I seem to write post after post about the conflict between reality and liberal talking points in the mainstream media and how talking points always seem to win. Here's another one. Writing in the New Republic, Greg Sargent takes on the Republican view of climate change. In the debates, GOP candidates have pointed out that unless countries like China are involved, all the plans to combat climate change won't work. Sargent then takes the GOP candidates to task for ignoring the recent agreement with China in which Beijing committed itself to cutting carbon emissions. Sargent says that the GOP acts as if that agreement never happened.
As these sorts of articles go, this effort by Sargent is a masterpiece of delusion. He ignores reality and sticks with false talking points. Consider this:
1. The agreement by China to which Sargent refers calls on the Chinese to start making efforts to cut emissions in 2030. That's right, for the next 15 years, the Chinese won't do anything. After that, we will see what happens.
2. Two days ago, the world learned that the figures used to figure the carbon emissions from China "overlooked" the burning each year of roughly one billion tons of coal. That's right one billion (with a "b"). The amount "overlooked" in this way is more than the entire amount of emissions from Germany each year. That means that China is actually a much, much worse polluter than was thought. It also means that there is essentially nothing that the USA can do to combat carbon emissions that will make a difference without the active involvement of the Chinese. Simply put, Greg Sargent is completely wrong in his article.
3. Even though you all know this already, we cannot let the attack by the obviously brain dead Sargent pass without reminding everyone that the actual measurements of atmospheric temperatures taken by NASA satellites show that the Earth's atmosphere has not warmed during the last 18 years. On top of that, the amount of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic has now been determined to have grown during the last 25 years. Both of these facts prove that global warming theory is nothing but a myth.
As these sorts of articles go, this effort by Sargent is a masterpiece of delusion. He ignores reality and sticks with false talking points. Consider this:
1. The agreement by China to which Sargent refers calls on the Chinese to start making efforts to cut emissions in 2030. That's right, for the next 15 years, the Chinese won't do anything. After that, we will see what happens.
2. Two days ago, the world learned that the figures used to figure the carbon emissions from China "overlooked" the burning each year of roughly one billion tons of coal. That's right one billion (with a "b"). The amount "overlooked" in this way is more than the entire amount of emissions from Germany each year. That means that China is actually a much, much worse polluter than was thought. It also means that there is essentially nothing that the USA can do to combat carbon emissions that will make a difference without the active involvement of the Chinese. Simply put, Greg Sargent is completely wrong in his article.
3. Even though you all know this already, we cannot let the attack by the obviously brain dead Sargent pass without reminding everyone that the actual measurements of atmospheric temperatures taken by NASA satellites show that the Earth's atmosphere has not warmed during the last 18 years. On top of that, the amount of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic has now been determined to have grown during the last 25 years. Both of these facts prove that global warming theory is nothing but a myth.
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