Posted on 04/14/2014 2:28:59 AM PDT by markomalley
The United Nations (UN) has delivered its latest verdict on the measures necessary to save the world from global warming and the news is as grim as it is predictable and wearisomely familiar:
More regulation from "experts", technocrats and bureaucrats at supranational organisations, such as the one whose initials begin with U and end with N.
More taxpayer subsidies for expensive, inefficient renewable energy.
More nuclear power (with shale gas used as a transitional fuel to replace coal).
The abandonment of fossil fuels.
Less meat consumption.
A single, globally-regulated price for carbon dioxide.
More local-government-enforced walking, cycling and public transportation.
More back-door wealth redistribution from the West to the developing world in the name of "sustainability"
All at a cost to the global economy of up to 3.7 per cent of GDP by 2030, provided we act now.
These are the recommendations of Working Group III of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be officially announced in Berlin on Monday.
The report notes that almost half of the rise in post-industrial anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 levels since 1750 occurred during the last forty years. Therefore, it argues, a dramatic decarbonization of the world economy - including more renewable energy and less fossil fuel - must begin immediately if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees C by the end of the century.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Not just meat though, my family of 4 is paying through the nose for all groceries.”
How DARE you have more than one ‘replacement offspring’ for you and your wife! *SMIRK*
We raised a steer last season for meat. All told, he ended up being $3.33 a pound, which is high for burger, but CHEAP for steak. We’re raising another one this season and two pigs, too boot! BACON is up to $8 a pound around here.
Now THAT is criminal! :)
Nothing odd about that. The crises change from time to time, but the "solution" stays the same. Should tell you what it's really about.
I do note, however, that the panel recommends more nuclear power. That actually *is* a common-sense suggestion....
And is therefore not gonna happen. If it decreases dependence on government, it conflicts with the real goal (and the purpose for which IPCC is funded).
Bite me, orders Still Thinking.
Die, IPCC. Die, IPCC. Die, IPCC. Die, IPCC. Die, IPCC.
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