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World set for a new heat record in 2016

Will Donald Trump pull out of Paris Climate deal?

 

MARRAKESH: -- The world is set for a new heat record in 2016 following sizzling temperatures last year.

 

But talks at the current Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh are being overshadowed by Donald Trump’s election.
 

The US president-elect has called climate change a “hoax” and is reportedly seeking ways to pull the US out of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

 

US climate change envoy Jonathan Pershing has admitted there are provisions for difference administrations to withdraw from the deal.

 

“There are provisions on how a person or a country might withdraw from it, and there are the same in this one. The new administration may look at the commitment globally, at the interest globally in the issue and decide how it can move forward in ways that are consistent of its own policies. We’ll have to wait and see.”

 

However he also reportedly said on the fringes of the UN climate change conference that he was convinced that ““climate momentum” will continue under Trump”:http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/climate-momentum-will-continue-us-envoy-on-trump-vote.

 

The Paris deal, backed by almost 200 nations including the United States, has a goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to ‘well below’ two degrees Celsius over pre-Industrial Revolution levels by cutting down on the use of planet-warming greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.

 

But this year experts are not optimistic. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Secretary-General, Petteri Taalas said:

 

“If you look at the first nine months of this year, we are fairly high up again and we are breaking all the records. And it’s likely that we are going to reach this year 1.2 degrees warming level. We are going in the wrong direction if you think of the 1.5 degrees warming level which was agreed last year in Paris.”

 

The heat which triggers melting polar ice and damages Australia’s Great Barrier Reef was also stoked by an El Nino weather event in the Pacific earlier this year.

 

It means along with a new resident in the White House climate expert concerns are on the rise.

 
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2 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Donald before you fiddle fart with the EPA and the Paris accord you may want to read this? Oh sorry yeah your opinion is that it is the Chinese's fault. Better put that on your love in agenda with  Mr. Xi. 

 

The Donald wants to ensure that the US is competitive with China.  This means insisting the US greenhouse emissions exceed Chinese greenhouse emissions.

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India is the clear winner if you have a relative you do not like or enemy buy them a ticket to New Delhi to help suck up the pollution. Sorry Modi is out of country telling Japan to come there and set up more polluting industries and he also stated on the news "We have lots of cheap labor" How ironic. Always impeccably dressed who is his tailor.

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I hope Trump sets new rules for this Paris Accord Deal! What is the point having some deal with some industrialized countries when you have plenty of other countries filling the sky with pollutants? They either all sit down together and talk about it or forget it!

 

In Canada for example they raised taxes on Oil Producers, who are struggling as it is to make a profit, and also a tax on gasoline at the pumps. All in the good name of doing our part in keeping the world cleaner. The is nothing but B.S.! All this does is put more people out of work and the country having another Big Tax Grab! I doubt they will spend $1 of these new taxes on making the country cleaner and the world a better place.

 

You need to stick together as a group and penalize the ones who are really causing the worlds pollution problems and whether they like it on not.    

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Scientists are the gods we have to bow down to in this particular part of the age of the Earth.  

Round about the year 1200 AD, bards (poets) who wrote and sang poems about the local warlord were the ones who had all the respect of "society".    Then for about 3/400 years, the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church  decided who the fk was right and who was wrong.  If your name was Galileo you might find yourself in danger of being roasted at the stake. Cos the Pope was telling us that the Sun travelled around the Earth, and not vice versa, as poor Galileo was trying to tell everyone.

Then along came the Industrial Revolution, and suddenly "scientists" were the giants we all had to listen to and believe.  How many articles do we read with phrases like "studies have shown" , "scientists have confirmed" and so on and on.

In the meantime, geologists tell us that for the last 10,000 years we  have been in an Ice Age.

 

Take your pick.

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7 hours ago, zaphod reborn said:

 

The Donald wants to ensure that the US is competitive with China.  This means insisting the US greenhouse emissions exceed Chinese greenhouse emissions.

Funny that we got on this subject it just came across the news that October was the worst pollution month ever. 

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