The year 2020 is shaping up to be one of madness when it comes to the climate change debate. Several huge milestones are in the cards and these cards are on the table.
One is the US Presidential election, where the entire world wants to see if President Trump can pull off another skeptical miracle (or curse, depending on who you ask).
The official date for the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is the day after the election, so that too may hang in the balance.
In UN-Land, there are two monster milestones in 2020.
By far the biggest is that the mythical $100 billion a year is supposed to start flowing from America and the rest of the supposedly guilty developed countries, to the developing countries, who claim to be suffering increasingly bad weather because of our prosperity.
In addition, under the Paris Agreement pretty much all of the countries in the world are supposed to raise the level of ambition in their national climate action plans.
Note that for the developing countries these action plans are contingent on getting the $100 billion a year, thus there is a close connection.
So if Trump wins and the big bucks don’t show the whole house of green cards just might collapse. This is going to make for a very tense (and loud) year on the climate change front.
Things are already heating up here in 2019. Topping the list is the truly extreme Green New Deal proposal.
Most of the Democrat presidential candidates have endorsed the GND, which guarantees it will be a major nomination issue. If a Green New Dealer gets the nomination it will also be a huge election issue, maybe even the deciding one.
The Republican Senate artlessly failed to debate the explosive GND, while the wily Democrat House has silently buried it under eleven different Committees.
And while Congress may never vote on the GND, it is not about to go away, quite the opposite. The Presidential race guarantees it a large life, at least until the Democrat National Convention.
While so far avoiding the GND, the Democrats running the U.S. House have promised to introduce a never-ending series of separate and distinct climate activist bills.
The goal of this piecework strategy is to make climate change a big 2020 election issue, no matter who their candidate is.
On the UN side, the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting a special September meeting of national governments, specifically designed to elicit increased ambitions in their new 2020 climate action plans.
It is billed as the “plans not speeches” meeting.
Unlike the usual UN talkathon, in this case, the proposals to speak are apparently being screened for punch. The Secretary General’s invitation is reported as including this unusually tough talk:
This summit will be action-oriented. The deliverables and initiatives that will be showcased need to be implementable, scalable and replicable and have the potential to get us in line with the commitments of the Paris Agreement.
In a parallel article in Britain’s ever-green Guardian newspaper, Guterres says:
I am calling on all leaders to come to New York in September with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020.
Ominously, there is also a special track on the “mobilization of youth.”
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At this point, it is far from clear that any major country is prepared to up their ambition, which might make the meeting a bust. The US is certainly out, even though the meeting is at UN HQ in New York.
A lot of the green majors are facing the rapid emergence of skeptical conservative opposition parties, so they are running scared.
Germany is a good example. Some, like Brazil, have even been taken over by skeptics, in Trump-like fashion.
So all things considered, 2020 may be the year of the climate crescendo. The volume is certainly picking up here in 2019.
Why not, given that in some ways the world order is on the line. It is certainly about time we had a serious debate over climate change policy.
Let the big fight begin.
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The MSM are not being used they are partners, lying to the public for political purpose . As long as you tow the party line you are OK in their echo chamber .
I had to look it up, but I should have used “fourth estate” instead of MSM. The fourth estate might be described as “Walter Cronkite” Today’s MSM fits the definition of “fifth estate”, first mentioned in the mid – 60’s. More like “60 minutes”.
How long will the MSM allow themselves to be used? They’ve been enabling hypocrital, abusive control freaks.
I’m impressed that the Globe and Mail blew the whistle on Trudeau and the SNC – Lavalin affair. Enough is enough, and enough is too much!
“Why not, given that in some ways the world order is on the line. It is certainly about time we had a serious debate over climate change policy.”
“Let the big fight begin.”… it’s not going to happen.
No. Sorry. The fight is over before it begins. They are forever stuck in the shadows yelling out “scientists say”… LIES.
They don’t have the data and EVERY PREDICTION FOR OVER 50 YEARS has been a bust. They have and are still LYING and they cannot stand in the light to defend the LIE!
I see in this mornings news, even good old ‘hoke and chains’ (“If you like your doctor…..”) is concerned about the direction the youngsters are taking the democrat party. At least the new House members aren’t hiding what they want to do to America…..
The Democrats continue to have hearing and reading problems as they dogmatically plug along with the Al Gore , earth has a fever nonsense .
What is it about a party that ignores the peoples priorities and continually shove their bag men agenda down the throats of citizens ? They do virtually nothing for the people but wage war on a duly elected President and pump out complete crap like the Green Deal , a road map for the complete economic and social destruction of the USA . Yes folks they are here to help . At least Hillary could hid it most of the time but now it’s just straight loonies trying to grab the mike . What if any introspection takes place in the minds of these candidates ? An “American Indian” impersonator, an arm flapping skate board clown , and a guy who has “Spartacus” moments .
At least Bernie the Commie is up front .
Maybe it’s all designed to show how completely nutty they could be so
it’s a cake walk for anyone normal to get the Democrat nomination .
Make America Great or Make America Implode . Hmm what to do ?
2020? Do we have that long?
Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer says that he’ll eliminate the carbon tax if elected in October.
Sounds like a winning strategy.
British Columbians are currently paying $1.60 Cdn / litre for gasoline. ($4.30 US / us gal). Their provincial carbon tax is scheduled to increase annually.
Something’s gonna give.
The big time Rio Earth Summit back in 1992 was just a front to push for World Goverment under the UN the usial suspects were gathering for hammer out the plans for a One World Goverment all under the UN control the usial indigionous tribes the Various Eco-Wackos and World Leaders the Ark of Life a mockery of the Ark of the Covent(Raiders of the Lost Ark)about the viking ship Gaia named for the Pagan Godess of the Earth seen in the leftists kids carton series CAPTAIN PLANET and the PLANETEERS
UN CLIMATE GATE is a world trick to take over & destroy YOUR COUNTRY to be controlled by the UNITED NATIONS under their NEW WORLD ORDER.
CLIMATE GATE is 1992 UN CLIMATE SUMMIT plan (that failed in 1972) to destroy AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, MINING, OIL & GAS INDUSTRIES to break 192 free market Western countries making then easier controlled & compliant with to UN ELITES NEW WORLD ORDER. CARBON TAX is a faster way of breaking everybody since EVERYTHING IS CARBON.
After 1992 UN CLIMATE SUMMIT achieved consensus has enabled the UN control of education & media to control & “socially engineer society” into a generation of UN SANCTIONED FOOT SOLDIERS to self destruct countries from the inside out. A generation that doesn’t know science, math or social studies, ask no questions and follows like robots & does what they are told.
LIBERALs, PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVES (UCP), NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY, GREENS ALL EQUALLY HAVE SIGNED UP FOR & AGREE WITH THE UN’s NWO GENOCIDE PLAN! The solution is to reverse the UN indoctrination, outlaw global warming alarmism & given set time to implement or be fined then jailed. DRACONIAN MEASURES FOR DRACONIAN TIMES! UN & ALL AFFILIATES MUST BE BANNED FROM CANADA!!!
Fine
But why not say it more simply that they are
LIARS