Guest essay by Eric Worrall
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has warned President-elect Trump that he will not have the power to derail climate programmes, even climate programmes in the USA.
France, U.N. tell Trump action on climate change unstoppable
France and the United Nations on Tuesday stepped up warnings to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about the risks of quitting a 2015 global plan to combat climate change, saying a historic shift from fossil fuels is unstoppable.
French President Francois Hollande, addressing almost 200 nations meeting in Morocco on ways to slow global warming, said that inaction would be “disastrous for future generations and it would be dangerous for peace”.
Both he and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Trump, who has called man-made global warming a hoax, to drop a campaign pledge to cancel the global 2015 Paris Agreement that aims to shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energies.
“The United States, the largest economic power in the world, the second largest greenhouse gas emitter, must respect the commitments it has undertaken,” Hollande said to applause. The agreement was “irreversible”, he said.
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“What was once unthinkable has become unstoppable,” Ban said at a news conference of the landmark Paris deal, agreed by almost 200 governments last year after two decades of tortuous negotiations. The accord formally entered into force on Nov. 4 after a record swift ratification.
Ban said Trump, as a “very successful business person”, would understand that market forces were driving the world economy towards cleaner energies such as wind and solar power, which are becoming cheaper, away from fossil fuels.
“I am sure he (Trump) will make a fast and wise decision” on the Paris Agreement, Ban said, saying he had spoken to Trump by telephone after his victory and planned to meet him in person.
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Ban said that companies including General Mills and Kellogg, states such as California and cities such as Nashville and Las Vegas were working to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-accord-idUSKBN13A12Z
I suspect Ban Ki-moon is overestimating American support for climate measures. Climate barely registers as an issue to the general public. Climate didn’t receive airtime in the Presidential debates. As a public priority climate action consistently comes dead last, even when the UN conducts the poll.
But wasteful climate spending is an expensive thorn in the side of an incoming US administration which has prioritised trying to contain spiralling debt, and freeing up cash for programmes people actually care about, such as fixing America’s dilapidated roads and bridges.
It is also worth remembering that under President Obama, some atrocious abuses of power occurred, such as the IRS deliberately targeting and harassing political groups opposed to Obama policies.
Video of President Obama admitting groups were targeted by the IRS for political reasons.
I’m not suggesting all US businesses which advocated climate action did so out of fear, quite obviously some companies are managed by people who are as nuts about climate change as the outgoing President. But in my opinion there is a real possibility that many US businesses went with the flow, because they were frightened of appearing to be on the wrong side of the climate issue, and of course because they wanted access to generous tax credits available for climate programmes.
It will be interesting to see whether this alleged commitment to climate action continues, under an administration which does not care whether you are a climate champion.
By county.
The constitution is by definition the will of the people and Trump has been elected by the people.
NO, Hillary Clinton has ONE million more votes from “the people” than the Donald.
What he won was the Electoral College, NOT “the people”, but a group of the Washington elite, INSIDERS.
The constitution needs to be updated; it was drawn up ~ 240 years ago in different times and under vastly different circumstances.
“The constitution needs to be updated”. So say the losers of the election. The EC is there for a reason.
The old, if you don’t like the result, change the rules till you get the result you want.
Or, in the case of Brexit, we are against referendums but let’s have a second, third or fourth one until we get the result we want.
Johana,
“The constitution needs to be updated…”
Go ahead and try . . it can be Amended . . but not by a simple majority . .
The founders surely realized that no one would even bother to campaign anywhere but in the highly populated areas if the election were determined by simple majority. They were very smart fellas, says I ; )
We all remember the dangling chad, in the Florida re-count. Do you really want to expand the re-count to every vote in the United States? Do we really want to have the election hinging on every vote in every town throughout the country? I don’t think we are ready for that, and the current system has many other advantages, to smaller states, that insure it will be around for the foreseeable future.
