Thread: Any doubts about Climate Change?

i see biden turned up in rome with 80 2 ton cars for his motorcade. that probably raised the temp by a degree or two.

I bet not one of these fuckers will mention anything about population growth.

China’s Xi to address COP26 climate talks in writing only

Chinese President Xi Jinping won't address the COP26 U.N. climate talks in person or video, and will send in a note instead.

The leader of the country responsible for almost one third of global greenhouse gas emissions will address the Glasgow conference by written submission, which the U.N. said it would upload on the conference website.

On Monday and Tuesday, world leaders at COP26 will make speeches explaining how they plan to lower their emissions in order to limit global warming.

Xi, who has reportedly not left China since the early days of the pandemic, had participated in this weekend's G20 talks via video link but did not travel to either meeting. At the U.N. General Assembly in September, Xi delivered a prerecorded video statement.

It comes a week after China left Western countries frustrated by submitting a new climate pledge that did not significantly change its plans to grow emissions through this decade.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled out of attending the talks at the last minute, embassy staff in Rome told POLITICO Morning Energy and Climate.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I bet not one of these fuckers will mention anything about population growth.

Fertility rate: '''Jaw-dropping''' global crash in children being born - BBC News

About how birth rates in the US fell for 5 years before the pandemic ? About how US life expectancy fell for 3 years before the pandemic ?

Or how birth rates across the whole world have been falling ? Even in places like India ?

Population Clock: India Fertility Rate Sees Massive Drop Than That of China'''s, Data Shows

But hey. Regardless what the data is actually saying , the population doomsday clock is always a minute to midnight according to the neo Malthusians.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

COP26 News

Blah, blah, blah with Zip on real measurable commitments.

Biden apologizes for Trump at global climate summit

President Biden on Monday apologized to world leaders gathered as part of the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow for the Trump administration’s previous withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

During a meeting hosted by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on climate “ambition and solidarity,” Biden said the move to exit the climate agreement by former President Trump set the country back in its climate goals.

“I guess I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize for the fact that the United States under the last administration pulled out of the Paris accord,” Biden said.

“It sort of put us behind the eight ball a bit,” he added.

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Biden took action to have the U.S. rejoin the Paris climate accord shortly after he was sworn into office in January. The move reversed Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement, which resulted in the U.S. being the only country in the world that wasn’t part of the pact for several months. Trump had argued that the pact “disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.”

The international agreement aims to reduce global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels.

The apology followed Biden’s prepared remarks to world leaders at COP26 in which he called for collective action to take on the “existential threat” of climate change.

“And every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases. So let this be the moment that we answer history’s call here in Glasgow. Let this be the start of a decade of transformative action that preserves our planet and raises the quality of life for people everywhere,” Biden said in his speech.

The global summit is aimed at putting the world on a path to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow the Earth’s warming.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Biden apologizes for Trump at global climate summit


The international agreement aims to reduce global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels.

Bio fuels

For Backspin:

Global population, and climate change are inked for very real reasons.

Population: The Most Under-Addressed Issue - Population Media Center

Your inbred misogyny will not be able to cope with the solution. Fortunately, change has been underway for several decades now, so you won’t be able to stop it, no matter how loud you shout.

Originally Posted by Switch

For Backspin: Your inbred stupidity will not be able to cope with the solution.

FTFY.

This is a fucking joke.

More than 100 leaders representing 85% of the world's forests will commit to stopping and reversing deforestation by 2030 in a "significant milestone" on the road to tackling the climate crisis.
Countries including Brazil, Russia, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo will sign the pledge on Tuesday, which is backed by £14bn ($19.2bn) in public and private funding.

All this means is all these motherfucking loggers and the chinkies that are paying them will up the plundering to grab what they can in the next eight years.

Don't get worked up everyone, they ain't going to do shit, just words upon words.

same as it ever was, leave for the next generation.

Study: Climate change main cause of wildfire weather in U.S. West

Human-caused climate change is the main driver behind increased wildfire risk in the U.S. West, according to a study published Monday.

Why it matters: Researchers hadn't expected human-caused global warming to take over from natural climate variability as the main contributor to fire weather until much later this century, around 2080, per the Los Angeles Times.

• Rong Fu, a climate researcher at UCLA who led the study, noted to the L.A. Times that "now, we're seeing even in the first 20 years of the 21st century, the greenhouse-gas-induced fire weather has already surpassed natural variability."
• Climate change's role in wildfires is a key part of the agenda at COP26, the United Nations conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where dozens of world leaders meet are trying to set new emissions reduction goals.

By the numbers: Wildfires razed an average of 3.35 million acres of land per year in the Western U.S. from 2001 to 2018 — nearly double the area burned when compared with the 1984–2000 period, according to the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Researchers found global warming was 68%-88% likely the driving factor for atmospheric conditions fueling increasingly destructive wildfires.

