Reprieve! Binding Paris treaty now voluntary mush

Posted by WBD 8 years, 5 months ago to Science
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I couldn't be more satisfied.


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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 5 months ago
    Did you really expect it to be anything more than just a joke. These are the plans of "Mice" and not of Men.
    Like almost all of their efforts...their doomed to failure and I too am temporarily "satisfied".
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you're referring to the difference between ISIS and ISIL - big difference. Like thousands of square miles difference and most notably the inclusion of Israel.
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  • Posted by Flootus5 8 years, 5 months ago
    CFact has been very active on this matter. They premiered their documentary "Climate Hustle" in Paris right in the middle of all this.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 5 months ago
    So here's their plan:

    They will take money from ordinary people in wealthy countries and give it to wealthy people in poor countries who will build overpriced, unreliable renewable energy projects which will produce power too expensive for ordinary poor people there to buy. This will only happen after the UN bureaucrats, corrupt governments and dictators line their own pockets.

    $100 Billion/yr. can line a lot of pockets.

    There you have it folks. Socialism at it's finest!!!
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  • Posted by peterchunt 8 years, 5 months ago
    At least the American public understands what is important and what is not, and this so-called climate change is really low on their priorities.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and ISI is Islamic State Iraq. or was that Iran...maybe it was ISII does obama have a dictionary of The Obaminated Obaminations for Powerful Rebuke Speech?
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Minor correction: He created ISIL. If you look at the difference, it is actually quite significant. ISIS is Islamic State In Syria. ISIL is Islamic State In Levant. The Levant is the area from Syria, across Lebanon, Israel to the Mediterranean. In other most of the Middle East.
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  • Posted by ewv 8 years, 5 months ago
    "Press Release 12/12/15 http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c...

    "GWPF Welcomes Non-Binding And Toothless Un Climate Deal

    "London 12 December: Dr Benny Peiser, the director of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), has welcomed the non-binding and toothless UN climate agreement which was adopted in Paris tonight.

    "Dr Peiser said:

    “'The Paris agreement is another acknowledgement of international reality. The deal is further proof, if any was needed, that the developing world will not agree to any legally binding caps, never mind reductions of their CO2 emissions.'

    "'As seasoned observers predicted, the Paris deal is based on a voluntary basis which allows nations to set their own voluntary CO2 targets and policies without any legally binding caps or international oversight.'

    'In contrast to the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris deal removes all legal obligations for governments to cap or reduce CO2 emissions. This voluntary agreement also removes the mad rush into unrealistic decarbonisation policies that are both economically and politically unsustainable.'”
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  • Posted by ewv 8 years, 5 months ago
    Dec. 11, 2015 "US Threatens To Walk Out Of Paris Talks If Financial Obligations Made Legally Binding" http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c...

    "The night saw an ugly brawl as US secretary of state John Kerry threatened that developed countries, including the US, would walk out of the agreement if it help up the wall of differentiation or if it was asked to commit to a road-map or a goal to deliver on its financial obligations in the Paris agreement. 'You can take the US out of this. Take the developed world out of this. Remember, the Earth has a problem. What will you do with the problem on your own?' he said behind closed doors in negotiations to other ministers on the second revised draft of the Paris agreement...

    "Making a veiled threat again that the agreement could fail if the US was pushed for financial obligations, Kerry said, 'At this late hour, hope we don’t load this with differentiation…I would love to have a legally binding agreement. But the situation in the US is such that legally binding with respect to finance is a killer for the agreement'...

    "In the past the developed countries have been unable to deliver financial flows against their commitments of providing US $ 100 billion annually by 2020. The OECD produced a report recently claiming the rich world had delivered US $ 62 billion by 2014 which the rich countries showed off at the Paris talks. But developing countries, including India, noted gross levels of double accounting and counting of high interest loans as climate finance – which is seen as a reparation cost. The developing countries asked that a road-map for delivery of the US $ 100 billion be fixed at Paris and that the accounting rules too be set by the UN climate convention blocking attempts of creative accounting by developed countries. This was partially reflected in the second revised draft of the Paris agreement." [emphasis added]
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The biggest problem is that he does deal with those Islamists. He created ISIS and is still arming them.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 5 months ago
    we have East Anglia and NASA to thank for the proof
    that the numbers which are in use are bogus. . and this
    agreement is also bogus. . Thank You! -- j
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd add "radical leftist" or "econazi" to that.
    I almost wrote "socialist" before I considered the Chinese not cooperating by turning off their smokestacks. Keep those exports flowing!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 5 months ago
    Climate Change B.S. is a diversion. He refuses to deal with radical Islamists. He does everything to avoid and divert in order to wait out the rest of his term and let the next president deal with it. Traitor, scumbag, liar, there just aren't enough expletives to describe this !@#$%$#@! that the American People have been foolish enough to elect - Twice!
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My meaning was that he couldnt actually affect the use of carbon in our economy in the next year (that couldnt be undone as soon as he is gone). It would just take too long for whatever he actually could get through to have much effect. Note that his stupid Obamacare took 5 years to be implemented, and even so it was a disaster still unfolding.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago
    Guess they will have to wait for the WTO meeting for their party time speaking of protesters. Wouldn't want to host that one when the mob shows up and so do the dynamite vests.
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  • Posted by edweaver 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Was that sarcasm? That Obama can't really do much in the next year?? I hope your right but fear he can still do allot of damage.
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  • Posted by $ TomB666 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly! The Michael Bloomberg's and Hillary Clinton's of the world will not give up anything - they want us to move back to the dark ages where stupid people like them can rule unopposed.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 8 years, 5 months ago
    I expected this result. The Chinese also ruined all prospect for a "framework agreement" six years ago (COP-15 in Copenhagen).

    But I would still advise any right-thinking Senator to refuse concurrence on this treaty.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
    Fastest way for Obama to slash CO2 emissions is to stop the motor of the world and bring us all back to living in natural caves and starving to death. No human movement or actions would certainly accomplish his goal.
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