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2019-11-26 International-UN-NGOs
US, EU 'owe half the cost' of repairing climate damage
[NEWS.YAHOO] The United States and Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
 bear more than half the cost of repairing the damage already wrought by climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said Monday.

Based on their historic greenhouse gas emissions, the US and EU should be held jointly responsible for 54 percent of funding owed to developing nations already dealing with extreme flooding, droughts and megastorms rendered more frequent and intense by global warming, the groups said.
Based on current emissions measurements, China and India are putting out more “greenhouse gasses” than the U.S. and EU combined, emissions that are forecasted to continue increasing. And the US has significantly more carbon dioxide absorbing trees now than a century ago, so we’ve been doing our bit to absorb what we’ve produced. Perhaps you should go back and calculate net emissions after plant growth before pointing fingers.
A week ahead of a UN climate summit in Madrid -- in which the controversial issue of how funding for the so-called "loss and damage" inflicted by climate change will be provided -- they said the amount needed would hit $300 billion annually within a decade.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, under which the 2015 Gay Paree agreement was signed, is based on the principle that all countries must give at least their fair share in global efforts to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate.
That would be the one President Trump tore up, so we don’t owe anybody anything. Sorry.
Posted by Fred 2019-11-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 US and EU should be held jointly responsible for 54 percent of funding owed to developing nations

Let it be said that no one owes us anything, thank you very much. Well, except maybe the UN a measly $38 m. It's okay, we like 'em in our debt.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-26 00:43||   2019-11-26 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 India is proceeding nicely along the path from developing to developed — Mr. Wife is even prouder of y’all than I am (he was working there in 1989-91, when things when things were very different). Any country that has a respectable space program needn’t beg for financial support.

For a beautiful contrast, see the editorial about Pakistan's finances your countryman posted for our edification.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-26 00:49||   2019-11-26 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 What damage are you talking about? List the real damage and show proof that they indeed occurred!
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-11-26 01:16||   2019-11-26 01:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Shakedown. FOAD.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-26 01:31||   2019-11-26 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Why do you assume,
a) CO2 has anything to do with the temp
b) humans caused it
c) there's enough co2 to make any difference

Homeopathy has more science than climate science does.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-26 01:54||   2019-11-26 01:54|| Front Page Top

#6 The United States and Europe bear more than half the cost of repairing the damage already wrought by climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said Monday.

...People in Hell want ice water. They ain't getting that either.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-11-26 05:19||   2019-11-26 05:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Send the bill to Trump; I'm sure he'll get right on it.
Posted by Raj 2019-11-26 07:41||   2019-11-26 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 There must be some mistake.

I believe we're all paid up.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-26 07:45||   2019-11-26 07:45|| Front Page Top

#9 half of zero is still zero
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-11-26 08:21||   2019-11-26 08:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Send our bill to China: they're responsible for the most pollution and they have all of our money.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-26 08:34||   2019-11-26 08:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Have any of these climate warriors factored in the potential role of dissolving limestone? Since there are orders of magnitude more 'fossil CO2' locked up in limestone than fossil fuel one would think it needs to be in the analysis, but I have yet to see it.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-11-26 09:52||   2019-11-26 09:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Better to 'owe' it to ya, than cheat ya out of it, I always say.......
Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-11-26 13:12||   2019-11-26 13:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Sutton's Law as applied to the "climate crisis".

Although they should really include China if that's the case.
Posted by charger 2019-11-26 14:16||   2019-11-26 14:16|| Front Page Top

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