Pirate's Cove

We’re only a few days away from the start of COP24 in Katowice, Poland, as over ten thousand True Believers get set to take long fossil fueled trips from all over the world to discuss how they can make Other People change their lives to accord with the Cult of Climastrology beliefs. How they can implement more dominant government, tax the hell out of people, redistribute the fruits of Other People’s labor, and just be general nags. So, of course, they’re going down the doomsaying route

U.N. Urges ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Stop Climate Change

In its “Emissions Gap Report 2018,” the United Nations (U.N.) declared Tuesday that total annual greenhouse gases emissions reached a record high in 2017 and that “more ambitious” measures are needed by 2020 to keep global warming below established goals.

Current national commitments “are inadequate to bridge the emissions gap in 2030,” the U.N. warned in its report. “Technically, it is still possible to bridge the gap to ensure global warming stays well below 2°C and 1.5°C,” but if global ambitions are not increased before 2030, exceeding the 1.5º C goal “can no longer be avoided.”

“Now more than ever, unprecedented and urgent action is required by all nations,” the report declared. “The assessment of actions by the G20 countries indicates that this is yet to happen; in fact, global CO2  emissions increased in 2017 after three years of stagnation.”

In its report, the United Nations suggested that the world is on the path to climate disaster if drastic measures are not implemented in the near future.

They want action action action from government. Perhaps they should be paying attention to the riots in France before they pimp their Usual Solution

As usual, the U.N. warnings come down to an appeal for dramatic action at the national level.

Countries need to “increase effectiveness of domestic policy to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement,” the report states. “To bridge the 2030 emissions gap and ensure long-term decarbonization consistent with the Paris Agreement goals, countries must enhance their mitigation ambition.”

In the end, the United Nations Organization is looking for funding, and they appeal to nations to establish substantial taxation to penalize citizens for the use of inexpensive fossil fuels.

“Fiscal policy reform can play a key role in creating strong incentives for low-carbon investments and reducing GHG emissions,” the reports states. “Revenues from carbon pricing can be used for reducing other taxes, increase spending on social issues and/or compensating low-income households.”

Surprise? But, hey, how’s that working in France? The protesting, which does include some violence and especially burning things, which always seems to be popular in France (but usually starts from illegal aliens from the Middle East and northern Africa) continues, and it may be spreading soon to Germany, as citizens are tired of the high cost of fuels, which raises their cost of living, and continues to go up up up.

It’d be interesting if just one a major left leaning outlet would note the utter hypocrisy of people taking fossil fueled trips to complain about fossil fuels and demand more and more taxation on them.