To End The FReepathon
Posted on 12/05/2015 7:05:59 AM PST by Dave346
Negotiators at COP21, the U.N. climate change conference in Paris, have settled on a rough blueprint for approaching the complex and contentious task of reining in emissions and reducing global warming. But many issues will need to be resolved by the summit's end next Friday.
"It always seems impossible until it's done," French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal told the conference Saturday, quoting Nelson Mandela. She then added, "We will do it."
You can read the 48-page draft accord farther down in this post.
As it's currently written, the draft agreement lays out three broad goals:
"To hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 1.5 °C] [or] [well below 2 °C] above preindustrial levels by ensuring deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions;
"To Increase their ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change [and to effectively respond to the impacts of the implementation of response measures and to loss and damage];
"To pursue a transformation towards sustainable development that fosters climate resilient and low greenhouse gas emission societies and economies, and that does not threaten food production and distribution."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
It isn’t all that hard to come to an agreement when the “representatives” of every country there are ultraleftwing moonbats. Imposing it on their respective countries is, however, quite another matter.
Yup.
The main problem is the goals are politically challenging to attain and are technologically ambitious.
And all this over an alleged marginal increase in global temperature?
Yeah, that’ll stoke people’s anxiety to get it done.
Pretty easy to get in line to receive all of that free money and government cheese that’s bound to be coming their way...
It's all about money.
We've spent bazillions already...Result....Climate hasn't moved off its course....and never will.
Another Obama farce!!! Waste of time!!!
This is called building a house for a ghost.
Good luck with selling environmental austerity.
Telling people they have to reduce their standard of living, give up their cars and air-conditioned homes to reduce... environmental impact is another loser.
Like they say, the devil is in the details. That’s an uphill battle in the West.
Easy enough. Just park a large shade in orbit to stay between the earth and the sun. It’ll cool off soon enough. But let me get the ropes rigged to the woodpile and have another ton of coal shipped in. It’ll be tough staying warm when the temps hit 80 below.
Hmmm. No mention if the 57 United States are in agreement? Does the agreement also have the caveat that everybody is really, really, really gonna do something now (for a problem that doesn’t exist) just as soon as the checks from the US Treasury arrive? And still no blizzard in gay paris. Dang it.
Yeah, I’m a denier. Probably be indicted before hildebeast would be.
” deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions”
Are they going to ban navy beans? I like navy beans but the greenhouse gases just flow when I eat them. I think I’ll make a pot today.
What a powerful rebuke to ISIS! I’ll bet those Islamic terrorists didn’t see this one coming!
Does this include China and India? If so, call me when they actually implement some of this change for the “ children “.
Science, and facts, are not subject to a vote.
Evil, even in the majority, is still evil.
Two hundred, huh? I’ll bet 195 of these so called “nations” are totally irrelevant. Their populations don’t do anything all day but chase bugs and eat them. Jerks.
I heard Trudeau came home with a case of the very sads ,it’s not going good
I have now read the agreement.
It states the goal of zero-carbon emissions by about 50 years in the future and asks nations to adopt measures to attain that goal, with some broad principles in terms of developed countries are supposed to start or continue to cut back, and developing countries can continue to increase. But, I didn’t find how the glide paths get the world from where it is to where it’s supposed to get, other than, in net, we start off in the wrong direction.
Furthermore, without being specific about the responsibility, it says that the developed nations are responsible for the developing nations. The developed nations are supposed to develop the technology and transfer the same for free, and to otherwise prepare the developing the developing nations to meet the goal. Currently, developing nations account for 60 percent of emissions, and they become an increasingly bigger fraction of emissions, but the responsibility for them to hit the target is us.
The developed nations are supposed to owe something to the developing nations because in the past we had emissions. The agreement doesn’t connect the transfer from developed to developing nations IS the quid pro quo.
The agreement is all based on one nation one vote. We do all the heavy lifting, get no recognition, and will be outvoted by countries with insignificant populations, that only stand to receive from us.
This is fundamentally unfair agreement. The administration has not represented our interests in the agreement. This is like the League of Nations treaty. The US should step back and watch the rest of the world make fools of themselves.
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 ball of fire 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?
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