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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday, January 20th as 47th President of the United States promises to dramatically change the trajectory of U.S. energy policies pursued by the outgoing Biden administration as well as the previous two-term Obama presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a speech and Q&A session<\/a> on January 7th, the President-elect stated that both climate alarmism and Biden\u2019s energy policies are \u201chuge scams\u201d; that he would terminate U.S. participation in the UN\u2019s Paris Climate Agreement; that he would rescind Biden\u2019s cynical permitting \u201cpause\u201d on LNG export infrastructure development allegedly to assess its impact on U.S. energy security and domestic natural gas prices; that he would do away with Biden\u2019s EV mandates \u201cvery quickly\u201d; that he would \u201cun-ban\u201d Biden\u2019s blanket offshore oil and gas drilling ban; that he would rescind all the actions taken by the Biden regulators to disadvantage or ban gas appliances and stoves; and that he would unwind Biden\u2019s offshore wind boondoggle. He has also vowed<\/a> to rescind unspent funds earmarked for climate provisions contained in the euphemistically named, boondoggle-laden Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is of course too early to assess how quickly the incoming Trump administration can achieve these objectives. Vested interests, bureaucratic backsliding and the considerable resources of the climate industrial complex will seek to constrain the Trump administration\u2019s energy policy ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it would be a mistake to look at the Trump administration\u2019s energy policy promises as the only hope in turning around what has been a decades-long onslaught against fossil fuels in the U.S. and Western Europe. Key developments in world energy affairs in 2024 suggest that a Trump administration will have important allies in Europe and around the world in its fight against the globalist climate agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s deindustrialisation and the green backlash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impact of Europe\u2019s deindustrialisation<\/a> \u2013 a process that began with Germany\u2019s adoption of Energiewende<\/em> in 2010 which sought to replace fossil fuels and nuclear power with solar and wind \u2013 became painfully evident last year. Germany\u2019s Federal Statistics Office reported<\/a> on January 15th that the economy contracted for the second consecutive year in 2024, highlighting the depth of the downturn gripping Europe\u2019s biggest economy with few signs of any imminent reprieve. The avalanche of headlines on Germany\u2019s economic and political implosion after Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his Finance Minister in November were only the latest in a series of reports over the past two years on the \u201csick man of Europe\u201d (\u201cBehind Germany\u2019s Political Turmoil, a Stagnating Economy<\/a>\u201d, \u201cGermany Is Unraveling Just When Europe Needs It Most<\/a>\u201d, \u201cEurope\u2019s Economic Apocalypse Is Now<\/a>\u201d) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky-high labour and business operating costs, caused by the myriad regulations of over-reaching bureaucrats and among the world\u2019s highest energy prices brought about by the follies of the EU\u2019s and U.K.\u2019s \u201cclimate leadership<\/a>\u201d policies of the past two decades, have cost Europe dearly. In 2008, the EU and U.S. economies were neck and neck. Today, the U.S. economy is 50% larger than its hapless ally across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A growing \u2018greenlash\u2019 against the environmental agenda in Europe and U.K. \u2013 along with the rejection of mass immigration and the open-ended commitment to funding Ukraine\u2019s war \u2013 has led to the rise of populist \u201cfar-Right\u201d political parties<\/a>. They have achieved significant success in regional and national elections in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, France, Germany and the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geert Wilders, the political leader of the Party for Freedom which is in a coalition of four parties which constitute the Dutch Government, sounded positively Trumpian as he decried government spending on the climate and supporting Ukraine and the need to reduce taxes, stating<\/a>: \u201cI want us to finally put the Dutch first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Weidel, leader of the German AfD party that has 20% voter support across the country, making it Germany\u2019s second strongest political party<\/a>, is yet another potential Trump ally. In one of her typically fiery speeches to the Bundestag, she said<\/a>: \u201cGermany is deep in recession\u2026 And it\u2019s not Putin, not the world, not some fictitious climate disasters that are to blame for this. This incapable Government is responsible for the collapse\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an extended interview<\/a> with Elon Musk \u2013 who will lead the Department of Government Efficiency in Trump\u2019s incoming administration \u2013 Ms. Weidel spoke of Angela Merkel as the first \u201cgreen\u201d chancellor who \u201cwrecked and destroyed\u201d the country with its \u201cobnoxious energy policy\u201d which made Germany \u201cthe first industrial economy that unplugged nuclear power plants\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform U.K. party which is now neck and neck with the ruling Labour Party on 25% in some polls<\/a>, has long been a personal friend of Mr. Trump. Like Mr. Trump and reflecting most Reform U.K. members<\/a>, Mr. Farage is skeptical about climate alarmism. His party manifesto<\/a> states that Net Zero policies are \u201ccrippling our economy\u201d so \u201cscrapping climate change goals should be made a priority for the next government as it would save the public sector \u00a330 billion per year for the next 25 years\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are other leaders in the EU that share Mr. Trump\u2019s opposition to the fundamentalist beliefs of the climate church<\/a>. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban<\/a> dismisses EU plans to tackle climate change as a \u201cutopian fantasy\u201d. