Near as I can tell it ended when this American Hero got on the plane and flew home.
Posted on 03/27/2018 5:31:09 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
Remember Paris? It was not even two years ago that the celebrated climate accords were signed — defining two degrees of global warming as a must-meet target and rallying all the world’s nations to meet it — and the returns are already dispiritingly grim.
This week, the International Energy Agency announced that carbon emissions grew 1.7 percent in 2017, after an ambiguous couple of years optimists hoped represented a leveling off, or peak; instead, we’re climbing again. Even before the new spike, not a single major industrial nation was on track to fulfill the commitments it made in the Paris treaty. To keep the planet under two degrees of warming — a level that was, not all that long ago, defined as the threshold of climate catastrophe — all signatory nations have to match or better those commitments. There are 195 signatories, of which only the following are considered even “in range” of their Paris targets: Morocco, Gambia, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, and the Philippines. This puts Donald Trump’s commitment to withdraw from the treaty in a useful perspective; in fact, his spite may ultimately prove perversely productive, since the evacuation of American leadership on climate seems to have mobilized China, eager to claim the mantle and far more consequential to the future of the planet because of its size and relative poverty, to adopt a much more aggressive posture toward climate. Of course those renewed Chinese commitments are, at this point, just rhetorical, too.
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Irony is, most of these countries did not even make a measurable commitment to reduce CO2 emissions.
By the way, what are we up to as far as warming goes since the 1980s? How close to the end of the world are we?
Everyone knew this other than a couple deluded fools. But they went ahead with it anyway as a way for politicians to gain more control over private industry in the West. That’s all this ever was. A justification for a massive tax increase and a host of new regulations on industry. More control. Everyone knew that the Third World countries like Gambia and Ethiopia, and developing countries like India, weren’t going to come close to the targets. Hillary would have played along to advance the country’s move toward Socialism. Trump at least stopped that.
Near as I can tell it ended when this American Hero got on the plane and flew home.
Global warming is the fantasy.
Cooling and warming cycles are definite, everytime the ice melted it released dissolved and trapped CO2 into the atmosphere.
It is the warming which releases CO2 , not CO2 which canuses warming.
They have never been able to prove which drove what, but ice core data are ademment as well as basic physics. Warm water boils out disolved gases in the air. Ice cubes are cloudy because the gas is pushed towards the core, or downward and underneath in ice lakes, stored away naturally.
Man does not control nature
Denver used to be under water and there was nothing we could have done to prevent it drying out.
This was planned by the globalists as a massive transfer of wealth from us to them. Climate was just a plausible excuse.
Paris always looked like fantasy from the scientific and engineering perspectives.
They pretended that
1) a non-binding agreement
2) to commit to making efforts
3) that weren’t technically possible yet
4) and still won’t meet their stated goals
was going to save the planet from a problem they can’t show exists using physical/observational scientific studies - the problem can only be shown to exist in a theoretical world (models).
And they call the rest of us “deniers”.
Anyone who thought that was significant was living in a fantasy world. Or, like Gore, acquiring fame, money, and vacations by selling this fantasy to others.
Great Post. Short, Simple and Spot On!
It comes down to hypothetical “fixes” for a theoretical problem in order to affect wealth distribution on a global scale.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
The headline reminds me of a fave song by Steve Winwood - Traffic; Dear Mr Fantasy. It seems somewhat appropriate here:
Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything, take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy
Being able to affect climate change is also a fancy.
Here’s a question for the alarmist wackos... Over the past several million years, what percentage of that time has greenland been covered with ice?
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