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Sunday, July 15, 2018

The Climate Change Crisis With Carbon Dioxide

For the last 20 years, we have been told about Global Warming (now Climate Change) due to excessive emissions around the world of carbon dioxide due to the activities of human beings.  I'm sure you recall all the predictions made by people like Al Gore when he released his movie 15 years ago.  These were predictions by scientists, so they had to be correct, right?  Here are a few of the best ones:

1.  Sea levels would rise by 2015 to a point at which there would be constant flooding in port cities around the world.  (Somehow, it didn't happen.)
2.  Temperatures would rise in a steady fashion.  By 2012, it would be too late to take any meaningful action to stop the rise.  (Temperatures in the atmosphere measured around the globe by satellites were essentially steady for the last 20 years.  Indeed, the lack of any rise in these temperatures led the Global Warming people to change the name to "Climate Change".)

There are more of these predictions, but let's focus instead on the efforts to prevent climate change.  The biggest effort, of course, was the Paris accords.  President Obama signed those accords, but President Trump withdrew the USA from that agreement.  The Democrats and the media told us that by withdrawing from Paris, Trump had placed the USA in position to become the world's biggest polluter.  After all, the goal of the Paris accords was to reduce the growth in carbon dioxide emissions around the world.  So here's a test.  Which of these countries had the biggest growth in carbon emissions in 2017?

a.  France
b.  USA
c.  China
d.  Russia
e.  Germany
f.  Iran

That shouldn't be too hard to answer if you follow the Climate Change debate at all.  The answer is China which had the biggest growth in carbon emissions of any country around the world.

So which of the six countries had the biggest decline in carbon emissions in 2017.  The answer is the USA which reduced carbon emissions by more than any other country in the world.  American leadership in carbon emission reduction put us first in the world for the ninth time in the last 16 years.

By the way, China and those other countries mentioned above are all signatories to the Paris accords.  Each of them had INCREASES in carbon emissions.  Those Paris accords really don't do much, do they?

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