"The year 2020 is shaping up to be one of madness when it comes to the climate change debate. Several huge milestones are in the cards and these cards are on the table.
One is the US Presidential election, where the entire world wants to see if President Trump can pull off another skeptical miracle...
...In UN-world there are two monster milestones in 2020.
By far the biggest is that the mythical $100 billion a year is supposed to start flowing from America and the rest of the supposedly guilty developed countries, to the developing countries, who claim to be suffering increasingly bad weather because of our prosperity.
...So if Trump wins and the big bucks don’t show the whole house of green cards just might collapse.
This is going to make for a very tense (and loud) year on the climate change front.
Things are already heating up here in 2019.
Topping the list is the truly extreme Green New Deal proposal.
Most of the Democrat presidential candidates have endorsed the GND, which guarantees it will be a major nomination issue.
...On the UN side the Secretary General Antonio Guterres is hosting a special September meeting of national governments, specifically designed to elicit increased ambitions in their new 2020 climate action plans.
...The Secretary General’s invitation is reported as including this unusually tough talk:
...“I am calling on all leaders to come to New York in September with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020.”
Ominously, there is also a special track on the “mobilization of youth“.
So all things considered, 2020 may be the year of the climate crescendo..."
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