Posted on 12/08/2018 3:25:33 PM PST by Kaslin
Any blizzards that blanket Poland this winter can’t compare to the massive snow job climate campaigners are trying to pull off.
Some 30,000 politicians, activists, computer modelers, bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists, renewable energy sellers and a few scientists are in Katowice, Poland December 2-14, for another Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference. Four issues will dominate the agenda.
* Proclaim that humanity and the planet face existential cataclysms, unless fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are slashed to zero by 2050 – to “prevent” average planetary temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) above what they were in 1820, when the Little Ice Age ended and the modern industrial era began.
* Finalize 300 pages of “guidelines,” to implement the Paris climate agreement – by driving the switch from coal, oil and natural gas to wind, solar and biofuel energy.
* Reach a binding agreement that wealthy countries (excluding China and other newly rich nations) must transfer at least $100 billion annually to poor countries.
* Ensure “transparency” on discussions, disclosures and treaty compliance.
This entire agenda deserves skepticism and ridicule.
Earth’s climate is always changing somewhere, due to powerful natural forces over which humans have no control. To say we can now perpetuate current conditions by controlling emissions of plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide is sheer fantasy.
Average global temperatures have already (thankfully) risen nearly a degree since 1820. To suggest that another half degree would be catastrophic is absurd. Indeed, average temperatures were higher during the Medieval Warm Period – and except during recent El Niño events have barely risen since 1998, even as CO2 levels climbed significantly, spurring plant growth worldwide.
Constant references to the “hottest ever” day or month involve hundredths of a degree, less than the margin of measurement error, often by activist scientists who have a history of doctoring data. They also ignore record cold snaps, like this Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. Northeast.
Human activities certainly affect climate and weather to some degree, at least locally. But there is no real-world evidence that they have major (much less cataclysmic) impacts. Computer models say otherwise, but their record for accuracy is abysmal to zero.
Regarding guidelines to implement Paris, they would put the United Nations and IPCC in charge of our energy use, economies, lives and living standards – which would be disastrous. Fossil fuels still provide 80% of all U.S. and global energy; wind and solar provide less than 5% and only intermittently.
Forcing us to convert to wind and solar would increase electricity prices ten times over – and blanket areas many times the size of California with turbines, panels, batteries, and huge mines to dig out the raw materials needed for these “eco-friendly, climate-safe, sustainable” replacements.
Expensive, unreliable “renewable” energy would destroy jobs and economies, depress living standards, keep poor nations impoverished – and cause conflicts, famines and refugee migrations, as countries fight over increasingly scarce energy, food and resources.
Developing countries say they were promised $100 billion a year, for starters, plus free energy technology transfers. That’s the primary reason they signed the Paris climate treaty.
They’re angry that barely $3.5 billion has been put on the table, and rich countries say they cannot afford to pay more, especially if they’re also supposed to slash their fossil fuel use and thus economic prosperity.
The biggest snow job is any claimed devotion to transparency. Secrecy and deception are fundamental to the IPCC process. Anyone who questions the “fossil fuels cause climate chaos” thesis is silenced. So is anyone who suggests that data and evidence should determine policy – instead of computer models.
Katowice organizers are furious that a Trump administration exhibit will highlight the remarkable benefits of fossil fuels. They vilify scientists who emphasize the sun’s vital role in climate change, or point out the many ways that temperature, storm, drought and other climate data are cherrypicked, “homogenized,” manipulated or even fabricated to drive alarmist narratives. They ignore the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 1970-1976 global cooling scare.
The real IPCC and Paris treaty agenda is simple. Blame humans and fossil fuels for virtually all climate and weather events. Control energy use, economic growth and living standards – lowering them in industrialized countries and limiting them in developing nations. Redistribute the world’s wealth and resources. And replace the capitalist economic model with a global green socialist system, controlled by the UN, IPCC and green activists.
Lack of energy, jobs, safe water and decent living standards is a far more pressing issue for poor countries than climate change. No wonder Asia alone already has some 2,000 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants operating or under construction. That’s nearly twice as much as total US summertime generating capacity.
Meanwhile, every Irish household faces new carbon taxes of $3,000 to $5,000 a year (!) unless their government imposes equally costly measures to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions and avoid paying punitive EU fines. To gauge likely Irish reaction to that, look to France – where tens of thousands have been rioting over President Macron’s plans to implement higher carbon taxes.
Climate insanity needs to be reined in. CFACT’s delegation to Katowice is working hard to get that process underway.
Rush got it right years ago: FOLLOW THE MONEY!
These environmental whackos are paid large bucks (INVOLUNTARILY confiscated by overbearing and hostile governments!) by us poor suffering taxpayers to forecast gloom and doom on us if we don’t agree to more and larger wealth confiscation!
If we somehow could take the money out of this scam, it would go away!
When CO2 goes away, life on earth goes away!
CO2 is necessary for life to exist on this planet!
Anybody know how we can rid ourselves of these dumbasses?
From what I have been reading, we are going into a grand solar minimum, the earth is going to get progressively colder for the next 10 years, and there are a few experts saying we are entering into a mini-ice age that could last for 3 centuries. In any case, we ought to be increasing our production of coal and oil, and if possible nuclear power plants, so that people will not freeze to death and we can maintain food production in green houses if need be. This is a scam. If the majority of the human freezes or starves to death, who is going to pay their stupid carbon tax.
“* Reach a binding agreement that wealthy countries (excluding China and other newly rich nations) must transfer at least $100 billion annually to poor countries.”
That’s all we gotta know.
I knew it was ALIENS all along!
Inform all the Polish people and other honest persons to evacuate the city to the nearest SAFE DISTANCE.
Then nuke Katowice from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
We will be more than happy to help Poland clean up and rebuild the city later.
Whole lot cheaper than the IPCC extortion scam.
You don’t just go big, do you?
You go FRICKING AWESOME!
The real agenda. Everyone but them reduced to serfdom.
They are globalist one world govt workers of satan. Bring it on, the Lord comes soon.
What is their threshold for how many people have to freeze to death before they will realize that we need those fuels we have been using for years???
What is their threshold for how many people have to freeze to death before they will realize that we need those fuels we have been using for years???
If I relied on solar where I live, the 4” of snow last Tuesday would have blocked the panels...The inversion layer has kept the snow from melting...and the same inversion layer has kept the temps around 34 outside.
Very glad I have propane for my heat.
[They are Globalist One World govt workers of Satan]
Yep. They have been convinced this is the “new way”.
They have no problem lying, cheating, committing crime to do so, either.
It is their “religion”.
They will bring the Antichrist to power. It’s a grave error to think dividing Israel will bring peace. I say there’s a reason weasel James Comey called his book “A Higher Loyalty”. I’m sure he believes his lies are all for “good”.
No, they are planning to plunder the world.
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