Posted on 07/24/2021 1:23:35 PM PDT by Libloather
Sitting on the sidelines of the G20 climate summit in Naples this week, it was hard not to feel a sense of existential dread. Last year, I wrote on the cover of TIME that a series of developments - beginning with the trillions spent to help the world recover from COVID-19 and ending with the UN climate conference in Glasgow this fall - had made 2020 and this year our “last, best chance” to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Going into this week’s talks, just over 100 days before the Glasgow summit, the world seemed to be on the verge of blowing the opportunity. A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released just ahead of the summit showed that only 2% of the money spent by governments to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic has been allocated to support the transition to clean energy. Global headlines also created a backdrop of doom: the lead delegates - mostly climate and energy ministers from 20 of the world’s largest economies - arrived amid flooding in Europe, heatwaves in the U.S. and deluges in China.
And yet delegates showed up in Naples and repeated debates that have long hampered progress in international climate talks. Countries with significant fossil fuel economies held tight to their interests; developed countries repeated promises to support their developing counterparts without putting up the money. In the intense Naples heat, hearing this repetitive loop I’ve heard at many conferences before, it was hard not to envision the world’s largest economies talking us off the climate cliff.
“We’re way behind,” John Kerry, the U.S. Climate Envoy and former U.S. Secretary of State told me on the roof of his hotel in Naples as the summit was underway.
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So are the private jets they flew there in.
Liberals hate God but think they’re God and can also predict the future
Al Gore’s Doomsday clock says we all died like 5 years ago
We could get very lucky and all of them could get infected with COVID and die
When the climate apocalypse kooks start demanding that China and India start helping also... THEN and ONLY THEN will I know they are actually serious.
Until then, I know 100% it’s BS.
This fall the climate will change and leaves will turn colors and fall off trees...(We’re DOOMED!!!)
This winter the climate will change and there will be snow and ice....(We’re DOOMED!!!)
In the spring the climate will change and heat will begin...Ice and snow will melt and raise the level of the oceans...(We’re DOOMED!!!)
Summer will come and the climate will change...(We’re DOOMED!!!!)
I thought the deadline was 10 yrs ago
Over-population is, by far, the major reason for unpredictable weather patterns.
But, don’t worry. George Soros and Bill Gates have a solution for that.
We can't let it happen again.
Countdown to Globalism
100 days
I’m still waiting for glaciers to cover NYC.
Next hysteria: Incoming comets, aliens, dogs and cats living together.
I thought we had 9.49 years left 9.49 years ago?!
They should hold the conference on a cruise ship. Besides, with only a couple weeks left, why the rush? Climate or covid. Your choice.
I bet the drive for “green” lmao will do far more damage than we are doing now. I’m all for cutting down waste and preserving the beauty we have left but the left has nothing to do with good intent.
If the left were sincere they would swarm factories and shut them down. Just employ the same fervor they had for BLM, right? But they are hypocrites who want they’re little products etc. They tweet “the planet is dying” while booking a trip to Mexico.
Ted Danson said both coasts will be under water within 10 years if we don’t DO SOMETHING about global warming. That was in 1988. Looks like we missed that deadline, we’re sooo screwed! Too bad he can’t go back to his old gig as Sam the bartender in Cheers. At least that was somewhat entertaining. Maybe we’ll meet this deadline? Otherwise we’ll have to wait for the next looming deadline 🤔🙄😝😛😝
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