Climate Craziness of the Week – France surrenders to climate chaos threat

From the Weekly Standard:

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Announcement from the State Department Tuesday

Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to the State Department in Washington on  Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, from Iran to Syria to climate change. Or, in the words of the foreign minister, “climate chaos.” Kerry and Fabius made a joint appearance before their meeting, and the foreign minister warned that only 500 days remained to avoid “climate chaos”[emphasis added]:

Here is the transcript (and a video of the event).

SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Do you want to say anything? He speaks perfect English. Do you want to say anything?

FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: Well, I’m very happy to be with John. There is no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself, and we have on the agenda many items, many issues – Iran, because negotiations are resuming today; the question of Syria, and we shall meet next Thursday in London together; Ukraine as well; and very important issues, issue of climate change, climate chaos. And we have – as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos. And I know that President Obama and John Kerry himself are committed on this subject and I’m sure that with them, with a lot of other friends, we shall be able to reach success on this very important matter.

And it’s always a pleasure to meet with John. We are working very closely together. And we speak either French or English, but the most important point, whatever the language is, is to (inaudible) case. Merci. Thank you.

It is unclear what the foreign minister had in mind with the 500 days.  However, France is scheduled to host the “21st Conference of the Parties on Climate Change” (aka COP21) in December 2015, about 565 days from now.

Hmmm, better send notices out to those conference participants telling them that by the time they convene, the climate will be have descended into hopeless chaos and travel is not recommended.

Maybe they try out some climate gaming theory at COP21?

 

 

 

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LT
May 14, 2014 11:08 am

Now that is some funny sheet

May 14, 2014 11:08 am

500 days from today is Sept 26, 2015.
http://cdkn.org/2014/02/event-climate-change-and-the-post-2015-sustainable-development-goals/

The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 initiated a government process to create the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will build on the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate poverty, protect the environment and assure health and wellbeing to the world’s population.
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges the world faces today, affecting all aspects of global development, from poverty eradication to healthcare, to economic growth and disaster risk reduction. Without concerted global efforts to address climate change, climate impacts over the lifetime of the new SDGs, from 2015-2030, are likely to undermine the attainment of thesegoals. However, presently it is unclear how limiting climate-related emissions and building climate resilience will feature in the SDGs.
The SDGs are scheduled to be agreed in September 2015, a few months ahead of the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21) in Paris, France. This UNFCCC meeting is planned as the next opportunity to secure an inclusive global deal on climate change with commitments from all Parties. Handled well, linkages between the SDGs and governments’ official climate change commitments will result in mutually beneficial outcomes for both negotiations. Handled badly, there is a risk that both sets of negotiations achieve weak agreements to address climate change and development.

Long ball.

May 14, 2014 11:12 am

Did any of these wizards mention what is going to happen in 500 days if nothing is done?

ConfusedPhoton
May 14, 2014 11:14 am

“Kerry and Fabius made a joint appearance before their meeting, and the foreign minister warned that only 500 days remained to avoid “climate chaos””
Given the state of the French economy, I doubt France has 500 days left before crashing into recession!!!

Ulrich Elkmann
May 14, 2014 11:16 am

So – in 500 days they’ll announce to the Press: “folks, climate is a *cough* CHAOTIC system …”(read: not to be modeled, unpredictable, non-deterministic.) They will not announce: “we needed the time to make sure our ill-gotten gains will not be taken from us.” And they most certainly will not announce that the sceptics told them so all along.

Taphonomic
May 14, 2014 11:16 am

Keith Willshaw says:
“Not much given that France gets over 85% of its electricity from nuclear and hydro neither of which emit CO2.”
All well and good, but that doesn’t really address the impending “climate chaos” in 500 days predicted by the French minister. Just because France doesn’t emit a lot of carbon dioxide, doesn’t mean that it isn’t being emitted elsewhere.
Once again, what happens in 500 days, when China and India continue to emit CO2 from their brand new coal fired power plants?

Bertram Felden
May 14, 2014 11:18 am

Do not forget that Hollande’s government is the most unpopular in France’s post war history – and not by a little bit. Also it must be remembered that France has a long history of saying one thing and doing quite another. Here in La Belle we have 80% of our electricity from nukes, with more under construction. So it’s dead easy for France to hit the EU CO2 targets. Ergo Fabius can play the pious alarmist with impunity.

Walt The Physicist
May 14, 2014 11:21 am

Aha, got it, all these climate change, risk, disruption institutes and centers will re-focus and become sustainable development, weather management, and climate threat reduction institutes and centers. Someone in the previous “McCarthysm” thread expressed concern for the current graduates of meteorology departments… No worries, they will take positions in these centers replacing retired Turleys, Manns, Hansons, Shmidts…

May 14, 2014 11:22 am

Taphonomic says:
May 14, 2014 at 11:16 am

Keith Willshaw says:
“Not much given that France gets over 85% of its electricity from nuclear and hydro neither of which emit CO2.”
All well and good, but that doesn’t really address the impending “climate chaos” in 500 days predicted by the French minister. Just because France doesn’t emit a lot of carbon dioxide, doesn’t mean that it isn’t being emitted elsewhere.
Once again, what happens in 500 days, when China and India continue to emit CO2 from their brand new coal fired power plants?

Why, they’ll change the subject!

more soylent green!
May 14, 2014 11:24 am

Dave says:
May 14, 2014 at 11:12 am
Did any of these wizards mention what is going to happen in 500 days if nothing is done?

In my lifetime, various ministers or charlatans have calculated the date and time of the Rapture or Doomsday. When the time comes and goes, they claim they’re going to redo their numbers or we were lucky to dodge a bullet–this time.
After awhile when the predictions don’t come true, people stop listening.

