Paris #COP21 agreement – Watered down but still dangerous

Cop21-paris

Guest essay by Craig Rucker, CFACT.org

The UN is celebrating at COP 21, but what did they really achieve?

President Obama called the Paris climate agreement the best chance we’ve had to “save” the planet.

Not even close, Mr. President.  We’ll put that bit of hyperbole right up there with your election being “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

The good news is that the final agreement is substantially weaker than the drafts that led up to it.  French Soclialist Laurent Fabius, who presided over COP 21, must have spent all of Friday night yanking the teeth out of it to come up with a document everyone would sign.

China and India will be pleased that this agreement permits them to go on burning coal and expanding their economies all they want. The President will be pleased that the agreement is weak enough that he can attempt to bypass Senate ratification.

You can read the whole thing at CFACT.org.

Marc Morano asked, “Does this mean we never have to hear about ‘solving’ global warming again!?”  Marc’s full commentary was posted to the top of the Drudge Report.

CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen warns that although he believes the final agreement is no more than “mush,” attempting to voluntarily abide by it will cause terrible economic harm and human suffering.  You can read his full analysis at CFACT.org.

This agreement will not meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth, even under the UN’s own computer models.

The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new UN climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth.

The good news is that the agreement’s soft commitments, lack of penalties for noncompliance, and long dates buy time for more scientific data to come in.

The more scientific evidence we examine, the weaker the case for economy-wrecking global warming policies becomes.

Science may provide the way out.

If we can keep the data honest.

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Julian Williams in Wales
December 13, 2015 8:41 am

Thank you for that summary, I have been confused by the hype but not interested enough to spend energy reading the draft in any detail. Your summary tells me everything I needed to know

Reply to  Julian Williams in Wales
December 13, 2015 9:29 am

Careful Julian. Remember the emphasis now per both the UN entities and the OECD is global/local. Nothing to ratify is not helpful when it is state legislative bodies or mayors like Bloomberg’s What Works Cities or Clinton’s C40 that are the point of implementation.
In particular the UN last month had a meeting in Mexico City to push what are called Learning Cities. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/harnessing-the-willingness-of-the-populace-to-fill-its-role-in-these-plans-via-deceit-at-all-levels/ Places that are simultaneously implementing the UN’s education, climate change, Equity for All by 2030 social and economic vision, and other elements of what the Brookings Institute, with Rockefeller Foundation support, calls the Metropolitanism agenda.
We always know when something is the true point of implementation when the advocates get to use the Bellagio retreat in Italy’s lovely lake region for planning purposes. That would be the case for all these aspects being pushed locally and largely out of sight.

Julian Williams in Wales
Reply to  Robin
December 13, 2015 12:32 pm

I do not disagree. These things take years to fizzle out, but there was a rotten stink in the air and I sense that a lot more people are smelling it. In the end this is all politics, and politics never stays still; it goes forwards or it goes backwards. The forward momentum is losing its power

B
Reply to  Julian Williams in Wales
December 13, 2015 11:27 am

I’m with Robin. I’m more concerned about what was agreed to that sets up long term beaurocracies at the UN….not unlike the IPCC was innocently and quietly set up 25-30 years ago. And look how much power the IPCC now has to have led us to this point in Paris, how much damage the IPCC has done with its politics over science approach.
These were leaders in Paris, typcically long term thinkers, perfectly comfortable with a big baby step toward bigger objectives. To many of us who recongnize that this is not about climate change, but something bigger, headlines that there is nothing binding on climate change miss the point, are a ruse. Its the fine print that will matter here on their bigger objectives that I worry about.

old construction worker
Reply to  B
December 13, 2015 5:53 pm

Bingo, we have a winner

Brian H
Reply to  B
December 14, 2015 5:50 pm

bureaucracies
Yore vowels is jumbled.

December 13, 2015 8:45 am

Mush.
An excellent description. When I looked over the document, that is what I felt about it; but I didn’t sum it into a single word that described the whole morass so well.
Unfortunately, it is one of those agreements that is so loose, it may never go away.
What really irritates me is that there are zero metrics for success.
There is all the hoorah mush about emission reductions, but nothing about how the climate and climate component contributions are measured and verified.
End result; cash transfers are the only success metric that can be accurately measured. But cash received is not tracked as to the purpose it is put forward. Some little island potentates are going home dreaming of riches to come.

