From Green News (.ie) Greens and the EU are fretting that Ireland just doesn’t do enough. The Commission’s 2019 Country Report for Ireland states that we are “falling further behind” our EU compatriots in decarbonising the economy, raising “health, climate and environmental concerns”. The report points to “severe challenges” in tackling rising emissions in transport,…
The degree of precision of these “projections” makes my jaw drop to the floor~ctm Public Release: 27-Feb-2019 University of British Columbia Achieving the Paris Agreement global warming target could protect millions of tonnes in annual worldwide fisheries catch, as well as billions of dollars of annual revenues for fishers, workers’ income and household seafood expenditures,…
Well well well, the Dicaprio Foundation gives birth to something.~ctm Public Release: 5-Feb-2019 New open-access book presents 2 years of research on how to best tackle climate change and its negative effects, funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation as part of its new One Earth initiative Springer In October of 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens attacking Bangladeshis for trying to build a better future for their children. From Paris to Bangladesh, how the climate change accord is imploding By Divya Rajagopal The onslaught of a new power plant on the fragile ecology of the Sunderbans is fresh proof of the futility of climate reforms.…
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The world’s developing nations are defying the Paris climate agreement with continued and growing use of cost effective and reliable fossil fuels including coal, natural gas and oil while making little progress in use of high cost unreliable renewables as demonstrated by the graph from a recent Wall Street Journal…
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The L. A. Times published a story regarding estimates by the Global Carbon Project showing that CO2 emissions would reach record levels in 2018 based on increased fossil fuel use by the world’s nations in defiance of climate alarmist contrived “Paris climate agreement” schemes. The Times story noted that: “The…
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor President Donald Trump said France’s new round of violent protests showed the Paris climate accord “isn’t working out so well” as thousands of “yellow vests” clashed with police Saturday. “The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning as France prepared…
The Guardian Headline for this study is rather alarmist: Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds Ranking of countries’ goals shows even EU on course for more than double safe level of warming Here is the abstract and introduction: Link to full study. Yann Robiou du Pont & Malte Meinshausen…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall It would all be so simple if engineers just got on with it and solved the problems. Science can succeed on climate change where politics fails And if someone makes money from finding a solution, who cares? NICK BUTLER For the past 20 years the orthodox response to the threat…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Come back to the Paris Agreement USA – poor countries need “financial support”. UN CLIMATE STATEMENT / 08 OCT, 2018 UNFCCC Secretariat Welcomes IPCC’s Global Warming of 1.5°C Report Statement on the Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C:…