OldLady
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Sure. Just give me a couple of days to liquidate some assets.Hate to tell you this, but from what I've heard, everyone has always known that. The amount being contributed by burning fossil fuels is making it worse, and by putting the brakes on the C02, it is supposed to slow the warming to a number we can manage.Oh the horror the Washington Compost must feel..damn the AGW cult and junk science is going on steroids ..
Rick Perry just denied that humans are the main cause of climate change
Rick Perry just denied that humans are the main cause of climate change
By Steven Mufson June 19 at 2:40 PM
an interview on CNBCâs âSquawk Boxâ whether he believed that carbon dioxide was âthe primary control knob for the temperature of the Earth and for climate,â Perry said that âNo, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.â
Perry added that âthe fact is this shouldnât be a debate about, âIs the climate changing, is man having an effect on it?â Yeah, we are. The question should be just how much, and what are the policy changes that we need to make to effect that?â
[A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of the U.S. electric grid]
Perryâs comments fall in line with what Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt said in a March interview on the program. Pruitt said then that he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.
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No one ever thought it was ALL about us.
You have over 60 trillion dollars?
IEA: $44 Trillion in Energy Investment Wonât Limit Climate Change to 2 Degrees
IEA: $44 Trillion in Energy Investment Wonât Limit Climate Change to 2 Degrees
In fact, it might not even come close, according to the International Energy Agency.
by Katherine Tweed
November 18, 2016
The world will need to invest $44 trillion in the global energy supply, and another $23 trillion in energy efficiency, to cover the growth in energy demand through 2040 and meet current policy goals.
The findings from the International Energy Agencyâs newly releasedWorld Energy Outlook only take into account policies put in place by mid-2016, and so they do not include any pledges as part of the Paris climate agreement that have not yet been codified as policy. The IEA states that with current policies, âThis is sufficient to slow the projected rise in global energy-related CO2 emissions, but not nearly enough to limit warming to less than 2 [degrees Celsius].â
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The findings from the IEA only take into account policies put in place by Mid-2016 and do not include any pledges as part of the Paris climate agreement that have not yet been codified as policy.
That leads me to believe that the projections will change as the pledges made by almost every country in the world become official. I'm not saying it will be enough; I don't know if it will. But throwing up our hands and saying "Oh well, we haven't got enough money yet--let's quit" isn't going to help the situation either.