Posted on 10/31/2017 8:17:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA - Greenhouse gas emissions are on course to be about 30 percent above the 2030 global target, but there are signs of a move away from fossil fuels that not even U.S. President Donald Trump can stop, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Trump has announced he will pull out of the Paris climate agreement under which 195 countries pledged to try to keep global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
An annual U.N. audit of progress toward that goal showed emissions are likely to be 53.0-55.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year by 2030, far above the 42 billion ton threshold for averting the 2 degree rise.
But U.N. Environment chief Erik Solheim hailed signs of progress, with an apparent three-year plateau in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, cement production and other industrial processes, largely due to slower growth in coal use in China and the United States.
He said the question he was asked wherever he went was: “What about Donald Trump?”, to which he answered that the momentum was now with private sector efforts to combat climate change which Trump would not be able to stop.
”In all likelihood the United States of America will live up to its commitments not because of the White House but because of the private sector,” he said. “The train is on the right track, but our duty is to speed it up.”
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
so the 100’s of billions of dollars spent so far are a waste . The UN wants to Rule the World so it can save it ,LOL
Suppose we are heading in to another little ice age and the only way to save humanity was to artificially warm the planet by 2 degrees Celsius within 10 years.
Could it be done?
How?
please explain.
"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."
--Christiane Fugueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
So we can get for free what we were going to have to pay hundreds of billions for. I’m ok with this.
Who is measuring the amount of co2 in the atmosphere & how accurate is it?
Don’t you know... it is THEY, you know, the great know all tell all.......
bump
That’s a keeper
I believe they installed the CO2 detector on top of a volcano in Hawaii.
Plant stomata data show much greater variability of atmospheric CO2 over the last 1,000 years than the ice cores and that CO2 levels have often been between 300 and 340ppmv over the last millennium, including a 120ppmv rise from the late 12th Century through the mid 14th Century. The stomata data also indicate higher CO2 levels than the Mauna Loa instrumental record; but a 5-point moving average ties into the instrumental record quite nicely…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/26/co2-ice-cores-vs-plant-stomata/
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Waiting for all the cooling to stop.
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
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Gobbles warming.
Oh, I get this, if the private sector can be shown to be reducing the emissions, then the big, bad state becomes irrelevant, and we cannot have that!
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