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Essay by Eric Worrall
Even though President Biden is spending hundreds of billions on climate change, “… those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China and several midsize economies.”.
‘We are not prepared’: Disasters spread as climate change strikes
The warming planet is causing havoc under the strain from record heat, floods, storms and wildfires. And scientists warn the toll will get worse.
By ZACK COLMAN
07/15/2023 07:00 AM EDTThe floods, droughts, wildfires and extreme heat sweeping the globe are offering a dose of the climate future that scientists have warned about for decades — and all the ways the world is not ready.
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“If you don’t like what you’re seeing today, stick around — it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University.
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“We don’t have a lot of time,” the president said this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, calling climate change “the single greatest threat to humanity.”
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Even with the U.S. and European climate pollution on a downswing, those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China and several midsize economies.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/we-are-not-prepared-disasters-spread-as-climate-change-strikes-00106439
Even if you believe in the carbon demon, if China is completely cancelling all attempts to cut emissions, what is the point of wasting money on further attempts to cut emissions?
China is never going to cut emissions, so long as the communists are in charge. The Chinese Communist claim to political legitimacy is based on delivering economic development.
Even if the communists fall, there are still a lot of poor people in China, who will demand whatever government replaces Communism prioritises continued fast paced economic development.
If China falters, there are vast numbers of poor people who will step in and take their place. India, under their brilliant technocratic leader Prime Minister Modi, is racing ahead. African nations like Nigeria, Kenya, Algeria, Mozambique and Ghana, despite ongoing political and economic turmoil, are quietly well on the way to becoming prosperous.
The billions of people who in some cases are tasting prosperity for the first time in their nation’s history will not allow Western climate cultists to stand in the path of their economic development, regardless of how much CO2 their economic development produces.
We’ve only got minutes to spare before this climate catastrophe explodes. We are at our beginning of the week new “tipping point” now!
“”Even though President Biden is spending hundreds of billions on climate change, “… those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China “”
Well, you’d better pull your collective fingers out, then
And India. Between these two countries alone, they are adding about one large new coal-fired station every week to their electricity supply. India will be the largest country in the world before the end of this decade.
It is unreasonable to expect that Asian nations should do without electrical supply because of Western nations’ angst about a non-existent threat. This is enviro-colonialism at its worst.
““We don’t have a lot of time,””
right, what he meant was that at 80 he doesn’t have much time 🙂
That’s because “saving us” was only a loose, umbrella Party plank term. The rest of the policy march is about helping donors, voter blocks, and Congressional leaders. In those terms, no amount of counter evidence like China or unauthorized science findings will slow the march. Think Putin and Hitler war management at this point. The best outcome is that this becomes the Vietnam of the Greens.
Biden’s gaseous emissions are the greatest threat to humanity. They must be ended.
Well what a surprise, China People are doing everything all wrong.
(Self flagellation is now Oh So Passée – lets see if we can gain traction with some Buck Passing)
At some point (it will be ‘well cold’ by then but you’ll be roasting in heatwave) – It Will Dawn that is is your own ‘lack of absorptions‘ causing the rising CO₂ levels.
The Dawning will be an even bigger surprise in that it will come with the revelation that CO₂ does not Control Climate – water does.
Start reinstating some grasslands with a few Buffalo to manage them instead of that hideous pellagra inducing and subsidy-mining weed/mush = Maize
Never know your luck, the climate might change AND you can be friends with China again.
see what I mean when I say ‘wrap up warm‘ – she came for the Night-Life (and Winter-Life – she’s from Texas)
The floods, droughts, wildfires and extreme heat sweeping the globe are offering a dose of the climate future that scientists have warned about for decades — and all the ways the world is not ready.
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Still don’t understand the difference between weather and climate, do you Zack? If and when you are ready to listen to somebody who is willing to explain it to you, it will be a day to celebrate.
“… those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China and several midsize economies.”
We knew this the day VP Biden and SoS Kerry negotiated an agreement that bypassed the US Congress allowing China to INCREASE emissions while the US had to revert to 1995 levels!!!
“The floods, droughts, wildfires and extreme heat sweeping the globe are offering a dose of the climate future that scientists have warned about for decades — and all the ways the world is not ready.” (My underline)
Extreme weather, climate disasters have NOT worsened over the last 150 years in either frequency of intensity. (Future problems are based solely on models.)
The above is a carefully worded sentence that implies something that is not true without actually stating it.. (Like “the earmarks of Russian information..”)
What China and India are doing is nothing compared to emissions from volcanoes, and jungles, and swamps, and tidal plains. The Tonga eruption put more “greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere than the human race has done in it’s entire existence. THAT. IS. JUST. ONE. There are continuous volcanic eruptions and out gassing all around the globe. Humans are not causing climate to do jack shit.
The problem with we skeptics of the weather dooming is we need to be unburdened by what has been-
Kamala Harris ‘unburdened’ by overuse of certain phrase (msn.com)
China state newspaper Global Times on Sunday called its pro-regime observers “widely pessimistic” and expecting “no concrete progress” as President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy, John Kerry, landed in Beijing for talks to address the alleged climate “crisis.”
