Climate Change

[Billy_Kinetta]

It always does.

Season Approaches: U.S. Hits Record 127 Months Since Major Hurricane Strike

 

[Arianrhod]

Weather =/= climate.

 

[flacaltenn]

It always does.

Season Approaches: U.S. Hits Record 127 Months Since Major Hurricane Strike

Danger is -- if this pause gets any longer -- folks won't be alive to REMEMBER what multiple landfall hurricanes in one season were like. And they are GONNA flip out..

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Remember when the agwcultists told us Katrina was "because global warming" and Cat 5 hurricanes would be more frequent because the ocean was warming?

Good times

 

[Clementine]

 

[blastoff]

Remember when the agwcultists told us Katrina was "because global warming" and Cat 5 hurricanes would be more frequent because the ocean was warming?

Good times

Oh well duh...it was just another of countless dire predictions the lefty global warming loons have been claiming would destroy our world since the first Earth Day way back in 1970.

For you many low information clowns that means they're 0 for 46 YEARS!!! What an inconvenient truth, huh?

 

[waltky]

Yea... war, drug, economic climate...

Woodrow Wilson Center: ‘Giant Number of Refugees’ Are Result of Climate Change
June 24, 2016 – During an event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on Thursday to discuss how women are disproportionately affected by climate change in developing countries, Jane Harman, president and CEO of the center, said that many of the refugees around the globe today are being displaced by climate change.

Harman said it is in the interest of the United States to “build resilience” in these countries to prevent migration and even terrorism. “It seems to me that the U.S. has a direct interest in building government capacity, which will build resilience in the countries you’re talking about,” Harman said. “Because if we don’t do it, guess what happens?” she said. “What we’re seeing right now is – it’s not just refugee flows, which is also horrible and heartbreaking – oh by the way, climate refugees are a giant number of refugees.”

We’re also seeing the export of terrorism caused by instability in those countries, Harman said. “So it seems to me if we want to reduce – we’ll never totally prevent it – but want to reduce the terror threat to the United States, we have to help build resilient capacity in countries abroad,” she said. The framework for the conference, “At the Eye of the Storm: Women and Climate Change,” was described as follows:

“Struggling to save their failing crops. Walking farther to fetch clean water. Protecting their families from devastating storms and violent conflicts. Experts warn that women in developing countries will be disproportionately affected by climate changes. But women could also hold the keys to solving the climate challenge. “Empowering women through education, economic opportunities, and reproductive health care can make surprising contributions to the climate fight. To make this happen, we need to bridge sectoral barriers and work together to ensure that women are climate victors, and not climate victims.”

One panelist, Public Policy Fellow Maxine Burkett, shared the story of an Indonesian woman who wants to save the forests in her country. “My people regard the Earth as the human body,” “Mama” Aleta Baun said. “Stone is our bone. Water is our blood. Land is our flesh. Forest is our hair.” “If one of them is taken away, we are paralyzed,” Baun said.

Woodrow Wilson Center: ‘Giant Number of Refugees’ Are Result of Climate Change

 

[waltky]

Rich Nations Vowed Billions for Climate Change; Poor Countries Are Still Waiting...

Rich Nations Vowed Billions for Climate Change. Poor Countries Are Waiting.
Sept. 9, 2018 — When industrialized nations pledged in 2009 to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, it won over some skeptics in the developing world who had argued that industrialized nations should pay up for contributing so much to the problem.

But the money has been slow to materialize, with only $3.5 billion actually committed out of $10.3 billion pledged to a prominent United Nations program called the Green Climate Fund. President Trump’s decision last year to cancel $2 billion in promised aid did not help. At a climate change conference in Thailand this past week, some delegates reached by telephone said that the setting — the heart of Southeast Asia, a region where challenges relating to warming are readily apparent — was grimly fitting. They described the United Nations program’s shortcomings as a symbol of a broken promise. “The fund of hope is becoming a fund of hopelessness,” said Meena Raman, legal adviser to the Third World Network, an advocacy group in Malaysia, and a former nonvoting member of the Green Climate Fund’s board.

Farmers on a parched field in Bang Pla Ma district, north of Bangkok​

The meeting in Bangkok of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a prelude to a larger one in December in Poland, where countries will try to set rules for carrying out the 2015 Paris climate accord. The Bangkok meeting did not specifically address financing to mitigate climate change. But it came two months after disagreements among the Green Climate Fund’s board members prevented the fund from approving new projects at a routine meeting. Some observers say the fund’s funding shortfall and bureaucratic malaise have dimmed expectations for the talks in Poland, which were already bound to be difficult. “The lack of real money coming through is really undermining trust in the negotiations” around how to put the Paris accord in place, said Brandon Wu, the director of policy and campaigns at ActionAid USA, an advocacy group that monitored the Bangkok meeting. “That’s a big part of the logjam.”

Activists demonstrating in front of the United Nations building on Friday in Bangkok, where a climate change conference was being held.​

The Green Climate Fund was designed to help developing countries prepare for climate disasters and develop low-fossil-fuel economies. It was part of a larger plan, led by Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state in 2009, to put together $100 billion a year for poor economies through a combination of government contributions and private investments. Many academics see contributions to the fund by wealthy countries as a moral imperative, arguing that the developing world is most vulnerable to the effects of climate change but least responsible for causing them. “Certainly, the richer countries should bear more of the burden in the G.C.F. because they have more means and more at stake,” said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, referring to the fund by its initials. “Richer countries also have benefited from wealth accumulated over decades when climate issues were not at the forefront.”

An Indonesian woman and child walking through a thick haze shrouding the city of Palangkaraya, Indonesia​

The Obama administration delivered $1 billion of a $3 billion pledge to the program. But last year, Mr. Trump, while announcing plans to exit the Paris accord, said the United States would no longer pay into the Green Climate Fund. He explained his decision by saying that the contributions could eventually cost the United States “billions and billions and billions” of dollars. Ms. Raman said that while she still hoped to see other developed nations “step up” by contributing more to the fund, they had not yet made their exact commitments clear. “We’re very horrified by the stance taken by the United States, but it’s not the only one,” she said. “All the developed countries are united around the United States in not making any progress on finance.”

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