Thursday, December 05, 2019

The UN’s Impossible Climate Action Pyramid | PA Pundits - International

The UN’s Impossible Climate Action Pyramid | PA Pundits - International
Every year the UN produces a climate action report just before the annual climate summit (this year COP 25 in Madrid).
...Yet, the people who should really care are the ones who would be clobbered
...What is rising and falling (the y-axis) is global human CO2 emissions.
What the graph says is that emissions have been rising rapidly (primarily in the emerging economies) but now they must suddenly stop and then fall rapidly.
This nonsense is impossible — politically, socially, economically and even physically.
Most importantly, consider what the rapid rise signifies.
Image result for africans no electricityIt is billions of people greatly improving their lives, with things like electricity and mechanical transport.
Light, heat, running water, computers and TV, scooters, cars, tractors and much, much more.
There is no way this dramatic progress is going to suddenly stop and reverse.
...We are talking about reversing human progress..."
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