Posted on 11/15/2017 7:03:42 AM PST by Cheerio
US President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris Agreement will push up global temperatures nearly half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, according to a report released Wednesday at UN climate talks in Bonn.
If all countries—including the United States—honour carbon-cutting pledges under the 196-nation treaty, the world would see 2.8 C of global warming above pre-industrial levels, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) research group had previously calculated.
That is not nearly good enough to avoid climate catastrophe, scientists say.
The Paris pact, adopted in 2015, calls for capping the rise at "well below" 2 C, and even 1.5 C if possible, to avoid climate-addled future of extreme drought, deadly heatwaves and superstorms made more destructive by rising seas.
But if the US abandons its goals for reducing greenhouse gases, set under the Barack Obama administration, the end-of-century thermometer will climb even further to 3.2 C, the report showed.
"This is largely due to the fact that the United States is walking away from its 2030 target, and long-term 2050 goals," CAT said in a statement.
In 2015, the United States made a voluntary commitment to cut the country's emissions 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. Last year, it also laid out a "mid-century strategy" that would see it's emissions slashed 80 percent compared to a 2005 benchmark.
China, India 'stepping up'
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/sarcasm
No one is going to die. Well, except those who will die from the coming cold, and from government tyranny in the name of "global warming."
Gee didn’t Obama pledge to cool the planet and stop the rise of the seas when he was elected in 2008? Obvious he wasn’t too sucessful in 8 years, but Trump has already doomed the planet in less than one year. What a crock. Man caused global warming is the greatest hoax in human history.
God I hope so.
I’m cold.
The “climate pact” was ONLY a wealth transfers scheme from the U.S. to other countries.
It would have no impact on climate.
Obama already gave them a sh**load of money.
Now that is power. Make one decision and blam, the whole world gets hotter.
Now if he could just solve the problem of a zombie Congress.
Yes! Beaches in Alaska!!
Ping.
"This is largely due to the fact that the United States is walking away from its 2030 target, and long-term 2050 goals," CAT said in a statement."
I still don't understand how American $$$$$$$$$ will reduce green house gases.....isn't anyone else ponying up to make their air etc. clean as America's laws demand?.......
Fake News
Hard to believe that 195 countries can fix global warming on their own. One country won’t make a difference IF they are telling the truth and it can be done.......they are lying.
Exactly. Just this week there was a story about the US reducing carbon emissions. So by actually reducing emissions is bad. Paying tribute to the global warming gods is good.
Fake BS
Gibberish as well as just made up.
How is the U.S. being in the “climate pact” going to reduce atmospheric carbon (aside from destroying the U.S. and in turn destroying the world economy)? Not one “climate pact” goal has ever been met, and developing nations get a pass resulting in a net/net or net/increase in global carbon.
Just another bald face money grab by the globalists in an attempt to bring down the U.S. I’m frankly sick of all these globalist bastards and this crap needs to end.
In plain English, this means no country is required in any way other than of their own volition, to follow the guidelines set done in this accord.
It's like they all got together and said, "Okay if we don't have to, we'll try our best, but don't count on it."
I read a couple of weeks ago that Canada has already failed to achieve the promises they made at the Paris Accord.
All countries will have the same problem because this is just a ruse to get their money.
The only reason they're dissing the US is because Trump could see that it was just about picking the wallets of the US taxpayers and had nothing to do with climate change.
The only thing that is warmer is my wallet staying intact in my pocket.
Yea, Whatever...
In other news, New Delhi, India is now uninhabitable by humans without breathing apparatuses due to light inhibiting levels of smog.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pollution/smog-chokes-indian-capital-as-emergency-measures-fail-to-bring-relief-idUSKBN1DD0K1
Aren’t we already down to 1990 levels of CO2 beacuse of natural gas usage? What more dot they want?
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