The AtlanticThe Global Rightward 🐉🦕🦖😈 👹 🏴 ☠️ 🚩 Shift on Climate Change
President Trump 🦀 may be leading the rich, English-speaking world to scale back environmental policies. By ROBINSON MEYER
AUG 28, 2018
SNIPPET 1:
At a basic level, this pattern holds up, well, everywhere. Every country except the United States supports the Paris Agreement on climate change. But no major developed country is on track to meet its Paris climate goals, according to the Climate Action Tracker, an independent analysis produced by three European research organizations. Even Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom—where right-wing governments have made combatting climate change a national priority—seem likely to miss their goals.
Simply put: This kind of failure, writ large,
would devastate Earth in the century to come. The world would blow its stated goal of limiting atmospheric temperature rise.
Heatwaves 🌡️ might regularly last for
six punishing weeks, sea levels could soar by feet in a few short decades, and certain fragile ecosystems—like the delicate Arctic permafrost or the kaleidoscopic plenty of coral reefs—would disappear from the planet entirely.
SNIPPET 2:
So Australia’s energy policy is now again adrift. Its new prime minister, Scott Morrison, is perceived in the country as being on the center-right, and he’s said he won’t abandon the Paris Agreement. But Australian carbon emissions have been rising for six years and it’s totally unclear whether it will meet its greenhouse-gas targets. The new prime minister has also already appointed a far-right opponent of renewable energy to lead Australia’s ministry of energy and environment.
What else drove this coup? Look to a July speech made by
Tony Abbot 🦀, a former Australian prime minister and by far its most conservative leader this decade. He exhorted Australia to follow
President Trump’s 🦀 lead and leave the Paris Agreement—which is notable, since Abbot himself signed the agreement. But the situation had changed: “Absent America, my government would not have signed up to the Paris treaty, certainly not with the current target,” he said.
Full article:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/a-global-rightward-shift-on-climate-change/568684/Agelbert NOTE: Excellent article. The Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🐉🦕🦖😈👹 never stop corrupting governments all over the world.
One day somebody will ask (
while they take one of these Big Oil Cretins to prison for life),
"What part of the FACT that CO2 is a pollutant that can wreak havoc on the biosphere in mere Parts Per Million do you NOT understand?".Earth with and without GHG:
The last time CO2 was this high: