Links tagged “paris”

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: "The Biden Admin won't come close to meeting rates of annual emissions reductions implied by 2025/2030 targets under the Paris Agreement, according to data & projections of the @EIAgov. Next president (Biden?) will need to revisit climate targets."

Flashback: Book reveals UN’s goal of ‘2 degree’ limit of ‘global warming’ has no scientific basis – ‘Pulled out of thin air’

U.S. cuts will be swamped by the increases in India, Africa and especially China. Look no further than China’s boom in new coal-fired electricity.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sept 22, 2022: "We saved the planet.  We're saving the planet with record $360 billion to save the planet, generating jobs and cleaner air and cleaner water and jobs and security for our country.”

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Climate Depot's Morano response: Yea! Now can we go back to driving cars, eating meat and using appliances, and controlling our own home thermostats?!

Cheers! Take a moment to let it sink in! With the Inflation Reduction Act going into law, the long battle to fight 'global warming' has finally been solved! Let the good times roll! "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun. Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run. Zing boom tararrel, ring out a song of good cheer!"

BUT WAIT...The pork-barrel Inflation Reduction Act will not even impact global CO2 levels, let alone the climate!

See: Analysis: Biden’s 50% emissions reduction target for 2030 (if achieved) would have a ‘nearly unmeasurable’ impact on overall global CO2 emissions &

Statistician Bjorn Lomborg: Biden’s IRA climate bill will ‘do almost nothing for the global temperature…even by end of century’ – ‘Will reduce temps by less than 1 thousandth of a degree F by the end of the century’

We have also heard these premature alleged climate-solving declarations before. But the 'climate crisis never seems to get 'solved.' See:

Flashback: 2015: World leaders hail ‘historic’ Paris climate deal as ‘major leap for mankind’ – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: “History will remember this day,” Ban Ki-moon said after the pact was gaveled through to thunderous applause. “The Paris agreement on climate change is a monumental success for the planet and its people.”

Al Gore on UN Paris pact in 2015: “Years from now, our grandchildren will reflect on humanity’s moral courage to solve the climate crisis and they will look to December 12, 2015, as the day when the community of nations finally made the decision to act,” Gore said.

China consumes over 4 billion tons of coal a year, most of it domestically mined with imports making up less than a tenth of its needs. In 2021 its reserves stood at around 208 billion tons, 28% more than the prior year’s level, while the outlay on exploration rose 10% to 1.3 billion yuan ($184 million), according to the ministry.

Pakistan Climate minister Sherry Rehman: “Historic injustices have to be heard and there must be some level of climate equation so that the brunt of the irresponsible carbon consumption is not being laid on nations near the equator which are obviously unable to create resilient infrastructure on their own,” she said. ... “Global warming is the existential crisis facing the world and Pakistan is ground zero – yet we have contributed less than 1% to [greenhouse gas] emissions."

Marc Morano Appears on ‘Wake Up America’ on Newsmax To Discuss Climate Change - Broadcast July 24, 2022

Morano: "This would grant President Biden will have literally 130 new executive powers. He could use these powers to stop drilling? Stop oil imports and exports continue this shutting down of fossil fuels and all under the guise of making hurricanes less severe or floods better when, in reality, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and tornadoes have been on no trend or declining trends on fifty to one hundred year timescales, even the United Nations admits it. This is a COVID-like power grab for the climate, where you’re going to have the ability for the president, governors, and mayors to lock down states and cities under climate emergency powers. Limiting gas hours."

Also see: China Calls for ‘Urgent’ Coal Production to Stave Off Blackouts

Cheers! ‘Climate backtracking’: Germany Pushes for G-7 Reversal on Fossil Fuels in Climate Blow – ‘U-turn in global efforts to fight climate change’