PiperPaul
Reply to  ATheoK
December 13, 2015 9:36 am

Professional bureaucrats and rent-seekers creating nebulous bafflegab word salad and whose only purpose is to keep themselves employed because they are incompetent at anything truly productive.

RobertBobbert GDQ
Reply to  ATheoK
December 20, 2015 11:44 pm

ATheosK
‘Some little island potentates are going home dreaming of riches to come.’
And riches can come from many sources.
‘President Anote Tong for the Nobel Peace Prize’
This Nobel Candidate nomination is being organised thru the Australian Edmund Rice Foundation. A Catholic Social Justice Concern that bangs on about Refugees, Climate and The Usual Suspects.
‘President Tong was first elected to office in 2003, and is now in his 3rd and final term. Whilst in office he has sought every possible opportunity within the global debate on climate change action, to – alongside the leaders of other impacted nations – articulate the concerns, the perspectives and the need for urgency experienced by ‘small island developing states’.
Note that President Tong can be a tad two faced on this subject as outlined in BBC Online report which Eric Worrall posted at WUWT on Nov 15 2015.
‘ And you thought the Kiribati Climate Refugee Story was Over’
Mr Teitiota claimed New Zealand citizenship due to the Climate Refugee notion but it was rejected as Court deemed the danger not imminent based on scientific data. .
AS BBC ONLINE NOTES.
‘…But there hasn’t been a dramatic exodus just yet. The New Zealand immigration department sets aside 75 places a year in a lottery for migrants from Kiribati, and at the moment it can’t fill them.
President Anote Tong suggests that is because things aren’t desperate enough yet.”
Eric was actually reasonably kind to President Tong in his post but the BBC journal less so.
…President Anote Tong suggests that is because things aren’t desperate enough yet.
“It’s not a critical issue yet. I think if there are people who migrate now, I hope they would do it out of choice. But as to the question, is it so critical that people would be regarded as refugees? My answer would be no, not at this point in time.”
And yet, the annihilation of his country is something he discusses more than any other head of government.’
BBC The man who would be the first climate change refugee 5 Nov. 2015
Come Nobel time I wonder which ‘narrative’ will be peddled and should ‘Tong Get The Gong’ I can only imagine the rapture that shall emanate from the MSM Regarding the Victory.
How devalued can this Peace Prize become and, as ATheosK has posted, watch the financial bonanza that will flow.

Marcus
December 13, 2015 8:45 am

They couldn’t find a way to tax the air we breath in, so they decided to try and tax the air we breathe out . It’s called ” Cap and Trade ” or ” Carbon Tax ” !! ….Don’t be fooled again !

Russell
December 13, 2015 8:47 am

A watered down suicide pact is still a suicide pact…..

Felflames
Reply to  Russell
December 13, 2015 9:01 am

Not likely if your weapon of choice is a wet noodle.

Tom Judd
Reply to  Felflames
December 13, 2015 9:26 am

Have you ever been whipped by a wet noodle? Well, have you? Have you? Never underestimate a wet noodle. Whew, can they be vicious.

Brian H
Reply to  Felflames
December 14, 2015 5:53 pm

That’s boogey-noodles. They disintegrate at first contact. Fear not.

Bloke down the pub
Reply to  Russell
December 13, 2015 9:47 am

The sort of suicide pact where you make sure the other person goes first.

Reply to  Bloke down the pub
December 13, 2015 10:57 am

China and India have invited us to go first.
But we don’t have to accept.
Unfortunately, in the UK we have Cameron as our illustrious leader.
And he suffered from being over-promoted when he became an MP.

Jeffrey
Reply to  Bloke down the pub
December 13, 2015 12:16 pm

In other words, a youicide pact!

Greg Woods
December 13, 2015 8:50 am

‘Science may provide the way out.’ – Reality will provide the answer.

PiperPaul
Reply to  Greg Woods
December 13, 2015 9:39 am

Reality will provide the answer.
How well will this work out when so many “reject your reality and substitute their own” (which is apparently easy to do if you have a complicit media to continue and uphold the broken narrative)?

