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G7 leaders agree to phase out fossil fuels by 2100, Merkel says
Global News ^ | Jun 8, 15 | AP

Posted on 06/08/2015 6:34:43 AM PDT by xzins

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed that the world should phase out the use of fossil fuels by the end of this century.

Merkel said Monday that the G-7 leaders committed themselves to the need to “decarbonize the global economy in the course of this century.”

That is a technical term for ending the use of oil, gas and coal – but not nuclear power – and replacing them with alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar power.

(Excerpt) Read more at globalnews.ca ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; antiwesternism; culturalsuicide; doomsdaycult; envirowacko; fossilfuel; france; g7; germany; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscare; hydrocarbons; italy; luddites; methane; opec; petroleum; popefrancis; romancatholicism; solarpower; unitedkingdom; warmist
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To: xzins

I was just thinking I should stock up on canvas. Gotta rig the sails on the truck. But before I pull the Big Block out I’m gonna burn the last gallon of Soddy gas that comes to town——with the hammer down getting maybe 5 mpg.


81 posted on 06/08/2015 11:19:18 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: American Constitutionalist

burning anything releases carbon. The EPA won’t like that.


82 posted on 06/08/2015 12:11:52 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

“German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed that the world should phase out the use of fossil fuels by the end of this century...”

Whew. Makes me glad we’re a republic; those democracies sure love their unicorns and rainbows, in as much as the socialists


83 posted on 06/08/2015 12:12:33 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Red Badger

Best response I’ve seen.


84 posted on 06/08/2015 12:15:52 PM PDT by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: RayChuang88

“We may have really long range electric cars as early as 2020 once the new dry-electrode lithium-ion and carbon-nanotube ultracapcitor batteries “

And we’ll be importing the electricity to run them from coal-powered powerplants in Mexico...


85 posted on 06/08/2015 5:19:12 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: N. Theknow

“And exactly how would these numbnuts get around the globe with solar and wind powered private jets?”

Oh, they didn’t mean THEM, of course, they meant YOU and your decendants.

They and theirs are IMPORTANT, so they’ll need “Exemptions”


86 posted on 06/08/2015 5:20:49 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: eCSMaster

You do know that’S photoshoped with perhaps 10 times the amount of windmills that are actually there, don’t you?


87 posted on 06/09/2015 6:41:12 AM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: xzins

They’re going to replace fossil fuels with natural gas.


88 posted on 06/09/2015 6:46:16 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

natural gas is a fossil fuel


89 posted on 06/09/2015 6:47:02 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins
Natural gas alternative to fossil fuel.
90 posted on 06/09/2015 7:20:45 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Thank Mother Earth for Oil, Natural Gas and Other Fossil Fuels http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/04/22/thank-mother-earth-for-oil-natural-gas-and-other-fossil-fuels/ In a choice between Nancy Pelosi and Forbes, I'd choose Forbes From Wiki: Natural gas is a fossil fuel formed when layers of buried plants, gases, and animals are exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years. The energy that the plants originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of chemical bonds in natural gas. Natural gas is a nonrenewable resource because it cannot be replenished on a human time frame.[2] Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and sometimes a usually lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and/or hydrogen sulfide.[3] Natural gas is an energy source often used for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. It is also used as fuel for vehicles and as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of plastics and other commercially important organic chemicals.
91 posted on 06/09/2015 7:26:55 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Thank Mother Earth for Oil, Natural Gas and Other Fossil Fuels

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/04/22/thank-mother-earth-for-oil-natural-gas-and-other-fossil-fuels/

In a choice between Nancy Pelosi and Forbes, I'd choose Forbes

From Wiki: Natural gas is a fossil fuel formed when layers of buried plants, gases, and animals are exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years. The energy that the plants originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of chemical bonds in natural gas. Natural gas is a nonrenewable resource because it cannot be replenished on a human time frame.[2] Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and sometimes a usually lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and/or hydrogen sulfide.[3] Natural gas is an energy source often used for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. It is also used as fuel for vehicles and as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of plastics and other commercially important organic chemicals.

92 posted on 06/09/2015 7:28:07 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

LOL! You don’t believe Nancy Pelosi?


93 posted on 06/09/2015 7:29:18 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

I’m still waiting to see what’s in ObamaCare


94 posted on 06/09/2015 7:29:50 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Jotmo
"Photoshopped?"

No. You are thinking of a different picture. I saw that one too.

I suspect this pic is real.

95 posted on 06/09/2015 2:10:55 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: xzins
What's so wrong with wanting clean air and wanting to be good stewards of God's Earth?

I don't know how conservatives got all twisted around on the environment. I blame the corporations manipulating people to accept pollution for profit.

Conservatives are the hunters, the hikers, the fishermen, the people who most love the outdoors, so why is it all of the sudden a liberal idea to want to keep the environment clean?

Nothing pisses me off more when I am in the woods and I see garbage dumped on the ground, or when I am fishing and see garbage floating by. I just want to set up and ambush the jerks who have no respect for the environment.

And before people get their panties in a wad I'm not talking about the left's love affair with global warming, people use that as a scapegoat. I'm just talking about good old fashion respect for God's green Earth. Back in the good old days before we became a throw away society and people recycled, reused, and gave a damn about the clean air.

96 posted on 06/09/2015 8:17:39 PM PDT by Brour1929
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To: xzins

Time to invest in dilithium crystals. :)


97 posted on 06/09/2015 8:25:31 PM PDT by texhenry
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To: texhenry

And fairy dust


98 posted on 06/10/2015 2:50:58 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Brour1929

Do you think they’ll stop using fossil fuel within 85 years? I’ll be in heaven by then. I’m not sure they gamble there, but I’m betting it’s still the major source of power


99 posted on 06/10/2015 2:56:18 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cripplecreek
Long after all of them are dead. LOL

My exact thoughts! "In our lifetimes? Heck, no!"

100 posted on 06/10/2015 11:01:34 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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