Direct democracy quickly degenerates into “mobocracy” without prudent mitigating institutions. The EC is one of those institutions, and arguably the most vital. The political left hates it because it’s expressly designed to counter the mobocracy tactics they’ve relied on for a hundred years. Just about every post-Civil War push to extend voting rights in the US was spearheaded by the left. They’re the ones who pushed for direct election of senators (one of the biggest mistakes in our history). They’re the ones who want extralegal resident aliens to receive amnesty and pseudo-citizenship. They’re the ones who play up the grievances and stoke the anger, justified or not, of minority groups. It’s not about fairness or compassion, as much as they would like you to think that. It’s about making it easier to rule by mob. They want to grow their mob at every opportunity, because in a mobocracy, the biggest mob wins.
The Electoral College system makes it extremely difficult to form an effective national political party out of concentrated, isolated mobs. The Democrats got beat because they pandered to left-wing prejudice and trendy super-minorities in their urban enclaves, while alienating their traditional supporters in Main Street America. Some went to Trump, others to the third-party candidates. That ultimately made a difference in the key battleground states.
Your party ignored and/or insulted the concerns of many Americans in 2016, and now you complain about an “undemocratic” election? The Electoral College preserves the true meaning of democracy far better that the crass Popular Vote you would prefer. Honestly, it should be called the Mob Vote.
drednicolson
So well said.
Johana,
Seriously?? Are you f*cking kidding me? You’re a m*r*n. Clinton was the quintessential Washington insider. Trump was elected explicitly because he WASN’T part of the Washington elite. And you really show your ignorance by pointing out that Clinton MAY HAVE ONE million more votes than Trump. But they came mostly from California and New York. In case you’re too dense to understand the brilliance of he Electoral College, it’s was specifically designed so that a national election is representative of the whole NATION, and not just a few densely populated liberal cities on the east and west coasts.
Johana November 15, 2016 at 4:40 pm
Nope
“NO, Hillary Clinton has ONE million more votes from “the people” than the Donald.” You really don’t know how things work do you. In States that have huge leads for one candidate or another there is a point were they stop bothering to count the outstanding votes. For example if one candidate has a 100,000 vote lead and there are 65,000 thousand mail in ballots left to count game over. Even if all of them went to the other side it would nor be enough. Now if you checked you might find that some states had margins for Trump in the 80% bracket. Toss in the military vote which sometimes is not counted because it arrive days or weeks after the elections you could very easily see a change in the popular vote. This is one of the reasons why the Democrats posture over the popular vote but never really push the issue. They know the dirty little secret and want to keep it a secret. Oh and the Military vote when it is counted in close elects is overwhelmingly Republican.
“The constitution needs to be updated; it was drawn up ~ 240 years ago in different times and under vastly different circumstances.”
Sure go for it. But to change you have to have the approval of the States. Check up on what it takes to “Amended” the Constitution.
“vastly different circumstances.” Nope this is precisely way they established it this way. It was to make sure a few large population states could not overwhelm the rest of the country. Because different states have different issues and concerns a candidate has to address and gain the support of the majority of them.
Stop being a sore loser, your candidate appealed only to large population concentrations and not the rest of the country. You cannot govern that way.
michael
The Electoral College is not a group of the Washington elite, nor it is insiders. And they do what the people tell them in casting their electoral college votes.
The US elects its president on a state by state basis because that is how the US constitution wanted it. And it wanted it like that because the state was the basic entity of government, not a federal government.
Here are some other perspectives:
“If the Hillary Clinton counties-won is the proxy for support of progressive climate change solutions, then 84% of state counties voted against her
If the Hillary Clinton suburbs-won is the proxy for supporting Democrat proposed climate change solutions, then 75% voted against her.
If the Hillary Clinton medium cities-won is the proxy for supporting left-liberal proposed climate change solutions, then 75% voted against her.
If the Hillary Clinton small cities-won is the proxy for supporting Democrat proposed climate change solutions, then 85% voted against her.
If the Hillary Clinton rural areas-won is the proxy for supporting Democrats’ ‘green’ proposed climate change solutions, then 90% voted against her”
Skeptics Win! Trump/GOP Landslide Provides Firm Foundation for Empirical Science & Policies To Triumph
Sorry, those who have no clue on what the Constitution is, say that. The United STATES of America is a nation of states, not a nation state. As such, each state makes its own rules for electing its folks, and then they decide (the states) who is to lead the nation. Since the States like elections (having passed the 17th amendment where they took the selection of Senators away from State Legislatures), they allow the people to determine the Electors. However, there is no rule that says they have to allow them. There are no national elections in this country, and no provisions for any. Because it is a nation of states.