Dawtgtomis
Reply to  Greg Woods
December 13, 2015 9:41 am

Reality must make its way into the media before the average citizenry will become aware of the underlying agenda all giftwrapped as ‘science settled by consensus’. That will depend largely upon who is in control of the media’s PC policy in each country as time passes.

Lee Welter
Reply to  Dawtgtomis
December 13, 2015 1:26 pm

In 1928, Edward Bernays, “The Father of Public Relations”, published his book, PROPAGANDA. His opening sentence reads: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
Thirty-seven years later, Jacques Ellul authored PROPAGANDA: THE FORMATION OF MEN’S ATTITUDES, concluding fewer than 10% of us can resist propaganda’s powerful influence.
Thomas Jefferson warned: a poorly educated society will not remain free. We have been heading that direction for more than a century.

PiperPaul
Reply to  Dawtgtomis
December 13, 2015 5:38 pm

Lee Welter: Yes, and we’ve had the Perfect Propaganda Machine (the internet) in place worldwide for what, a decade now? Since computers makes smart people smarter, and stupid people much, much stupider, we’re in real trouble.

Dawtgtomis
Reply to  Greg Woods
December 13, 2015 10:58 am

I hope for the same sort of things to happen, as ended Lysenko’s foray into bad science setting government policy. The difference is that this is global and that fact introduces the need for multiple leaders to play the part of Khrushchev, along with a revolt from within the ranks of the science elite to reverse this detour into climate phobia pseudoscience.
Can’t imagine what might have transpired if Lysenkoism had been global…

TCE
December 13, 2015 8:53 am

CO2 Reduction: Potential Economic Disaster?
Introduction
The IPCC has warned we must reduce the consumption of fossil fuels in order to save the planet from the consequences of global warming. Although most of what the UN has said or written about global warming is “factually challenged’, our world leaders are making a politically expedient pretense of reducing CO2 emissions. This, of course, translates into burning less coal, oil and natural gas. But are these pledges realistic?
Absolutely not.
from my blog.

December 13, 2015 8:57 am

US got non-binding, India got differentiation (meaning they don’t have to play along), China got lack of transparency (via Preamble para 27), Tuvalu and gang did not get $100 billion/year, Kiribati and gang did not get to sue for loss and damage (preamble para 52), and France got to celebrate presiding over a largely meaningless agreement supporting the EU’s apparent fervently green desire to commit voluntary economic suicide. A pithier summary.
As for the US INDC, two points. The EPA Clean Power Plan is almost certainly unconstitutional; no less than Larry Tribe has contributed a brief providing three independent grounds.But that does not matter. The average US coal generating station is 40 years old. The average retirement age for the past two decades is 48. One third of US coal capacity will be retired anyway in the INDC time frame (I actually did the inventory analysis). They will be replaced with lower capital cost, faster to build, more thermally efficient, 65% less CO2 per MwH, lower LCOE CCGT. The lower bound of the US INDC is satisfied by this economic transition to better natural gas generation. This will happen anyway without Obama or COP21. Neat US trick, thanks to abundent inexpensive shale gas.

Reply to  ristvan
December 13, 2015 9:31 am

What does Russia get out of the deal?

Chris F
Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 9:43 am

It can keep exporting vast amounts of oil and natural gas without any penalties.

PiperPaul
Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 9:43 am

Russia gets to laugh at the spectacle of the west making fools of themselves and wasting more hundreds of billions of dollars. Again.

Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 10:45 am

Piper Paul and Chris F:
I was actually asking a serious question. In order to claim with any credibility that this agreement was significant, the major industrialized countries together with China and India had to be on board. With a combined population of 2.7 billion people, China and India are not going to be swayed from their interests by the lamentations of Tuvalu, Kiribati and other members of the Carbon Chorus. The “non-binding” part was essential for the US because anything binding would be a treaty requiring Senate ratification, which was not going to happen.
Russia likewise had to get something in order to show up and pretend to go along. I’m interested to know what it was.

Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 11:01 am

Alan Watt, (CD7),
Russia got the West to commit to not developing new coal fields. That means Western Europe has to buy their gas.
Shale gas may disrupt the market but that was always the case
Imagine if Hansen got his CO2 tax. Russia would have had yet another drain on their economy. Russia’s other win was that the treaty is pointless.

Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 12:51 pm

Mcourtney:
It will be interesting to see who’s going to supply the coal for the roughly 1,200 new coal-fired power plants China and India have planned between them. If the West develops no new mines, eventually the price of coal for India and China has to rise. Are they going to come back and demand the West subsidize their coal as part of “climate reparations”?

Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 2:19 pm

They might have a go.
But they will develop their own coal.
The fact it’s abundant is one of the reasons why coal is cheap.

G. Karst
Reply to  Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
December 13, 2015 5:14 pm

Coal reserves in India is one of the largest in the world. As on April 1, 2012, India had 293.5 billion metric tons (323.5 billion short tons) of the resource.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_India
GK

Bubba Cow
Reply to  ristvan
December 13, 2015 9:48 am

Whenever someone tells me that we just can’t count on innovation, I give them Michael Crichton’s fine piece on Manhattan horse manure and a link to Mike Mills’ excellent work:
“The invention by American entrepreneurs of a new way to literally manufacture oil from rocks, and at volumes and prices that move global markets, has been the biggest disruption on the energy landscape in 30 years. If the U.S shale industry were a country, it would rank as the world’s fifth largest hydrocarbon producer”.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2015/04/22/earth-day-2015-celebrate-cheap-abundant-oil-unleashed-from-the-earth-by-american-innovators/
(of course, this imagines that someone is willing to read)

Harry roth
Reply to  Bubba Cow
December 13, 2015 10:09 am

check out abiotic oil——–proven..Death to FOSSIL fuel!

Reply to  Bubba Cow
December 13, 2015 10:45 am

Read it. It has a number of egregiously erroneous ‘facts’. IMO typical of Forbes and most MSM.
‘Cheap’ The fracked shale wells cost 6-7 times as much as conventional onshore wells, yet the output is lower at the start with typical decline curves to only 15% of initial production after 36 months. Conventional wells have a decline curve close to zero for decades, and then 5-7% per anum decline to,stripper status.
‘Abundent’ The shale TRR ranges from 1.5 to 3% of OIP. The present TRR for ‘good’ (i.e large) conventional fields is 35% of OIP, and for all fields 26%. Estimated TRR for all US shale oil (not gas) is 12-15Bbbl after correcting the Monterey goof. The estimated remaining TRR for all US conventional oil is ~245 Bbbl (onshore and offshore, excluding fracked shale TRR). All TRR numbers are EIA 2015.

Reply to  Bubba Cow
December 13, 2015 10:51 am

HR, abiotic oil has been thoroughly debunked. The Swedish trace was drilling mid contamination. The supposed Russian find in eastern Ukraine was seriously wrong geology involving an overthrust.
Abiotic natural gas is real. The ‘largest’ deposits are in the form of methane clathrates at the bottom of the Framm Strait, owing unusual plate techtonics at that location. Still rounding error compared to biogenic methane, biogenic clathrate and thermogenic conventional and shale.

richard verney
Reply to  ristvan
December 13, 2015 10:32 am

That is why out of all the major western economies, the US even though it did not sign up to Kyoto, has achieved the greatest reduction in CO2 emissions.
It is not Kyoto, but shale that has driven the US reduction in CO2 emissions.
A similar result could be achieved in much of Europe (since it appears that there are extensive shale reserves), but the EU is too beholden to the greens who oppose fracking and the shale revolution. The green blob do not want to allow something that would actually result in worthwhile reductions in CO2 emissions,. they just wish to oppose economic development full stop.
You can see their motive with respect to their opposition to nuclear, and now to shale. If they truly believed that CO2 was the problem they yell about, they would be in favour of either nuclear or shale.

Bill H
Reply to  richard verney
December 13, 2015 12:48 pm

It has always been about degrowth and populace control. anything which does not create negative human impacts wont stop growth and human development. A populace that does not require government to survive can not be allowed to continue. This is why they hate the US and our own politicians have bought the socialism big government lie hook line and sinker.

rogerknights
Reply to  richard verney
December 13, 2015 2:35 pm

I think greens’ main motive is playing holier-than-thou, or one-upsmanship, and secondarily to indulge in wishful tantrums for a green utopia.