Stephen Richards
May 14, 2014 11:35 am

You guys are safe. I have to live with this bunch of sociaist clowns. The french PS are more left wing than Oblarny Kerry. Fabius’ colleagues have decided to close half of the french nuclear power stations over the next 10 yrs. So with only wind and solar and no base load for the rest of europe.

richardscourtney
May 14, 2014 11:38 am

more soylent green!:
At May 14, 2014 at 11:24 am you say

After awhile when the predictions don’t come true, people stop listening.

Not always.
Perhaps you remember this from 2009

The world has just 11 days to save the planet from global warming. Read the latest updates from the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6728106/Copenhagen-climate-summit-live.html
Richard

May 14, 2014 11:41 am

Why 500 days? Is that until the 2016 American presidential elections and the new guy dumps the EPA powers?

May 14, 2014 11:42 am

Dear Readers, forget the science. Forget the physics. Forget the climate.
Focus only on the Politics, the Money, and the WEATHER.
On the Politics and the Money:
A) The next important Rio+20(+n) climate conference is in late 2015 in Paris, France.
B) Sec. of State Kerry is a confirmed climate alarmist, and one of the richest men in the world (thanks to marriage)
C) The wealth transfer from the “Middle Class to the Rich” (TM Gail Combs) if any Rio+20 SDG get adopted will be staggering. Billions of people will be left staggering under the load of new regulations.
On the Weather:
One very possible scenario is that the world will be just ending what may be an average to strong El Nino, with a spike in temperature anomalies, and just before an expected plunge in temperature anomalies.
Take Lord Monckton’s 17 years, 9 months graph of no Global Warming. Tack on a scaled down repeat of 1998 onto 2014-2015. That 17 year zero trend might disappear entirely only to return to 19 years or more in the 2016-2017 expected cooler system response. It won’t matter to the political debate.
The organizers of the Paris meeting will pounce on any temporary spike in the temperature graph, “put the skeptics and d-word in their place” and finally pass their coveted agenda. So… pray for a early fall and a snowstorm in Paris during the summit.

Leonard Herr
May 14, 2014 11:42 am

Sounds like it’s time for a countdown clock.

May 14, 2014 11:45 am

Chaos:
A Physician, an Architect and a Politician were in a bar. They were debating who held the senior profession.
The Physician said, “When God made Adam of the clay of the earth he was performing surgery. I have the senior profession”.
The Architect said, “But when God made Heaven and earth out of Chaos he was following my school. I have the senior profession”.
“Ah!”, said the Politician,
“But who created the Chaos?”.

May 14, 2014 11:49 am

They’ve all gone completely bonkers. Collapsing Antarctic Ice completely hidden by record sea ice. Out-gassing tundra in the grip of persistent winter. The Gore effect everywhere, and two totally out-of-touch eyebrow-scruntchers with a bad case of drama-face stand and deliver a completely and utterly unfounded time limit, out of the blue, it would seem. Whack-jobs, all.

May 14, 2014 11:52 am

B.
Whack-jobs, all.
Maybe. But they are in power and we are not.
Follow the Money. Follow the Power.

David L. Hagen
May 14, 2014 11:53 am

Beware the COLD
We have had ~18 years with no warming (aka the “hiatus”) and the weakest solar cycle in a century. Could Foreign Minister Fabius be warning us of an impending global cooling?
Note that it only took about 2-3 years for Finland to lose 25% to 33% of its population.
Neumann, J.; Lindgrén, S. (1979). “Great Historical Events That Were Significantly Affected by the Weather: 4, The Great Famines in Finland and Estonia 1695–97”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 60 (7): pp775–787. doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1979)0602.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0477.

In the years 1694 to early 1697, cold winters and cool and wet springs and autumns led to extreme famine in northern Europe, particularly in Finland, Estonia, and Livonia. It is estimated that in Finland about 25–33% of the population perished (Jutikkala, 1955; Muroma, 1972), and in Estonia-Livonia about 20% (Liiv, 1938). As far as is known the population disasters associated with the famines of the 1690s in France, Italy, and Scotland; 1816–17 in western Europe; 1845–46 in Ireland; and 1867–68, again in Finland; were all notably smaller than those of Finland, Estonia, and Livonia in 1695–97.

May 14, 2014 11:55 am

It’s about money – I thought usa and france didn’t really get on….but when there’s money to be handled…
“how ’bout we swop you some of our digital dollars for all that new CO2 credit you’ll be getting, after all, we are pushing the CO2 trolley the hardest”

Alan Robertson
May 14, 2014 12:03 pm

Curious George says:
May 14, 2014 at 10:54 am
“He is right, it is 500 days, has always been, will always be.”
___________________________
You get the thread Gold Star next to your name!

harkin
May 14, 2014 12:05 pm

In the old days the French would just drop their guns, grab their ankles and hope the UK/USA would clean up the mess before too many Frenchies suffered.
The times change but the cowardice remains the same.

Resourceguy
May 14, 2014 12:05 pm

Translation: 500 days before debt default and we need more revenue sources

Davidg
May 14, 2014 12:05 pm

Is anyone surprised that the world famous cheese eating surrender monkeys have surrendered, to panic?:]

May 14, 2014 12:05 pm

It’s really amusing when you think of it – France is probably the only country in the world that can meet the 50 year goals of emission reduction recommended by Kerry right now, so who does our clueless Sect of State decide to bargain with ? That’s right, a country whose percentage of emissions is easily six times less than the country Kerry works for. One thing’s for sure, the outcome of these pointless talks is guaranteed to be successfull. Brilliant, Kerry! Brilliant!