Posted on 09/22/2017 10:24:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Hurricanes in the Caribbean and deadly floods across South Asia have once again raised the issue of climate justice.
The association between such events and climate change is now beyond serious question: we have had 30 years of well-founded scientific warnings about the relationship between increasing global temperatures and the incidence and severity of extreme weather. Much more problematic is the question of responsibility for climate change itself, and who should justly pay compensation for the resulting damage.
Responsibility for global warming was usually framed as an obligation for developed states to make the initial moves to reduce their emissions, under the concept of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities”. Climate justice was seen as something developed states owed less developed states, and were obliged to deliver so the latter had an incentive to cut their emissions, too.
True climate justice will have to reorientate the debate away from state sovereignty and international standing towards a focus on personal harm. A system of individual carbon accounting would also help so that people make a contribution to poverty reduction and disaster relief appropriate to their wealth and lifestyle.
As hurricanes engulf numerous countries at once, and indirectly affect even more, climate change powerfully illustrates the need for creative thinking about a truly global cosmopolitanism in which the avoidance of human suffering comes before self-interest and it is recognised that there are many poor and vulnerable people in “rich countries” and fabulously rich people in “poor countries”.
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This article pretty much admits that “climate change” is just a money shakedown.
“Climate justice” ... Now there’s another concept rooted in idiocy for you.
Yes. We NEVER had hurricanes before the SUV.
How about getting Al Gore and company, plus Hansen and others to reimburse us for their lies.
Who should pay?
For hurricanes and floods? Seriously?
It’s obvious. Sue God.
Goebbels Warming was always a scam to collect money.
The Sun is the source of all heat on earth and not taxable.
Nor controllable.
So they invented the CO2 scheme.
Amazing that so many people bought it.
Put that on the burner right behind slavery reparations.
“The association between such events and climate change is now beyond serious question”
Typical of Marxists/Progressives/Liberals - they think repetition of a statement makes it a fact. And, for the smarter one among them, who know better, they maliciously seek that, to the sheeple, the repetition will make it a fact in their well-indoctrinated minds.
The only ones who should be forced to pay anything are the gullible enablers who think it is happening in the first place. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Was there damage from climate change? I don’t think so, just about every bit of the damage came from repeated batterings by successive hurricanes, which are rather severe forms of weather, but not really “climate” as a whole.
There were hurricanes occurring for perhaps millions of years, in some form or another, across the landscape of the earth, yet there was never a correlation established between various periods of climatic warming (or cooling) and the intensity or frequency of hurricanes.
There is not enough information to make this assertion.
A simple WIKI search. No major Hurricanes between 2007 and 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_5_Atlantic_hurricanes
No one and no one.
But if so-called “progressives” and watermelon ecoweenies want to give up their own wealth to redistribute it to the poor they are welcome to.
Of course they don’t want to give up their wealth ... they want to use government to FORCE others to lose the fruits if their labors.
They are generous at the voting booth....
Obviously God should be made to pay because if He had never created the universe, the earth and mankind, then there would have been this planet on which to have global warming or mankind to possibly have any effect. But then the climate deniers often deny that God exists, thus they should pay the damages because this planet possibly exists only in their imaginations.
The older I get, the tireder I get of this crap. Sick of the big socialism shakedown game. Sick of the posers and the boot lickers of communists. Sick of it all. Come Lord Jesus.
Hollywood should pay.
Their glamorous lifestyles and jet-set traveling have made the world yearn to be like them so they have to pay for their damage they have wrought...................
Who should pay? You and me.
Who should get the payoff? Gore, DiCaprio, Mann, Maldives, Seychelles, polar bears, all the potentates and poobahs that travel to the weekly global warming conferences.
Duh!
Now we’re getting to the bottom of the Global Warming hoax - it’s all about the MONEY!!!
Not just any SUV, either. It was MY two Ford Expeditions, two Ford Explorers, and our girls’ two Ford Escapes that did it. I’m so very sorry.
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