPCC: April 2019
Actually, here is the entire truth..................which is NOT being told by any in the MSM!
so just how naïve do the dems thin the public is anyway? They spend a week telling us over and over how they will turn us into Venezuela and now they strike a sentence and we should believe the strike. Really? Hell they tell us everyday what they believe and what they intend to do. And yet all we hear is "look old Joe read a paragraph correctly so that means he is qualified and Harris never even made it to the first dems caucus she was popular in her own party, so she is super qualified.
People don’t know what to believe anymore mcfarm.
The climate CRISIS is made up(climate change is real).
The Green new deal is make believe. (Renewable energy is real)
The systemic racial crisis in America is made up.(cops using excessive force and profiling is real)
That massive protesting didn’t spread COVID is made up. (Peaceful protesting is good......but not during a deadly pandemic and rioting is bad any time)
That HCQ is a dangerous drug and doesn’t help some patients with COVID is made up(thousand of medical doctors and the way the drug works make this crystal clear-despite flawed clinical studies that showed otherwise).
Made up = Fake news