Reply to  ristvan
December 13, 2015 5:00 pm

But when finally even the shale gas revolution begins to falter, and LFTR nuke plants are still on the design table, the coal in the ground will still be there.. ready to dig up. The oil sands will still be there… ready to be dug up processed and burned for energy.
Hallelujah.

E.M.Smith
Editor
Reply to  ristvan
December 13, 2015 7:17 pm

Obama didn’t need “binding”. He wedged a generic “All enviromental agreements” enforcement clause into the TPP. As soon as TPP is ratified, that commission can enforce the Paris agreement.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/paris-cop21-obama-declares-victory-the-tpp-likely-gives-it-to-him/

James the Elder
December 13, 2015 8:58 am

Rearranging the deck chairs as the band plays on. When the USS Obama hits the iceberg, our ever increasing debt load will sink us into an abyss so deep Bob Ballard will never find us.

michael hart
December 13, 2015 8:58 am

President Obama called the Paris climate agreement the best chance we’ve had to “save” the planet.

Until the next one.

eo
Reply to  michael hart
December 14, 2015 2:16 am

There two big juicy positions to be created (see paragraph 122) to be called high level champions to facilitate the high level engagement in the period 2016 to 2020. Most likely one of the champions will be from the east and the other from the west. Al Gore? Pachauri ? Obama? Ban ? From the descriptionis somebody who could muscle out the countries.

Harry Passfield
December 13, 2015 9:00 am

Tony Blair (re IRA):

A day like today is not a day for soundbites, we can leave those at home, but I feel the hand of history upon our shoulder with respect to this, I really do.

Barack Obama:

the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

Therein lies the lack of a classical education: the un-knowing of the word: Hubris.

PiperPaul
Reply to  Harry Passfield
December 13, 2015 9:45 am

C’mon Harry, doncha want to be on the Right Side of History and remain unharrassed like all the other Kool Klimate Kidz?

Dawtgtomis
Reply to  Harry Passfield
December 13, 2015 10:27 am

When folks get that high up in the world, they can’t see arrogance or hubris in themselves anymore because the power veils their self-image.

richardscourtney
Reply to  Harry Passfield
December 14, 2015 1:09 am

Harry Passfield:
Are you sure you had adequate “classical education”?
Classically, Nemesis followed Hubris.
Blair and Obama each seem to have done well. Perhaps they were not guilty of hubris.
Richard

G. Karst
December 13, 2015 9:01 am

I believe drowning in mush is still FATAL. GK

Tom Judd
Reply to  G. Karst
December 13, 2015 9:29 am

Not just fatal, but icky.

December 13, 2015 9:09 am

Does this mean carbon taxes are on the way?

nigelf
Reply to  onenameleft
December 13, 2015 9:44 am

Possibly for some countries, but that will just rally the opposition troops to get elected and do away with them, just like Australia did.

Bruce Cobb
December 13, 2015 9:10 am

The science and data are already in; the Warmist conjecture has failed. All we need now is the political will and fortitude to defeat what remains of the Climatist Industrial Complex.

albertalad
December 13, 2015 9:18 am

If anyone here thinks any of the Arabic Gulf states, Russia, Venezuela and so on are going to refrain from pumping every barrel of oil they possibly can and someone on the other end will NOT be buying every barrel are nuts. The only nations that will curtail their oil/gas production are the US and Canada. Yeah – we’re the only ones who will get hurt in this insanity.

jvcstone
Reply to  albertalad
December 13, 2015 9:32 am

@Albertalad—I think that the only reason US and Canadian production has slowed so much is the <40.00/barrel price these days. Makes fracking and tarsand production a loosing proposition. When the price goes up again so will production. The industry heavy weights have way to much power and political clout for anything other wise.
JVC

albertalad
Reply to  jvcstone
December 13, 2015 9:45 am

JVC – You are flat wrong. It is the Saudi war on fracking and others that is currently determining oil prices these days. Case in point – many Canadians oil/gas companies have moved operations south to Mexico and other points south where governments are far more oil/gas friendly then in Canada and the US. Now – lets deal with the so called green economy. Take the idea that the vast infrastructure of green energy sources, is somehow going to appear as if by magic is insanity. Wind turbines require steel mills, carbon fibre, rubber made from oil, copper cable from mining, solar PV requires glass factories, electrical aluminium smelting, and more mines, etc. etc. People need to wise up, and stop dreaming. The biggest fantasy is that politicians can now control the temperature of the planet 50 to 100 years from now. Or that oil/gas will not be used world wide.

