Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to NY Times, the Arctic Council has been unable to agree a statement on the alleged climate threat in the Arctic because of pressure from the Trump administration.
U.S. Pressure Blocks Declaration on Climate Change at Arctic Talks
By Somini Sengupta
May 7, 2019ROVANIEMI, Finland — Under pressure from the United States, the Arctic Council issued a short joint statement on Tuesday that excluded any mention of climate change.
It was the first time since its formation in 1996 that the council had been unable to issue a joint declaration spelling out its priorities. As an international organization made up of eight Arctic countries and representatives of indigenous groups in the region, its stated mission is cooperation on Arctic issues, particularly the protection of the region’s fragile environment.
According to diplomats involved in the negotiations, at issue was the United States’ insistence not to mention the latest science on climate change or the Paris Agreement aimed at averting its worst effects. The omission is especially notable because scientists have warned that the Arctic is heating up far faster than the world average because of rising greenhouse gas emissions.
Foreign Minister Timo Soini of Finland, the council’s outgoing chairman, made it clear, without naming names, that resistance to climate action was a minority opinion.
“A majority of us regarded climate change as a fundamental challenge facing the Arctic and acknowledged the urgent need to take mitigation and adaptation actions and to strengthen resilience,” Mr. Soini said in his 10-page statement.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/climate/us-arctic-climate-change.html
The Arctic Council statement is available here. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the US Signatory.
I’m surprised at the apparent upset. Lack of US support for climate action cannot be that big a deal, I mean surely other members of the Arctic Council aren’t planning to sit on their butts doing nothing until the USA agrees to hand out lots of climate cash?
“A majority of us”….voted to get paid….where’s our money
If the majority REALLY believe the Arctic is warming & the sky is falling, why the hell couldn’t the “majority” cowboy up and simply state that?
Why pussyfoot around? If the “majority” doesn’t have the courage their convictions (even though I happen to strongly disagree with their opinion), then what they really have is “feelings”, not convictions.
What a bunch of wusses.
Résistance to climate mitigation may well be a minority view, but that doesn’t make it wrong. It just means that the minority hasn’t joined in the madness of the crowd.
Ben Vorlich,
Or it could mean that the minority was one of the first to leave the madness of the crowd.
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841
The Empty Suited crowd admired the Kings new Clothes and expressed kudos to the Clothiers ability.
The Loan Wolf Minority was the only one to see, The King has no clothes.
Everyone else was afraid to say anything, including the king’s own aids.
Very apt…
Yea. History. Flimflam (re-popularized 1967) about 16th century, bamboozle, hornswallgo – noun, dodge, trick, gimmick, ploy, ruse. Verb-fleece, gaff, hose, rook, screw etc.
Exactly.
Since this is supposedly an “ARCTIC” forum, the “science” should be limited to the state of the Arctic sea ice, not generalised waffle about “climate change” and what defective models project when extrapolated way outside their calibration period.
Maybe the US should have inserted something about the summer sea ice extent being the same as it was in 2007 when AR4 came out and everyone started freaking out about melting Arctic sea ice.
You meant to say “offal”?
might also have been a tad embarrassing as temps in the nthn nations are presently winter again with snow and record cold;-) see Iceagenow.info for a pile of reports;-)
and it FINALLY rained in my part of SE aus and the grounds so dry its nonwetting the runoff is awesome over the roads and pooling in my yard
cold wet soggy muddy and LOVING IT!!!! 😉
O/T Family of Bishop Hill?
None of the marching brooms were very smart, or doing anything particularly productive.
Ah, it might be a minority opinion, or so they say. It might be that the minority opinion is not so minority, but some of the majority agree but are taking political cover from pretending to be pro climate change action.
When liberals fail, it’s always someone else’s fault.
Mr Soini is a consevative populist.
Thank you, President Trump… and thanks for increasing the tariffs on China as well…
+50
American Tariffs on Chinese Goods hurts China more than the US.
Chinese retaliation and subsequent placement of Tarrifs on American goods (food) only hurts China
China already has huge tariffs on US goods.
That’s the point of imposing the recent tariffs on Chinese goods.
Even so, US tariffs on Chinese goods are still miniscule compared to Chinese tariffs on US goods.
It’s odd how the left always says that US tariffs on Chinese goods hurt US consumers, yet curiously, Chinese tariffs on US goods do not hurt Chinese consumers.
Ditto. My stocks are temporarily down, but the overall effect in the end will be even more profit when China is no longer allowed to steal from us and is forced to trade fairly with us.
Great stock purchasing opportunity…. a nearly 20% bonus long term.
I’ve been looking for an excuse to post this:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mike+tyson+sphinx+thanks+mr.+trump&view=detail&mid=E2D6818556F143B56475E2D6818556F143B56475&FORM=VIRE
Yes thank you for making life harder for those who have to buy stuff.
You can have a cheap TV, just so long as you are happy to work for chinese wages.
Indeed, long overdue retaliatory US tariffs on Chinese goods & services are but a fraction of the truly massive Chinese tariffs on US goods & services.
