Despite hoopla from the Obama Administration and many of the other 194 countries around the world that struck a historic deal to avoid global calamity caused by global warming, nothing will actually happen — yet.
Oh sure, after almost two weeks of nearly round-the-clock negotiations, the planet’s governments walked away with 31 pages of ideas and promises, but that’s about all.
Essentially, after years of political arm waving, harrumphing and slack-jaw gaping, the world has finally, pretty much agreed that humanity’s house is indeed on fire, but nobody has figured out much of anything to do about it.
Unfortunately, the planet, our home, is going up in flames while humans dicker over endless details. Pundits and proponents of the pact are saying that we should be ecstatic that the world has made at least this much progress.
Indeed, while other than a handful of noisy and influential political leaders here in the United States, the world has long ago well-understood that fossil fuel use is heating up the Earth, and it’s a catastrophe in the making.
It’s a complicated problem made even more difficult by absurd climate-change deniers in Washington, many of them top Republican leaders in Congress and some right here in Colorado. These ludicrously mistaken and misguided leaders have sworn to ignore reality and disregard the undeniable, overwhelming, global body of scientific evidence — and risk the viability of the human race as well as myriad other life forms — because of obstinate and partisan politics.
While the Paris pact did in fact at least set out agreements on just how much humans should try to limit global warming to, the agreement in no way is a road map or even an outline of what humanity should, or even can, do to first halt global climate warming, and then actually return the planet to its pre-industrialization temperature.
The science discerning global warming, and the science focusing on what we can do about it are probably among the most complicated bodies of natural science ever created. But the neurotic pseudoscience that deniers in Congress play to is no longer just annoying politics, but it’s a lurid and freakish danger to the lives of everyone on Earth.
This isn’t about people having to run air conditioners more than they have in the past, it’s about the loss of life and habitat for humans and thousands of other species. More crucial, a warmed planet could and likely will wreak havoc with world food production, risking mass starvation. Unique to Colorado are billions of dollars of ski, river and recreational industries that could be lost because of global climate change, in addition to billions of dollars at risk in agricultural industries.
Despite what some GOP leaders say, the problem is real. The danger is extreme. And the solution is difficult. Congress and the White House, whoever wins it next year, must move beyond dangerous denier politics and create ways to reduce so-called “greenhouse” gas emissions, and buffer the economy from challenging changes. Doing nothing or continued denying is not only not an option, it’s a priority and touchstone for 2016 voters. If your candidate denies or doesn’t have a viable plan, your candidate is risking your life or that of your children and grand children. We’re now beyond deniers’ crude and sophomoric arguments about the crisis, and those who still refuse to see a house on fire need to be dismissed as irrelevant, not accommodated and engaged.
It was an amazing event in Paris that led to acknowledgment of such a critical problem. But the real and hard work begins now as we are forced to find ways to vastly reduce the use of fossil fuels so we can.
Ah yes, the ‘sky is falling’ and we better stop eating oatmeal right away or face extinction! What you fail to realize, is that there are those of us who don’t think this is that big a deal, really, we don’t. We have scientists who support our beliefs, just like you folks. This is a scam Al Gore foisted on the America public years ago, and now has mega-millions from it. Windmills, solar panels, electric cars, subsidies for all, nah, you can have it, the sky is just fine where it’s at now.
Nothing like the topic of climate change to unhinge righties like goo man. It’s a “scam Al Gore foisted on the American public” according to the oracle of noise, ‘goo man’.
I’m certain the renewable energy tax credit in the latest budget bill has gooey scratching the walls. The goo man’s “sky” consists of an air tight bubble encasing his head.
Sorry. There has been NO warming for 18 years. Carbon Dioxide is what we breathe out. Do you want to get rid of all humans. Check out wattsupwiththat.com for better science. Yes, climate changes. It changes all.the.time. I don’t deny that climate changes. I deny that humans are the primary cause.
Yes, they do. Many liberals I have spoken with, say that very thing, ‘the Earth would be a better place without humans’. As inane as that sounds, nothing is off limits to the liberal mindset.
NOAA Relies On ‘Compromised’ Thermometers That Inflate US Warming Trend
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This is a huge hoax being perpetrated on the American public, Al Gore, of ‘I invented the internet’ (and Dave Perry, the editor here, states that mistruth all the time) and others are getting very wealthy, flying around in their private jet planes telling that story to naive liberal Democrats. ‘I fly, but you shouldn’t’ and they believe it still, unbelievable.
I read a headline in the Sentinel yesterday…….”Deniers still claiming the Earth is round”.
Nuclear energy tycoons such as the Clinton’s and Clinton retreads in the 0bama cadre know all to well that competing with coal, and natural gas will lessen their profits considerably. France, one the leading actors in the Global warming passion play has its deep pockets vested in Nuclear energy as well. I don’t doubt there has been and will be continuing damage to the environment for thousands and thousands of years to come, as the direct result of Nuclear disasters over the last 25 years, no matter how often they portray carbon as the culprit, or as some have stated, the ” emissions” from livestock as a major cause for global warming.
There was a report at the Academy of Science several years ago that explicitly claimed that Artificial Nitrogen Fixation processes (the stuff they use to make bombs and artificial fertilizers) are 180 fold more harmful to the environment than any carbon emission models. The.pdf file at the A of S, mysteriously disappeared during the G W Bush Presidency.