Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Their prescription of course is more socialism.
Why President Macron’s U-turn is a warning for climate leaders
By Mark Lynas
Updated 0921 GMT (1721 HKT) December 31, 2018(CNN) The humiliation of President Emanuel Macron should be a cautionary tale for any world statesman or woman considering taking on the mantle of climate leadership.
In October the French president was “auditioning to be leader of the free world” at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, with tackling global warming a centerpiece of his pitch.
Two months later an abashed and humbled Macron backtracked on French national television in the face of sustained violent protests by the “gilet jaunes” (yellow jackets) movement.
The immediate cause of the protests? The carbon taxes on petrol and diesel that Macron had only recently touted as evidence of French leadership on mitigating climate change. As cars and barricades burned on the streets of Paris, Macron’s climate policies also went up in smoke.
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Professor Pielke’s “iron law” was first proposed in his 2010 book “The Climate Fix,” and it runs as follows: “When policies focused on economic growth confront policies focused on emissions reduction, it is economic growth that will win out every time.”
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There is a way around the “iron law,” but it means coming up with climate policies that defend and enhance the jobs and livelihoods of working people rather than undermining them.
The buzz-phrase for this is “just transition” — an idea developed by the trade union movement which aims to make the transition to a low carbon economy fair on those who otherwise stand to lose out, especially workers in high carbon industries.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/31/opinions/macron-warning-climate-leaders/
I guess there are a few details to work out, like if expensive and economically damaging climate policies suck all the money out of the economy, where will the cash come from to fund the “just transition”?
Perhaps we should be encouraged that CNN have finally noticed the ordinary people they have been trampling all these years, all those voters who didn’t show up in defective CNN election polls which predicted a Clinton win.
Nobody should be surprised by Fake Polls that predicted Hillary for POTUS. They were all pay to play, only a few properly corrected near the end to retain credibility. All were skewed by oversampling of pro democrat demographics. The concept is put out fake polls showing your opponent doesn’t stand a chance and his supporters will get fooled into giving up. It’s a tactic as old as the hills, as phony as the pundits who act surprised on election night.
To help poor people US climate sceptics should stop stuffing themselves with meat: https://mankindsdegradationofplanetearth.com/blogs/
Red herring, non sequiteur, and ad hominem – wow, three illogical arguments in one! You take the cake.
Indeed, that was impressive, Bruce. Good eye.
The only thing missing was, “Scientists say…” to top it off with an argumentum ab auctoritate.
Ivanski only uses two sources, The Granuidad and his own propaganda site.
Regardless, it really doesn’t take much to trigger it.
Why stop eating meat? Cattle eats grass that we can’t eat and converts it into protein. We then eat the cattle. If the grass isn’t eaten, it grows too long and then dies, it needs to be grazed to survive. A win/win/win.
More than that, if you take the cattle/bison/elephant off the land, you end up with useless scrub that benefits nothing. Grazing herbivores, as long as you don’t pen them in to a too-small area, allowed to roam about the landscape have as effects improved grassland.
Ivan depends on partial/incomplete analyses, mostly because he thinks they make him look smart.
Tell me if you see a blade of grass in a feedlot or feed yard.
Jesus, you guys just don’t get it … you still have a rosy picture of cattle feeding on a nice green field, whereas the reality is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=W7NEqjJZzwY
Ivan, you clearly do non know much about cow-calf operations for beef cattle in the US. The give you the short version, the young beastie grazes for a period, until large enough, and then is sent to the feedlot for finishing before slaughter. Most of the growth of the steer comes from the grazing period.
I have been doing sime work for a European meat association promoting European beef and pork to the US and Canada. It’s main selling points are antibiotic free, no growth hormones and good animal welfare. If you’re goona eat meat 1) eat a lot less red meat – too much causes cancer, stoke, heart attacks and type-2 diabetes and 2) if you do eat it, eat good quality European!
So your beef is blessed by the green blob? It comes across as being as cynical a marketing tactic as “organic”.
