Posted on 05/28/2015 2:33:12 AM PDT by raybbr
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding to climate change in the next 15 years is the world's "mega development project", given the need to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure, creating jobs and economic stability, the United Nations' top climate change official said on Tuesday.
"It makes fundamental economic sense" for countries to push forward on tackling climate change because of the benefits it will bring in terms of food, water and energy, as well as employment," Christiana Figueres told a carbon market conference in Barcelona.
This, together with the speed at which businesses are acting on climate change and efforts to put a price on carbon, mean "a decarbonized world is now irreversible, irrefutable," the head of the U.N. climate change secretariat told the conference.
"We are going to do it, because frankly we don't have any other option," she said.
Decarbonization refers to shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and improving energy efficiency, in order to cut planet-warming emissions to a net zero.
Rachel Kyte, the World Bank's special envoy for climate change, said to decarbonize economies, "we will need to begin with extraordinary ambition at the end of this year" in Paris where countries are due to agree a new global deal to tackle climate change.
Experts say the national plans countries are now compiling for that deal are unlikely to add up to the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to keep global warming to an internationally agreed limit of 2 degrees Celsius.
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I would suggest that this person go to the moon, but not even the moon is entirely free of carbon.
I can't think of any carbon-free planets in the solar system--maybe Mercury or Pluto? In any case, I'm pretty certain that I don't want the earth to become carbon-free. Even if we could reach such a goal, it would be a BAD idea, since that would eliminate all life on earth.
"It makes fundamental economic sense" for countries to push forward on tackling climate change because of the benefits it will bring in terms of food, water and energy, as well as employment," Christiana Figueres told a carbon market conference in Barcelona.
It makes zero economic sense. We do not have the technology to control the weather/climate, and if we did, would it be a good idea? Sure, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the like are destructive, but what would be the consequences if we tried to prevent them? Instead of wasting money on such pie-in-the-sky schemes, why not invest that money wisely, in useful technology--like better architectural methods for building storm-resistant structures?
Like other public policies (Obamacare, Amnesty-porous borders, Common Core) its about making the world business friendly and creating a new world order where big business gets the benefits of a carbon regulated society where small business are crushed by the taxes-regulatory structure.
So he wants us to convert from martensite to austenite and retain our soft ferritic interior?
Wait, he said “decarbonizing”? I thought he said “decarburizing.” Oh well, same result either way.
I suspect that the hydrocarbon chains we know as petroleum are just the most stable product of a chain of reactions that begins with fusion under immense pressure in the core.
The elite (in their feeble mind) believe life would be so much better with far fewer folks around. They fail to consider that the technology they enjoy would not be possible with those numbers. The Utopia they dream of was known as The Stone Age.
Sure we have a choice. We can stop believing the Human Caused Global Warming Hoax, and go about a business after we throw everyone in jail who perpetrated this fraud.
The Utopia they dream of was known as The Stone Age.
I have thought about that and I think what they want is a return to feudalism with themselves as the masters and nobility and the rest of us as the Peasantry and serfs. That way they can live high off of the hog and look down at their ‘inferiors’ scrabbling for food and cast off clothing.
When these guys are willing to ‘decarbonize’ themselves for their cause, I might start to believe that they actually believe what they say.
You shall be converted to a silicon-based life form so as to no longer interfere with the perfection and beauty of natures normal and routine destructive forces. Stupid.
We could also sprout wings out of our ass and become bentover flying fairy people, which is just as likely.
Isn’t it amazing how the public school science teachings seem to have glossed over this critical fact that all existence on this plant is based on carbon?
What a bunch of FOOLS! the masses are to believe this crap. It is obvious that Gruber was on to something.
But we’re “anti science” and have this crazy idea that males and females are different based on a simple X or Y chromosome.
“Let us not forget that ridding the world of millions if not billions of useless eaters has always been of paramount importance to globalist socialists.”
You can repeat that until the cows come home and there would still be people that simply refuse to believe it until it was their turn to be exterminated.
Yep, it’s the very first commandment listed on the Georgia Guidestones.
or, the world needs to declimatize
The official in question is nothing but quacky lacky repeating the fears of chicken little
Still waiting on the “elites” to go first and de-carbonized their lives. Somehow they are always exempt from the rigors of a carbon less life.....as they are protected by armed guards.
Rachel Kyte photos. I can tell just looking at her how useless she is
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Rachel+Kyte&FORM=HDRSC2
One of the more odd consequences of modernization and the high tech life is the case of nerves whereby vast numbers of humans develop the need for all of us to move back into caves and wear grass skirts.
Global Warming, so-called, is just the latest imaginary meme concocted to rationalize this egregiously perverse trend of thought.
Plants won’t be happy about this.
They want us to live in caves.
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