“NO, Hillary Clinton has ONE million more votes from “the people” than the Donald.”
The latest estimate is that 3 million illegal aliens voted in the U.S. election, so that would mean Trump actually got 2 million more *American* votes than Clinton, and won the popular vote, as a result.
+100
And do not forget the absentee votes that will not be counted. They would likely go to Donald by a 2 to 1 margin.
Also, count people who might have voted Republican, except they live in a blue State and knew they would be outvoted by the Democrats.
The historical breakout for absentee ballots is about 67-33% Republican
Hillary may win the number of votes counted, but not the votes cast.
https://70news.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/why-absentee-ballots-are-popular-vote-win-for-trump-and-why-states-dont-count-them-sometimes/
Oops. Made my point.
Unstoppable? “You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.” link
What is unstoppable is climate change, No matter how much the UN can change the future of geopolitics.
All we have to do is adapt to the current ‘climate’ as our forefathers did.
Did you see the eyebrows on that guy? Bigger than a third-world dictator’s. And the red bird next to him are nearly as scary.
Trump stated that he received an IRS audit every year, and had been audited for years.
I suspect there will be no love lost between him and the IRS, but will the audits continue?
It’s a good attempt at bluffing, but the U.N. known’s well enough it has no teeth, to say nothing of legitimacy.
Telling Trump he “can’t” do something, that the decision is “ireversible”, would be a red flag to a plodder like me, let alone a man like Trump. I expect his response could be like that of my former Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, “Just watch me.”
I hope so.
I was no fan of PET but…credit where credit is due.
Phil R commented: “…I don’t think we need a sustained government action aimed a debunking man-made climate change and countering the green propaganda….
I think your answer is naive. Completely discrediting the AGW scam will be required before it’s put to bed and there’s way too much global elitist money invested this far to stop. They are willing to wait 4 years. They are willing to wait 8 years. With media control they can keep enough of AGW alive to wait as long as it takes. Marking the US as a maverick nation willing to endanger the rest of the world to make money will be their platform. Ignoring AGW will not make it go away.
““The United States, the largest economic power in the world, the second largest greenhouse gas emitter, must respect the commitments it has undertaken,” Hollande said to applause. The agreement was “irreversible”, he said.”
If Hollandaise and the rest actually wanted that to be true for the US, they should have made sure 0bama submitted the Paris Agreement to the US Senate as a treaty, and then made sure the US Senate ratified it.
He can pay for it him self! And NATO too
This is neither here nor there,
Can’t stop it eh?
Come January 21, 2017 there will be a brick on the check.
Obviously he hasn’t paid close attention to Trump. I hope big pieces of the corrupt UN are put down and defunded.
Bank I Moon didn’t get the memo . The Swamp Is About To Be Drained and he is in it .
The voters that got Trump elected could care less what the UN thinks or how much money
they want . If they have Countries stupid enough to send them money too bad because the USA
is ditching the globalization con game of The Club Of Rome .
Global warming is good, just ask the plants and trees . Mother Nature is not going to give up her 4.5 billion year day job for a bunch of UN Conference hacks .
Donald Trump can expect many such phone calls as the air gets let out of the scary global warming con- game and they try to gang up on him .
Mr. Bon Ki Moon has no army!
New York City can “declare” itself a “Free City” but its defense, the life of its Mayor and the life of the State of New York Governor depend on U.S.A. Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy. The New York City Police and the State Police of New York are … No Army … to trust.
When the critical moment arrives, the U.N. “General Secretary”, the Mayor of New York City and the Governor of the State of New York will … Stand Aside … and take a bullet … from the Firing Line.
That’s got to be John Kerry in that costume . It’s all in the eye brows .
So why does nobody speak to why the UN is so upset? That Agenda 21 stuff is not conspiracy stuff, it is what they are pissed off about now. It may be cancelled in the short term by virtue of this election. The last 7+ years of administration in the US have made great progress towards its goals. Redistribution at it’s finest level.
Have you actually read it?
Do it! Then you will understand more so.
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/outcomedocuments/agenda21
Yep, it’s real and in your face folks. Just sayin…….
