Climate Hoax: Not A Single G-20 Country Is Close To Hitting CO2 Emission Targets

[Obama & Biden lied]

Environmentalism: A new report calls the lie on the grand Paris
climate change treaty. None of the promised cuts in CO2
emissions that 200-plus countries made will come close to
preventing a climate "catastrophe." And many of the
industrialized nations aren't even living up to the promises
they did make.

Two years ago, when the Paris agreement took effect, then-
President Obama declared that "history may well judge it as a
turning point for our planet."

It was a turning point in the level of empty rhetoric, perhaps.
But it won't make a bit of difference to the planet.

This farce was made abundantly clear in an annual report by
Climate Transparency, an international group focused on the G-20
nations.

Empty Promises
What did it find? "None of the G-20 (emissions targets) is in
line with the Paris Agreement." The report shows an enormous gap
between what the countries have pledged to do, and the far lower
CO2 emissions levels that the U.N. says are needed to keep the
planet from warming by 2 degrees Celsius.

In other words, even if every country lived up to their Paris
pledges, it wouldn't come close to preventing "catastrophic
warming."

It gets worse. As the report shows, most G-20 countries aren't
on track to meet the modest greenhouse gas reductions they
pledged to achieve by 2030.

As the Climate Transparency report notes, the EU "is not on
track to meet its 2030 target." Nor is Mexico, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Japan or Turkey.

A number of G-20 countries actually saw their emissions increase
in 2017, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France,
Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South
Korea and Turkey.

There's more:

Saudi Arabia's emissions will likely double by 2030, compared
with 2014. Turkey continues to increase coal-power capacity even
though it "runs strongly counter" to its pledges. Japan also has
several coal plants in the pipeline. Brazil's deforestation rate
has increased, despite its Paris promises to the contrary.
Russia's "target is so weak that it would not require a decrease
in (greenhouse gas) emissions from current levels."

And, to top it off, CO2 emission in China, already the world's
largest emitter, will likely continue to increase until 2030,
the report finds. It notes that coal consumption in China
"increased again in 2017."

Faulty Doomsday Scenarios
Longtime IBD readers know that we are highly skeptical of all
the climate change doomsday scenarios. They're all based on 100-
year forecasts made by computer models that have trouble
predicting what's already happened. And then there's the fact
that climate scientists keep getting caught fudging numbers and
making basic math errors. The latest involves a highly
publicized study on ocean warming. These errors, by the way,
always seem to go in one direction: toward making global warming
look more ominous. (Related: Is Global Warming a Hoax? Climate
Change Facts and Fiction.)

But even if the dire prediction environmentalist make is true,
trying to cut CO2 emissions to prevent it is pointless. As we
noted in this space recently, the U.N. says global CO2 emissions
must be cut in half within 12 years, and reduced to zero in 32
years.

It should be abundantly clear now that not a single G-20 nation
is taking the climate change issue seriously — no matter how
much they preach about it, and no matter how many empty promises
they make.

A Better Way to Deal with Climate Change
That's fine by us, since we think it's a waste of money.
President Trump was right to pull the U.S. out of this farce
rather than lend it any more undue credibility.

There is a better and far more sensible and frugal approach to
deal with "climate change." Forget about wasting money in a
futile attempt to quickly decarbonize every economy on the
planet. Instead, deal with localized changes if they ever occur.
Adaptation to hostile climates is something humanity has shown
an amazing ability to achieve, even without modern technology.

The only drawback to this approach is that politicians won't be
able to pat themselves on the back for "saving the planet."

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-g20-
emissions/

[R Kym Horsell]

In alt.global-warming Obama & Biden lied <obama.and....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Environmentalism: A new report calls the lie on the grand Paris
> climate change treaty. None of the promised cuts in CO2
> emissions that 200-plus countries made will come close to
> preventing a climate "catastrophe." And many of the
> industrialized nations aren't even living up to the promises
> they did make.

...

I don't understand.
Denial, doing nothing, and listening to advice from dum hicks has worked with COVID.
Why hasnt it working with climate?

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Total Climate Risk Index 2018: the 10 most affected countries

Rank Country Deaths Deaths Losses GDP% HDI rank
/100k (mns $PPP) (2018)
1 Japan 1282 1.01 35839 0.64 19
2 Philippines 455 0.43 4547 0.48 113
3 Germany 1246 1.50 5038 0.12 5
4 Madagascar 72 0.27 568 1.32 161
5 India 2081 0.16 37807 0.36 130
6 Sri Lanka 38 0.18 3636 1.24 76
7 Kenya 113 0.24 708 0.40 142
8 Rwanda 88 0.73 93 0.12 12
9 Canada 103 0.28 2282 0.12 12
10 Fiji 8 0.90 118 1.14 92

-- www.germanwatch.org/en/cri