I wish someone would tell Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon that the official U.S. response is “Get lost.”
Although global warmijng, so called, is a fiction, it’s a matter of Luddite New Age religious dogma and a cash cow for a multitude of NGOs around the world; as such, it is to be foisted off on the credulous and the cash-rich in exchange for legitimizing The Faith and transferring plenty of money. The Chinese aren’t buying, however, inasmuch as, being past masters of propaganda and bunk, they know it when they see it. The whole point of the exercise, of course, is to hobble economic advancement, which is anathema to the neo-Marxists attempting to pass off all this pseudo-science, and the Chinese know that. They refuse to allow their economic progress to be retarded in this fashion, and so should we.
Why we continue to piss money away in this bastion of fools and Marxists is beyond my comprehension...
“Ban said ...while he is not a scientist or economist: “The science is very clear. The economics is very clear.”
Ban, the fact that you are an elitist moron is very, very clear.
There was global warming 10000-15000 years ago. Seems like the human race got thru it alright. Even without the UN or Kyoto Accords they managed to invent agriculture.
Maybe instead of statism and force, environmentalists could, I don’t know, just leave individuals alone to respond in the way most to their own advantage by engaging in the appropriate form of productive activity.
Another means by which the Lilliputians can bind Gulliver. It is always easier to cut the other down than to go to the hard work of elevating yourself.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
By “emissions”, the authorities mean CO2, then we are nowhere NEAR any “tipping point”.
Carbon dioxide is ESSENTIAL to life as we know it, and if it were three, or four, or five times its present level, that would not impact negatively on either the mean temperature of our atmosphere and oceans, or in our ability to adapt to its presence.
Too much CO2 causes us to breathe faster, and may have some short-term effects on our body chemistry, but unlike carbon monoxide, is not in the least “poisonous”, else we could not finish a can of Coca-Cola.
As to the effect of CO2 on “global warming”, CO2 is a TRAILING indicator, its percentage of composition in the atmosphere increasing only AFTER the environment has grown measurably warmer. Despite grave warnings not th speak of the sun as the probable source of temperature variations on earth’s surface, the sun is still the major factor in the relative amount of heat retained in the oceans and atmosphere. And the core of earth itself, is a molten mass, with temperatures far too warm to be tolerated by living things that have evolved in the biosphere of this planet. This heat is continually leaking outward to the surface of the planet, sometimes in violent eruptions of magma flow, bur always a steady radiation and conduction through the upper layers of the earth’s crust.
The few non-left media outlets should take heed and repeat/reprint the astute comments on this forum. Great stuff.