Opposition from the United States, Saudi Arabia and others has forced Germany to drop a reference to financing programs to combat climate change from the draft communique at a G20 finance and central bankers meeting.
A G20 official taking part in the meeting said on Friday that efforts by the German G20 presidency to keep the wording on climate change financing had run into resistance.
“Climate change is out for the time being,” said the official, who asked not to be named.
At their last meeting in July 2016 in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the G20 financial leaders said they encouraged all signatories of the Paris Agreement on climate change to bring the deal into force as soon as possible.
But U.S. President Donald Trump, who took office in November, has called global warming a “hoax” concocted by China to hurt U.S. industry and vowed to unpick the Paris climate accord that is supposed to curb rising temperatures.
Under the Chinese G20 presidency, finance ministers last year called on all governments to implement financial commitments made under the Paris deal in a “timely” way and promised to continue working on climate finance in 2017.
Trump’s administration on Thursday proposed a 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget, as the White House seeks to eliminate climate change programs and trim initiatives to protect air and water quality.
Asked about climate change programs, Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s budget director, told reporters on Thursday “we consider that to be a waste of (Americans’) money.”
“I think the president is fairly straightforward. We’re not spending money on that,” he said.
Source: Reuters, 17 March 2017
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After Andy Mays’ article, who in their right mind would want to continue this climate change madness.
Welcome to the post modern presidency Griff. We don’t actually care about what he says because we are lost in bliss over what he is doing. Donald J Trump is giving us everything we ever dreamed of and more. It’s Nirvana for us and hell on earth for you. But we are hail fellows well met on this side… you can always join us.
OT, from Delingpole: “Climate Change Deniers Should Be Executed ‘Gently’ says Eric Idle …”.
http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/03/Eric-Idle-640×480.png
He has turned into the sort of person he used to satirise.
Yikes!
As bad a case of rachel mad-cow disease if I ever saw it.
He appears to have been weened on dill pickles.
There is nothing like a good old head-lock and arm-twist to bring people to their senses.
Change of tune in next week’s G20 meeting on Climate Change, a Limerick.
G20 to meet in Black Forest
Sweet unity no longer chorused
The encouraging word
in the Paris accord
Mnuchin to farce metamorphosed. https://lenbilen.com/2017/03/11/change-of-tune-in-next-weeks-g20-meeting-on-climate-change-a-limerick/
“The G-20 Drops Climate Change From Communique” G-20 may drop term Climant
“The G-20 Drops Climate Change From Communique”: G-20 may drop term “Climate Change”. They will just call it something else.
The communique will say that catastrophism is not on the agenda now that CO2 emissions have stabilised.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-18/iea-graph-of-global-carbon-emissions-since-1980/8366336
When given lemons, make lemonaide, the CAGW promoters say. I think the tide is turning.
…. and further to the communique they may say Gaia is working overtime and the greening of the planet is amazingly soaking up the extra CO2.
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V20/mar/a11.php
NATO should demand it get fully funded before any more money is wasted on this Quixotic war on climate change.
Climate “Science” on Trial; Germany Builds Wind Farms While NATO Burns
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/climate-science-on-trial-germany-builds-wind-farms-while-nato-burns/
exactly….anyone can play with windmills when they don’t pay their bills
and wasn’t Germany screaming the loudest about NATO
Yep, glad you liked the irony…or hypocrisy…or both 🙂
Rats. Ship. Sinking.
Popcorn. Popping.
There’s a bit of jiggery-pokery going on with Ontario’s IESO website.
Rather having the facts of capacity vs output on the homepage, you now have to tunnel down and then scroll down.
OMG, they are being pressured by the government (“Independent” is just a name)
They are trying to tell me the price of electricity in Ontario at this moment is 1.44¢/kWh. Of course this is the price at the power station door, and it’s probably true on a weekend evening when our Ontario power supply is 95.5 percent nuclear plus hydro and 2.4% wind plus solar plus biomass.
But I’m paying (on average) 18¢/kWh in Toronto and 23¢/kWh in Longlac. I wonder where the rest goes?
The numbers are still there after you tunnel down (and it does take a while). They are telling.
Installed capacity: Nuclear 36% Gas/oil 28% Hydro 24% Wind 11%
2016 delivered power: Nuclear 61% Gas/oil 9% Hydro 24% Wind 6%
Thanks to Atomic Energy Canada for building us those nukes back when it was politically possible. They have saved us from going the way of South Australia.
But what is going to happen when those nukes finally reach retirement age?
Climate change to the activists mean global warming caused by humans. Dig deeper and ask how and it all comes together at carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. They have absolutely no science behind their assertion that carbon dioxide is the culprit. A simple fact is that carbon dioxide is traced in several geologic histories which all show total lack nof temperature change caused by carbon dioxide. Quite the contrary. If you look at carbon diopxide hiswtory since the Cambrian – the last 500 million years – it has never caused any warming whatsoever despite huge changes of its atmoswpheric concentration. For e4xample, its atmospheric concentration in theCambrian started out with 7000 ppm. It went down slowliy over millions of years and by Holocene it was 280 ppm. That is a factor of 25, not 2 that they are trying to use. There was absolotely no change of global temperature that could be ascribed to this huge change of atmospheric carnon dioxide. The only conclusion that makes sense is that carbon dioxide has never caused any global temperature rise, now or anytime in geologic history.
This blog is being distracted/hijacked by a troll who has been mentioned 48 times !
May be just ignore his comments.
Amen to that. I love the comment section when it adds thoughtful or funny insights and provides links to additional info. Not so much when it is everyone jumping on Graff, which comes of as self-congratulatory member bonding. I can understand it, to some extent, but it does get tedious. However, the comments always have numerous diamonds, so are worth sifting through. Griff is either very sincere and earnest, or simply loves attention it seems.
Or an effective troll.
“However, the comments always have numerous diamonds,”
I think that is what should be focused on. Griff just gives opportunities to discuss the subject. Griff doesn’t seem to mind the ridicule, at least not enough to discourage him from coming back. If Griff says something that doesn’t jive with reality, then people should reply and correct the record.
Taylorism == Stachanow Medal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_Two,_Three
Contrasting Merkeliaism and the dumb
Schäuble black zero:
https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY
And from dual education to
Jaques Offenbach: walk like an egyptian
https://youtu.be/Cv6tuzHUuuk
“It dropped a reference to climate change, in the face of resistance from countries including the U.S., China, India and Saudi Arabia.” ( Bloomberg) China as well? Are we seeing the next major crack in support of the AGW narrative? It’s obvious that no one wants to be left holding the climate change bag if the world economy picks up…. and it will without the carbon yoke around its’ neck.