Serendipidous news about Hotcoldwetdry in Germany today
Merkel says climate change is a fact, laments US stance
German Chancellor Angela Merkel took aim Tuesday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, calling the move “very regrettable” at a time when the overwhelming majority of countries worldwide are trying to limit global warming.
“We know climate change isn’t a matter of faith,” she told an international climate meeting in Berlin. “It’s a fact.”
Trump announced last year that the U.S. will pull out of the accord negotiated by his predecessor unless he can “get a better deal.”
Merkel said Germany remains committed to the Paris climate accord fighting global warming but acknowledged that the country still needs to do more to curb emissions, particularly in the transport sector, if it wants to meet its own goals.
The long-time German leader urged the 178 countries that have ratified the 2015 Paris accord to agree by the end of the year on a rulebook for its implementation.
Chaser
Germany Flops on Climate Change Goals
State-sponsored ventures into renewable energy have hit a wall in Germany, the supposed leader of the war on climate change.
The Associated Press reports that Germany’s environment minister, Svenja Schulze, said that the country will probably not meet its carbon emission reduction goals for 2020. This follows the government’s official decision to abandon these goals in January.
Germany set out to establish itself as a leader in the international fight against man-made climate change by promising to cut carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020 and up to 95 percent in 2050, relative to 1990 levels. The German government now says it will miss the 2020 target by eight percent.
Oops! This is a reminder that the vast majority of nations that signed on to the Kyoto Protocol failed to achieve their targets, and most did not even come close.
Moving towards cleaner, sustainable energy is certainly a noble goal, but Germany’s attempted green revolution doubled residential energy rates for consumers in the form of greater surcharges. This does little for lower income households who now face much larger electricity bills and much smaller disposable incomes. Furthermore, the higher costs take money away from more productive sectors of the economy, inhibiting innovation and production.
Surprise?
Also, Ireland, which has leadership that has been pushing hard for all sorts of ‘climate change’ garbage is not doing well on their tackling of ‘climate change’ (scam).
From the referenced article: “Germany’s attempted green revolution doubled residential energy rates for consumers in the form of greater surcharges. This does little for lower income households who now face much larger electricity bills and much smaller disposable incomes. Furthermore, the higher costs take money away from more productive sectors of the economy, inhibiting innovation and production.”
In other words: Mission Accomplished!!! More people impoverished and more people dependent on the government. Yet, still no movement of the Climate Needle.
It’s almost as if the Climate is impervious to our efforts and is being controlled by some sort of entity millions of miles from Earth.
One wonders if Merkel recently felll on her head. She whines about Trump, all the while as Germany’s CO2 emissions are flat to going up, while the US’s have fallen, mostly due to fracking. In other words, the country with probably the biggest renewable push is losing to one that favors fossil fuels. Actually, I know she fell on her head….