Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Politics is a bitch, still democracy beats the other. Transition is hard. Opposition to efforts to cut emissions in a balanced, positive and manageable manner make it harder and is part of the bitch.

"The former US vice-president turned climate advocate Al Gore said the US’s progress was somewhat mixed. “The methane announcement is a welcome and helpful one, and of course the Inflation Reduction Act remains the most impressive and most efficacious climate legislation any nation has ever passed,” Gore told the Guardian.

“But of course the continued leasing of oil and gas drilling rights on public lands is a concern. In that sense you have to balance out all of the good things president Biden and his team have done with an appropriate expression of concern about all this leasing.”

The opening of the US pavilion at Cop28 reflected some of this unease, with a group of climate activists braving restrictions on freedom of expression at the summit by chanting for an end to fossil fuels and posing with stickers calling for a phase out. “You can’t talk about reductions when you are talking about more exploration and leasing and drilling,” said John Beard, one of the protesters.

Beard, a former Exxon engineer who now campaigns against the industry’s impact upon communities along the Gulf coast, added: “You can’t talk about decarbonising when you’re re-carbonising, it doesn’t make sense. Talk is cheap and sending your big dog officials here isn’t going to do it, it’s action that will do it.”"

Your - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/02/kamala-harris-addresses-cop28-amid-mixed-reaction-to-us-climate-pledges

Beard's comment is fair from his position. If he were in Biden's or Harris's place he wouldn't be able to say it. Politics has always been a bitch.