This cartoon is such a welcome sight every year. Now that we’ve reached the right margin the tension is unbearable !!
“…that resistance to climate action was a minority opinion.”
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated!
Resistance is futile. Exterminate ! Exterminate ! Exterminate !
Check out 1970’s Dr Who if you are not familiar with The Daleks.
One difference between a Dalek and a leftist climate crazy, they both look scary, and make a lot of noise, but the Daleck can be defeated by merely stepping off a curb. Leftist climate nuts are far more cloying in that regard.
I am not sure about that. In later episodes of the daleks I have seen them climb stairs.
Showing a capacity for learning from their mistakes which leftists have never acquired. 😮
the Daleck can be defeated by merely stepping off a curb
That’s a myth (and a misspelling of Dalek). Daleks have the ability to defy gravity and float up (and down) stairs – at least as far back as the 1980s (when it was first seen on screen) though they may have had the ability as early as the 1960s but just never seen on screen (See 1960s story the Chase In which the Dalek time craft lands on the lower portion of the Mary Celeste’s deck, exit their craft and search the ship. a few minutes later you see Daleks on the upper potion of the deck. As there were no ramps, they had to “climb up” somehow)
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=gMnDxv_8_cU
BORG
Way to go, Eric. “lots of climate cash?” cuts right to the point.
As Medieval troubadours ironically observed:
“His bread I eat, his song I sing.”
Old Scottish saying. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
I think they want the US to stump up the money!
I think they want the US to stump up the money!
ding ding ding. we have a winner.
They will not do anything, there is nothing to do, because this is all about the USA handing out TONS of cash to the little people, to relieve their suffering, all the heat they have to face in the arctic.
If they don’t get paid, fine by me! I don’t care if they go naked and shivering in the summer wind. Their only interest is what they can gouge out of us. I’d love to see them picking peppers in the sun.
‘I don’t care if they go naked and shivering in the summer wind.’
That gave me a visual – ever seen one of them Fairbanks, Alaska mosquitos?
Not quite the Arctic Circle yet, but they’ve got signs.
And for those of you that have never been there, the entire area is wetlands, and in the summer when the sun is out all day, you get skeeters that could carry you away.
“”I don’t care if they go naked and shivering in the summer wind.””
I got shivers from imaginary sight of Timo Soini naked, and picking peppers in the sun. I mean he is very big man, some 150 Kg`s+. And as a politician he is a total joke. Luckily he quits his job very soon.
Thank you Sara for shivers!
The state bird. Go right through your jacket
Happy to have given you guys a hearty laugh over it.
“…scientists have warned that the Arctic is heating up far faster than the world average because of rising greenhouse gas emissions.”
I know, right?
I’ve been noticing lately that our oven now heats up faster. We’ve done work on the house, adding insulation, tightening up the basement etc. which would mean a rise in “greenhouse gasses”, notably CO2. So thanks, CO2! It truly is the magical gas.
“Its stated mission is cooperation on Arctic issues, particularly the protection of the region’s fragile environment”.
Good luck with that. Russia, US, China and Japan are scrambling for the estimated $35 trillion worth of untapped oil and natural gas. Not to mention nickel, copper, coal, gold, uranium, tungsten, and diamonds.
Follow the money. (The military surely will).
Give to the holy warriors in the Climate Crusades. Never mind what they do in that far off land or the imposing castles they build with your funding in their isolation from reality.
“Climate Crusades”. An apt description if ever I’ve heard one.
The crusades were encouraged and often mandated by the popes of the day. The kings and princes involved would dutifully, if not reluctantly, go off to war in the middle east. They often travelled by boat to get there, they were unprepared for the environment, ill equipped, un-committed, and often defeated resoundingly through lackluster planning.
Yep, good name.
but it kept em off the streets at home unemployed and dangerous;-)
also increased the amount of single ladies to choose from for the landed gentry
It’s only about the money … that the UN WMO Green Climate Fund doesn’t have! 😀
Ha ha
Gotta love Trump! A clear-eyed president.
Strange, isn’t it, how fervent Climate activists start whining once they have to spend their own money rather than OPM (other people’s money).
Majority of Arctic area is in Russia, so what is Vladimir Vladimirovich saying about his majority?
No Komment…
(Warmer weather grows better bigger potatoes for making less costly Vodka
goodly chunks of russia have hit below avg temps snow ice cold etc, dont reckon Mr Putins worried over anything warming at all. my friend that lives in near the middle reckons its -2 or -3 days around 10c with snow again and hes not thrilled
Drill, baby, drill…
The United States of America chooses to not participate in the ‘Climate Change’ fraud.
How copy? Message received? Over….
Beautiful. Finally, these money grabbers are afraid to perpetuate the lies they’ve been feeding the public. Never would have happened without Trump.
They have 24 hours of daylight! Time to resurrect Solyndra!
If the Arctic Council cannot agree on its Climate Change References because of the Trump Administration, then that is just Excellent.
I read the statement. To quote Mr Vincent Gambini…”Everything that guy just said is bullshit. Thank you.”