Cheers! Skeptics toast U.S. exit from Paris pact at UN climate summit in Germany
From left to right: Craig Rucker, Lord Christopher Monckton and Marc Morano. Dusseldorf, Germany — Global warming skeptics have descended upon the UN climate summit in Germany this week, hosting a summit of their own to highlight the errors of the UN’s climate change claims. On the final day of the skeptics’ climate summit, the […]
Trump’s Shows True Leadership –Going it alone! Syria plans to join Paris climate agreement, isolating U.S.
Syria move leaves U.S. only country opposed to 2015 agreement * Trump says he intends to promote coal and oil industries instead * Pact aims to curb rising temperatures from greenhouse gases emissions (Adds quotes, details) By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle BONN, Germany, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Syria said on Tuesday that it intends to […]
Australian Government Ditches Green Energy Traget
Australian Government Ditches Green Energy Traget http://www.thegwpf.com/on-eve-of-tony-abbotts-gwpf-lecture-australian-govt-ditches-green-energy-traget/ The Turnbull Government has prevented a backbench revolt by moving to ditch the Clean Energy Target proposed by Chief Scientist Alan Finkel. Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has given the strongest indication yet the Federal Government would not adopt the policy, saying a freefall in the cost of renewables meant […]
Claim: Planting 100 Billion Trees Will Offset Trump’s Withdrawal From UN Paris Climate Accord
TIM PEARCE Energy Reporter Three climate scientists have started an initiative to plant more than 100 billion new trees to mitigate the environmental impact of President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris agreement on climate change, the BBC reports. Current pledges to plant trees number about 140,000 from a little over 500 […]
TRUMP WILL BETRAY U.S. VOTERS ON CLIMATE & REVERSE PARIS EXIT, MACRON PREDICTS
Date: 17/07/17 The Times President Macron believes that he may have persuaded President Trump to reverse his decision to pull the United States out of the UN Paris agreement on curbing climate change. “Donald Trump listened to me. He understood the sense of my approach,” the French leader said after the state visit to Paris […]
Turkey Retreats From Paris Climate Treaty – Admits only reason for signing was to get money from the U.S.
The U.S. decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement means Turkey is less inclined to ratify the deal because the U.S. move jeopardizes compensation promised to developing countries, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Erdogan was speaking at the G20 summit in Germany where leaders from the world’s leading economies broke with U.S. […]
BBC: G20 Hamburg: Leaders fail to bridge Trump climate chasm
Leaders of 19 nations at the G20 summit in Germany have renewed their pledge to implement the Paris deal on climate change, despite the US pulling out. Deadlock over the issue had held up the last day of talks in Hamburg but a final agreement was eventually reached. It acknowledges President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from […]
Calif Gov. Jerry Brown: ‘America’s de facto leader on climate change’ to gather world leaders for summit
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/climate/jerry-brown-california-climate-summit.html Gov. Jerry Brown of California on Thursday reinforced his reputation as America’s de facto leader on climate change, announcing to cheering crowds in Hamburg, Germany that his state would gather leaders from around the world for a global warming summit next year. Speaking by videoconference to the Global Citizens Festival in Hamburg, where President […]
Trump, risking isolation over climate, arrives for G20
By Roberta Rampton and Joseph Nasr | HAMBURG U.S. President Donald Trump arrived for a G20 summit in Hamburg on Thursday risking isolation on climate policy and the wrath of anti-capitalist protesters threatening to disrupt the meeting of the world’s leading economic powers. Trump, who paused to wave as he descended the steps of Air Force One with his wife […]
Sign a petition for Australia to pull out of the Paris Agreement
Sign a petition for Australia to pull out of the Paris Agreement http://joannenova.com.au/2017/06/sign-a-petition-for-australia-to-pull-out-of-the-paris-agreement/ Let’s get Australia out of the pointless Paris Agreement which will cost trillions, hurt the poor, kill birds, bats, whales, and not change global temperatures by any measurable amount. This is a very well reasoned petition written by someone very familiar with […]