GOLDSTEIN: Big news on climate change — Gambia wins, Canada loses
Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Publishing date:Oct 09, 2021 • 16 hours ago • 3 minute read • 8 Comments
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Canada is a laggard in the international effort to avert catastrophic climate change, according to a major new study by Climate Analytics, a global, non-profit climate science and policy institute.
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The organization’s “climate action tracker” describes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies as “highly insufficient” in regard to achieving the United Nations’ Paris climate accord goal he signed Canada up for in 2015.
That is to hold global temperature increases to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
It says Trudeau’s policies are consistent with 4C of warming and Canada hasn’t committed sufficient funds to mitigate the impacts of climate change on poor nations.
We’re lumped in with a group of countries the climate tracker says are failing to do their part, including China, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia, Colombia, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Vietnam.
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But that’s not the most interesting finding in the report.
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Many previous studies have concluded Canada will fail to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to Trudeau’s target of 40% – 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, on the way to net zero by 2050.
And, to be fair, while the U.S. is doing slightly better than Canada — its efforts judged to be “insufficient” along with Chile, the European Union, Germany, Japan, Norway, Peru, South Africa and Switzerland — we’re not among the worst offenders.
They’re in the “critically insufficient” category — Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Thailand.
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But the most interesting finding in the climate tracker study is that the only country said to have climate policies compatible with achieving the Paris accord goals is Gambia, or, as it is formally known, Republic of The Gambia
But Gambia, a tiny country in West Africa of 2.5 million people, while relatively stable politically, is one of the world’s poorest nations, relying heavily on foreign aid.
That’s not a criticism of the country. It’s simply to note that the only nation on track to meet its climate target according to this study has nothing in common with a big, cold, northern, industrialized nation like Canada.
Now let’s look at the countries whose policies are “almost sufficient” to comply with the Paris accord.
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Only one is a major industrialized nation — the U.K. The others are Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal and Nigeria.
From this, we can deduce four things.
First, that as a big, cold, northern, sparsely populated country with significant fossil fuel resources, we will never hit Trudeau’s climate targets, or for that matter any target set by any Canadian government, Liberal or Conservative, as has now been the case for more than three decades.
Second, the only countries likely to succeed in meeting their climate targets will not be major industrialized nations but small countries in warmer climates with the help of foreign aid.
Third, despite Trudeau imposing a $40 per tonne carbon tax/price on Canadians this year, rising to $170 per tonne by 2030, preparing a second carbon tax called the clean fuel standard and committing almost $115 billion to climate action, clean growth and a green recovery since 2015, Canada will always be considered a climate laggard.
Fourth, carbon taxes/prices are becoming increasingly divorced from the claim their purpose is to combat climate change and correctly understood as a sin tax for using fossil fuels, raising the cost of almost all goods and services because almost all goods and services are created, grown, manufactured, or delivered using fossil fuel energy.
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GOLDSTEIN: Big news on climate change — Gambia wins, Canada loses
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never said i believed in climate change. i dont. its a climate change thread with climate change posts. no agenda. nothing more.You have become quite the bullshit spreader alright. The climate crisis is like the covid crisis. They both are nothing more than a pile of lying excrement. Wake up, fool, it is getting later than you think.
He just posts the whole news paper in various threads .You have become quite the bullshit spreader alright. The climate crisis is like the covid crisis. They both are nothing more than a pile of lying excrement. Wake up, fool, it is getting later than you think.
an exaggeration. as i had already said, i post the occasional news articles in hopes that some of the assholes that post here find it interesting, informative, funny, etc. there are others who have posted far more news articles than i have. its unfortunate that some of the people who post here are so fussy. see above.
You are correct about others , Twin Moose posts article after article from the same sources as well and Boomer has taken over from Cliffy in the meme department .an exaggeration. as i had already said, i post the occasional news articles in hopes that some of the assholes that post here find it interesting, informative, funny, etc. there are others who have posted far more news articles than i have. its unfortunate that some of the people who post here are so fussy. see above.
