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Posted on 09/17/2016 4:47:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, ratification of the December 2015 Paris climate summit agreement—already endorsed by most nations—should be a complete no-brainer. That it isn't tells you a great deal about our world. Global geopolitics and the possible rightward lurch of many countries (including a potential deal-breaking election in the United States that could put a climate denier in the White House) spell bad news for the fate of the Earth. It's worth exploring how this might come to be.
Such nationalistic exceptionalism could become something of the norm if Donald Trump wins in November, or other nations join those already eager to put the needs of a fossil-fuel-based domestic growth agenda ahead of global climate commitments. With that in mind, consider the assessment of future energy trends that the Norwegian energy giant Statoil recently produced. In it is a chilling scenario focused on just this sort of dystopian future.
The second-biggest producer of natural gas in Europe after Russia's Gazprom, Statoil annually issues "Energy Perspectives," a report that explores possible future energy trends. Previous editions included scenarios labeled "reform" (predicated on coordinated but gradual international efforts to shift from carbon fuels to green energy technology) and "renewal" (positing a more rapid transition). The 2016 edition, however, added a grim new twist: "rivalry." It depicts a realistically downbeat future in which international strife and geopolitical competition discourage significant cooperation in the climate field.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
We'll grow oranges in Alaska!
Keep doing what they’ve been doing - lying. If these nitwits were correct, we’d all be neck-deep in water and the planet would be uninhabitable by now. I stopped counting how many tipping points we’ve reached and how disaster was on its way. Although, wasn’t an Obama presidency supposed to fix all of our climate problems?
“...a climate denier...”???????????
*ROFL* I really doubt Trump has denied that there is a “climate”...
These people are the most foolish people in America...
Well, they are tied with liberals for the foolish vote...
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It is already in process: it is called a pole reversal.
“If climate change was real, algore and hollywood celebs would not be practicing conspicuous consumption.”
Exactly! And when someone gets all wrapped around the axle that we’re running out of, ‘fossil fools’ I tell them I’ll start worrying when NASCAR stops burning through a gazillion gallons of gasoline on a weekend!
I was laughing so hard listening to a fellow Michigander here the other day. He was reminding me of the global ice age fears we both were told about in high school.
Michigander has been gone for about 8 years now.
Well, hurry it UP, D@mmit!
I WANT an avocado tree in my backyard, up here on The Frozen Tundra! ;)
that could put a climate denier in the White House
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Nobody denies there is a climate.
The climate in your part of the world is different than elsewhere.
Climate varies depending on latitude.
It’s hotter nearer the equator.
Who denies that?
Article title seems like a “kitchen sink” argument.
f Global warmer were true, which its not, its just a way to control the populace, and to give them a joy joy feeling for having to live with less, and prepare them for living like China’s peasants,which TPP and Globalism will lead to. The oligarchy, like Hillary,living in splendor and the peasants living communally near their factory, you know, like Apple’s employees in China.
Mother Jones, preaching to the choir.
Dunno...maybe...Climate Cataclysm?
Tell you what; let's not give em ideas
Cataclysm is worse than catastrophe :)
We can bet on what word they use nexxt.
If only I were single and she were single...alas....
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