Failure and More Failure: Time to Get Real
If you are a typical reader of this blog, much of what you’ll see below is not news . But my hope is to frame questions about climate change and its remedies in a coherent way. . . and also to make the argument that. . . you’ll see.
As much as climate change believers have attempted to rein in the combustion of fossil fuels to reduce CO2 emissions, they have largely failed. It doesn’t matter what accord or protocol we’re talking about—Paris, Copenhagen, Kyoto—economic considerations (especially in India and China), and the slow development of zero carbon technologies are preventing us from meeting the goals.
That’s even without the worsening of U.S. emissions we can expect for the next four years—at least.
The good news is that CO2 emissions worldwide have ceased growing—we may be at a plateau with some promise of reduction.