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Here is an article illustrating LIE-beral values and exposing their fake news on environmental issues! LIE-berals are concerned about GRAVY and NOT about dirty air! With some comments of my own in brackets):
The Paris agreement - a pretentious, moralistic, socialist document
By Lorne Gunter , Edmonton Sun.
First posted: Saturday, June 03, 2017 05:35 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, June 03, 2017 05:49 PM EDT
It’s funny how esteem for the Paris climate accord has grown since it was signed in December 2015.
Back then it was seen as a weak, political document filled with meaningless promises, diplomatic compromises and dubious science. Yet now that U.S. President Donald Trump has withdrawn his country from the accord, you would think the Paris agreement had descended, wrapped in gold, from a shimmering cloud.
The Paris accord isn’t close to being a binding agreement. Nor is it based much on science.
It has no hard-and-fast emission-reduction targets: Governments set their own targets based on what they think they can get away with voters or what they think they have to give up to shut up the environmental lobby- which is huge and extremely well-funded- and its media pals.
For instance, in Paris, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed Canada to reducing its emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
There is no way for us to do that without crippling our economy and putting millions out of work. That kind of emissions cut would require the equivalent of parking every car, truck, airplane, bus and train in the country – permanently – or shutting down every factory and non-nuclear power plant.
(And can you imagine the screaming if civil service Hogs were FORCED OFF grossly polluting airplanes- so no more holidays in the sun for them! And got charged heavy taxes for the privilege of ripping up the environment on their gas guzzling ATV`s and ski-doos! Or were forbidden to use those riding lawn mowers that spew more carbon in five minutes than a modern car on the highway running thirty minutes- how could Sunshine List Hogs maintain their 3 or 5 or 10 acre estates without those piggy machines? Or the Hog rage on display if they then had to ride over crowded public transit to work just like ordinary peasants?)
Not gonna happen. But fear not, the Paris accord gives the UN no power by which to enforce our promised reductions or punish our failure.
So how then can the UN claim adherence to Paris will keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C? The same way Al Capone could claim he made a meagre middle-class income while pocketing millions annually from bootleg liquor: creative accounting.
As Tim Kruger of Oxford University’s geo-engineering program pointed out in London’s Guardian paper in April 2016, all of the models that show the Paris accord stopping climate change are based on “massive deployment” of biomass energy coupled with technology to capture the carbon dioxide that will be created and “sequestering” it in the ground.
But the technology for neither of those – neither mass energy generation from biomass (burning wood chips, seaweed, cornstalks, etc.) nor mass carbon sequestration – exists yet on a large enough scale. And there is no evidence on the horizon it is coming, either.
(With the added bonus that nobody really knows if carbon sequestering underground will work in the long term! Who says it wont cost more to pump carbon dioxide into the rocks than we will be saving- since its never been done before on a large scale- and with NO long term studies for effectiveness!)
Furthermore, biomass burning to create electricity produces about one-quarter more carbon dioxide and vastly more aerial solids than burning coal. So it is entirely possible that if the Paris accord is applied before the technology exists to use biomass more cleanly, adhering to Paris will actually make climate change worse.
(Ontari-owe LIE-berals have already converted a coal burning electric generating station in the Thunder Bay area to burn `biomass` instead. Too bad there is NO North American supplier and LIE-berals have arranged to ship biomass in from Europe- with a HUGE carbon foot print and with electricity from that plant now costing TWENTY FIVE TIMES MORE than for natural gas fired plants! But LIE-berals DID save SIXTY civil service Hog jobs and that is the whole point- to produce MORE Hog gravy and screw the tax payers and the dirty air! LIE-berals assure us that they are looking for a North American supplier of biomass- which translates into some LIE-beral friend getting a GREAT LONG TERM DEAL at our expense!)
(A year after Our idiot Boy Justin was elected- our resident airhead David Suzuki was moved to call Trudope rude names for being a fake environmentalist as Our idiot Boy had taken NO action on environment in his first year in office!)
As Kruger pointed out, “There is a distinct lack of evidence to determine whether (biomass and carbon capture) are technically feasible, economically affordable, environmentally benign, socially acceptable and politically viable.” Yet the whole of the Paris accord is based on these magic-wand technologies appearing in the next decade or two on such a grand scale that they can save the planet.
(Certainly the pubic is vastly hostile to incineration of garbage- which is basically what biomass is- all sorts of scrap paper, packing crates and anything else burnable stuffed into a furnace to boil water and spin turbines and such burning has a habit of producing dioxin and other lethally dangerous chemicals so nobody wants to live down wind from a plant! And the REPEATED failures of the new Durham Region incinerator facility at the south end of Courtice Rd suggest LIE-berals are handing out FAKE NEWS about biomass! And public perception of the facility is NOT being helped by the number of secret `in camera` meetings between govt and facility builders and operators to discuss the unacceptable levels of pollution belching out the stacks- WAY BEYOND claimed design parameters!
In its first couple of years operation the plant has been repeatedly partially or fully shut down for “upgrades” in an effort to make it perform according to the advertising!)
Since Paris is a largely toothless, rhetorical symbol – and not a legally binding treaty – might it have been wiser for Trump and the U.S. to take the easy way; play the Paris game and pretend to be committed the way the Chinese are?
Maybe. I commend the U.S. president for his honesty and political courage in dumping the pretentious, moralistic, socialist document.
The hysterical reaction to Trump’s move, though, shows how much more importance “progressives” place on appearances over of results. Former U.S. President Barack Obama even popped his retired head up to insist his successor had “turned his back on the future.”
(Our idiot Boy Justin has shown us what Paris Accord is really about- as he has ALREADY committed us to buying two billion dollars worth of carbon credits- nebulous things that Paris Accord socialists DEMAND that all western nations purchase from the third world as the price of pollution- with NO way to actually measure the benefit of carbon credits! In fact- there is ample evidence that buying carbon credits will worsen our air as the billions of dollars being transferred will allow for MORE pollution and larger carbon footprints in unregulated third world countries!)
Oh, please, the Paris accord was such a sham that U.S. withdrawal will do nothing to rescue or destroy Earth.
(LIE-berals are far more interested in slamming Trump and all the values he represents than they are in cleaning the environment! LIE-berals are focused on clinging to power at any price- simply because they are so lost in their arrogance they believe they ARE ENTITLED to lead!)
