Warmists are so cute when they’re in Hysterical Mode
This is the end of fossil fuels
For Selina Leem, an 18-year-old from a tiny part of the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific, the adoption of Saturday’s “Paris Agreement” on climate change wasn’t about wonky diplomacy. It was about the survival of her country.
“This agreement is for those of us whose identity, whose culture, whose ancestors, whose whole being is bound to their lands,” she said in the final meeting of the COP21 summit of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
“This agreement should be … a turning point for all of us.”
Huh. How many gallons of fossil fuels where used for a flight to and back to the Marshall Islands? Oh, and there are around 30 airstrips in the Marshall Islands. Seems as if they’re not too concerned with the use of fossil fuels.
The Paris Agreement, which came out of two weeks often-sleepless negotiations at a conference center here in a Paris suburb, is just the type of blaring signal the world needs that the era of fossil fuels is coming to a rapid close. Countries around the world pledged to do the near-impossible — limit warming “well below” 2 degrees, and below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels if feasible. That basically requires the world to move rapidly toward 100% clean energy, producing zero net greenhouse gas emissions between about 2050 and 2080.
Good luck with that. If even Warmists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels (witness the massive use of fossil fuels for not just the Paris COP, but the previous ones, and the ones to come), why should the rest of us? Yes, eventually we will, and should, replace fossil fuels with clean energy, and, by clean, I’m not referring to CO2 output, but actual environmental damage. Look at China: the problem is not CO2, but nasty and dangerous smog from coal plants, poor emissions standards on vehicles, and other things. CO2 is the last thing they should be concerned about. This is one of the things that annoys me to no end about Warmists: they focus on CO2, rather than real environmental concerns.
Fossil fuels will be around until someone comes up with a big breakthrough to replace them.
This is the moment the world dedicated itself to a liveable, clean-energy future.
But it’s going to take all of our efforts to actually make that dream a reality.
OK, time to pony up, Believers in anthropogenic climate change: stop using fossil fuels in your own life. Clean energy only. Will you pledge to do this?
And this is what annoys climate realists no end about Deniers: they Deny that CO2 is a concern.
OK, time to pony up, Islamophobes: pack your bags for Syria.
Climate realists, liberals all, are doing their part. Your insistence that no one else should work toward slowing global warming until the climate realists give up all use of fossil fuels is childish demagoguery. It’s known as the Nirvana or Perfect Solution fallacy. Since your opponents are not and can not be perfect, you win! Also qualifies as ad hominem. Climate realists are not perfect, therefore their argument is false!
Climate realists, liberals all, are doing their part.
Climate realists, liberals all, are doing their part.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/08/quote-of-the-week-dr-will-happers-blowback-to-greenpeace-during-ambush-at-senate-hearing-today/
Climate realists, liberals all, are doing their part.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/09/climate-scientist-turns-the-tables-on-dem-senator-trying-to-discredit-her-video/
Climate realists, liberals all, are doing their part.
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Jeffrey wrote:
I don’t expect perfection from the “climate realists, liberals all,” but we ought to see some effort being expended. The oh-so-wise Nobel laureate Paul Krugman recently blamed the entire impending disaster of
global warmingclimate change on us wicked Republicans, but lives in a huge house with nary a solar panel or windmill in sight. It’s not like Dr Krugman can’t afford to have solar panels installed on the mansion he shares with only his wife, so I have to wonder: where is the sacrifice, where is the action on his part?The liberal mantra: Do as I say, don’t do as I do.
Danq,
Thanks for making my point. Professor Krugman may not be perfect! Your tribe attacks the messenger because you can’t refute the message. Your position: “If only Paul Krugman lived in a 350 sq ft house off the grid, global warming wouldn’t be a hoax driven by the international communists!”
One linked article says Professor Krugman’s net worth is only $2.5 million, which seems surprising low – it must all be tied up in that house in NJ. Another link to a rather low-rent right-wing site claims he lives in a big house! And it even has a picture it claims is Krugman’s house! Of course, there is nothing to verify the truth of that article. It shows no solar panels or windmills, but also no date and no electrical wires to the house. Perhaps Krugman gets all his home’s power from green energy. Here in Missouri we can pay extra for that. There was no research revealing how much CO2 Krugman adds to the atmosphere from his “lavish” lifestyle. They didn’t even ask what kind of car he drives. It mentions he advised Enron but failed to mention he also advised Ronald Reagan. Thanks for making my point: this is a smear.
Thanks for making my point. How small does Krugman’s house need to be to allow him to criticize our backward Republican Party? 2000 sq ft? 1000 sq ft? 500 sq ft. We know he takes public transportation to work and into to NYC and to DC. The picture of the house that the website claims is Krugman’s is surrounded by huge trees! Trees are good.
Your refutation of my point (at least YOU understood my point, unlike others) is to make my point in spades? You attack Krugman personally AND criticize him for not living up to perfection! Classic.
Thanks for making my point.
“We have a picture of a big house, therefore global warming is a hoax driven by communists”.
Is that really the last stand of the
Deniers“skeptics”? Surely you have more. The fate of the Earth depends on it.And lest we forget amid all the hubbub: The Earth is warming rapidly from greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere by we humans. And although it was nice yesterday in the Poconos in eastern PA, global warming is not good for most humans and the civilization that’s evolved these past 10,000 years or so.
Jeffrey evades the issue:
P’raps you’ll remember that classic scene from Dr Zhivago where Comrade Kaprugina scolds Yuri Andreievich that there was living space for thirteen families in his one house!
I have no problem with people who can afford mansions living in mansions; I do have a problem with the people who can afford mansions living in mansions when they tell working class Americans that they have to tighten their belts and live less well, die to climate change, especially when there is no effort being taken by said scolds demonstrating that they are sacrificing themselves.
The word is hypocrisy, Jeffrey: I don’t know about you, personally, but I do know that Dr Krugman is a flaming hypocrite.
Or perhaps a Democrite would be a better label.