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Re: Majorities of Americans in Every State Support Participation in the Paris Agreeme
[h=2]All the major nations are failing to meet their Paris targets says Nature paper[/h]
The Magnificent Paris deal was rubbery-theatre, make-of-it-what-you-will, and with rare diligence here is Nature publishing a paper where a team bothered to check progress. (If only Nature held scientific research as accountable as political deals. MBH98 anyone — where Mann’s hockeystick was accepted by Nature, but not the corrections?)
Lo, Nature does a bit of conspiracy thinking:
In 2015, The Guardian said Paris was where “decades of failure were reversed, and a historic agreement reached.”
Skeptics called the Paris Agreement a “worthless piece of paper”.
In 2017, Nature said: “All major industrialized countries are failing to meet the pledges they made to cut greenhouse-gas emissions”. . . .
[h=2]All the major nations are failing to meet their Paris targets says Nature paper[/h]
The Magnificent Paris deal was rubbery-theatre, make-of-it-what-you-will, and with rare diligence here is Nature publishing a paper where a team bothered to check progress. (If only Nature held scientific research as accountable as political deals. MBH98 anyone — where Mann’s hockeystick was accepted by Nature, but not the corrections?)
Lo, Nature does a bit of conspiracy thinking:
“It is easy for politicians to make promises to impatient voters and opposition parties. But it is hard to impose high costs on powerful, well-organized groups. No system for international governance can erase these basic political facts. Yet the Paris agreement has unwittingly fanned the flames by letting governments set such vague and unaccountable pledges.”“
Suddenly skeptics are powerful and well-organised groups? Somehow the authors, editors, and reviewers all missed that it costs trillions to change the energy system our civilizations were built on, and millions of voters don’t want to pay. The opposition to this is only organised in the sense that we still hold elections.In 2015, The Guardian said Paris was where “decades of failure were reversed, and a historic agreement reached.”
Skeptics called the Paris Agreement a “worthless piece of paper”.
In 2017, Nature said: “All major industrialized countries are failing to meet the pledges they made to cut greenhouse-gas emissions”. . . .
