Overall what came out of Paris was the diplomatic equivalent of a New Year’s resolution to go on a strict weight loss regime involving no more than six chocolate eclairs between meals. But the negotiators did pay some attention to one green concern: The goal has been lowered. Instead of pretending to take actions that will hold the total temperature increase down to 2 degrees Celsius, we will now, in the words of the document, solemnly pretend to “[pursue] efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.” There was, however, no mechanism specified to reach this target; nobody volunteered to adopt more aggressive decarbonization policies to implement this change in the real world. In other words, the world announced that it intends to lose weight on the same six eclair diet as before.
Via Judith Curry, who has more.
Update
So now India and Norway have basically dropped out of the historic climate agreement. https://t.co/ZObV6ODbgK
— Megawatt Herb Drench (@mdrache) December 14, 2015
To scar & nold:
Re: ‘Building a road about 75km from Saskatchewan River Crossing AB to Blaeberry BC through the Howse Pass’
As I recall it, this road would go through important elk calving grounds . . . can’t do that, can we?
Like scar said, Makes too much sense.
Shared with everyone in my contacts list:
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Despite what we’ve seen in the media, the noisy and well funded environmental groups have failed to convince most people that ‘climate change’ (nee, Global Warming) is a source of major concern.
“MyWorld, a United Nations survey (of) citizens” asked close to 10 million individuals from nearly every country, age, demographic and educational level for their concerns, ranked by importance. “Action taken on climate change” received the least number of responses. Of sixteen concerns, climate change ranked sixteenth – dead last, after ‘phone and internet access’.
Yet our intellectual and political betters are willing to transfer billions in taxpayer dollars to countries with at best, spotty records on governance, democracy, human rights and environmental responsibility. Despots and their families should do very well. Meanwhile said ‘betters’ will congratulate one another and heartily pat themselves on the back for demonstrating their moral superiority.
Those who have or will lose their jobs, should be grateful for the betters recent toils in Paris.
The United Nations sponsored survey is well worth a peek.