In 2015, nearly every country signed The Paris agreement and agreed to keep global warming to below 2 degrees higher than before humans began emitting industrial levels of CO2 emissions.

Yet very little has changed, because every country gets to arbitrarily decide for itself how it can meet its goal, or if it should have a goal at all.(1) That's how useless the Paris Agreement is.

There is a lot of hand-wringing about climate change in America but thanks to natural gas, our emissions per capita are below World War II. They are even lower than World War I, but disaster sells in journalism and environmentalism and panic leads to grants.(2) We have 2 billion people in the world burning wood and dung for fuel.

And it's our fault. Not America alone, every rich country that controls the World Bank. We will not fund any centralized energy loan that isn't solar or wind - despite scientists knowing those will not work. Dr. James Hansen, the Godfather of Global Warming, said Clean Coal technology was the only thing needed to halt emissions concern. Yet all coal is deemed the enemy. Poor countries can't get off true high-emission energy because we won't let them. Instead, we reward them.

President Obama got together with China to talk about emissions and they told him they were a developing nation and he should talk to them in 2030. His media team has to spin that as a win, noting that China had never agreed to any time to talk about their runaway emissions before and then declared we must go back to 2005 levels.

The Paris Agreement Is So Pointless It Amounts To Fraud Against The Climate

China was within their rights to tell him they'd figure it out later, and how. Because the Paris Agreement gave nearly every country the same option. Which means it is useless.

Each country signing the Paris Agreement got to choose from a buffet of actions.

1. Absolute emission reduction targets - chosen by each country. They could pick any baseline year they wanted. Russia picked a baseline and because it was before old Soviet factories ceased operation, their emissions have gone up, yet they are meeting their Paris Agreement target.

2. Target emissions to be lower than 'business as usual.' If you didn't have a really high emissions year after 1990, because your economy was not very good so you weren't polluting, 
countries could opt for a 'business as usual´ reduction; reducing emissions compared to if they operated the old way until 2030. 

3. GDP emission intensity reductions are the way to go if neither 1 nor 2 allow you to grow. You can opt a reduction in emissions per GDP relative to a base year you choose. If your exports were cheaper in the past but high pollution, you don't have to change a thing about actual pollution. If you make more money now, your emissions per GDP went down and you did your part. India has emissions skyrocketing so much they have to close schools, for example, but are on pace to meet their Paris Agreement commitment.

Climate scientists are criticizing everything except what other scientists know is the problem



Climate scientists are again taking to Twitter to claim we are not doing enough, the world is warming and we need more Draconian cuts, but the evidence is not on their side. Too many of their claims are computer simulations and pleas about social justice.

Social justice is everyone being able to afford an air conditioner and lights and running water. Even progressive journalists in 1934 marveled at the impact affordable energy had on the poorest people in the country.

Western academics and journalists are yelling at western people for washing their clothes while Russian emissions are up 13%, India is up 229%, and Pakistan is up 182%. America, on the other hand, met what would have been its 2025 target in 2017 while Mexico also went down 11%

Yet it was already too late in 2020, according to progressive journalists in corporate media so there is no point in trying now.



That it is already too late is good news for China and India and Russia, who weren't doing anything anyway. They know western countries will be too busy blaming US President Donald Trump to notice.

NOTES:

(1) China, for example, steadfastly lied in its own reports about its CO2 emissions until western satellites could detect its pollution so in signing the Paris Agreement committed to nothing. They have their numbers and the rest of the world can obey them, like governments did with their claims about COVID-19, or be exposed as toothless.

(2) They'd be even lower if President Clinton and Senator John Kerry hadn't sealed the victory for Boomer Environmentalists in the Democratic Party and banned nuclear in America.