Posted on 12/15/2019 1:17:44 PM PST by Libloather
This year's U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the longest in 25 nearly annual such gatherings, ended Sunday with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay.
Faced with the tough task of reconciling the demands of scientists, protesters on the streets and governments back home, the negotiators ended up disappointing many and leaving for next year's talks in Glasgow, Scotland, key issues such as the regulation of global carbon markets.
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Economists say market mechanisms can speed up the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. One way to do this is by putting a price on carbon dioxide, the most abundant man-made greenhouse gas, and gradually reducing the amount countries and companies are allowed to emit.
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But setting the rules for a robust and environmentally sound market and linking up existing systems is difficult. So, too, is the question of allocating a percentage of the revenue to help countries adapt to the effects of warming temperatures.
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These talks are a WASTE of money ,they should stop having them
We’re all gonna die anyway. Why the climate change cult alarmists all worked up?
Everything will be gone in a decade.
“market mechanisms” = Government coercion via taxation.
Only higher taxes can save us!
I DIE laughing every time I see you guys put the number of years left, with decimals sometimes :)
Places like Samoa should worry more about measles than the Fake Global Warming
Oddly, neither the word "India" nor "China" appears in this article at all.
Greta’s fault?
The actual issues were international carbon markets, international environmental reparations, and other international mechanisms for redistribution of wealth. In short, international socialism. The notion that setting new targets that no one will meet is accomplishing something is simply media hype.
OK, just so we can synchronize our watches (remember that?), what is the exact start date?
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One well-known global expert and bartender stated on January 21, 2019 that not only will you and I be extinct but the entire PLANET will be destroyed. Not really sure how it all works but I gotta see that.
https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-world-going-end-150517060.html
Now, is that 11.17 years in Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Red a count down gif
If they play this right, they can have a great confab/party about this every year for at least the next 20.
Put them up against the wall!
Hmm. I thought water vapor was the most abundant anthropomorphic greenhouse gas.
We have to eat the babies.
“(only 11.17 years left)”
Just turned 62 this year, glad I took Social Security early!
Thanks!
OK, in just over a month we will be officially 8.33% destroyed.
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Now, that there is one stupid barmaid.
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