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US unilateralism makes tacking climate change harder, WEF warns
The Guardian ^ | January 17, 2018 | by Larry Elliott, Economic Editor

Posted on 01/17/2018 7:36:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The World Economic Forum delivered a strong warning about Donald Trump’s go-it-alone approach to tackling climate change as it highlighted the growing threat of environmental collapse in its annual assessment of the risks facing the international community.

In the run-up to the US president’s speech to its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next week, the WEF avoided mentioning Trump by name but said “nation-state unilateralism” would make it harder to tackle global warming and ecological damage.

The WEF’s global risks perception survey showed Trump’s arrival in the White House in 2017 had coincided with a marked increase in concern about the environment among experts polled by the Swiss-based organisation.

It said all five environmental risks covered by the survey – extreme weather events, natural disasters, failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, and human-made natural disasters – had become more prominent.

“This follows a year characterised by high-impact hurricanes, extreme temperatures and the first rise in CO2 emissions for four years. We have been pushing our planet to the brink and the damage is becoming increasingly clear.

“Biodiversity is being lost at mass-extinction rates, agricultural systems are under strain, and pollution of the air and sea has become an increasingly pressing threat to human health.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalism; globalwarming; hoax; socialism

1 posted on 01/17/2018 7:36:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The alarmists have two goals: 1) Destroy nations 2) destroy liberty.


2 posted on 01/17/2018 7:37:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Globalists think they’ll destroy Trump at Davos , LOL


3 posted on 01/17/2018 7:39:09 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

I am looking forward to President Trump reporting from Davos.

I hope that he will do so.


4 posted on 01/17/2018 7:44:45 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Translation...

“The world cannot redistribute wealth without the US.”


5 posted on 01/17/2018 8:08:36 AM PST by VinnieCCT
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I have been following this subject daily for 20 years as I am a math and science junkie and chaotic systems interest me. The whole global hoaxing thing also interests me for its cast of characters on both sides, and I believe someday entire university studies will be dedicated to the study of mass hysteria and how to hypnotize the entire earths population.

So, Like I said, I have much more than a passing interest in this subject, and I am used to a steady never ending stream of propaganda, but it seems to me that the number of panicky OMG we are all going to die oh noes oh noes stories are now accelerating at an exponential pace since Trump was elected. Me thinks Trumo is severely threatening multiple big money troughs


6 posted on 01/17/2018 8:30:44 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: dsrtsage

“Me thinks Trump is severely threatening multiple big money troughs”

Primarily the UN.


7 posted on 01/17/2018 8:37:41 AM PST by Captain7seas (UNexit. Make America Great Again!)
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To: Captain7seas

According to the sun reports I have seen we need to accelerate burning all the coal and wood we can. Ice Age coming fast.


8 posted on 01/17/2018 8:45:11 AM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: butlerweave

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


9 posted on 01/17/2018 9:06:19 AM PST by abclily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tell me again how liberal politicians are going to affect climate change...

https://www.planet-techno-science.com/wp-content/upLoads/solar_system_b.jpg

10 posted on 01/17/2018 9:55:26 AM PST by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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To: VinnieCCT

If the left was really believe manmade climate change was dooming the planet it would be ignoring the US and focusing on:

1) Emissions from coal fired power plants in China and India.
2) Deforestation in the Amazon region of South America and throughout Africa.
3) Replacement of gasoline with ethanol with negligible benefit.
4) Demanding rapid expansion of nuclear power to replace carbon emitting natural gas, coal, and oil power generation.
5) Localizing manufacturing around the world in order to dramatically reduce ocean and air freight traffic.
6) Environmental impact of battery production and disposal for electric vehicles.
7) Environment impact of private jets used by the global elites and leftist celebrities.


11 posted on 01/17/2018 10:20:20 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

US unilateralism makes getting millions of U.S. taxpayer funds by pretending to be tacking fake climate change harder, WEF warns.


12 posted on 01/17/2018 10:25:51 AM PST by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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To: Col Freeper

tacking = tackling


13 posted on 01/17/2018 10:26:49 AM PST by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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