The Paris Climate Accords were never an end in itself, i.e., “If we spend enough, the terrible calamity of runaway heat death shall be averted”, it was to be a leveling of all the world to one rather passive herd to be managed by the few, another “command and control” scheme for managing large numbers of humanity.
Anthropogenic global warming was never a real thing, and may not ever be a real thing, because there are just WAY too many other factors which operate either to increase or decrease the overall balance. And to assign all the effects to just the presence of one compound, carbon dioxide, is to set themselves up for total fail, because carbon dioxide, vital as it may be to all life on earth, just does not have the capability to do all the wondrous and magical things that are attributed to its presence by the scientifically challenged.
There is no such thing as “settled science”, but a great many things may be dismissed as being ineffectual explanations after the application of the scientific method.
The phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated that a fire-like element called phlogiston is contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion. It was first stated in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher, and then put together more formally by Georg Ernst Stahl. The theory attempted to explain burning processes such as combustion and rusting, which are now collectively known as oxidation.
Then a brand-new thing called “oxygen” was found, and this pretty much short-circuited the phlogiston theory.
But the oxygen was always there, the presence awaited discovery.
Arguably the phlogiston theory was right. There was an element involved in combustion and absent that element combustion doesn’t occur.
Had ‘oxygen’ been simply been called phlogiston then we’d probably be celebrating the memory of J.J. Becher.
Great contribution to the other posts. Man’s CO2 contribution is very small. It is fantasy theory that thinks this minute contribution is at work in climate change. The theory has just enough attraction to men’s eschatological fantasies to make men wealthy promoting it. It is like a religion designed to replace Christianity. It is the new Scientology. Those who oppose its dogma are like those who proposed a heliocentric universe and a spherical earth.