Posted on 12/03/2015 2:59:23 AM PST by Libloather
The planet is on the edge of catastrophic climate change, a warming of the globe that is already creating a mind-boggling array of human suffering. The United States is leading an international effort to fix the problem, but no nation holds more historical responsibility for creating it.
We're the top cause of global warming, the all-time leading source of the pollution that traps heat and drives extreme weather. So, as world leaders gather in Paris in hopes of striking a historic deal to curb that pollution, a large and uncomfortable question is bubbling up: Should the United States pay for the climate-related damage it's already caused - and will cause in the future?
Dozens of small, low-lying island nations think so, and on Tuesday they made their case to a sympathetic - but ultimately unmoved President Obama. His administration has fought hard against "loss and damage" payouts, as they're known in the parlance of the United Nations, viewing them as a kind of unlimited liability for bad weather.
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Don't be silly. It's 2015...Bitcoin!
The climate change crap is just another scheme to take money from producer countries and give it to backward slackers.
Ok
The World can deduct that $0.00 due on the myth of “climate change” from what the world owes the US for protecting it 3 times in the 20th century from totalitarian governments and in the 21st century for protecting it from the Islam fascists.
"How much yew got?"
I count 4. WW1,WW2, the Cold War and the current war on Islamo Facism. USA has been the World's "Department of Defense" for about a century now. I think it time the world start paying it's "Fair share".
The insanity hurts!
Dimwits like Bernie Sanders think that workers driving to work in America cause the muslims to kill in Paris. It sounds like something from MAD magazine, or Cracked or The Onion.
Bernie Sanders 2016.
The Stupid, It Berns.
Ah, so now we come to the Hokey Pokey of it all.
Hmm, not the solar cycle? We're more powerful than the sun?
As for that "global warming thing" ... guess you missed the NASA report on how Antarctica has been adding between 87 and 112 billion tons of ice per year for the last several decades?
Sure, the climate is changing... here's a news flash for the libtard snapper heads out there: it has always been changing - ever since there was "climate" on Earth. That's several billion years of climate change. Good thing too, Earth has apparently had some climates we would find rather unpleasant. There's no reason to think Earth's climate would stop changing just because we're here and we like our skiing in Aspen and Mojitos in Miami. Things are going to change and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
BS
Exactly! The first non-Science was evolution. The atheists figured that if people swallowed that then they'd try Climate Change.
The next Socialist “science” will be based on garden gnomes.
My favorite saying is, “If you believe in nothing, you will fall for anything.”
Imagine how much different the world would be without that mean, destructive, capitalist, musclebound, imperialist United States. Imagine WWI without the US intervening. Imagine Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany without the United States in the way. Korea would still be providing comfort girls to their conquerors, and the rest of Southeast Asia would have joined them. All of Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa would be experiencing a Jew-free world, where they could do anything they wanted as long as it was exactly what Berlin ordered.
What does the United States owe the rest of the world? Nothing. We already gave them freedom, even though they do not seem to remember, and we didn't charge a thing. What do they owe us? Everything - everything except the contempt that seems to be the only thing they are willing to give.
Actually we are not the main cause, if in fact it is real. China and India have to pony up $$ first.
I agree with your post but the CO2 concentration is 400/1,000,000 which is .04%
Where is this in Janesville? I can’t find it.
You are correct on the concentration on CO2.
I typed that in on a cell phone and did not notice the location of the decimal point.
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is such a small trace amount that it's contribution to atmosphereic solar heating is negligible and will continue to be negligible even if we increase it several times over.
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