Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Reply #843 –
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echos the usual tripe:
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the BBC:
The US and China -- together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions -- have both formally joined the Paris global climate agreement... It will only come into force legally after it is ratified by at least 55 countries, which between them produce 55% of global carbon emissions. Before China made its announcement, the 23 nations that had so far ratified the agreement accounted for just over 1% of emissions. This will put pressure on G20 nations over the weekend to move faster with their pledge to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels...
There's a G20 summit starting on Sunday, and the BBC's environmental analyst reports that the accord "will just need the EU and a couple of other major polluters to cross the threshold." Its ultimate goal is to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius -- "well above the aspirational 1.5C heating that the UN accepts should really be the limit" -- though U.K. researchers report that already 2016 temperatures may be rising 1.1C above pre-industrial levels.
(source: Slashdot.com...
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The U.S. doesn't let the president ratify (...that's agree to, for you folks in other parts of the world) treaties; and this is ostensibly a treaty.
(Iran should also take note!) But -as the
stoners say- "It's all good!" There's actually nothing in the Paris "agreement" that is binding, on anyone... That makes sense, for the global warming purists: As long as there's a way to achieve political power via this
meme, it's worth pursuing!
Incidentally, no credible authority -and certainly no science!- says that we can prevent (...if the
models are correct -- a proviso that almost all "alarmists" insist upon!) a 1.5 or 2º C raise in "the earth's" temperature by 2100... Ooh! Scary!
So: We should do our best to make sure that we won't be able to deal with it, if it does happen.
Typical.
I'm always amazed, that people who don't create anything think that government can just order others to do so...
Indeed, it would be good if so-called "alternative" energy sources could replace fossil fuels. So let's do that!
But it can't be done by fiat... It actually needs to happen, to become viable.
Environmentalist pipe dreams (...or Red/Green wet dreams) won't cut it!
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