Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 33:9
But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

Happy Tuesday, my friends. When this virus is gone, there are still some people I want to stay away from me.

Quick, tell me who’s the world’s worst polluter in the world? China? The EU? India? Russia? The United States? If you live in the United States, you could be forgiven for thinking that we’re the worst and we only have a few short years to turn it around before we cause the seas to rise and the continents to sink and all of mankind goes into a long winter of the cold sun.

But—turns out that China is actually the biggest polluter on planet earth. Not only that, but they are polluting more than all other developed countries combined.

Despite climate change alarmists who claim the U.S. has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the Rhodium Group exposes China as the world’s overwhelming leader of greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers said China was responsible for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, nearly three times the amount emitted by the United States and more than the entire developed world combined.

The U.S. contributed 11%, while India and the European Union were each over 6%.

The percentages reported by a different group in 2018 were China at 28% and the U.S. at 15%. Taking the numbers at face value, that means that the U.S. has dropped its output of CO₂ by four percent while China dropped theirs by one percent. And we did it all without eliminating airplanes and cows. Liz Peek reports that,

U.S. carbon emissions will decline from 2023 to 2035 as we continue to shift away from coal and towards greater use of natural gas and renewable energy. After 2035, a growing population and consequent rise in energy demand will tilt emissions slightly higher; by 2050 our energy-related emissions will be roughly 5% more than the amount in 2020, which was severely depressed by Covid.

But that didn’t stop Resident Biden from pledging to rejoin the Paris Accords, which is, in fact, an international wealth transfer scheme that even Bernie Madoff could be proud of. That’s important because the point of Peek’s article is that the current occupant of the White House made an inadvertent admission while reciting the list of things he wants to buy with taxpayer money during his “State of the Union” speech.

It was a whopper that went unnoticed on Wednesday night; with just a few ill-chosen words Biden utterly toppled any justification for the Green New Deal, which plays a central role in his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and which, without a doubt, puts our economy at risk.

This is what he said, according to a New York Times transcript of the president’s remarks: “The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions. The rest of the world accounts for 85 percent. That’s why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord, because if we do everything perfectly, it’s not going to matter.“

That was not in the version of the speech the White House handed out ahead of time.

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And, for once in his life, Joe Biden was completely correct. Even if the Biden White House clobbers our economy, puts every last coal miner and oil driller out of work and drives down U.S. fossil fuel production and consumption, it will barely bend the curve on rising global emissions.

This isn’t new. Back in January, climate czar John Kerry said the same thing.

“He knows Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry told reporters at a White House press briefing, referring to Biden re-entering the US in the Paris Climate Agreement in one of his first acts as president.

“Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,” Kerry conceded.

We don’t need to be in the Paris Climate Accords. We don’t need to ban fracking, air travel or bovines. But Biden, doing the bidding of his puppet masters, “took executive actions to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and direct agencies to review and reverse more than 100 Trump actions on the environment.”

So why is the junta dragging us into this?

It’s not that we shouldn’t be aware of our impact on the environment. We should. But rather than pursue available technologies like nuclear energy and fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline, this administration is lying about the emergency, is surrendering our independence to an international organization of busybodies and grifters, and is ignoring the impact on us as gas rises above $3/gal. in the U.S.

Recent studies indicate that “68% of Americans wouldn’t be willing to pay even $10 more a month in higher electric bills even if the money were used to combat climate change.” And rightly so. Spending $10 trillion on the Green New Deal, as Biden said, won’t matter.

But solar panels! Electric cars! They’ll continue to sell it to you, just as CNN confessed last month in the latest videos from Project Veritas. More concerning is that banks are lining up behind this idea for a very familiar reason.

Why are banks so willing to go along with the left’s goals? This is just speculative – and there are many other potential reasons, including fear of regulatory retribution – but the catalyst most likely driving their decisions is that many banks, financial institutions and big Wall Street investors are convinced that the infrastructure and energy policies that Democrats are now attempting to put into place, as well as actions taken by central banks, offer a massive financial opportunity.

Yeah, it’s always about the money.

Keep that in mind the next time you hear climate alarmism. While we can do our part, it’s the rest of the world and their carbon output that truly matters.