CNN climate alarmist Bill Weir joined At This Hour guest host Boris Sanchez to discuss the latest U.N. report calling climate change “code red for humanity.”
Weir sounded pessimistic about governments’ willingness to do anything about it, but in an attempt to find some optimism, hyped the lawsuits brought by children amidst “the social license to go drilling for oil.”
Weir began by declaring, “this is the sixth of these, chapter six of these warning reports, Boris. And the pledges that were made at the Paris Accords, no country virtually is meeting them yet and they’re supposed to try to go to Glasgow in a couple of months and up the ante and say we’re going to do even more.”
He lamented that here in the U.S. even “just trying to do some modest things becomes a partisan fight.” But, Weir added, there is potentially good news, if politicians won’t save the planet, maybe children and the courts will:
But what you’re seeing a lot of action in and may dictate how things go is in the courts. The so-called climate kids suing for the right to a livable planet, or who’s accountable for this. Can you use a sort of forensics of tying weather events to climate change and then oil and gas company for their part in that? That is what is maybe the next chapter and reports like this which is the definitive state of the science will go to both judges, juries, and policymakers.
Weir was referring to a worldwide movement of children suing their government for not doing enough to battle climate change, but here in the U.S. their lawsuit demanding the phasing out of fossil fuels was dismissed because it would have given far too much lawmaking power to judges.
An Obama appointee, who was sympathetic to the kids’ argument, wrote the majority opinion. Sanchez then asked Weir if China was doing enough to battle climate change.
Weir, the man who never misses an opportunity to say Republicans are destroying the planet, proceeded to make excuses for China’s record:
“They have so many mouths to feed and people lifting into the middle class. So they’re putting more coal on line than the rest of the world but also leading the world in solar and trying to have it all. They’re also a race for natural resources out there.”
For Weir, the real problem is not China’s coal usage, but the idea that:
“Right now we’re dealing with the social license to go drilling for oil these days. When we know what it is doing to us. How long will companies have that social license? We stopped burning whales for light at a certain point. How soon that moment happens may determine a lot.”
According to Weir, some kid suing the government with a list of unconstitutional demands is more important in the fight against climate change than calling out China. This is CNN.
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As I said before, this process is known as judicial legislation. It is an attempt to by pass democracy by getting court rulings for measures that can not, and should not, make it through the legislative process. This is an extremely immoral practice but the only morality that liberals believe in is that the ends justify the means.
Who still bothers to watch CNN and its Fake News anymore this liberal Propaganda fake news should be tuned out and turned off
So China can be excused, saving its people (not the Muslims there). This man has apparently no idea that China follows what Lenin said: sell the capitalists enough rope and hey will hang themselves with it. China makes a panels amount of solar panels etc to sell to the west. The “Green revolution” quickly became watermelons indeed: green outside, red inside. The UN IPCC has said it is basically about globalisation and redistributing funds, AGW used as a tool. A top official here openly has stated the aim is not really environmental at all. WE in the Naieve West have fallen for the whole thing.
Decarbonisation has always been about reducing production and impoverishing ordinary people – believe it or not, as you wish. The Chinese want to increase production, thus improving internal and external sales and profits. Good luck to them. We should join ’em.
No wonder CNN’s dropped so low in their ratings. How is it that after thirty years of “the world’s going to end tomorrow”, journalists still haven’t been able to fact-check the science of CO2 biology? More CO2 has increased agricultural output and the mass and strength of the environment. That is the science of the CO2 fertilization effect. And that’s an understatement. Politicians and ‘journalists’ have nothing left but fear and control. All life dies without CO2. That is the science. CO2 is a follower in climate, not a cause. Yet politicians and journalists strive to triple the cost of energy, regress life essential CO2 levels, and continue to kill millions every year from energy poverty. All because they can’t be bothered to factcheck even the basics of CO2 biology and the energy that built and sustains modern civilization. More energy and more CO2 is always better for the environment and better for humanity. We are the best fed, longest living, most prosperous human beings that have ever existed. Too bad big energy wouldn’t sell itself better.