Barbara
Reply to  jvcstone
December 13, 2015 10:44 am

The ultimate goal in Canada is to end all fossil fuel production and use renewable energy.

jvcstone
Reply to  jvcstone
December 13, 2015 4:24 pm

@Albertalad–not sure what I am dead wrong about–the saudi war on fracking is what has brought the price/barrel down to the point where fracking and tar sand production are cost prohibitive. Don’t think you can say that the US is “unfriendly” to oil production-Obama recently opened up parts of the Arctic that were previously verboten. Thinking that Shell was ready to take advantage of it-rig all set to go, but decided to wait for better times (price).
Good friend has been working deepwater rigs for just about forever–most recently off the Yucatan. The company he works for owns 12 platforms–10 are mothballed right now. Seems that the most recent OPEC decision will insure a global glut for a while into the future–don’t believe anyone can say just how long.
as for the rest of your comment on the “green” economy, I agree.–it is obviously just a bunch of pie in the sky hype right now intended to enrich some at the expense of the rest of us. I live where wind farms spring up virtually over night. Without government subsidies, they wouldn’t be marching across the landscape, like so many martian war machines. and so many days, those blades are standing still. Even if the Texas grid has 10%/15% of it’s potential energy output in wind, it still needs fossil fuel plants to pick up the slack. Maybe some day renewables (solar/wind) will reach a point of practicality, but being I’m an old man, I doubt it will be in my life time. Once the storage problem is taken care of, and some of the newer solar concepts are brought on line (thinking the solar elastomere paints in particular) I can envision every new structure built being energy neutral—that is if the big energy producers let that happen, and government would just get the h*ll out of the way But until then–It’s fossil fuel or nuclear, and the latter doesn’t have much going for it right now in the public’s mind.
JVC

Samuel C. Cogar
Reply to  jvcstone
December 14, 2015 5:08 am

jvcstone – December 13, 2015 at 4:24 pm

the saudi war on fracking is what has brought the price/barrel down to the point where fracking and tar sand production are cost prohibitive.

HA, ….. the Saudi’s war is simply one of “price fixing” …. and they “fixed” the price of their oil exports to insure it was cost prohibitive for tar sand production.
To wit: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6

Reply to  albertalad
December 13, 2015 11:04 pm

+ 1 ( and I wish it could be more!).
The new gov in Alberta, Canada is insanity. Thousands of lay-offs to promote “green” energy ? From what? Are they going to harness Chinooks? Solar for an area that for most of the year has little sun? ( They call it winter) And even if they could harness wind power or solar ? How effective is the equipment when it is -40 Celsius (common) with a wind chill factor that can go as low as -45-50 C ??

Mike the Morlock
December 13, 2015 9:22 am

Basically I think congress should take President Obama and Mr Kerry to the woodshed for not pressing for a legally binding agreement.
If they truly believe AGW is such a vast threat PROVE it.
Trust, in the good judgement of the American people, Good Lord they elected him TWICE ! Let there be an open debate and all the facts, implications and warts aired. We all sides of the debate must ask;If not to get an agreement that was legally binding amongest all nations then why was he there?
If The President and the Secretary of State do not have enough confidence in their beliefs to put them before the Elected Representatives of the American people, then perhaps they should admit that the two of them should have never have gone to Paris and squandered the Peoples’ purse.
michael

Tom Judd
December 13, 2015 9:22 am

If COP21 accomplishes absolutely nothing else it sure is good to know that at least it was such a grand and profound rebuke to terrorists.
(um, I guess I better put a sarc tag here)

Reply to  Tom Judd
December 13, 2015 11:05 am

No sarc required.
The fact that Paris could host a large conference shows that a few thugs with guns are like gnats to the West’s elephants.
It is embarrassing for the people who believe tomorrow belongs to them.

donald penman
December 13, 2015 9:27 am

We are being bombarded by the media in the UK by propaganda saying that the weather is so extreme compared to what it used to be. However our energy bills are being pushed up to pay rich landowners to make money by putting up wind turbines. I noticed recently that the cost of buying a bicycle had shot up from about one hundred pound to three hundred pound and yes the governments are now giving firms subsidies to buy their employees bicycles.

