Posted on 10/08/2022 8:29:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany wants the huge economic damage resulting from global warming to be discussed at this year’s United Nations climate talks, Germany’s foreign minister said Friday.
Vulnerable countries have long demanded that big polluters be held accountable for the effects that their greenhouse gas emissions are having around the world, including the destruction caused by extreme weather and sea level rise resulting from rising global temperatures.
But rich nations that account for the majority of planet-warming emissions since the start of the industrial era have largely opposed efforts to formally debate the ‘loss and damage’ issue for fear they might have to pay climate reparations.
Last year’s U.N. climate talks in Glasgow failed to reach agreement on establishing a special fund for loss and damage.
Speaking after a meeting with her counterpart from Pakistan, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the recent devastating floods in the South Asian nation had shown “what dramatic consequences the climate crisis is having in all regions.”
“As one of the hardest-hit countries worldwide, Pakistan is paying a high price for global CO2 emissions,” Baerbock, a member of the environmentalist Greens party, told reporters in Berlin. “That’s why Germany will work toward a fair sharing of the costs at the COP27 in Egypt, putting the question of climate adaptation, but in particular also the question of loss and damage, on the agenda.” …
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They are about to find out that global warming is very cold in a few months. Some may be starting to realize now. However, the government will never give up the con. If they actually admitted the truth of global warming, there would be more people swinging from lamp posts than could be counted.
Will they be showcasing how their citizens are going to have to cut down forests for wood, burn garbage, etc. harming the 'climate?' Who will they blame that on?
First let’s see who the big polluters are & I don’t think the U.S. is really one of them, but most likely certain countries will expect the U.S. to contribute largely to the “reparations” fund. Then after years of contributing to this fund they may find out that it has accomplished only one thing...that it has made certain countries richer at the expense of others with nothing actually accomplished that would inhibit natural disasters due to “climate change”. If an average citizen can understand this, then some geniuses at the U.N. should certainly be able to. The other thing that may be noticed is that certain countries who may be high in pollution may not be high ranking in contributions to the fund. It will be interesting to see how they expect to stop damage by hurricanes as they are supposedly caused by “climate change”.
Atmospheric CO2 is plant food, not pollution. The whole premise of “climate change” is a crackpot theory that has been proved mistaken by facts.
It’s not about “realizing” and more about taxes and control.
That’s called doublethink. The ones pushing the notion do not believe their own lies.
I dearly would like to think that every single person saying such nonsense is simply lying out of fear or out of malice.
The human delusion that I’ve witnessed prevents me from being that hopeful.
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