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US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge
Collusion "News" Network ^ | Updated 5:18 PM ET, Mon December 10, 2018 | John D. Sutter, Mark Tutton and Nick Paton Walsh,

Posted on 12/10/2018 3:59:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Katowice, Poland (CNN)The American delegation came to promote coal.

And the kids laughed in their faces. That was the bizarre and symbolic scene that unfolded Monday at the UN COP24 climate talks at a spaceship-shaped conference center in Polish coal country.

The nations of the world are meeting here to hash out a "rulebook" to help ensure the viability of humanity -- preventing runaway global warming from causing even greater calamity in the form of superstorms, searing droughts and deadly heat waves.

That work, which follows up on the 2015 Paris Agreement, is seen as more critical now than ever. A damning report from the United Nations this fall said there's only about a decade left to avoid the worst of climate change. The message: cut fossil fuel pollution to "net zero" in just a few decades. Yet the United States held a discussion on Monday that was meant, among other things, to "showcase ways to use fossil fuels as cleanly and efficiently as possible."

Vic Barrett, a 19-year-old college student in Wisconsin, was among those who decided that was too much to take. She and dozens of other protestors erupted in mock laughter as Preston Wells Griffith, an official at the US Department of Energy, spoke about how fossil fuels "will continue to play a role" in the global energy picture. They temporarily stopped the US-led discussion, shouting, "shame on you!" and "keep it in the ground!" -- a reference to fossil fuels that they say should be left unearthed.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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Winning!
1 posted on 12/10/2018 3:59:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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The only ‘last chance’ here is the ‘last chance’ for the self-appointed experts/elitists to pick the pockets of the beleagured middle class.


2 posted on 12/10/2018 4:03:02 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All the while Paris is burning.


3 posted on 12/10/2018 4:04:10 PM PST by dhs12345
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Excellent. Great news.

Go, Trump, MAGA!


4 posted on 12/10/2018 4:05:44 PM PST by Innovative
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These people sure do have to fly around a lot to save us from SUVs and heating our homes.


5 posted on 12/10/2018 4:05:46 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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6 posted on 12/10/2018 4:06:28 PM PST by JPG (MAGA!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

‘Borderline Impossible’: Noted Scientist Tackles Sea Level Rise Alarmism


7 posted on 12/10/2018 4:07:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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Apparently more than 30,000 of them - it’s incredible


8 posted on 12/10/2018 4:08:27 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Anyone measuring the output? And, "they" say Trump is messing things up as if that's a bad thing. 👹🔥
9 posted on 12/10/2018 4:08:44 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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Why yes, that's familiar for some reason. 😹👍🏼🇺🇸
10 posted on 12/10/2018 4:09:59 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
CO2 is fertilizer.

The Sun Spots ain't coming back soon.

Drill, Baby Drill!, or you will freeze, going forward.

11 posted on 12/10/2018 4:12:31 PM PST by Paladin2
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Presenting the "Vic". **shudder**

Hope she's enjoying Poland. They don't take kindly to people who don't take kindly.


12 posted on 12/10/2018 4:12:56 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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A brief history of climate panic and crisis… both warming and cooling

For at least 120 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.

(A timeline of claims follows, updated to 2014) (See at Link)

13 posted on 12/10/2018 4:13:07 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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"“No one wants to hear this, or actually spend time understanding things,” Curry said."

She smart cookie.

14 posted on 12/10/2018 4:14:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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Sorry but without reliable cheap electricity there is grinding poverty and political instability. Green energy can never economically power a modern wealth producing society. Either burn fossil fuels or embrace poverty and starvation. Too bad these green lunatics are not forced to endure personally the policies they promote.


15 posted on 12/10/2018 4:15:40 PM PST by allendale (.)
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GOOD!


16 posted on 12/10/2018 4:15:56 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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"July 29, 2014"

Truth be truth.

Needs to be re-updated.

17 posted on 12/10/2018 4:16:32 PM PST by Paladin2
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Fake news from the climate change cult alarmists.


18 posted on 12/10/2018 4:20:18 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Paladin2

Yeah I agree, but still compelling even as it sits. The list would probably double or triple in length if it were updated to be current. So much BS has passed in so called news outlets within the last 4 years.


19 posted on 12/10/2018 4:21:42 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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The Thermosphere is the lowest ever seen. The lack of sunspots and collapse of the Thermosphere methinks signals the beginning of an ice age, maybe a big one (the Little Ice Age lasted from the 1390’s to the 1850’s). The fake climate scientists should be hanged if this happens. Global temps have decreased 0.56 degrees Celsius over the last 2 years.


20 posted on 12/10/2018 4:25:43 PM PST by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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