December 13, 2015 9:28 am

Will need to put up in orbit truth telling satellites for true data.
Will have to independently check every weather data source for fudge.
Will have to have true data on the windmill lies, the solar lies, the coal kills all, nukes will never be safe lies.
At the base, lies kill, rob, and subvert the truth.
Only truth can save US and sanity.
Time is on our side, use each hour with sound judgement.

nigelf
Reply to  fobdangerclose
December 13, 2015 9:52 am

We already have the truth telling satellites, the propaganda arm of the left refuses to acknowledge their data.

Tucci78
December 13, 2015 9:30 am

Writes Mr. Rucker:

The UN is celebrating at COP 21, but what did they really achieve?
President Obama called the Paris climate agreement the best chance we’ve had to “save” the planet.
Not even close, Mr. President. We’ll put that bit of hyperbole right up there with your election being “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Why all this hatred focused on our Indonesian-in-Chief, “Bathhouse Barry” Soebarkah?
After all, as an “affirmative action” hire, isn’t he entitled to a “diminished capacity” defense as to his morality, intelligence, competence, integrity, and efficacy?

The SJWs [Social Justice Warriors] are not bad people. Not at first. Even Lucifer was not totally wretched and evil at first.
That is the important thing to remember.
They are good people with a bad theory who are addicted, like a cocaine addict, to the rush of ego-gratification that comes from self-righteousness.
The Morlocks once were human, once dwelt on the surface, under the sun, and once ate wholesome meats, and did not feast on human flesh. It takes several steps pf evolution to go from being a good man to being a subhuman troglodyte cannibal. Not all have taken all the steps
It is a three stage trap into which they fall, and at each stage, for the best of reasons.
The first stage is an appeal to their sense of fairplay not to make a decision until all the facts are in, not to condemn the wicked until they are proved wicked, and to question everything, to question authority.
But this first stage trap closes when their sense of fairplay comes to the conclusion that no authority, not the authority of morality, not the authority of reason, not the authority of logic, can sit in judgment on any matter. They become so open minded that their brains fall out. They cease to reason in the name of fairplay.
Call this the Appeal to Equality. If all men are equal, no man’s opinion is better than any others’, and so there is no such thing as a right man and the wrong man, a right answer and a wrong answer, a civilized culture or barbaric one. The Appeal to Equality says that to think one answer correct and the other wrong, one behavior a vice and another a virtue, is a hasty judgment, even bigotry.
Reasoning becomes a hate crime.
Once they cease to reason, that is, cease to look at facts for answers, they are thrown back on their emotions and nothing else for a standard of judgment by which to organized their lives, and to build their model of the universe.
At this point, having lost the civilized gift of reason, they are barbarians.

— John C. Wright, “Barbarian, Troglodyte, Morlock” (3 November 2016)

Mark Gilbert
Reply to  Tucci78
December 13, 2015 6:03 pm

+10

December 13, 2015 9:34 am

Obama’s goal was to negotiate a “multilateral environmental agreement” that could be added by the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Commission to TPP and then enforced against the U.S. by TPP’s tribunals which allow countries to sue each other for multi-billion dollar fines if a country violates the agreement.
He needed to thread a needle: A “declaration” would not be enforceable. A “treaty” would require Senate ratification. I think he succeeded, but I am not sure.

