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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    10 months ago

    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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      10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      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.