Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Atlantic President Trump’s climate leadership will “devastate the Earth”.
The Global Rightward Shift on Climate Change
ROBINSON MEYER
President Trump may be leading the rich, English-speaking world to scale back environmental policies.
Last Thursday, Malcolm Turnbull was the prime minister of Australia. By the end of this week, he’ll be just another guy in Sydney.
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It points to an emerging pattern: Moderate national leaders—on both the center-left and center-right—in some of the world’s richest and most advanced countries are finding it far easier to talk about climate change than to actually fight it.
At a basic level, this pattern holds up, well, everywhere. Every country except the United States supports the Paris Agreement on climate change. But no major developed country is on track to meet its Paris climate goals, according to the Climate Action Tracker, an independent analysis produced by three European research organizations. Even Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom—where right-wing governments have made combatting climate change a national priority—seem likely to miss their goals.
Simply put: This kind of failure, writ large, would devastate Earth in the century to come. The world would blow its stated goal of limiting atmospheric temperature rise. Heatwaves might regularly last for six punishing weeks, sea levels could soar by feet in a few short decades, and certain fragile ecosystems—like the delicate Arctic permafrost or the kaleidoscopic plenty of coral reefs—would disappear from the planet entirely.
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Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/article/568684/
The part I don’t get, isn’t green energy supposed to be cheaper than coal? Aren’t green jobs supposed to be a net economic benefit?
Surely the solution to this backsliding is for countries which have embraced climate action for the last few decades to show the world how much that climate action has improved their economies, to inspire the USA and other rich nations to follow their lead regardless of what President Trump wants.
Do I need a /sarc tag?
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Look on the bright side: China and India are probably going to increase CO2 emissions as fast as they promised in Paris.
Nice. I got a good chuckle out of that. Love your sense of humor.
It is still all the fault of the US according to the SJWs. If only Hillary had won, all these other countries would still be committed to Paris by means of the US setting a good example./sarc
What would a Hillary world look like?
Sorry, I just gave mySELF chills.
California on steroids?
Robert Kernodle
Perish the thought.
A larger version of Venezuela after her second term.
“What would a Hillary world look like?”
Like your worst nightmare.
If you like eight years of Obama and the corruption and criminality of his administration, then you would love having Hillary at the helm.
Hillary would have continued the United States down the road to ruin that Obama started us on.
Fortunately, sanity intervened on Nov. 8, 2016.
And as an aside: Is there any doubt that cutting taxes stimulates the economy? Socialists claim tax cuts do not stimulate the economy, but it works every time it is tried, and this time is a doozy!
Give people more of their own money to spend and they will spend it and stimulate the economy as a consequence. People are much better at spending their money than are politicians and bureaucrats.
Trump has taken U.S. GDP from about a 2 percent annual rate to an estimated 4.5 percent in the next quarter.
I heard Trump say the other day that each percentage point increase in U.S. GDP was equal to an additional one TRILLION dollars and about ten million new jobs.
Trump will probably add an additional $500 billion to U.S. GDP after he completes revamping all the unfair trade agreements the U.S. has.
China’s economy is sputtering. The U.S. economy is on fire.
“What would a Hillary world look like?”
Think about this: It was revealed yesterday that the Chinese hacked into Hillary’s illegal, unprotected server and were getting a copy of every email sent and received on Hillary’s server in real time.
No doubt there was much criminality discussed in Hillary’s emails and the Chinese have all her emails, so they could blackmail Hillary until the cows came home.
Also, Hillary engaged in criminal activity (imo) with the Russians to sell the Russians U.S. uranium, and the Russians, no doubt, have detailed information on everyone in the Clinton Crime Sydicate that they bribed to get this deal done, so the Russians would have excellent opportunities to blackmail Hillary, too.
Hillary would be doing the bidding of both Russia and China.
What a disaster it would have been had Hillary been elected. Our very freedom would be at risk from this authoritarian person and her authoritarian masters.
Regulations are just as much a drag on the economy as taxes.
What would a Hillary world look like?
Thankfully, I rarely have nightmares and that would have been the mother of all nightmares.
And their CO2 emissions would have *automatically* been less, just because Hillary cares so much. /sarc
Fault?? Maybe they meant Genius!
Stable Genius!
To answer the questions:
1. Yes but no it isn’t.
2. Yes but no they aint.
3. No but yes if addressing Climatics.
It’s all about money America isn’t paying/funding that marxist blob anymore.
The NGO’s think tanks and climate groups/none profits are all hitting ”the wall” now.
The UN Cancer is withering, as American funding dries up.
More power to the Don.
His actions have forced all the Marxistvroaches out into the light, we all see them now,……. and their naked lust for money and power.
“Even Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom—where right-wing governments have made combatting climate change a national priority …”
Germany and the UK are right-wing? I know that these CAGW / CCC alarmist apologists don’t get atmospheric physics, but now they don’t even understand politics?
And if the US is causing other countires to flag in their efforts to appease the CO2 Gods, doesn’t that mean that the US has not lost its leadership position?
Those governments are well to the right of most GAGW/CCC alarmists.
Leftists refuse to associate with anyone who disagrees with them. Then they assume that since everyone they know agrees with them, that they must be the normal ones.
Yesterday I caught a cold. It’s because of Climate Change. So it’s Trumps fault.
“This kind of failure, writ large, would devastate Earth in the century to come.” That is a very good summing up of the effects of the Alarmists’ Crusade against CO2, the Third World and the Poor.
The Atlantic is historically illiterate, putting the cart before the horse. Australia has led the way on voting out the global warming doomsayers.
Abbott was putting the beat down on Gore’s manure, when Donald Trump was still building golf courses.
