Weird, I thought global warming just went after poor countries.
As an alarm call, the surge in emissions revealed by the International Energy Association is deafening. After the banking crisis of 2008, the cooling of the global economy had appeared to have given our wheezing, warming world pause for breath.
As GDP went into reverse, so did energy use and the pumping of planet-heating gases into the atmosphere. Attempts to agree global action went into reverse at the same time, despite the 120 heads of state who burned the midnight oil in Copenhagen in 2009.
But while the global economy has roared back to life, the UN’s negotiations remain on life support, and with little hope of recovery.
Two truths emerge from this mismatch. First, the link between economic growth and carbon dioxide must be broken. The world’s economy runs on energy, and while most of that power continues to comes from coal, oil and gas, global GDP and carbon emissions will be bound together in lockstep. The latest data show a near perfect correlation, and that shows how little impact, in a worldwide context, renewable and nuclear power is making.
Second, the rich industrialised world and the poor developing world must align their hopes and fears: they inhabit the same planet. All nations are united in understanding that unchecked climate change poses a grave threat in every part of the world.
I’ve lived on this planet a long time, and everything seems just about the same as it always did – other than the massive increase in the number of complete morons.
“The world’s economy runs on energy”. What the hell else do people think it runs on? When are people (especially the left) going to get it … access to cheap, abundant energy = prosperity. The alternative is poverty.
And darkness.
“unchecked climate change ”
since when has it ever been checked?
Unchecked climate scientists and environmentalists pose a far graver threat with their blatant lies and hypocracy.
The Guardian has gone into full propagand mode with 10 articles a day on imagined eco disasters that will destroy all our offspring and their offspring. In the mean time no reports of Phil Jone’s reaffirming that no significant warming has occurred since 1995 at a climate debate in early May 2011. Have warmistas turned into global warming fanatics who ignore the evidence of satellites and ocean buoys? It’s obvious Phil Jones is hedging his bets. WAPO is defending Mann again. WAPO stands for We Are Pro Obama as they are in full Obama re-election mode. lol