Agenda 21 stuff as you reference it IS a conspiracy theory and really you have been conned by it…
Does it make any rational sense? Is there any evidence of it actually taking effect in the world?
If you can critically evaluate climate data, then cast the same critical eye on the reality of ‘agenda 21’
LOL, I see you read the formal U.N. document linked in the formal U.N. website above. You must really like those blinders you are using. Too funny.
France and the UN seem to think that Obama is some sort of King rather than an elected president. No treaty nor agreement has been presented to Congress or the Senate for approval. If Obama can say “yes” to the Paris agreement, then president Trump can say “No.”
ossqss commented: “…That Agenda 21 stuff is not conspiracy stuff… Redistribution at it’s finest level….Have you actually read it?…”Yep, it’s real and in your face folks. Just sayin…….
Very difficult reading in typical bureaucratic obfuscation. But yes, people need to read and understand Agenda 21 to see what’s going on in the world and why AGW is the basis of Agenda 21. It’s a map for the elite Socialists to control world government through the UN. Calling it a “conspiracy theory” is a way to deter inspection of its’ intent and demonize those that question it.
Agenda 21 as published by the UN is just aspirational boilerplate for making the world more sustainable.
It is no more sinister or effective than the average company mission statement.
to believe in it as some life destroying conspiracy is not rational… and conspiracy theory of that sort undermines any rational or science based approach to climate.
there is no agenda 21 conspiracy.
Reflect: in all the years since it came out, has any progress towards world domination under it been made? No!
The naivety is strong in this one Luke.
“…must respect the commitments it has undertaken,” Hollande said to applause. ”
Well, one has to assess who made the commitments and who did not.
Countries have governments for a reason. When the government has made no commitment, then neither has the country. Adulations for the Great Leader are definitely things of the past, and have been for a couple of centuries. It is called democracy. Get with the programme, I say.
Someone should tell Mr. Moon that we are a sovereign nation and DO NOT bow down to foreign dictators, especially foreign dictators like him who want us to do something stupid. If I were president- elect Trump I’d do the exact opposite of what Moon tells us just to prove that we’re a free peoplle.
It’s so hilarious watching the Globalist/Authoritarians/Leftists running amok trying to do damage control prior to Trump’s administration assuming office.
Some of the laughable Memos/e-mails are flying around:
Ki-Moon– Write some crazy letter saying climate action is unstoppable.
Soros– Start riots around the country through MoveOn, Tides Foundation, ANSWER, BLM, etc. Try to orchestrate market collapse on Jan 21st.
MSM–Write stories about how the electoral college is rigged. On the Soros stuff, don’t show any coverage of Trump supporters being beaten to a pulp, car burnings, flag burnings, vandalism, etc. Try to make it look peaceful grass roots. Continue with the “basket of deplorable” memes..
NASA/NOAA– Destroy all documents regarding data tampering, (talk with Mills about how to do this)… DO NOT TALK TO HUMA! or all the data will end up on Weiner’s hard drive…
EPA–Burn everything. Plead the 5th. Talk to Lois Lerner on this. DO NOT TALK TO HUMA!
Kerry- Fly to Antarctica for photo-op, melting ice, unprecedented everything, blah, blah, you know the drill.
Statists are seeing all their glorious plans being torn asunder…
you are correct. and isn’t it interesting that we do not hear about what was really in those WikiLeaks. Satanism, Ufology, ZeroPoint Energy, Murder, Pedophilia, to mention a few topics in the leaks.
The people involved goes to the very tip of the Pyramid.
Same people that created Global Warming Hoax. (The Round Table)
We can only hope Trump Cleans out the Trash. But I fear that it will be a long and brutal war against the Neocon tools of the Morgans, Rockefellers, Rothschilds.
The Moon would say this. What else can he say? The UN are committed to Marxist eco-globalisation. It has embarked on a trajectory that surrendered their primary purpose when they irretrievably shaped themselves into a Global-administration-in-waiting. They betray themselves at every turn.
no, the UN is not ‘committed to Marxist ecoglobalisation’
Oh, I guess ‘cuz the Grifter says so.
Believe not our lying eyes.
It’s the end of the nation state and president Moon of the world has spoken.