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The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere
Lasrick writes: The Paris climate change talks are in December, but what negotiators plan to propose will only be part of non-legally-binding pledges—and they represent only what is achievable without too much difficulty. 2009's Copenhagen Accord say 114 countries agree that global temperature increases should be held below 2 degrees Celsius. "Paradoxically, an accord that should have spurred the world to immediate action instead seemed to offer some breathing room. Two degrees was meant to be a ceiling, but repeated references to an internationally agreed-upon “threshold” led many people to believe that nothing really bad could happen below 2 degrees—or worse yet, that the number itself was negotiable." Dawn Stover writes about alternatives to the meaningless numbers and endless talks: 'The very idea that the Paris conference is a negotiation is ridiculous. You can't negotiate with the atmosphere."
US CO2 emissions are down.
Partly due to the switch to natural gas, and partly due to the bad economy (recession / depression that we are in).
The UN bureaucrat fest is just a part of the sustainability (that is a code word in UN speak for central control and wealth redistribution) push that will culminate this fall with the climate conference and Pope's visit.
Watch out for the freedom crushing proposals. Obama cannot make any commitments legally. A treaty requires senate ratification, which he won't get and spending in poor countries will need house approval for spending. But don't put past our executive order passing illegal action president from trying to push through his radical green agenda to further his control.
We are likely heading into a cooling period in the earths climate as the tendentious computer models drift farther and farther from the real earth's temperature. The surface temperature records are being heavily adjusted to create the appearance of more warming (cooling pas records, warming recent ones with fake adjustments and homogenization tricks).
Sea level rise is an old news (since the last ice age) and shows NO signs of acceleration.
The Internet is a huge energy sink
Hardly. The biggest problems are Western agriculture, transportation and industry -- both outsourced and domestic. 80% of the CO2 released has come from the West. Want to help the world? Eat less, walk more, live where you were born. Just like most of the rest of the world is doing. And pay yourself for the cleanup of your ancestors' damage.