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni<\/a> has pointedly stated that \u201cecology has been militarily occupied from the Left\u201d and that \u201cGreta Thunberg\u2019s ideology will lead us to lose thousands of companies and millions of jobs in Europe\u201d. Parties opposed to the unconstrained green climate agenda are now in governing coalitions in Finland<\/a>, Sweden<\/a> and Austria<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy pragmatists in the Global South<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since the first ever international forum devoted to the environment and climate change took place in Stockholm in 1972, the developed countries of the West have made climate policy a centrepiece in their international relations. From the earliest UN negotiations starting in 1992 at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit under the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developing countries in the \u2018Global South\u2019 such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa had \u201ccommon but differentiated responsibilities<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This meant that the developed countries (primarily the West, but also its allies including industrialised Japan and South Korea) adopted commitments to reduce carbon emissions by specified amounts over a specified period. This was allegedly dictated by the Science<\/a>TM<\/sup> popularised by the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change periodic \u201cSummary for Policymakers<\/a>\u201d. The developing countries not only did not have any binding policy commitments but were expected to receive considerable support in \u201cclimate finance\u201d to assist mitigating and adapting to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After almost three decades of negotiations at the Conference of Parties (COP) at the UNFCCC forum, the chasm that exists between the policy perspectives of governments in the collective West and those of the rest of the world that make up 80% of the global population is no closer to being bridged. The delegations from China and India among other developing countries at COP26 held in Glasgow in 2021 successfully insisted<\/a> at the last minute that the forum\u2019s final communique refer to a \u201cphase down\u201d not a \u201cphase out\u201d of fossil fuels. This was to ensure there was no watering down of their aspirations for higher standards of living which depend on reliable and affordable fossil fuel supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At COP28 held in Dubai in 2023, the contradictions between the climate alarmists of the West (which included both government representatives and a vast phalange of environmental NGOs that are accorded semi-official status at COP meetings) and the energy pragmatists of the \u2018Global South\u2019 broke into the open and was widely reported in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the President of the COP28 climate summit and CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, said<\/a> pointedly in an interview: \u201cYou\u2019re asking for a phase-out of fossil fuels\u2026 Please, help me, show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor is Dr. Al Jabber the only natural ally of the in-coming \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d Trump administration. Al Jaber\u2019s remarks were amplified by Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman who told Bloomberg<\/a> that the world\u2019s biggest oil exporter would not agree with Western demands to phaseout fossil fuels. \u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d he said in an interview in Riyadh. \u201cAnd I assure you not a single person \u2013 I\u2019m talking about governments \u2013 believes in that\u2026 If they believe that this is the highest moral ground issue, fantastic. Let them do that themselves. And we will see how much they can deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year\u2019s COP29 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan in the immediate aftermath of Trump\u2019s victory in the presidential elections, much to the consternation of climate activists<\/a> and a hyper-ventilating media<\/a> around the world. The Financial Times<\/a><\/em> saw Trump\u2019s triumphant win as \u201ca blow to global climate action\u201d which would \u201ccast a pall over the UN COP29\u201d. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, host of COP29, came out as among Mr. Trump\u2019s most enthusiastic supporters, describing his country\u2019s oil and gas resources as \u201ca gift from God<\/a>\u201d and that oil and gas would be needed for \u201cmany more years\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upending green geopolitics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the upcoming Trump administration will upend the green geopolitics pushed by the progressive environmental Left in the West is in no doubt. This was evident at the confirmation hearings for key nominees in the Trump administration which took place this week. Chris Wright<\/a>, an oil executive and the nominee for Secretary of Energy, said this at his Senate hearing: \u201cPresident Trump shares my passion for energy\u2026 if confirmed, I will work tirelessly to implement his bold agenda as an unabashed steward for all sources of affordable, reliable and secure American energy.\u201d He continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s seven billion people in the world that don\u2019t live lives anything like we do\u2026They want what we have. And of course, they should get what we have. And through market forces and improvement and leadership, particularly leadership from the President-elect Trump, I think we\u2019re going to see growing more abundant energy resource coming out of our country and hopefully out of the world so that everyone else can live lives like we do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent was asked at his confirmation hearing about fears that President-elect Trump\u2019s efforts to reverse gains made in green energy would favour China. He responded as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China will build a hundred new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race. China will build 10 nuclear plants this year. That is not solar. I am in favour of more nuclear plants. And I would note that the IRA as scored by the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] is wildly out of control in terms of spending on the upside.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump couches his promised energy policies in the mantle of \u201cAmerica First\u201d. Yet in his ambitions to bring about a renaissance in energy production in the U.S., he enjoys the prospects of strong support from all corners of the world not beholden to the powerful lobbies of the globalist climate agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an economist, a former contributor to <\/em>Forbes, and a member of the CO2<\/sub> Coalition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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