The Global Times undermined Kerry’s impact before he held a meeting on Monday with China’s top environmental official, Xie Zhenhua, intended to expand discussions of what the two countries can do together to cut carbon emissions. China has formally vowed to increase its carbon emissions as an “obligation” in the Paris Climate Agreement, which Biden formally rejoined upon becoming president.
Since the above extract of the climate alarmist article by Zack Colman quotes Michael Oppenheimer, “a climate scientist at Princeton University,” here is a fact that all readers should know: Dr. Oppenheimer spent 21 years as the Environmental Defense Fund’s chief scientist and is still a science advisor to that organization. (ref: https://www.heinzawards.org/pages/michael-oppenheimer# )
Think he might have a not-so-hidden agenda?
Also there is this quote of Dr. Oppenheimer at the same reference:
“The dangers from climate change can only be addressed effectively with planning long in advance by individuals and governments.”
Obvious questions that are invited by such a sophomoric statement:
— What dangers?
— What type of planning (and does it reflect proven technology, or pie-in-the-sky thinking)?
— How long in advance (10 years, 50 years, 200 years, 1000 years)?
— Who are the “individuals and governments” that will do such “planning” for all mankind?
— Most importantly, who are the individual scientists, the scientific organizations, and indeed the national governments on planet Earth that will be excluded from participating in and voting on such planning?
So many questions, so few answers.
The Energy Institutes recently published ‘Statistical Review of World Energy 2023’ notes that the
Asia Pacific region continues to increase its share of total global CO2 emissions, accounting for almost 50%, and that China’s primary energy consumption grew by 72% in 2022.
Emissions in this region are headed in one direction only.
point of wasting money on further attempts to cut emissions?
It’s FJB’s pay back to the Chinese for the millions in bribes – china is the big beneficiary of Buyden’s attack on US energy & destruction of the US economy
“Even though President Biden is spending hundreds of billions on climate change”
Fools rush in
“”Just Stop Oil supporter disrupts own graduation ceremony at University of Exeter””
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/just-stop-oil-university-graduation-exeter-b2376682.html
“… those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China and several midsize economies.”.
Is this a call to action for Just Stop Oil, Antifa, and Extinction whatever? I would love to see those loons glue themselves to runways and roads to see the reaction of the authorities.
It is a false premise to state that anybody is trying to cut our emissions.
How do you cut emissions by increasing the use of heavy industry to build inefficient forms of producing electricity.
Heavy industry works 24 hours a day every day of the year manufacturing billions of tons of raw materials into wind turbines and solar panels.
This manufacturing will never end, or only end when we run out of the fossil fuels and chemicals from fossil fuels that are used to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels.
The premise of the article is false.
But that’s communist CO2, as everyone knows, it doesn’t do any work, so it can’t possibly trap IR.
The energy intensive industry that used to be done in the west has now shifted to Asia. It’s squeezing a balloon.
According the Wall Street Journal, it seems Europeans are buying into this. They want a 30 hour work week and will live on less money.
The only thing that is sweeping the world is climate hysteria BS.
The vast majority of people understand that it’s just the weather, in all its natural variability. And of course the warmunists pretend that “extreme” heat in the middle of summer in the northern hemisphere is actually “unprecedented”. The most grossly overused term in their glossary of BS is “unprecedented”. My god, it gets hot in the summer? Who’d a thunk it? We never knew!
Any sentient adult over the age of 50 living in the temperate latitudes subject to a Continental climate is well aware that extreme heat in summer and extreme cold in winter are absolutely normal, always have been, and always will be, with no humanly perceptible change in these past 50 years when we’ve all collectively gone to hell in a hand basket, at least per the warmunists and their mouseclick-seeking fellow travelers in the media.
CO2 forcings are logarithmic with concentration, not linear, and we are way into the flat part of that curve. More or less CO2 emitted as an offset to current emissions isn’t going to make an appreciable difference to temperature one way or another. NetZero is a foolish and costly gesture.
From Political Calculations:
China’s CO2 emissions in 2022 (11,876 Mega Tonnes) exceeded the combined emissions of all of North and South America and Western and Central Europe (11,872)
The true danger is that a truly climate/insane leader takes charge, not just some venal arsehat who’s in it to make a buck, like Biden and Trudeau.
A true believer will come to decide that if China won’t stop then to save the planet china must be eliminated.
So Biden went to a NATO meeting to talk about Swedish admission and those pesky Russians, but somehow ended up bellyaching about global warming again?
For once it really is worse than they thought. Many large manufacturing companies relocate to China so as to escape onerous regulations in West. Many of these large companies are also afflicted by the ESG restrictions piled on by greentard investors like Blackrock, whose writ probably does not run in Beijing.
Further, the investing companies also wished to gain purchase, and favour, in the expanding Chinese market for their products. Yet a company the size of Disney find that they are only permitted to retain about half the percentage of box office receipts as they are used to else where. Their parks investments are genuinely sunk ones and they are Shirley now aware that you provoke the CCP at your peril.
It’s really is worse-than-we-thought squared for these hypocritical green investors