Paris Agreement: Climategate 3.0

Posted by Temlakos 7 years, 10 months ago to News
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I broke the Climategate story seven and a half years ago. That's right: I did it. In this article I discuss how--while also discussing what was so bad about the Paris Agreement, how even the foremost activists didn't like it (they didn't think it went far enough), and how most of the parties to the agreement don't even believe their own narrative--because they won't act like it!


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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 7 years, 10 months ago
    Here is a few words to those foreign govts who are wailing about Trump taking the US out of the Paris Climate Accords: "Shut up and Plant a Tree"!
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    While the treaty (that's what it is, regardless of the fiction of "executive agreement") spells out intent, it has no enforcement provisions. Any signatory could ignore any attempt to meet its self-imposed goals if it became difficult. Not a very meaningful document, on its face.

    However, the temptation is there for activist judges in the U.S. to treat it as settled law, and force businesses and states to abide by the provisions created to meet our goals under the accord. By formally announcing we do not consider ourselves a legal party to the accord, it removes that justification for endless litigation.

    Rest assured, if Clinton had become President, her administration would have pressed for doubling down on all the Obama promises under the accord. She already vowed to significantly increase our intake of refugees, so I have no doubt she would have felt compelled to accelerate the shutdown of the fossil fuel industry and increase the subsidizing of renewable power.

    The accord is just part of a globalist authoritarian grab for control over individual freedom. In practice it very much would have been an assault over your livelihood, freedoms, and liberties.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    With you 1-00% on the RINO's. I think Trump has no illusions about them...it is part of his advantage of say Ted Cruse....Trump is not "Of the swamp"
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  • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So what? The important one, repeal ObamaCare, hasn't happened yet or even anything close to it.

    I'd like to see a report naming the RINO senators so we can work on making this happen in 2018.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So true. When Trump said "Because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you -- the people." I almost fell out of my chair
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 10 months ago
    From Mother America on the Paris Agreement: Thank God for President Trump. It's bad enough having all my own sucking at my teats, but trying to accommodate those that are not mine is wearing me out. Let's face it folks, I haven't got that many teats.
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  • Posted by NealS 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, rescind, rescind, rescind. At least now if the people really want any of them back they can let the politicians try to take them through congress. An example: Trump should offer the dems the opportunity to bring back Obamacare through congress, and give the people the choice of either Obamacare or Trumpcare. Sign up and reflect the cost differences involved in individual tax plans. Then we would see what they really know. Congress gets the same plan choices as everyone else, and term limits must be imposed, no retirement. Congress should be an honor to serve by people that have proven they already know how to succeed.
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 7 years, 10 months ago
    The Paris Climate Agreement has nothing to do with climate, only about redistribution (to other crooks) of wealth.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly. The 'save the world' libs are still spewing the fraudulent 97% of scientists agree on climate change nonsense. It is a little shocking, though, that the alternative media spokesmen are not calling them on it, as in "where do you get this 97% figure' -- and then explaining, in 30 seconds or less, the source of the 97%, how it was debunked and the observation that whenever anyone makes the claim that 97% of Anything is made, the listener's BS detector should start sounding.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, in theory, if it warmed too much, it might squeeze us inland. But I don't see that to any significant degree, either. The larger point is that the only evidence I've seen anyone adduce for this kind of warming, has been a phony dry-lab job.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Let me further expand your point....Why is warming bad??? look at a map of the world....there is more land in northerly area in the northern hemisphere . Look at Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. All areas that could benefit from warming. If I was Putin...I would require every Russian to drive an SUV to help the process along....bur of course...it isn't really happening.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are correct....but let me assure you....on Climate...on Immigration...and on almost every other thing, we would not have got the same level of rhetoric out of even Ted Cruse as we have got from the Trumpster. I have never heard or seen an "In Office" republican act like him. Gee whiz....for instance neither his wife, nor women staffers wore those dammed head scarves in Saudi Arabia. He then flew directly to Israel. ...WTHeck...he is a rock star.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, let's be fair. It was ridiculously easy for him to keep those promises. All he had to do was rescind, rescind, rescind. That's what Obama gets for going around Congress.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 10 months ago
    I held my nose and voted for the Trumpster, but he is looking like the "Second Coming" of Ronald Reagan to me these days. I have never seen so many campaign promises fulfilled is so short a time.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not necessarily. But he seems to have bought the lie that "the globe is warming" and that human beings are cooking the planet. I challenged him to tell us what objective good the Paris Agreement, as it stood, would have served for humanity or the world we live on. And I'm still waiting.

    Herr Doktor Josef Goebbels famously said if you tell a big-enough lie, people will believe it, on the erroneous theory that some lies are just too big to tell. I know otherwise.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    All right, let's talk about that. How do you reconcile "Intended National Defined Contributions"? Why did "President" Obama agree to a 28 percent reduction in CO2 emissions below 2005 levels by 2025 and not insist on a comparable, nor indeed any, reduction in CO2 emissions on the part of the Chinese?

    Have you forgotten what Henry Rearden says in Part 2 ("Either-or") of Atlas Shrugged? "You do not serve the public good. Nobody's good is ever served by human sacrifice. When you violate the rights of one, you violate the rights of all. And a country of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction."

    Do tell this community what objective good the Paris Agreement would have served. In other words, show, if you can, just cause why President Trump should not have acted as he did.
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