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The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.
“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019
1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
Most of that is what Trump has been telling us all along.
Gotta link?
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.
“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019
1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
Most of that is what Trump has been telling us all along.
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.
“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019
1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
Not to be a stickler. But those points seem more like wishful thinking than anything else.
Because coal is anything but going at this point, the Paris agreement has it's own problems with regulating it's own members, Renewable energy has it's own issue with the pollution that it creates, with Technology advancing being possibly the only positive here.
Gotta link?
Trump have claimed that global warming is a Chinese hoax.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385
He also wants to spend billions of dollars per year propping up unprofitable coal plants.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-d...save-americas-failing-coal-fired-power-plants
While the Trump administration also wants to abolishing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants that have prevented up to 11,000 premature deaths each year and a dramaticly reduced mercury pollution.
https://www.lung.org/about-us/media/press-releases/mercury-and-air-toxics.html
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.
“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019
1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
No link needed. It is common knowledge that several things on the list are what Trump has always said, such as things would be fine even if the US was not in the Paris accord.
The scales of justice are tipping? What does that mean? They aren't supposed to tip .And now that liberal actiivist Ruth Ginsburg is out of commission there is a less likely chance they'll tip. ( Liberal judges typically rule to support liberal causes,)
Climate change alarmists are like a religious zealot who announces the day the earth will come to an end. When it does, they predict a new date. Then another and another.
How many times now have we gone past the point of no return so far? This all started with Al Gore - and we are now 12 years past his 2006 point of no return that was taught to millions and millions of children as if tuisms from God.
You obviously didn't read the article.
It used to be if you were worried about global warming, you were supposed to change your lightbulbs and recycle. As the political movement to address climate change has evolved, so has the understanding that some players have made outsized contributions to the problem; researchers have established, for example, that the business practices of about 90 companies are responsible for nearly two-thirds of the observed increases in global surface temperatures. Now, an effort is underway to hold the fossil fuel industry responsible for its actions. In 2018, seven cities, counties, and states filed lawsuits against some of these companies, seeking to recover damages brought on by climate-change-related disasters. In November, West Coast crab fishermen sued 30 fossil fuel corporations, alleging that global warming has led to fishery closures and lost revenue. And the our Children’s Trust lawsuit—in which 21 young people are suing the US government for fueling global warming—is still making its way through the court system. Climate liability cases are a part of a global trend: Lawsuits are ongoing in the Netherlands, Peru, the Philippines, Canada, and other countries.
Climate change alarmists are like a religious zealot who announces the day the earth will come to an end. When it does, they predict a new date. Then another and another.
How many times now have we gone past the point of no return so far? This all started with Al Gore - and we are now 12 years past his 2006 point of no return that was taught to millions and millions of children as if tuisms from God.
For example UK that have drastically reduced it's coal consumption and will close its last coal plant in 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/05/uk-coal-fired-power-plants-close-2025
While Denmark got 43 percent of their electricity from wind power in 2017 and also plan to get 80 percent of electricity from renewables in 2020.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/06/44-wind-denmark-smashed-already-huge-wind-energy-records-2017/
You also have NIPSCO, a energy company in Republican Indiana, that plan to replace coal with renewables and reduce carbon emissions by more than 90 percent by 2028.
https://www.nipsco.com/your-energy
That's good for the UK and India, though I hope they manage to actually update their power grids to deal with using their new source of energy. Because Europe has had that problem for some time already.
https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-renewable-energy-grid-problem-2016-3
Not to mention instances like this going on.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/21/europe-renewable-energy/2006245/
I'm trying to remember what countries it was that were experiencing mass power outages because of trying to switch over. I think one was Germany, though I can't seem to find the original article, so don't hold me to that one just yet.
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.
“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019
1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
More and more money is being spent to support those who have chosen as their life work the search for a cure for the weather.
Global subsidies to fossil fuel are hundreds of billions each year. Much more than the subsidies to renewable energy.
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2...nsumption-subsidies-are-down-but-not-out.html
Bush was president for eight years, Trump have been for two years and you also had have Republican congresses. So all those Republicans should have been able to use federal funds to disprove manmade global warning if any evidence existed. Instead federal agencies countinue to acknolwedge manmade global warming and its devasting effects.
While the fossil fuel companies are amongst the most profitable companies in the world, so they could also have easily fund studies to disprove manmade global warming if any evidence existed. Instead the fossil fuel companies own studies show that manmade global warming is real and will have devasting effects.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings
The Sierra Club is citing 10 reasons why there is hope, despite climate change.
“Yes, it’s going to get worse,” Roberts writes, “but nobody gets to give up hope or stop fighting.” Exactly right. Here, then, are 10 glimmers of hope that humanity will opt for less screwed over more screwed in 2019.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/10-reasons-feel-hopeful-about-climate-change-2019
1. The Divestment Movement Keeps Growing
2. The Paris Agreement Holds Steady
3. The Rule of Law Still Rules
4. Renewable Energy Is on the Rise
5. Coal Is Going, Going...
6. Technology Is Advancing
7. Transportation Is Headed in the Right Direction
8. The Scales of Justice Are Tipping
9. The Political Winds Are Shifting
10. Youths Are on the March
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