After coming second in the 2007 leadership election, Turnbull won the leadership of the Liberal Party in September 2008 and became Leader of the Opposition. However, his support of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposed by the Rudd Government in December 2009 led to a leadership challenge by Tony Abbott, who defeated Turnbull by a single vote. Though initially planning to leave politics after this, Turnbull chose to stay and was later appointed Minister for Communications in the Abbott Government following the 2013 federal election.
“when Donald Trump was still building golf courses.”
Nat that there is anything wrong with that.
They are not conservationists, that’s a conservative trait.
Conservation being the route to conservative.
No they dont care about Trumps green spaces.
Environmentalism, has little to do with the environment, its all keyboard warriorism.
“Moderate leaders”????
Compared to what?
“Heatwaves might regularly last for six punishing weeks,…” Been there, done that, not sea level, but some a few miles from me saw that in Harvey. And I used to show students the “fragile ecosystem,” changed their minds.
Ah, Trump…the whole world hates him, except when they don’t. And no world leaders respect him, except when they follow him.
You are describing how the Leftwing MSM distorts reality.
I would say the Leftwing MSM is at least as much of a threat to Western civilization as are the Chinese or the Russians.
The Leftwing MSM distorts reality to the extent that people are almost unable to govern themselves. I say almost because the voters did manage to turn the situation around by electing Trump, but that’s only temporary, while the Leftwing MSM attempts to destroy Trump and make conservatism into the worst thing possible (for them:).
One bright note: More people seem to be getting wise to the fact that they are not hearing the truth from the Leftwing MSM, instead, they are hearing partisan political propaganda and lies.
I would say the Leftwing MSM is at least as much of a threat to Western civilization as are the Chinese or the Russians.
Indeed the Leftwing MSM is fake news, and as their favorite whipping boy says “Fake news is the enemy of the people”
Trump Derangement Syndrome coupled with CAGW derangement syndrome is a quick journey from somewhat sane to rubber room living.
Amazing, how they all freak out regarding voluntary non-binding estimates that globally aggregated would reduce IPCC formula calculated CO₂ warming by less the 2 tenths of a degree,
Dooooommm!
I’m glad the internet lives forever, or at least until a major Carrigan Solar Storm.
I would hazard that the real purpose of the Paris “Climate” Accord 2015 had nothing to do with “Climate” in any respect. Rather, the real purpose was to fund the World Meteorological Organization’s Green Climate Fund. Other than Obama transferring, by was of Department of Treasury 2 installments of $500,000 each, the Country “Pledges” are still just that, “Pledges”. Thus the fund is running out of operating capital other than what the U.N. shifts into it. And the political will of the signatory countries in particular Australia, France and Germany to turn the “Pledges” into cash is as quickly sinking as the Bismarck.
Agree.
“…the signatory countries in particular Australia, France and Germany to turn the “Pledges” into cash is as quickly sinking as the Bismarck.”
As I recall, the the Bismarck put up a very good fight before she was sunk. In fact, the only reason she was sunk was that a previous attack damaged her rudder and she was stuck going in circles which made it fairly easy for the British ships to gang up on her and sink her. Hmm, going in circles. I guess the Bismark is a good analogy for the signatory countries after all.
She was disabled by a Swordfish bi-plane torpedo. Then, according to images of the hull on the sea floor, she was likely scuttled by the crew.
“She was disabled by a Swordfish bi-plane torpedo.”
Yes, from HMS Arc Royal.
“…she was likely scuttled by the crew.”
True. She was also being torpedoed by British ships at that time so it was some combination of the gun fire, torpedoes and scuttling that actually sank her.
Australia gave”Malcolm the Magnificent”the boot directly because he has tried to snow us with the NEG(which is a crock of $hit)We wanted to get out of the”Paris Agreement”,but the”Cowardly,Lying,Do Nothing,Career Politicians”on both sides of the isle(the Uni-party)hood winked us and now we are stuck with Malcolm mark 2.So,we are back to square one.
The fact that the majority of Paris signatories are almost guaranteed to miss their targets is a reminder that if combating climate change were such a priority, those countries wouldn’t hesitate to fill the void supposedly left by American withdrawal from the agreement. But the reality is that to do so, they’d have to impose even more punishing carbon pricing on their constituents, and this would be a recipe for political suicide. So a further reality is that the Paris deal is dead and is just awaiting burial.
Google biased? Say it ain’t so…
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/trump-wakes-up-complaining-about-negative-google-search-results-about-himself-illegal/ar-BBMypKw?li=AAgfYrC
Trump was also complaining about Twitter and Facebook and telling them they better change their ways.
I heard Facebook was hiring 10,000 more censors on top of all the thousands they already have. Think about that.
“Might” …. and “could” ….. a propagandist favorite words. … never occurs to them that it is just as probable that it “may be “ … might NOT, and Could NOT.
“would devastate Earth in the century to come”
Define “devastate”? Would he willing to bet money on that I wonder? Too bad he’s never going to see whether or not he was right. You should always mistrust people who make vague predictions hundred years in the future. Anyone can claim anything and there is not going to be any punishment if they are wrong.
Good grief, is there nothing the President cannot be blamed for. Oh by the way, the UK does not have a right wing government, it is soldily on the left.
Blame? I see it as credit. Not only us Trump making America great again, apparently he is making other countries great again as well!
One graphic says it all: Who actually paid in to the Paris Green Climate fund?
A picture is worth a …..
Nicely done.
That $1 billion was peanuts compared to all the other billions tossed from the podium in every speech by Obama.
Simply put: mr Meyer is talking through his backside.
The UK has a “right wing govt”?
I must have missed that then!
The Left hand knoweth what the Right doeth. So much for the fake narrative.
The Paris Agreement in 4.23 minutes
“It’s a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit…” – Hansen