abelard
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best to leave him stewing over his prune juice. his brain broke last time someone pointed out the per capita rate, in the climate change thread.
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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best to leave him stewing over his prune juice. his brain broke last time someone pointed out the per capita rate, in the climate change thread.
abelard
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and Merkel too. it's basically free political points just sitting there for any world leader who wants them, really.
I wonder if May's largely failed eyelash-fluttering in his direction will have any impact in the UK election
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I know, but they were in Obama's as well (and Bush II's iirc).
BBC reporting that May has spoken to Trump and told him that she is disappointed with his decision and that the Paris agreement was the best way to protect the prosperity and security of future generations while keeping energy affordable and secure.
The freelancing he would do if there was a similar incident in the US would not be at all humourous.
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That doesn't sound like something she would have said.
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interesting article on China's abrupt shift from climate change denial, which peaked with efforts to sabotage Copenhagen in 2010, to its current campaign to champion global renewable energy research and implementation
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/31/the-convenient-disappearance-of-climate-change-denial-in-china/
essentially, anger over spiraling domestic pollution was a factor, but so too was the sense that climate change offered an opportunity to help fulfill the centuries' long goal of projecting global leadership and influence.
they will be surprised and delighted that the Americans have decided to forfeit this so abruptly, and easily.
In the years leading up to the 2015 climate change negotiations in Paris, China’s government made low-carbon growth one of its top priorities. “It’s a totally different situation in China than the U.S.,” Wang said.
Another reason China’s skepticism receded is that climate change stopped serving the same ideological purpose. In Copenhagen, China felt attacked and humiliated by the United States and Europe. But in Paris, China worked closely with the United States to negotiate the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement. Obama phoned Chinese President Xi Jinping shortly after the talks “to express appreciation for the important role China played,” the White House said in December 2015. Climate change no longer made China look weak. It was now a story of China’s strength. “The current leadership is really setting its sight on having China be the preeminent global power of our time,” said Victor Shih, an associate professor at the University of California at San Diego and a well-known commentator on China. “[Fighting climate change] does give China the opportunity to do so.”
If climate change has been a piece of the larger game that China was playing with the West, it’s possible that, almost a decade after the collapse at Copenhagen, Beijing is finally — and decisively — winning.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency, Xi told him in a call that China will continue fighting climate change “whatever the circumstances.” Though the new U.S. president has staffed his administration with skeptics such as Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, China released data suggesting it could meet its 2030 Paris targets a decade early. “The financial elites I talk with,” Shih said, “they think that the fact that the Trump presidency has so obviously withdrawn from any global effort to try to limit greenhouse gases provides China with an opportunity to take leadership.”
The paths both countries are taking couldn’t be more divergent. While Trump rescinded Obama’s Clean Power Plan with a promise to end America’s “war on coal,” China aims to close 800 million tons of coal capacity by 2020. The U.S. Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy is facing a budget cut of more than 50 percent when China is pouring over $361 billion into renewable energy. All this “is likely to widen China’s global leadership in industries of the future,” concluded a recent report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Yet the United States is still the most important global actor on climate change. “All the rest of the world, including China, we are looking at Trump — what will he do?” Wang said. But no matter what happens, she added, “the green transformation for China and the world is a reality.”
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/31/the-convenient-disappearance-of-climate-change-denial-in-china/
essentially, anger over spiraling domestic pollution was a factor, but so too was the sense that climate change offered an opportunity to help fulfill the centuries' long goal of projecting global leadership and influence.
they will be surprised and delighted that the Americans have decided to forfeit this so abruptly, and easily.
In the years leading up to the 2015 climate change negotiations in Paris, China’s government made low-carbon growth one of its top priorities. “It’s a totally different situation in China than the U.S.,” Wang said.
Another reason China’s skepticism receded is that climate change stopped serving the same ideological purpose. In Copenhagen, China felt attacked and humiliated by the United States and Europe. But in Paris, China worked closely with the United States to negotiate the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement. Obama phoned Chinese President Xi Jinping shortly after the talks “to express appreciation for the important role China played,” the White House said in December 2015. Climate change no longer made China look weak. It was now a story of China’s strength. “The current leadership is really setting its sight on having China be the preeminent global power of our time,” said Victor Shih, an associate professor at the University of California at San Diego and a well-known commentator on China. “[Fighting climate change] does give China the opportunity to do so.”
If climate change has been a piece of the larger game that China was playing with the West, it’s possible that, almost a decade after the collapse at Copenhagen, Beijing is finally — and decisively — winning.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency, Xi told him in a call that China will continue fighting climate change “whatever the circumstances.” Though the new U.S. president has staffed his administration with skeptics such as Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, China released data suggesting it could meet its 2030 Paris targets a decade early. “The financial elites I talk with,” Shih said, “they think that the fact that the Trump presidency has so obviously withdrawn from any global effort to try to limit greenhouse gases provides China with an opportunity to take leadership.”
The paths both countries are taking couldn’t be more divergent. While Trump rescinded Obama’s Clean Power Plan with a promise to end America’s “war on coal,” China aims to close 800 million tons of coal capacity by 2020. The U.S. Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy is facing a budget cut of more than 50 percent when China is pouring over $361 billion into renewable energy. All this “is likely to widen China’s global leadership in industries of the future,” concluded a recent report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Yet the United States is still the most important global actor on climate change. “All the rest of the world, including China, we are looking at Trump — what will he do?” Wang said. But no matter what happens, she added, “the green transformation for China and the world is a reality.”
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mmmmsnouts
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It's brilliant that America has all these angry former factory workers upset and frightened that their way of life is gone, and at the same time there was this fantastic opportunity to lead the world in renewable energy manufacturing, and instead of putting these very obvious pieces together, we decided science is rubbish.
Global warming is fake, just like evolution, the moon landing, and HPV.
the fastest growing sector in the US economy?
Renewable energy
the fastest growing job specification in the US economy?
Wind turbine service engineer
go figure
Renewable energy
the fastest growing job specification in the US economy?
Wind turbine service engineer
go figure
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