Maybe you and I should just PM news articles to each other Hahaan exaggeration. as i had already said, i post the occasional news articles in hopes that some of the assholes that post here find it interesting, informative, funny, etc. there are others who have posted far more news articles than i have. its unfortunate that some of the people who post here are so fussy. see above.
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I just watched the video where they launched that giant dildo (The craft I mean and not the paid passengers inside) into space briefly this morning. Sounds like one hell of a trippy trip if you can afford it.
I wonder what the carbon footprint for that 8&1/2 minutes was? Meh…Captain Kirk (at 90yrs old) made it into space as a promo so it was worth it. Got it in before COP26 too & probably less of a carbon footprint to boot!!!
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Will he get this one right?
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In its report titled “The Health Argument for Climate Action,” the W.H.O. calls climate change the “single biggest health threat facing humanity” and calls on governments to “act to tackle the climate crisis, restore biodiversity, and protect health.”
“While no one is safe from the health impacts of climate change, they are disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable and disadvantaged,” the report asserts.
To “avert catastrophic health impacts and prevent millions of climate change-related deaths,” the world must limit temperature rise to 1.5°C, the report states, referencing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“The climate crisis is upon us, powered by our addiction to fossil fuels,” writes Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, W.H.O. Director-General in his foreword to the report. “The consequences for our health are real and often devastating.”
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I just watched the video where they launched that giant dildo (The craft I mean and not the paid passengers inside) into space briefly this morning. Sounds like one hell of a trippy trip if you can afford it.
I wonder what the carbon footprint for that 8&1/2 minutes was? Meh…Captain Kirk (at 90yrs old) made it into space as a promo so it was worth it. Got it in before COP26 too & probably less of a carbon footprint to boot!!!
http://apple.news/AD69OJYtETGa2hSMnDvf0eA More UN hypocrisy on climate change:
More than 120 world leaders will gather in Glasgow, Scotland next month for another huge United Nations meeting on climate change, denouncing fossil fuels and proclaiming that “oil is dead”…etc….
Meanwhile, their governments are scrambling to procure oil, coal and natural gas in the face of a global energy shortage, as their economies begin to recover from the world-wide recession caused by the pandemic.
Politicians and global elites (& Greta’s) fly in from all over the world, leaving giant carbon footprints in their wake, and then pontificate about everyone else having to consume less and lower their standard of living to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The UN hasn’t figured out after a quarter century of these events — held in many of the world’s leading tourist destinations — that they run counter to its message of reducing fossil fuel use and should be held by video-conferencing….but what do I know?
This year its demonization of fossil fuels and uncritical praise of “green energy” will sound particularly hollow, given that the global economy desperately needs the fossil fuel energy provided by oil, coal and natural gas, to power itself out of the global recession caused by the pandemic.
The reason is that renewables, like wind and solar power, aren’t reliable enough to do the job, because their power is intermittent and cannot provide base load power to the electricity grid on demand.
This should be the year the UN comes to grips with the reality that the transition from fossil fuels to renewables must be done sensibly to avoid energy shortages that send the cost of living for ordinary people skyrocketing.
Instead, their likely message will be that the world’s need for fossil fuel energy means we must convert to renewables faster, which makes no sense.
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None of the elite bound for the grand climate shindig in Glasgow have to worry about unmeetable energy bills
This time there will be as many as 25,000 delegates travelling great distances by jet during a plague and — this will shock no one — as the BBC reports “COVID rules will be relaxed … (delegates) will not require to be fully vaccinated.” Of course not. Global warmers have virtue-signalling immunity.
There is no question how we got here. A couple of sentences from an opinion piece by David Blackmon in Forbes carries all the insight required: “Every new regulation, no matter how noble-minded, has (had) a cost, and the ‘energy transition’ has already demanded wave after wave of new regulation on fossil fuels. Claiming these actions bear no cost or consequence is simply absurd.”
All one needs to know is that while the western world is self-flagellating, China continues to build the equivalent of more than one coal-fired power plant a week, with no mention nor any consequences from the globalist elites.
Anyway, carry on. “Go Earth Muffins!!”
