A coalition of left-wing NGOs is circulating a petition at the UN climate talks in Bonn demanding the UN kick the United States delegation out of the conference!
The UN was founded under the principle that all nations would receive a seat at its table, free to participate, regardless of who they are.
For this reason, you’ll often see communist dictatorships sitting alongside kingdoms and democratically elected republics at these UN meetings.
Yet the election of President Trump went beyond the pale?
David Wojick reports at CFACT.org: “Spearheading the petition drive is the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA). According to their website, they are the largest Civil Society platform in climate change and sustainable development, with a membership of more than 1000 organizations and networks.”
The United States is a full member of the UN process, and for the next few years at least, the Paris climate agreement as well.
The rule of law doesn’t matter to left-wing NGOs, but whom exactly do they think pays for this shindig?
Fun facts: The U.S. pays for 22% of the UN budget and 20% of the UN climate process. After Africa gets done throwing us out, are they ready to pick up the tab?
In a more constructive vein, CFACT is partnering with EIKE, the European Institute for Climate and Energy, to co-sponsor a conference which opens today in Dusseldorf, Germany. The conference will feature CFACT’s Marc Morano, Craig Rucker and many other prominent science and policy experts including Nir Shaviv, Henrik Svensmark, Francois Gervais, Horst Lüdecke, Lord Christopher Monckton and many more.
CFACT is particularly grateful for the hard work and talent of longtime friends Dr. Holger Thuss, Wolfgang Mueller and Michael Limburg of EIKE who put together this important conference.
I’m writing from the conference, which opened minutes ago, where CFACT’s Marc Morano is speaking right now. He’s taking the crowd through the history of the climate scare, from A to Z, and declared President Trump exiting the Paris agreement to be a cause for celebration.
An interesting element of this year’s UN conference is that it is chaired by the island nation of Fiji, though hosted by Germany. The conceit is that island nations are vanishing. One fascinating topic in our conference in Dusseldorf will be a report in just a few hours by Dr. Nils Axel Morner, a world renowned expert on sea level, who has just returned with a report from Fiji. We’re told that aside from some local erosion, he found no meaningful sea level rise. This would be consistent with the sea level data we’ve frequently reported.
The facts remain overwhelmingly inconvenient for the global warming narrative.
We’ll take rational exposition of the facts with EIKE over hysterical efforts by left-wing NGOs to censor the facts any time.
Unfortunately, Mr. Morano is talking to members of the climate realists community, who are being kept in their own isolated bubble by politicians and most of the media.
We can expect the barrage of catastrophic propaganda emanating from the Bonn conference to get massive media play.
Climate realists think they are winning, but the global warming scare juggernaut is going on full bore. New measures to fight climate change are still being adopted worldwide by national, regional and local jurisdictions as if the whole thing was as true as the Law of gravity.
Live video from the event?? Where is it??
It’s not surprising that the rest of the attendees at Bonn want the US left out of the process. The Paris Accord would have been much stricter and more binding but for the protestations of the US government (under Obama, because he knew that US politicians would kick up a stink if it had anything binding).
Then, after watering down the agreement for the benefit of the US, Trump flounced out of the agreement anyway.
That is a pretty shitty move.
The rest of the world therefore justifiably sees the US as a bad actor and would rather that it just got out of the room so that the rest of the world could get on with saving the planet, without the US in there running interference.
The rest of the world sees the US as an ignorant corrupt and offensive actor right now. They will act accordingly. I would not be surprised to see carbon tariffs discussed to tax imports from countries like the US that are not engaged with the process or actively reducing emissions.
The rest of the world “saving the planet”??!!! How? By increasing their CO2 emissions? By reducing their emissions more than America?
Good grief, do you really believe any of the nonsense you write? In comparison to evil Trump America, how much has Japan, Canada, UK, Germany or any other nation reduced their carbon emissions?
IT’S A SCAM!!!!
I am not sure what your point is but if it’s about the honesty of other countries intent to reduce emmissions
UK down by 36% since 1990
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/uk-carbon-emissions-drop-to-lowest-level-since-19th-century-study-finds
Germany down ~20% since 1990
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Total_greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_countries_(including_international_aviation_and_indirect_CO2,_excluding_LULUCF),_1990_-_2015_(million_tonnes_of_CO2_equivalents)_updated.png
It’s true the Japan has not cut emmissions as planned but some part of that was due to the Fukushima disaster where a number of nuclear plants were abruptly taken offline.
