Maybe we could start with making the 50K+ who took fossil fueled flights to Turkey for a climate conference pay their fair share? Maybe do it by Zoom? Oh, hey, we could shut down all the fossil fueled airports and seaports in their nations
Climate-vulnerable nations urge immediate action at UN Cop31 summit
Urgent action is needed to help countries hardest-hit by the effects of climate change, small island leaders said on Thursday at the United Nations climate talks in Turkey, describing global warming as a life-or-death issue for their people.
“It is time to move past the talking,” said Alix Sebastien Pillay, vice-president of Seychelles, who said the survival of his country, a 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, is at stake. “For Seychelles, climate action is not simply an environmental priority.” (snip)
A report released on Thursday offered a grim assessment: progress in slowing global warming has essentially stalled for the past five years because any steps forward were cancelled out by inaction elsewhere.
The first five years after the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world did so much that it trimmed an entire degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) from warming projections, but nothing has changed since, the independent Climate Action Tracker said in its report.
Interesting how all those nations who were Doing Something decided “nah, we want to live our lives” post-COVID
Leaders from countries ravaged by climate change said adequate financing must be made available to deal with climate disasters, such as the 2022 floods in Pakistan that submerged over a third of the country, resulting in thousands of deaths and more than US$30 billion in damage.
“The future we feared has become the present we are living,” said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “Climate change knows no borders. No nation can face it alone.”
Surprise….well, not really, it’s all about the strings-free climate cash.
Aren’t we a ‘climate vulnerable nation’? Many places in Dixie are particularly vulnerable to flooding/flash flooding, the Midwest gets a large number of tornadoes, the Confederacy suffers through high heat and humidity every summer, and the northeast/northern tier of states gets bitterly cold weather every winter. California and Alaska are particularly earthquake prone.
In the meantime, Switzerland is a very beautiful and climate stable nation. Plenty of water, all flowing freely in channels which have existed for centuries, verdant green spring and summer, almost never too hot, including last summer when temps still stayed in the 90s during the purported heat wave, and beautiful winters for which the Swiss are well-prepared.
One of the most prosperous nations in Europe, the Swiss should send us money!
Switzerland is the 72nd most CO2 polluting nation. The United States is #2, behind only China!
Historically, the United States is Number One!!
Low-income developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and small island states suffer the most damage from global warming, primarily due to high physical exposure combined with low economic capacity to adapt or rebuild. And get this, these nations are the lowest of the low CO2 emitters!!
Deniers deny the reality (and accountability) of global warming because they’re hate the idea of being held responsible!! Duh!!