Posted on 12/11/2020 9:50:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The forecast for global warming is looking a little less bleak in the long term, but not so rosy in the short term.
With numerous countries pledging to clean up their act and projected temperature rises now smaller than they once were, scientists and diplomats say the outlook for mid-to-late century is not as gloomy as it was when the historic 2015 Paris climate accord was signed.
But they caution that impacts of warming already are hitting Earth harder than scientists predicted. And they say the use of coal, oil and natural gas that fuels climate change is not dropping as much as needed, despite cheaper renewable energy.
On Saturday, exactly five years after the Paris climate agreement was struck, world leaders will gather virtually to both celebrate progress and chart the next steps.
The summit, hosted by the France, the United Kingdom and the UN, is designed to press leaders to ramp up their ambitions for the coming years and make good on past commitments.
The United States government, which under President Barack Obama was instrumental in forging the accord, won’t be present Saturday. The Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of the Paris agreement. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin and put the U.S. on a track to stop adding more carbon to the atmosphere than can be removed by 2050.
The climate change landscape has changed in five years, and UN officials credit both cold, hard economics and a push from an idealistic younger generation. But Swedish teen environmentalist Greta Thunberg on Thursday blasted world leaders for setting “distant hypothetical targets” while “speeding in the wrong direction.”
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If it’s working, then they don’t need us......................
We will never meet their demands....they will keep moving the goal posts
Yeah - because Chinese manufacturing was offline for a couple of months.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
This is like counting angels on the head of the pin—more angels, less angels, whatever...
Toss on the fact that the world airline industry cut 90-percent of its flights from Feb through Oct.
so something everyone signs and then ignores works ? LOL
Working when no one is actually following it?
I imagine this bit of AP propaganda is to lay the groundwork for Biden getting America back into this POS treaty.
Just how is it working? Oh yeah, money lined pockets and glittery propaganda puff pieces.
Uh, izzat the “accord” that no one has come even close to meeting?
And the media wonders why we consider them in that august group of “dumbest in the land”.
Journalism. When one gets fired from Starbucks.
Chinese Joe will eliminate coal, and onshore oil exploration/Fracking (except for Russian and Chinese companies), and will again outsource our uranium to Russia. And he will encourage Europe to get addicted to Russian energy again. Joe owes both China and Russia big favors.
Amazing how so many people can be so retarded.
Plant trees. Done.
As most folks here will agree, this whole thing is a joke. Global Warming “measurements” have such a high degree of uncertainty as to make them worthless.
But the Global Warming scammers just love that high degree of uncertainty. Because then the data can be manipulated to show anything they want. You can show that the warming is completely out of control. Or you can show that the various accords are working.
And here’s the worst part. If Biden gets in, money that should go to fixing bridges, etc. will instead go to fixing a nonexistent “warming” problem.
Other than the election fraud that just occurred in the most environment controlled nation on Earth, this is the biggest SCAM of all. Or do I have it wrong about the US?
Yes Goebbels type propaganda.
Of course their idea would show the U.S. Does not need to be part of it for it to “work”.
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