Democrats in Academia Believe POTUS Biden Has Already Been Great For Science But The Evidence Isn't There
By Hank Campbell | January 21st 2022 10:18 AM | Print | E-mail
A new opinion piece in Nature says that President Joe Biden has mostly followed the science and he is a lot better than President Trump - but how much of that is filtered through the reality that one is in their political tribe and the other guy a Republican muddles the issue. Academics said the same thing about Obama over Bush and it was so clearly partisan (and scientifically wrong) we wrote a whole book on it.
Yes, President Biden says he is a firm believer in climate change, but has he done anything to mitigate it? Not in ways beyond photo ops. The number one source of human-derived CO2 emissions is wood and dung burned for fuel in developing nations. With a sweep of his pen, he could have reduced that and gotten 2 billion poor people on the road to centralized energy. Literally anything, coal, natural gas, you name it, in a power plant would be cleaner and therefore better for the world than individual home cooking fires but he is sticking with the President Obama plan of only agreeing to help poor countries if they use solar or wind. Which is both useless for them and too expensive.
So, yes, he says the right things about climate change, but isn't doing them. He is instead doing the opposite of what science shows will work because it matches the political beliefs of his party - endorsing solar and wind.
https://www.science20.com/content/democrats_in_academia_believe_potus_biden_has_already_been_great_for_science_but_the_evidence_isnt_there