Bubba Cow
Reply to  Howard Richman
December 13, 2015 9:56 am
MojoMojo
Reply to  Howard Richman
December 13, 2015 3:23 pm

This is what Wikileaks was reporting a few months back.They hope Congress will pass TPP without knowing the full ramifications.I hope its not true.
” Howard Richman
December 13, 2015 at 9:34 am
Obama’s goal was to negotiate a “multilateral environmental agreement” that could be added by the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Commission to TPP and then enforced against the U.S. by TPP’s tribunals”

Allen Duffy
December 13, 2015 9:38 am

I think this agreement is wonderful but we should go much, much further. This agreement must be extended in scope and should form the basis for mitigating all related man made client affecting emissions. In that spirit, I think it is logical we extend the process to money itself. It would not be hard – even self evident – that the proliferation of money can be convincingly demonstrated to be tied to climate change even more so than CO2 (I can visualize the IPCC graphs as I type). This, according to current climate science logic, must imply causation. So: I am going to propose to my bank that I will submit a strategy (or IPDC – Intended Personally Determined Contribution) to abrogate my money footprint starting with a voluntary plan to repay my mortgage and other debts. This will, of course, be non-binding and I may or may not make payments and/or submit status reports on my re-payment plans in the future. And these status reports, should I choose to provide them, will be generated by myself alone and not subject to any external scrutiny. The bank will have no legal recourse against me – since it is a developed financial entity and I only aspire to to try and stay ahead of my bills. This sort of arrangement will benefit all of humanity – what could possibly go wrong?? /sarc off

Steve
December 13, 2015 9:40 am

Just 13 more months and his gone…..

vince causey
Reply to  Steve
December 13, 2015 12:33 pm

Be careful what you wish for.

December 13, 2015 9:42 am

Infiltrate the cult, recon inside, be where they do not think they will be checked on.
When it is best let them go on the record with the lies.
Next day put the infiltration data out that shines the light on the lie they just told.
Make it so no one believes one of the lies and in the end no one even listens any longer.

Marcus
Reply to  fobdangerclose
December 13, 2015 9:55 am

I Tried that but it didn’t work……I think my Mark Steyn T-shirt might have given’ me away ??

deebodk
December 13, 2015 9:44 am

If temps go down they’ll claim victory. If temps go up they’ll claim we’re not doing enough.

Simon
Reply to  deebodk
December 13, 2015 10:09 am

If you think temps are going to drop because we reduce CO2 now, then you really have no understanding of the science. If AGW is real, it will be a very long time before anything we do now makes a difference. And there in lies the ultimate moral question. Do we act now to protect generations in the future?

Bubba Cow
Reply to  Simon
December 13, 2015 10:46 am

that sustainability drivel needs to be dragged to an unmarked grave in the barren desert:
https://www.nas.org/articles/sustainabilitys_war_on_doubt

Simon
Reply to  Simon
December 13, 2015 6:06 pm

Bubba Cow
What has the rather one sided right wing article you quoted got to do with what I said?

Bubba Cow
Reply to  Simon
December 13, 2015 6:53 pm

“generations in the future”
you and the offended generation need to grow up
CO2 is plant food, future generations need to study science, not sociology

deebodk
Reply to  Simon
December 13, 2015 9:08 pm

“If you think temps are going to drop because we reduce CO2 now, then you really have no understanding of the science.”
No, I don’t think that at all. I think human contribution to atmospheric CO2 has little if any effect on planetary temperature. There is not one iota of scientific evidence based on real world observation that proves otherwise. It doesn’t exist.
My original statement was in regard to those in power living in a fantasy world. They believe there’s a CO2 knob that controls the temperature of the planet and that we have the power to change it as we see fit. Current temperature fluctuations (both magnitude and timescale) are well within the known bounds of natural variability. They truly believe we’re responsible for the temperature fluctuation we’ve been seeing though, at least since 1950 (or whatever arbitrary date they’ve chosen). Ergo if temperatures decrease, regardless if it’s natural, they’ll claim victory, and if temperatures increase, regardless if it’s natural, they’ll claim we’re not doing enough.
I think it is you, Simon, who has no understanding of the real science.

Simon
Reply to  Simon
December 14, 2015 1:24 am

deebodk
Wrong

2soonold2latesmart
December 13, 2015 9:58 am

Ending with such a resounding success, what can they possibly do for an encore??

Harry Passfield
Reply to  2soonold2latesmart
December 13, 2015 10:07 am

After 20 curtain calls? God forbid.

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