Went and had a look at the CNN 2008 election coverage. Came across “… once all the states have certified their vote counts, the losing candidate has an obligation to accept the results and concede to the winner.”
Al Gore in 2000??? How soon they forget – or just ignore – if it doesn’t fit the agenda.
Stadist clearly expresses the dominant view among intellectuals, scientists, and policy makers, left, right, and center, in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. That giant wall of “informed” opinion is what we are up against, even though the scientific data in no way supports their alarmist views. I agree with the critiques of Stadist with little reservation. What he or she says is utterly wrong from a scientific point of view. It must be struggled against. However, to pin our hopes on the crazy, self-absorbed criminal in the White House, is pure folly.
Furthermore, to cast this issue as left vs right is a wrong-headed way to look at it and deal with it. It is first and foremost a matter of truth versus ideology, a matter of science and fact-based truth against an entrenched ideology with strong religious overtones.
That “… crazy, self-absorbed criminal …” is our only hope of defeating the ongoing train wreck in Washington, DC.
“is our only hope”
Yes, Trump is our only hope, and we need him in there for six more years.
Trump is the only guy in a postion of power in the US who has a clue.
We just had a demonstration of how clueless some Republicans can be with Mitt Romney starting out right off the bat undermining Trump in an editorial yesterday, before he is even sworn in as a new Senator, and even though Trump endorsed his senate run!
Romney is everything that is wrong with the Republican Party. Instead of coming together to fight the existential threat of Democrats retaking presidential power, Romney is out there positioning himself for a regular slot on CNN and MSNBC as a commentator, or he is trying to establish himself as the leader of the anti-Trump Republican swamp, or both. Ironically, Romney’s niece is head of the Republican National Committee and is one of the sharpest political operators they have and she wholeheartedly supports Trump. Mitt could learn a few lessons from her.
The Republican Party is its own worst enemy, or more specifically, the RINO’s (Republicans in Name Only) are the Republican Party’s worst enemy, whcih means they are Freedoms Worst Enemy because they enable the radical Democrats with their anti-Trump, anti-American actions which will take all our freedoms if not stopped.
Trump’s supporters better do all they can to show their support because there are formidable forces arrayed against Trump both in the Democrat Party and the Republcian Party. The selfish political interests of these people are detrimental to our personal freedoms. The one good thing about it is Trump has at least 63 million Americans solidly in his corner.
Trump is the only one trying to give us more freedom. The other politicians are trying to take our freedoms away, bit by bit. Let’s stick with Trump.
Romney is actualky everything right with the Republican party. He represents its trsditional values.
There is a new breath of fresh air in Washington with the Dems now in control of the House. They and more moderste Republicans can noe get some deals done. Don is goung to have to adapt to the new reality: https://mankindsdegradationofplanetearth.com/2019/01/03/source-trump-tells-schumer-he-cant-accept-dems-offer-because-hed-look-foolish-cnnpolitics/
“Romney is actualky everything right with the Republican party. He represents its traditional values.”
Well, I would expect you to see it that way. Leftists will love Romney or anyone else who will criticize Trump and his agenda. They will clamor for the critic to be a frequent guest on CNN so he can bash the president on a regular basis.
You say Romney represents traditional Republican values, but from my point of view, Romney is harming those values because Trump is in the process of implementing traditional Republican values and those who oppose him like Romney are in effect opposing traditional Republican vlaues, which include requiring the lowest taxes and smallest government possible to get the job done; a military second to none; freedom of religion; defending the U.S. Constitution; and the belief that babies in the womb are human beings too, with all the rights of born human beings.
Trump promotes all these things, although there is not much he can do about reducing the size of government right now, other than this government shutdown might highlight how non-essential some federal government jobs are.
