Literally no country is doing enough to meet the Paris Accord

[NeoGreen]

https://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/literally-no-country-doing-enough-meet-paris-accord.html

Literally no country is doing enough to meet the Paris Accord
Sami Grover: October 5, 2018


Well, this is depressing...

I tend to be an optimist. When Donald Trump decided to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, I argued that the global momentum and political will was such that progress would continue regardless.

I still believe this is true.

From entire countries banning gas and diesel car sales to giant corporations embracing 100% renewable electricity, I do believe that the general direction of travel has now been set and the only real question remaining is whether we'll get there fast enough to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.

But here, my optimism gets more shaky. While progress is being made on several important fronts, a new report from consulting giant PwC pulls absolutely zero punches in terms of whether or not we are moving fast enough to solve the problem:

There seems to be almost zero chance of limiting warming to well below two degrees (the main goal of the Paris Agreement), though widespread use of carbon capture and storage technologies, including Natural Climate Solutions, may make this possible. Each year that the global economy fails to decarbonise at the required rate, the two degree goal becomes more difficult to achieve.

Even the UK and China—economies which are leading the way in terms of reducing carbon intensity—are not doing enough to meet the 2 degree target. Specifically, the report says that the gap between the current rate of decarbonization and the rate needed to reach even the 2 degree limit to warming (let alone the more ambitious goal of 1.5 degrees!) is widening, with it currently standing at 6.4% decarbonization per year for the rest of the century. And every year we delay action, the steeper rates of decarbonization we need to achieve in every year that follows.

[NNadir]

1. That people display wind turbines as if they mattered where climate change is being discussed...

...is a real factor in why we are failing.

Wind turbines didn't work; they aren't working; they won't work.

There seems to be very little discussion of the fact that over a trillion dollars was spend on this junk in the last decade with the result that climate change is getting worse faster than ever.

It takes engineering and science to address an issue like this, but routinely, what we hear is marketing.

The wind industry has proved useless at addressing climate change; it is currently useless, and it will always be useless, in particular because of the iron and aluminum requirements to make shit that doesn't even last 20 years before coming landfill. Steel requires billion ton quantities of coal; aluminum, hundreds of millions of petroleum coke - a side product of petroleum refining.

And then there are people who claim to give a shit climate, but routinely wander off to "nuclear free" rallies and websites because um, um, um, Fukushima and other crap they elevate over habitat, atmosphere, and the health of humanity where the use of dangerous fossil fossil fuels is rising, and along with it the death toll from air pollution.

Frankly this sort is the most disgusting. They're perfectly fine with the atmosphere collapsing if the alternative is that someone somewhere will detect an atom of cesium-137 in a tuna fish somewhere.