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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
... it is likely going to cost a million, trillion dollars to save the planet from made made climate change.
We have no where else to live.
In Canada, we are already paying an extra $0.16 per litre of gasoline to help fund the battle against clinate change.Comment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
Of course you can believe whatever you want. It certainly doesn't change facts. Fortunately scientists don't actually need your belief. Although it is a bit concerning that you are unable to simply look around and realise something is going on.
Yes climate cycles from cold to hot and back again but that argument falls apart when you look at the timeline. Natural climate shift from cold to hot or hot to cold takes thousands of years. The shift we are experiencing currently has taken only hundreds of years. So believe, or don't believe, it doesn't make the facts any different.Comment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
Rich nations say they're spending billions to fight climate change. Some money is going to strange places.
Wealthy countries have pledged $100 billion a year to help reduce the effects of global warming. But Reuters found large sums going to projects including a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops.
Italy helped a retailer open chocolate and gelato stores across Asia.
The United States offered a loan for a coastal hotel expansion in Haiti.
Belgium backed the film “La Tierra Roja,” a love story set in the Argentine rainforest.
And Japan is financing a new coal plant in Bangladesh and an airport expansion in Egypt.
Funding for the five projects totaled $2.6 billion, and all four countries counted their backing as so-called “climate finance” – grants, loans, bonds, equity investments and other contributions meant to help developing nations reduce emissions and adapt to a warming world. Developed nations have pledged to funnel a combined total of $100 billion a year toward this goal, which they affirmed during climate talks in Paris in 2015. The funding helped crown Japan and the United States as two of the top five contributors.
Although a coal plant, a hotel, chocolate stores, a movie and an airport expansion don’t seem like efforts to combat global warming, nothing prevented the governments that funded them from reporting them as such to the United Nations and counting them toward their giving total.
In doing so, they broke no rules. That's because the pledge came with no official guidelines for what activities count as climate finance
A pledge to fight climate change is sending money to strange placesComment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
Let's look at some actual facts. From 1990 to 2017 the US population grew just over 30%. Its fossil fuel CO2 emissions however grew only 0.4 %.
US Population by Year
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions - Wikipedia
China who now leads the world in fossil fuel CO2 emissions had an increase of 353.8% over the same time period. And China continue to build fossil fuel powered plants and grow their emissions.Comment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
... there are always those who stick their head in the sand and say it is hopeless to do anything because someone else far away will not comply.
Climate change can have both a regionalized and global effect.Comment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
So you are ok with your gas price increase in the aim of reducing emissions when the money might build a coal plant in Bangladesh.
Global warming is what it says on the tin.
I hope the sand is not wet.Comment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
It's easy for people like you who spend their days crouched over their computers desperately searching for information that corroborates their twisted befiefs. Others spend their time in the real world either working or going about their days.Comment
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
There are also those that glue themselves to airport runways , roads and sporting event floors . Lets not forget deflating tires and throwing liquids into fountains and blocking roadways or defacing priceless paintings and many more ridiculous tactics . Is that the kind of people you want to help your cause .Comment
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