Trump is undoing the damage done by many years of failed policies from both the Left and the Right, and he is undoing the socialist agenda of Barack Obama, and that is what has the Left up in arms about Trump, because he is effective even in the face of the blizzard of attacks and lies from the political opposition and the opposition in the Republican Party. Despite all this, Trump is winning and his poll numbers keep climbing.
Dividing the Republican party like Mitt Romney is doing only helps the forces of evil, the radical leftwing socialist agenda that the Democrats are trying to impose on the United States. Trump is standing up there and taking on all comers, for us. And thank God he is. Maybe we can still save our form of government and preserve our personal freedoms.
The last Democrat in the White House illegally tried to rig the American election process to favor his fellow socialists and their agenda. They almost accomplished their goal. This was and is an existential threat to the personal freedoms of all of us and before Trump leaves Office, we must get to the bottom of all the election corruption and criminality that took place during the Obama administration.
Trump needs to declasify ALL documents requested by Congress from the Executive Branch for the last ten years. That’s another thing that has the radical Left exercised. They are well aware of what Trump can expose about them if he decides to do so.
One positive about Mitt Romney: He does favor building a southern border wall. I hope the CNN hosts ask him about that.
Wow you really areca fervent Trump baser – warts and all.
Trump’s legislative agenda has cone to a grinding halt, my friend, with a split Congress so forget about any more progress.
A liar, a charlatan, a hughly dodgy businessman, a serial sexual philanderer – Obama, in contrast, knew how to handle himself ethically and morally and was not involved in any personal scandals. He could also speak a lot more eloquently than Trump who can hardly string more than two words together. Obama vs. Trump? Obama any day.
Ivan, did you ever hear Obama when he was ad libbing? Without a teleprompter, he is much less articulate than Trump, and even with a script, such gaffes as “Navy corpseman” are notorious.
Head him plenty of times. He used to give end-of-year media interviews (something Trump is too scared to take on as he knows he’ll get a lot of difficult questions) and used to handle the media with aplomb. Great speaker and a great thinker who knew how to express his presidential vision – and not just to a small group of his own supporters in a small-town rally setting.
Obama, is ummm a great ummmm speaker ummmm except when ummm he’s not reading ummmm off a telepromper ummm. then he ummm is ummmm speaking like ummmm this.
and even with a script, such gaffes as “Navy corpseman” are notorious.
Indeed, when one is reading off a script without having the basic underlying understanding, such gaffes are inevitable.
Happens to the Don every time he has to talk on foreign policy. The guy is clueless … utterly.
Trump’s legislative agenda has cone to a grinding halt, my friend, with a split Congress so forget about any more progress.
which is pretty much where it was before congress was split thanks to the filibuster in the Senate. The only bills that got through were ones with bi-partisan support. That will still be the case. Dems can’t get their bills through the Senate (Mitch is under no obligation to give any bill a floor vote, just as Harry Reid ignored hundreds of Republican house bills during the Obama years) and the Republicans won’t be getting theirs through the House (but theirs weren’t getting through the Senate either thanks to the filibuster, so effectively no real change there).
Trumps “progress” will continue to be what it was – signing what few bi-partisan bills come his way, making executive orders and appointing his people to the judiciary and to the agencies in charge of making the regulations (and he has Harry Reid to thank for making that one possible). Dems controlling the house make practically no difference to any of that.
The only exception to the above during his first two years in office was the tax cut bill, the Republicans managed to keep their RINOs in check on that one and use some legislative maneuvers to get around the filibuster. But that’s the only bill they managed to do that for, so while there won’t be any more exceptions like that one, there likely wasn’t going to be any anyway or we’d have seen more such bills make it to his desk instead of that single one.
Constantly rising prices due to increasing and new taxes affects the ones with the least amount of money more than those with more money? Who would have thought? Apparently not our fearless leaders who generally don’t have a clue about anything, especially monetary matters.
It’s difficult being one of the extreme Left. You have to learn everyday the new pyramid of victimology.
Too bad the extreme left can never learn that one should spend less than one makes. This is especially problematic for lefty politicians.