Losing the Battle To Stabilize the Planet’s Climate
In the course of writing my books, I met several climate scientists who attend these “COP” summits on global warming, and they were, to a person, extremely disappointed. One told me, “We had to stay another day to work out one declarative sentence that presented what we had accomplished.”
COP 25 in Madrid just wrapped up, and the results seem equally dismal. From an attendee: The latest text has been released this morning and all the language on ambition has been scrapped. Countries are now “invited” to “communicate” by 2020 their mid- and long-term climate plans. No language to “update” or “enhance”.
More than 100 civil society groups and numerous climate scientists were shocked by the weak language that emerged from the late-night talks on Saturday, and released a joint statement condemning the U.S., Australia, the E.U., and other wealthy countries that emit much of the carbon that’s warming the planet, for insisting on a deal “only for the corporate elites, while damning people and the planet.”
In case it needs to be said, the Earth’s people didn’t do anything to deserve this.
Craig,
“Stabilize the Planet’s Climate”
WTF! That’s just about the most unscientific concept yet! The planets climate is never “stable”. Earth’s climate has always been in a state of flux and change.
No wonder the latest talk-fest inevitably ended in a farce!
Unlike Paris, this time the fashionable Eurocrat’s couldn’t be even bothered to try and look sincere in front of all those fringe groups.
With the loss of the UK from the EU, it’s only a matter of time before others start agitating to leave or impose reform.
The world largest two polluters were not included in the joint statement for ideological reasons, so even the leftist group and ambitious climate scientists couldn’t really be bothered to keep up the pretense COP 25 was about the environment, preferring to pursue an ideological agenda instead.
Trump, Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison are all political outsiders, but all have won substantial public trust and confidence due, in part, to their opponents extremism.