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Climate change reparations: What does the US owe?
MSNBC ^ | 12/02/15 | Tony Dokoupil

Posted on 12/03/2015 2:59:23 AM PST by Libloather

The planet is on the edge of catastrophic climate change, a warming of the globe that is already creating a mind-boggling array of human suffering. The United States is leading an international effort to fix the problem, but no nation holds more historical responsibility for creating it.

We're the top cause of global warming, the all-time leading source of the pollution that traps heat and drives extreme weather. So, as world leaders gather in Paris in hopes of striking a historic deal to curb that pollution, a large and uncomfortable question is bubbling up: Should the United States pay for the climate-related damage it's already caused - and will cause in the future?

Dozens of small, low-lying island nations think so, and on Tuesday they made their case to a sympathetic - but ultimately unmoved President Obama. His administration has fought hard against "loss and damage" payouts, as they're known in the parlance of the United Nations, viewing them as a kind of unlimited liability for bad weather.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; reparations
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To: Libloather
How exactly does one polluting country paying money to other polluting countries cause any less pollution?

It's a money grabbing plot, nothing else.

41 posted on 12/03/2015 5:07:01 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Libloather

42 posted on 12/03/2015 5:09:57 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Libloather
Does the planet take cash or check?

Don't be silly. It's 2015...Bitcoin!

43 posted on 12/03/2015 5:12:58 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Skepolitic
Cayt5hytpture
44 posted on 12/03/2015 5:17:05 AM PST by smartyaz
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To: BitWielder1
Cyytttapture
45 posted on 12/03/2015 5:19:04 AM PST by smartyaz
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To: Libloather

The climate change crap is just another scheme to take money from producer countries and give it to backward slackers.


46 posted on 12/03/2015 5:47:48 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Libloather

Ok

The World can deduct that $0.00 due on the myth of “climate change” from what the world owes the US for protecting it 3 times in the 20th century from totalitarian governments and in the 21st century for protecting it from the Islam fascists.


47 posted on 12/03/2015 5:51:35 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Libloather
What does the U.S. owe?

"How much yew got?"

48 posted on 12/03/2015 5:54:28 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: taxcontrol
But subtract it from our very real cost for liberating the world twice.

I count 4. WW1,WW2, the Cold War and the current war on Islamo Facism. USA has been the World's "Department of Defense" for about a century now. I think it time the world start paying it's "Fair share".

49 posted on 12/03/2015 5:54:53 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Libloather
Answer: zero

The insanity hurts!
Dimwits like Bernie Sanders think that workers driving to work in America cause the muslims to kill in Paris. It sounds like something from MAD magazine, or Cracked or The Onion.

Bernie Sanders 2016.
The Stupid, It Berns.

50 posted on 12/03/2015 5:56:00 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Libloather

Ah, so now we come to the Hokey Pokey of it all.


51 posted on 12/03/2015 5:56:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Libloather
We're the top cause of global warming...

Hmm, not the solar cycle? We're more powerful than the sun?

As for that "global warming thing" ... guess you missed the NASA report on how Antarctica has been adding between 87 and 112 billion tons of ice per year for the last several decades?

Sure, the climate is changing... here's a news flash for the libtard snapper heads out there: it has always been changing - ever since there was "climate" on Earth. That's several billion years of climate change. Good thing too, Earth has apparently had some climates we would find rather unpleasant. There's no reason to think Earth's climate would stop changing just because we're here and we like our skiing in Aspen and Mojitos in Miami. Things are going to change and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

52 posted on 12/03/2015 5:56:24 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Libloather

BS


53 posted on 12/03/2015 5:57:14 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: x_plus_one
*The planet is on the edge of catastrophic climate change,
Then there is the old saying that “It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.” *

Exactly! The first non-Science was evolution. The atheists figured that if people swallowed that then they'd try Climate Change.

The next Socialist “science” will be based on garden gnomes.

54 posted on 12/03/2015 5:57:53 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: x_plus_one

My favorite saying is, “If you believe in nothing, you will fall for anything.”


55 posted on 12/03/2015 6:05:44 AM PST by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: Libloather
The planet is on the edge of catastrophic climate change, a warming of the globe that is already creating a mind-boggling array of human suffering . . . We're the top cause of global warming, the all-time leading source of the pollution that traps heat and drives extreme weather.

Imagine how much different the world would be without that mean, destructive, capitalist, musclebound, imperialist United States. Imagine WWI without the US intervening. Imagine Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany without the United States in the way. Korea would still be providing comfort girls to their conquerors, and the rest of Southeast Asia would have joined them. All of Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa would be experiencing a Jew-free world, where they could do anything they wanted as long as it was exactly what Berlin ordered.

What does the United States owe the rest of the world? Nothing. We already gave them freedom, even though they do not seem to remember, and we didn't charge a thing. What do they owe us? Everything - everything except the contempt that seems to be the only thing they are willing to give.

56 posted on 12/03/2015 6:27:02 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Libloather

Actually we are not the main cause, if in fact it is real. China and India have to pony up $$ first.


57 posted on 12/03/2015 8:15:22 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: rdcbn

I agree with your post but the CO2 concentration is 400/1,000,000 which is .04%


58 posted on 12/03/2015 8:53:47 AM PST by Candymaker (Theobroma- food of the gods)
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To: smartyaz

Where is this in Janesville? I can’t find it.


59 posted on 12/03/2015 8:53:47 AM PST by Candymaker (Theobroma- food of the gods)
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To: Candymaker
I agree with your post but the CO2 concentration is 400/1,000,000 which is .04%


You are correct on the concentration on CO2.

I typed that in on a cell phone and did not notice the location of the decimal point.

The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is such a small trace amount that it's contribution to atmosphereic solar heating is negligible and will continue to be negligible even if we increase it several times over.

60 posted on 12/03/2015 9:06:24 AM PST by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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