NOTE:
Our planet has
already had
at least +1.5
degrees C.
of global warming
since the
late 1600s.
Based on
Central England
thermometers,
the warming was
+2 degrees C.,
( with the starting point
based on the average
temperature from
1670 through 1700. )
It's VERY obvious
THERE WAS
NO BAD NEWS
from actual global
warming since
the late 1600s !
But never mind
reality, and the
obvious fact that
very little of that
past warming could
have been caused
by man made CO2.
Now let's move into
the UN's climate
fantasy world,
where the future
global warming
is imagined to be
an existential threat,
and natural climate
changes, in progress
for 4.5 billion years,
are imagined to
no longer exist:
SUMMARY:
The +1.5C goal of
the Paris Agreement
is backed by UN chief
António Guterres,
and the majority of
the world’s nations.
At least that's what
the politicians say.
The Agreement
requires achieving
net zero global CO2
emissions by 2050.
There are no penalies
if the goal is not met.
World leaders were asked
to come to the UN recently,
with concrete plans
to cut CO2 emissions
to net zero.
But presidents and
prime ministers of the
largest CO2 emitting
economies stumbled.
Their boring speeches
just "tap danced" around
the challenge.
The only "major
accomplishment"
reported by
the mass media:
-- Swedish teenage
climate activist
Greta Thunberg,
brought the hall
to tears as
she called out
leaders for
their inaction:
“Yet you all come
to me for hope?
How dare you,”
she said.
DETAILS:
The UN's Guterres
had asked world leaders
to come to UN, and tell
the world how they
would meet that
net zero carbon
emissions goal.
A coalition of 77
smaller countries
said they were
committed to achieve
net zero emissions
by 2050.
"How” any of
the nations would
convert their climate
goals into specific
economy-wide policies,
was left unanswered.
Former French climate
ambassador, and CEO
of the European
Climate Foundation,
Laurence Tubiana, said:
“I haven’t met
any leaders
who know
... how to
get there.
... most leaders
don’t have a clue”
how they will meet
a 1.5C compatible
target."
UK and FRANCE:
Both nations have already
passed legislation to become
carbon neutral by 2050.
UK prime minster
Boris Johnson said the
UK would use “technology”,
but provided no specifics.
POLAND:
Back in June 2019,
Poland was one of four
nations that blocked
an agreement for the
EU to achieve net
zero emissions
by 2050.
So the EU came
to the UN with
nothing of value.
GERMANY:
Germany’s environment
minister, Svenja Schulze,
said her government does
“not know exactly how
to reach carbon neutrality”,
a goal set by chancellor
Angela Merkel.
CHINA:
China's climate targets are
basically “business-as-usual”.
Chinese president Xi Jinping
didn't come to the UN
-- he sent Wang Yi,
a special representative,
who said China would meet
its Paris Agreement pledge,
but made no suggestions
of how.
Nor was there a hint
of when China's CO2
emissions would peak.
INDIA:
Indian prime minister
Narendra Modi made
no mention of reducing
India's coal dependence;
which is one of
the UN's Guterres’
key demands.
In India, 75% of the
country’s electricity
is generated by coal.