Posted on 12/10/2018 8:15:47 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
In launching their now successful protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s gas hike, the French gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) have revived their country’s reputation for rebelling against monarchial rule. It may well foreshadow a bitter, albeit largely avoidable, battle over how to address the issue of climate change.
Macron’s policies rest on the notion on-going climate catastrophe embraced by media, the academy and the intelligentsia. Every time weather takes a nasty turn as it often does — heat waves, downpours, forest fires, floods — it’s often attributed to climate change.
This leads to the notion that we need to embrace climate “hysteria,” as one New York Times reporter suggested recently.
The gilets jaune revolt begs the issue: who pays to save the planet? The Paris accords absolved the very countries driving emission increases — China and India — from mandating emissions cuts until 2030, leaving the burden largely on the backs of the West’s own middle and working classes.
Like the revolutionaries of 1789, people are enraged by the hypocrisy of their betters. In pre-revolutionary times, French aristocrats and top clerics preached Christian charity while indulging in gluttony, sexual adventurism and lavish spending. Today they see the well-off and well-connected buying their modern version of indulgences through carbon credits and other virtue-signaling devices. Meanwhile, as many as 30 percent of Germans and as many as half of Greeks are spending 10 percent or more of their income on energy, the definition of “energy poverty.” This is occurring while these policies prove sadly ineffective in reducing emissions while the much disdained US leads the large countries in cuts.
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I have found a way to argue with the libtards on ‘climate change’.
I just ask them if we ALL agree that pollution is bad and we should stop it.
That seems to make sense to them.
Then I ask if they really believe that conservatives WANT POLLUTION. The ones that are not truly brain dead will say... yeah, OK...
Then I hit them with “OK then show me where the Paris Agreement did anything to stop pollution?
When they can’t I tell them that it just transferred huge amounts of money to outer shitholes that were actually ALLOWED to pollute more. And LOOK IT UP FR THEMSELVES. That is why Trump cancelled it.
This has worked except for the REALLY REALLY stupid ones, who say “Yeah you don’t care you just want to pollute all the rivers and kill your grandma”
This
Climate ‘change’ deniers. The climate will always change from ice age to warming periods. Always has and always will.
Off with his head.
Pollution so bad, you can cut it with a knife...
http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/asian-brown-cloud/
The yellow vests protests are very significant. The climate hysterics can fly around the world yacking all they want, but the only way they can actually do anything is via energy taxes. Without that, there’s nothing and now even in France, ostensibly one of the most friendly places for them, they’ve been rejected.
Nobody can “do anything” about our planet’s always changing climate.
They can’t change the climate but if allowed they can and will change our standard of living for the worse.
Worth repeating.
How many of these climate change freaks buy soda at convenience stores? Don’t they realize CO2 makes them bubbly. They should outlaw fountain drinks!
Foolish policies based on the premise that imminent climate catastrophe is certain, are being advanced by the ignorant media, academic folly, and non-scientific intelligentsia.
There is a difference between climate change that takes place over a 100 to 1,000 years and weather variations that occur within predictable ranges.
Of course it is cheaper to just declare that you are causing global warming. Why try to use sound science to determine the role of mankind in weather change, when you can just declare that the "sky is falling?"
Do the politicians control the weather? Mankind's contribution to climate change is far from settled science.
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