Nothing says climate doom from fossil fuels like 40,000 cultists taking long, fossil fueled trips
World at a crossroads to stop climate change, Germany’s Merz says
Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday urged wealthy industrialized nations to increase their contributions to the global fight against climate change.
“We are at a crossroads,” Merz told an international climate summit in Brazil. “All countries with the economic resources and high emissions—and we are among them—should contribute to international climate finance,” he said.
The German leader noted that his government allocated more than €6 billion ($7 billion) for climate action last year. He also announced Germany’s support for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) proposed by Brazil.
“We will contribute significantly to this initiative’s success,” he told participants at the Belem Climate Summit. “To achieve our climate goals, the tropical forest must be preserved while more private sector funding is mobilized. This can only succeed together with our partners in the Global South and North,” he said.
Would this be the same Amazon cut down to create a road to move people from the airport to the conference site? All these prognostications of doom would be better if the people who tell us there’s a problem acted like there’s a problem and practiced what they preached.
Let’s tax luxury air travel to fund climate adaptation and loss and damage
Developing countries are set to need hundreds of billions of dollars a year to adapt to climate change but, at the moment, developed countries are providing them with just tens of billions of dollars.
One solution to this ‘adaptation gap’ is a levy on premium flyers—covering business class, first class, and private jet travel. This represents one of the fairest and most politically feasible ways to mobilize new public finance for adaptation and loss and damage.
This would be a ‘polluter-pays’ approach, as business and first-class travel are 3-4 times more polluting than economy flights and private jets travel is up to 14 times more polluting.
I like this, and we’ll start taxing private jets, especially those flown by politicians and Warmists.
The flights are most probably carbon neutral
All commercial international have that 2% carbon fee built in to the ticket price. Making typical American’s carbon footprint zero will typically cost about $300. Like a cup of coffee each week
I’m sorry, but how do all of the emissions kicked out of a jet engine become zero by paying an extra fee? Does paying the fee somehow scoop them out of the air?
This ought to show how preposterous the “carbon neutral” notion is. Those emissions still exist!
Johnny-try and keep up. The fights aren’t “carbon neutral”, they burn the same CO2 offset or no offset.. Remember, your Godfather James Hansen said “offsets” are a waste of time
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The road in the Amazon had been planned way before the climate.syr conference.
It is only 8 miles long! The city of Belem with a population over 1 million needed a highway going from the Airport to the city.
Lol Get Over It !!! That road was needed IY IS ONLY 8 FUCKING MILES LONG!!!
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Mr Smith,
Please understand that MAGAts, especially MAGAt bloggers, rely on repeating the same lies again and again. They have no interest in discussing anything, only in creating outrage… and traffic.
Anyway, the concept of offsets is that the money goes to projects that reduce CO2, e.g., via planted trees, protect forests, generate renewable energy like wind and solar, capture methane from landfills, improve land use practices to increase soil carbon, carbon capture etc. Does it work? Evidence says no. And yes.
They couldn’t do this by videoconference?
Well, of course not! The high muckety-mucks need this trip, as a treat for their mistresses, to blather on and make commitments that the vast majority won’t be able to meet, and not a single f’ing one of them can see the utter hypocrisy of all of this.
As said before, I want to get a private jet so I can prove to everyone how concerned I am about CO2…
We knew that about you anyway!
To repeat, over the past century+ atmospheric CO2 has increased by 50%, from 280 ppm to over 420 ppm – and is still increasing. The increase is from our burning fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas. CxHy + O2 –> CO2 + H2O. Atmospheric CO2 absorbs infrared radiation (heat) warming the atmosphere, surface and oceans. Please understand that the Earth absorbs electromagnetic radiation (visible, UV, infrared etc) from our giant fusion reactor in the sky (H+H –> He + radiation) and re-emits much of this as infrared (heat) to the heavens! Anything that gets in the way heats up and this includes gases in the atmosphere – H2O, CO2, N2O, CH4, O3 but not N2 or O2. These greenhouse gases keep the Earth warmer than it would be without an atmosphere! More greenhouse gases = more warming.
BTW, once you travel by private (corporate) jet it’s hard to go back!!
Lol
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Ever notice that Judicial Watch no longer is investigating the costs of Operating Air Force 1 ?
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