Canada had a climate sceptic government for many years and was producing some of the dirtiest oil in the world, so it’s emmissions rose throughout the 90s and stayed constant through the 2000s, but they are falling now. It does have lots of work to do.
But that is the point of the Accord. These governments have committed to concrete reduction targets. They would have been binding commitments had the US not been part of the process.
Trump has only been in power 10 months. Even before then, the GOP have consistently blocked any regulation of CO2 emmissions. Trump is trying to revive the coal industry, the dirtiest form of power generation. Pruitt at the EPA is trying to reverse and action on CO2 control, even censoring the EPAs own scientists from talking at an event about climate change effects in part of the US. So clearly the direction of travel within the administration is to deny climate change is a man made phenomenon (even Pruitt has had to back off saying it’s not happening) and ignore any concerns about emmissions reductions.
The purpose of the Paris Accord is to limit emmissions, help poor countries that will be adversely affected by climate change to adapt, and to help all poor countries with new technologies to reduce their own emissions growth. The US has signalled that it does not share these goals.
If the Paris Accord is to limit emissions, then how come India, China and the rest of the developing world get to spew out virtually unlimited amounts of CO2 from coal fired power plants? What turnip truck did you fall off of?
Paris doesn’t do squat–its only purpose is to fleece the USA and industrialized countries and give massive amounts amount of money to poor backward countries. All the while letting China, India and the other developing Asian countries build their economies using FOSSIL FUELS!!!!!!
It’s okay. There’s no such thing as AGW.
You still keep stating that there is no specific such thing as AGW but in the other thread you demonstrated that you don’t d not even understand the mechanism by which CO2 warms the atmosphere so clearly you are not (yet) bringing any meaningful discussion on that point.
Regarding who emits what under the Paris accord there are reasons why the developed countries are paying most. First, we are richest, second we have much higher carbon emissions per capita and third, we put the CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place.
Despite that, China’s emissions have already peaked and are falling.
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/31/chinese-co2-emissions-really-peaked/
India has very ambitious projects underway to build huge solar plants right now but it is a very poor country with a GDP per capita 3% that of the US, just $1700 per year, so it’s hardly unreasonable that they get help to transition away from coal fired power. Also it’s carbon emissions are 1.7 tonnes per capita vs 16.7 tonnes in the US. So yes, the plan is to limit the growth in the emissions in the short term and have emmissions falling ASAP but suggesting that their emissions could be expected to fall from the very low levels right now, especially with no help transition to low emissions technologies is clearly fantasy.
The US and the rest of rich world on the other hand have very high emissions per capita and have been emitting billions of tonnes of CO2 per year for decades. So it is fair that we make the most effort and pay the highest price to solve the problem.
Using “per capita” statistics is just lying with statistics since the only number that counts is the AMOUNT of CO2 put into the atmosphere. The atmosphere doesn’t work by per capita statistics.
And that’s BS that China’s emissions have peaked–it’s propaganda from the Communist Party. They’re getting rich selling gullible countries cheap solar panels while they build fossil fuel power plants.
The fact that India is poor by any measure is irrelevant if they are one of the major polluters on the planet. They’re POOR and have no way to produce expensive “renewable” electricity. You can’t power aluminum smelters with solar panels.
But this is all irrelevant because Trump has pulled the plugged on all of this insanity.
It is ludicrous to not use per capita emmissions figures as a measure of contribution. It’s hardly unreasonable that a country with 4 times the population is going to have a higher emmissions budget.
As it is India’s ABSOLUTE emmissions are a THIRD of the US. So as an American to call it a major polluter, is the height of hypocrisy, by US standards, in absolute and per capita measures, it’s a minnow.
Yes, India is poor, so it’s reasonable to assist them with their energy transition to bridge the gap between the short term cost of dirty coal vs renewables in the short term. As renewables costs fall that assistance will cease to be necessary.
And China has cut its build out of coal fired stations by 2/3 in one year (reducing it by 110GW, as of March this year) and plans to slow it further. That is a huge turnaround that belies your assertion that they are just doing business as usual.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/coal-power-plants-green-energy-china-india
It is also deploying massive amounts of solar itself. It is cumulatively adding about 40% to its solar generating capacity every year and was at 77GW at the end of 2016. It has grown its installed base by 10x in 5 years.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/China_Photovoltaics_Installed_Capacity_2016.png
So every assertion you make is false or baseless in evidence. Everything you say is ignorant of the facts and heavily biased to support the conclusion that you want to be true but cannot demonstrate to be true.