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?
