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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Until then I'll keep my thermostat at 68 in summer and 78 in winter.
We’ve had “last chances” for about 20 years now.
Science doesn’t have to be as expensive as it is. A lot depends on who you want to listen to about things like “climate change”.
Remember “The Population Bomb’’? Did that thing go off yet?
Then there was supposed to be the “New Ice Age’’.
When is that going to happen?
“Countries Have 100 Days Before a Landmark Climate Conference. Will They Come Together in Time? (only 9.49 years left)”
Countries Have 100 Days Before a Landmark Climate Conference when they will condemn the US and demand we pay reparations to all those countries for causing climate change in the first place
There, fixed it
The deadline has been every ten years for the last 4-5 decades.
When I read John Kerry's name in this article, I knew the rest was bogus.
With a straight horse's face, he told us the top priorities of US foreign policy when he was head of the State department were climate change and promoting homosexuality, I knew we were being laughed at around the world.
A middle school student could do a better job than some of Biden's and Obama's picks to run their administrations.
Global warming is a scam, as was global cooling (yes, I am old enough to remember when it was "global cooling" that was going to finish us off). Time Magazine actually had a cover on that scenario. Well, that prediction didn't come about and neither did the global warming is going to kill us. Why does anyone pay attention to this fraudsters any more?
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