Commentary: We Don’t Need the US to Fight Climate Change

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 00:42:29 | Updated at 2024-11-28 07:44:59 1 week ago

Commentary: We Don’t Need the US to Fight Climate Change
Channel News Asia ^ | 15 Nov 2024 | Laurence Tubiana

Posted on 11/14/2024 4:23:29 PM PST by nickcarraway

An atmosphere of doom and gloom surrounds COP29, but multilateral action has proven resilient before, and it must do so again, says Laurence Tubiana for the Financial Times.

In the global fight against climate change, Donald Trump’s election victory is undoubtedly a challenging setback. The next four years are critical for limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius - every 10th of a degree counts.

Trump’s promise to take the United States - one of the world’s largest current and historic emitters - out of the Paris Agreement would undoubtedly be damaging and may embolden those countries and vested interests still clinging to the fossil fuel era.

Yet no amount of misinformation can hide the fact that the climate crisis is deepening. Heatwaves, hurricanes and floods are leaving a devastating trail of lives lost and economies disrupted. In 2023 alone, natural disasters caused a record US$380 billion in economic damage. The cost of inaction is huge, and close to uninsurable.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; cop29; trump

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1 posted on 11/14/2024 4:23:30 PM PST by nickcarraway

To: nickcarraway

Man cannot control the climate. Use the money for dams, canals or cleaning up our forests....

2 posted on 11/14/2024 4:26:51 PM PST by Sacajaweau

To: nickcarraway

Knock yourselves out, guys. Start with China and India.

To: nickcarraway

Hey, love to hear it. Now we can get back to generating cheap energy (which, by the way, harms the earth much less than tearing it up for rare earths, polluting the land and sea with short-lived windmills, and countless other idiotic things you fools are pulling off.

4 posted on 11/14/2024 4:27:46 PM PST by Da Coyote (H)

To: nickcarraway

Good, it’s all BS anyway and a naked attempt to grab power. Not a single prediction has ever come to pass.

To: nickcarraway

Climate is always changing.
We never cause climate change.

We came out of The Little Ice Age in 1850.
Since 1850, temperatures have generally been rising.
That’s because — may I remind you — we just came out of an Ice Age.

Warm temperatures are good. Always.
Cold temperatures are bad. Always.

The Medieval Maximum was a warm period 1000 years ago — warmer than now. It was a good time.
The Roman Climatic Optimum was a warm period 2000 years ago — warmer than now. It was a good time.

CO2 does not raise temperature. People who understand physics know this for a fact.
CO2 is plant food. More is better.

The people who “care so much” about Climate Change are idiots.

6 posted on 11/14/2024 4:29:23 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: nickcarraway

We are well prepared. We have economic logic, a critical mass of countries, and public support on our side. Let’s stay calm and carry on.

Laurence Tubiana is chief executive of the European Climate Foundation and was France’s special representative for COP21.

Good, so you don’t need us.

7 posted on 11/14/2024 4:29:39 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

To: nickcarraway

Now would this be the same Asia that makes solar panels, electric cars, batteries and green infrastructure for sale in America? THAT Asia?

8 posted on 11/14/2024 4:29:49 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)

To: nickcarraway

No, you don’t! We’re doing quite well on our own!

9 posted on 11/14/2024 4:37:14 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (If you're Black don't Vote Blue cuz then you'll just be Black and Blue)

To: nickcarraway

Many humans believe they can now control the weather, select their sex, and marry whoever they want. They think they have become God. They will find out they are wrong.

To: nickcarraway

Good. Past time the US Economy stop getting mugged to make “Climate change” grifters like the author of this article rich.

11 posted on 11/14/2024 4:39:09 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)

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