I
can hardly emphasise this enough. The Paris agreement, along with
Trump’s withdrawal, is all a circus. None of the the commitments
can be kept.
Gaia’s
a bitch.She has a mind of her own after waiting for humans for far
too long.
We
live in the Age of Consequences.
Paris
climate agreement can’t stop global warming: US scientist
US
President Donald Trump’s decision that his administration would not
be adhering to the Paris Climate Agreement is “irrelevant”
because global warming is irreversible and will inevitably lead to
the demise of human life on Earth, an American climate scientist
says.
31 June, 2017
Trump is expected to pull his country out of a global pact to fight climate change known as the Paris Climate Agreement, a move that would have profound effects on the planet and deepen a rift with American allies.
Trump is expected to pull his country out of a global pact to fight climate change known as the Paris Climate Agreement, a move that would have profound effects on the planet and deepen a rift with American allies.
According
to Axios news outlet, which first reported the withdrawal, Trump’s
decision was influenced by a letter from 22 Republican senators,
including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who have called for an
exit from the landmark climate deal.
Axios
said details of the pullout are being worked out by a team that
includes Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott
Pruitt.
“That
comes as no surprise to anybody paying attention to global average
temperature, the Trump administration, the deep state that operates
within the United States or myriad of other factors associated with
our near term demise as species,” said Dr. Guy McPherson, professor
emeritus of natural resources - ecology - and evolutionary biology at
the University of Arizona.
“None
of this matters anymore, this is all a show, the Paris Agreement, the
Trump administration’s response to it,” McPherson said during an
interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
“All
of these distractions, all of these irrelevant activities are merely
a show to keep up from looking at the truth; to keep us from
acknowledging that we as individuals are going to die and that our
species is going to extinct and both of those are going to happen far
faster than expected,” he added.
“So
we really don’t need much time analyzing the Trump administration’s
response to the Paris Agreement. No United States presidential
administration was ever going to honor the agreement because it
couldn’t be honored.”
Trump
had refused to endorse the landmark climate change accord at a G7
summit in Sicily last week, saying he needed more time to decide.
Trump
has previously said climate change was a “hoax" to weaken US
industry.
The
decision would be a significant foreign policy break with nearly
every other nation on earth and a major reversal of the Obama
administration's efforts on climate change.
Where
does It place stuff like this?
Not only is the Paris agreement irrelevant, so is all that hype about how solar panels & wind turbines can get us off oil.
ReplyDeleteThat too is just another worthless distraction. The best I can say for those high tech "renewables" is that they will create JOBS in the short term & some wealthy people who live in energy efficient homes in climate favorable locations can save on their electric bills. They will still end up starving to death like the rest of us when the lights go out, they may still have theirs on but you cannot eat electricity & you can't substitute a concentrated,reliable, controllable, portable, energy source for one that's weak, dispersed, erratic & unreliable that's tied to that high energy, concentrated source, OIL.
We are in for a very painful awakening from which there is no escape.
Yes, Sheila, that about sums it up!
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