What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants.

What Biden has not done: stop issuing drilling permits or impose export restrictions on fossil fuels. The former has some serious limits because of how the courts treat the right to drill as a property right once you hold a drilling lease, and the latter is simply untested.

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It’s doubtful curbing CO2 output will put a stop to it now. We’re already seeing the beginnings of feedback loops kicking in, and with them runaway climate collapse.

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Right, we need net zero emissions, no further destruction of nature, and then we can start doing something to undo what we’ve already done.

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There is no undoing what we’ve done. The icecaps will soon be gone and once they are gone they are gone for good

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The icecaps didn’t always exist, and they can reform. It will take a long time mind you.

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Putting up a solar shade would artificially cool the Earth enough for the ice caps to refreeze.

We really ought to collect all of that meltwater and distribute it to drought-stricken regions anyway.

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