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You forgot the one thats going to grow the fastest. Chop down your trees and burn them. Good times. Why? Because it's CARBON NEUTRAL. Makes you look good when you send in your reports to the UN, you can meet or exceed your targets, alls you have to do is denude your land of forested area! Genius eh?
The two methods of production favored in Global Warming circles are solar and wind. Both are only practical in the US because of Federal subsidies that offset the cost. Hydro power requires damming rivers, which are limited. That leaves nuclear as the most economically viable option outside of US subsidies.
originally posted by: Stevenjames15
a reply to: IAMTAT
This is more cronyism for the President and his 1% pals to line their pockets and make the middle class and poor, have to tighten their belts while the rich get to loosen them. This man is a joke and he is completely clueless. He wonders why the majority of Americans can't stand him. He will be a one termed President without a doubt!
originally posted by: AlphaDraconianX
We are f#cked. I volunteer at the zoo as one of the zoo guides that informs visitors about issues with out environment and lets just say we are screwing our planet over more than many people think. Trump doesn't understand basic science. Polluting the air and sea is bad... right Donald? Everyone can agree on that simple fact yet no one does anything to help and its infuriating.
Thats just the thing, Obama admin put C02 on label as a pollutant, until Trump reverses that, we're all screwed. America needs to get out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Trump needs to dismantle all the harmful regulations that Obama put into place.
originally posted by: xstealth
originally posted by: AlphaDraconianX
We are f#cked. I volunteer at the zoo as one of the zoo guides that informs visitors about issues with out environment and lets just say we are screwing our planet over more than many people think. Trump doesn't understand basic science. Polluting the air and sea is bad... right Donald? Everyone can agree on that simple fact yet no one does anything to help and its infuriating.
This agreement had nothing to do with pollution, you know that right?
Everyone knows pollution is bad and no one supports pollution.
originally posted by: ms898
a reply to: avgguy
It's a bad decision internationally because countries have lost faith with USAs word. If USA developes a reputation of not honouring promises why make a deal in the first place.
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originally posted by: xstealth
originally posted by: AlphaDraconianX
We are f#cked. I volunteer at the zoo as one of the zoo guides that informs visitors about issues with out environment and lets just say we are screwing our planet over more than many people think. Trump doesn't understand basic science. Polluting the air and sea is bad... right Donald? Everyone can agree on that simple fact yet no one does anything to help and its infuriating.
This agreement had nothing to do with pollution, you know that right?
Everyone knows pollution is bad and no one supports pollution.
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Efforts to Date: China has already been working for a number of years to reduce its CO2 emissions, improve energy efficiency, expand renewable energy and develop low carbon cities. China is on track to meet or even exceed its Copenhagen climate pledge, which was to reduce its carbon intensity by 40-45% below 2005 levels by 2020. China is responsible for over half of the world's energy conservation efforts over the past two decades. China has also installed 40 percent of the world's newly added renewable energy power over the past five years, while the country's investment in clean and renewable energy exceeded the combined total invested by the U.S. and Europe.
Next steps: So what are the next steps for China in implementing the Paris Agreement? Here are some of the major ones:
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Develop a priority dispatch policy for renewable power: In the September 2015 US-China agreement, China committed to adopting a clean electricity dispatch system that will prioritize power generation from renewable sources. This is critically important because, even though China now leads the world in wind and solar energy, its current electricity system still continues to give precedence to coal-fired power plants, operating these plants in order to meet minimum contracted hours, rather than operating lower-emitting renewable power plants.
Scale Up Green Buildings: China pledged in the September US-China agreement to ensure that 50 percent of all new urban buildings will meet China's green building standards by 2020. This is a critical building block for China's climate efforts, since buildings account for about one-quarter of China's energy use, and the number of new buildings is expected to triple by 2030. Meeting this target will require an enormous effort, since only 2 percent of new urban buildings were green buildings in 2012, and the previous goal was 20 percent by 2015, set by the State Council in the 2013 Green Building Action Plan. But it also represents an enormous opportunity for green building companies in the US and elsewhere to participate in this expanding market.
Clean Up Transportation: China pledged to ensure that the share of public transit in all motorized urban transport reaches 30% by 2020 - presenting the potential for more huge reductions in CO2 emissions. This will require the growing number of medium-sized cities in China to make major investments in subways, buses and other public transport. China also announced that it will finalize next-stage fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles in 2016 and implement them in 2019. This is critically important because China now has the world's second largest vehicle population after the U.S.
Continue to work to reduce highly potent short-lived climate pollutants like HFCs and black carbon. Under the U.S.-China September 2015 agreement, China has pledged to accelerate its efforts to control super greenhouse gas HFCs, including "effectively controlling HFC-23 emissions by 2020". China will also cooperate with the U.S. to reduce HFCs, which are widely used in air conditioning and refrigeration, but for which companies have already found and are continuing to develop climate-friendly replacements.
China's Ministry of Transportation has also just released a roadmap for controlling air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, one of the fastest growing sources of transport greenhouse gas emissions. Shipping is currently responsible for almost 3 percent of global CO2 emissions and over 2 percent of global black carbon emissions, the second most potent climate pollutant behind CO2.
Continue to Strengthen China's GHG Monitoring and Reporting System: The new Paris Agreement contains strong provisions for all countries to regularly report their emissions and progress made towards achieving their emission reduction targets. China will need to continue to develop and strengthen its domestic rules for monitoring and reporting GHG emissions, including finalizing the mandatory GHG reporting system for all key industrial sectors that it began last year.
The Little-Known Fund at the Heart of the Paris Climate Agreement
$3 billion over four years,
Well. Here's the rub: the climate changed already. Now it's your chance to help poorer nations circumvent the consequences and you denied. It's not that you came up with another plan instead, it's flat out denial. Thanks for nothing then.
Screw that, move on and continue to build. Maybe he'll watch and learn.
Now, for your information, back to China:
This whole global warming scepticism is nothing but a straw-man argument. We're not talking about CO2 emissions only, but rather about the fallout from pollution in general and how to address the consequences of our already changing climate.
But that's just me being in this head again. Maybe you folks just couldn't spare the few bucks for the Green Climate Fund?
Carbon dioxide based Global Warming is a load of bunk proposed by paid shills, financed by criminal politicians, and supported by paid researchers charged with propagandizing results for public consumption.
Yeah, that's a drop in the ocean given your military spendings.
Also, it's a pretty solid theory many paid shills have their issues with. Especially those from big oil and co, there's mud on both sides of the road.
Anyway. I don't think it's wise to leave
Propose something entirely new and you'll probably have the EU on board with that as well, we'll take anything we can.