Guest essay by Eric Worrall The United Nations has announced a long anticipated extended session in Bangkok, to help climate delegates overcome their differences. Extra climate talks scheduled amid Bonn stalemate Published on 08/05/2018, 7:51pm UN climate officials add a week-long session in Bangkok in September to the diary, as Bonn talks make insufficient progress…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Bloomberg has fulfilled an earlier promise by commiting to paying $4.5 million dollars to the United Nations, money which federal taxpayers would have paid had President Trump kept the USA in the Paris Agreement. Bloomberg gives $4.5 million to help U.S. keep Paris climate accord commitment APR 22, 2018…
Oren Cass joins John Stossel to talk about the Paris Agreement and how climate “catastrophists” are harming the debate over on how to adapt to the changing global climate. Video and transcript follows. This video is part of a special collaboration with John Stossel and City Journal contributors. Transcript John Stossel: Another hot year. Global warming! What will we do about that?…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Paris Agreement Architect and Former UNFCCC head Christiana Figueres is disappointed at the ongoing failure of heavy industry to reduce their dependency on vast amounts of reliable energy. INTERVIEW-Dirty industry undermines push to curb global warming – ex-UN climate chief by Sophie Hares | @SophieHares | Thomson Reuters Foundation Friday,…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mainstream Media demonstrating their lack of listening skills. President Trump’s Paris U-turn: I’d love to rejoin climate change accord … By Piers Morgan For The Mail On Sunday PUBLISHED: 10:31 AEDT, 28 January 2018 | UPDATED: 11:05 AEDT, 28 January 2018 President Trump caused outrage when he pulled America out…
Guest essay by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador A common argument against the Paris agreement has been that the “pledges” to cut emissions are only that: promises, targets, hopes. There is no way to enforce them, or even to verify them in many cases. Another common argument, highlighted in Trump’s speech but made since long before, is…
The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 during the COP21 climate conference stipulates that the increase in the global average temperature is to be kept well below 2°C above “pre-industrial levels” and that efforts are pursued to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above “pre-industrial levels.” Closer inspection of the treaty text, however, reveals that…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French President Emanuel Macron has admitted that greens are losing because President Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement. Emmanuel Macron says the world is losing the battle against climate change The World Today By Connie Agius French President Emmanuel Macron has told fellow world leaders that the battle against climate…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French Climate Ambassador Laurence Tubiana has insisted that hollow promises will have no place at this year’s anniversary Paris climate “gimme the money” fly-in. The climate change fight returns to Paris By Laurence Tubiana Monday 11 December 2017 European Climate Foundation chief and former French climate ambassador Laurence Tubiana calls…
By Andy May This is the first of seven posts on the potential costs and hazards of human-caused global warming and the impact of humans on the environment in general. The IPCC WGII AR5 Technical Summary, defines “hazards” on page 39: “The potential occurrence of a natural or human-induced physical event or trend or physical…