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Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade (reuters.com)
Twelve readers share a Reuters report: Many countries are pinning their hopes on China and India to lead efforts to slow climate change amid a growing sense of resignation that U.S. President Donald Trump will either withdraw from a global pact or stay and play a minimal role. Delegates at the May 8-18 negotiations in Bonn on a detailed "rule book" for the 2015 Paris Agreement, the first U.N. talks since Trump took office, say there is less foreboding than when Washington last broke with global climate efforts in 2001. Trump doubts global warming has a human cause and says he will decide on a campaign threat to "cancel" the Paris Agreement, the first to bind all nations to set goals to curb emissions, after a group of Seven summit in Italy on May 26-27. "The time when one big player could affect the whole game is past," said Ronald Jumeau, climate ambassador for the Seychelles. "There would be a void without the U.S., but China and India seem to be increasing their effort." Big emitters led by China, the European Union and India have reaffirmed their commitment to Paris, which seeks to phase out greenhouse gas emissions this century by shifting to clean energies. By contrast, Trump wants to favor U.S. coal.
based on renewable solar and wind energy
I agree on the climate change issue and that we should stick to pushing forward with moving away from PRIMARILY using fossil fuels, but a U.S. economy based on wind + solar is impossible - a pipe dream. Don't act like a climate change denier; Look at the numbers. Wind and solar can't cover a fraction of what the U.S. consumes, and until a major energy breakthrough happens and is implemented, we're going to have to burn SOME coal.
How do you expect educated people to take the pro-climate-change POV seriously when you're making claims like that?
And the whole vitriol for Trump thing is wearing super thin. Remember how the Dems felt about the Kenyan birth certificate "issue", and how retarded and pointless it all sounded? Well, guess what the Dems look like when they're complaining about the whole Trump/Russia connection. They are no better than Trump himself and any other retard who challenged Obama over that birth certificate.
How many other things turned out to be wrong after being accepted as fact by 90% of scientists throughout history? Damned near everything in science. We understand very little about climate today. Yes, we understand more than we did 10 years ago but it's still very little. Show me a climate model that can be back-tested and then we can talk about taking civilization-altering steps.