The big picture: The team of from the UCLA and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory analyzed factors behind the "vapor pressure deficit" (VPD), the leading climate variable predicting wildfire risk which indicates how dry the air is.

• As part of the study, researchers analyzed the role of human-caused climate change in last year's August Complex Fire — California's biggest wildfire event on record, which saw some 1,600 square miles razed.
• "In the case of the August Complex Gigafire in 2020, the results suggest that anthropogenic warming [originating from human activity] explains 50% of the anomalously high VPD observed during that month," per a statement accompanying the study.

Of note: A UN report published last August warned of the "unequivocal" connection between human-caused global warming and extreme weather and climate events.

The bottom line: The new findings, combined with previous research, shows that further global warming will likely continue to intensify "conditions that create record or near-record fuel aridity conditions on the landscape," said Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University to the L.A. Times.

• "It means a higher risk of more severe fire conditions, simultaneously, in multiple areas of the region," added Diffenbaugh, who wasn't involved in the study.

Originally Posted by Chico

Don't get worked up everyone, they ain't going to do shit, just words upon words.

same as it ever was, leave for the next generation.

My point is that even if they do it will make things worse.

Are you illiterate?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I bet not one of these fuckers will mention anything about population growth.

Bill gates is taking care of that.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

My point is that even if they do it will make things worse.

Are you illiterate?

where have I quoted you?

Originally Posted by Chico

where have I quoted you?

Ah, so yes.

Originally Posted by spliff

Bill gates is taking care of that.

Ah look, they let spliff out of the padded cell for a bit of R&R.

Originally Posted by Norton

Zip on real measurable commitments.

Specific reference to the Paris Agreement. Which is a UN agreement, as opposed to a non-binding promise, by a handful of the g20 countries.

Countries vow to halt deforestation by 2030 at climate summit

The leaders of over 100 countries reached an agreement to stop and reverse deforestation by the year 2030 at a meeting at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow on Tuesday.

The countries represent over 85 percent of the globe’s forests, according to the U.K. government, which announced the agreement. The pledge is backed by $19 billion in public and private funds and includes nations like Congo, Brazil, the United States, China and Russia.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the agreement in remarks kicking off a meeting on forests and land use at the COP26 summit, saying it would help the global community limit global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius into the 2030s.

"These great teeming ecosystems -- these cathedrals of nature -- are the lungs of our planet. Forests support communities, livelihoods and food supply, and absorb the carbon we pump into the atmosphere. They are essential to our very survival," Johnson said.

"With today’s unprecedented pledges, we will have a chance to end humanity’s long history as nature’s conqueror, and instead become its custodian," he added.

President Biden in his own brief remarks said the U.S. would “help the world deliver on our shared goal of halting natural forest loss and restoring at least an additional 200 million hectares of forest and other ecosystems by the year 2030.”

Biden said his administration would ask Congress to put $9 billion toward conserving forests through 2030 and would work with the private sector as well as local communities most impacted by deforestation.

“Preserving forests and other ecosystems can and should play an important role in meeting our ambitious climate goals as part of the net-zero emissions strategy we all have, and the United States is going to lead by our example at home and support other forested nations and developing countries in setting and achieving ambitious action to conserve and restore these carbon sinks,” Biden said.

The U.K. government said that it has received a commitment from 12 countries for public financing totaling $12 billion between 2021 and 2025 as well as a commitment for $7.2 billion in private-sector funding. The leaders of over 30 financial institutions have also made commitments to “eliminate investment in activities linked to deforestation,” according to the U.K. announcement.

Environmentalists are likely to look at the new agreement skeptically, however. A similar pact was reached in 2014 to halve deforestation by 2020 but the practice has instead accelerated in areas of the world.

“Whether this is cause for celebration will depend on who will sign on to it, how ambitious its goals are, whether it centers human rights as a pillar for preserving forests, its accountability systems, and whether it signals increased ambition from previous initiatives,” Luciana Téllez Chávez, a researcher on environment and human rights for the group Human Rights Watch, wrote in a blog post ahead of the expected announcement.

Maybe helpful to the generation after the generation after next.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has announced 2070 as a target for India to reach net-zero carbon emissions – a date 20 years beyond the UN’s global recommendation.
Speaking at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, Mr Modi made five key pledges for how India, the world’s third largest emitter of carbon dioxide behind the United States and China, would decarbonise over the next few decades.
India was one of the last remaining major economies that had held out on a net zero commitment, despite months of pressure from the United States, and Mr Modi’s announcement marked one of the most significant moments of the summit’s opening day.
The G20 failed to commit to the 2050 target to halt net carbon emissions, howerer, undermining one of Cop26’s main aims, at a weekend meeting in Rome.
Instead, they only recognised “the key relevance” of doing so “by or around mid-century”, and set no timetable for phasing out domestic coal power, a major cause of carbon emissions.

Cop26: Modi pledges India will reach net zero emissions by 2070