An assessment of the Paris Agreement;
“The Paris Agreement will do little to reduce the rate of warming but will divert trillions of dollars into low-carbon technologies, thereby reducing innovation in other areas, slowing economic growth and hindering adaptation and resiliency,” Julian Morris, vice president of research at Reason Foundation, writes in a new policy brief examining the expected results and effectiveness of the Paris climate deal.
“Innovation and associated economic development will likely be the most effective means by which humans address climate change. But the commitments made under the Paris Agreement would divert trillions of dollars into low-carbon technologies and government-funded schemes for mitigation and adaptation, thereby undermining the bottom-up processes that drive more widespread innovation and, as a result, impeding the ability of people to adapt to climate change and other threats,” Morris says. “Given the potential for the Paris Agreement to result in harmful and even counterproductive restrictions on economic activity, it would appear that ratification is not in the interests of the majority of signatory nations.”
The “Gospel of Theft”…because all those trillions will accomplish exactly NO CHANGE IN THE CLIMATE!
Climate Hustlers would be a more appropriate moniker; CO2 is not a poison gas nor in any way a harm to human existence, in fact it helps trees and plants grow and thus contributes to the ‘greening of the planet’.
But the “Gospel of Theft” needs justification on the grounds that all the carpetbaggers need to be paid/ransomed off.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Actually, some avoidance measures may increase emissions, as experience has shown in Ontario. Because of wind’s first access to the grid, nuclear and hydro is off-loaded. But with loading on wind also is loaded on gas-fired backup, resulting in a significant emissions increase, as opposed to a situation where the wind generation did not exist.
Politicians of all shades of shadiness like to be liked
by friendly generous rent seekers with long memories.
Wasting huge amounts of the taxpayers money on the
frauds thought up by “enviro religion friends” of an
on the take pol is a given.
Climate change is the perfect excuse for everything. Nobody knows how much change is just enough, and nobody knows what the perfect temperature of the earth should be, even if they could measure the average temperature with more accuracy than ±1°C, which they can’t. More importantly there is no way to prove that human activities are causing any of it.
Toxic pollution however is almost entirely caused by humans and most of it is caused by burning coal in Asia where there are no pollution regulations. The pollution from making all that cheap Asian cr@p consumers love to buy is spewed into the sky, into the water and across the land. But hey, it’s not in Mr&Mrs Canada’s back yard, so who cares; let’s go shopping.
More greenhouse gasses are emitted making all that cheap imported cr@p, than all the Canadian fossil fuel we burn to heat our buildings and run our vehicles.
So why isn’t the government taxing all that cheap imported cr@p that actually causes most of the GHGs and toxic pollution? Instead they tax Canadian fossil fuels that pay Canadian taxes, provide Canadian jobs, a roof over our heads and food on our tables. What’s the sense in that?
“What’s the sense in that?”
Kleptocracy.
They have to have yuge expensive projects with low accountability and little effect that they throw our taxes at in willy-nilly fashion in order to cover for the kickbacks and influence they are buying.
In all of history, nothing has fit the bill as perfectly as AGW/Climate Change for this purpose.
You have to let go of the idea that the government does things for our benefit and embrace the understanding that Government is Theft.
That is correct. When the spokesman for Ont Society of Professional Engineers mentioned this to Steve Paikin on The Agenda, he almost fell out of his chair.You mean billions invested in wind turbines in Ont will result in more Co2 emissions? Yes in the long term, as the Engineers commissioned report told the government.(This episode can still be viewed at the Agenda archives)
But the Ont foray into Wind power has nothing to do with clean air or reduced Co2, it is intended to allow urban Ontarians feel as if “something is being done” to influence “Climate change”. The Paris accord simply repeats this illusion at a vastly higher scale.
I see where Bill Nye the mad Scientists Guy wants global warming skeptics locked up the same gose wtih many the man made climate change cult of gaia worshipping wanks becuase they want us to sacfifice the unborn and virgins to their agan deities they worship during their rediculous earthday celebrations and thats on friday
Quite right, Martin, I saw that too. Paikin was just as dismayed some episodes prior when Duncan Hawthorne flatly told him that it was the restart of six Ontario reactors, two at Pickering and four at Bruce which allowed the coal shutdown. He’s never allowed any nuclear people on the show again, to my knowledge.
Worse about wind, it’s a solution the liberal-voting urbanites can foist off on the conservative-voting rural population. And that too is by design.
Lefties don’t like hearing that their panaceas usually have undesirable side effects.
S.P. – Damn, Earth Day is Friday? I will be out of country and unable to light my properties with floodlights and strobes and lasers as I did during Earth Hour. I wanted my own pixel in the satellite images.