Climate Change: I don't want to talk about it

Climate researchers protest Trump:

https://www.theguardian.com//environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2...

And what would these leftist delusions be? Don't be shy.

On Tuesday, President Obama announced that he was putting hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned waters in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean off limits "indefinitely" to future oil and gas drilling.

Environmental groups had been calling for precisely this move ever since the election — as a way of preempting Donald Trump. What's interesting here is that while Obama can legally put these areas off limits by executive order, it's not at all clear that Trump can unilaterally reverse this move, at least not without Congress passing a brand-new bill. 

http://www.vox.com/2016/12/20/14032588/obama-oil-drilling-arctic-trump 

Not if it is filibustered in the senate.

Low-income families join solar revolution with help of California NGO

As the wealthy leave the electrical grid, there's a risk the poor will be left paying the bill

If you were to make a list of the poorest areas in Los Angeles, somewhere on that list would be Bertha Dortch's neighbourhood in Inglewood. The 68-year-old is on a fixed income, but she's chosen to take in her great-granddaughter and two foster children. On hot days, she faces difficult choices — does she keep the house cool, or buy groceries?

"Our electric bill was going sky high and I really couldn't turn the air conditioning on," Dortch says.

Now, her monthly energy bill is about to drop by more than a quarter. She's getting solar panels installed on her bungalow, for free, under a state-funded program paid for by California's cap-and-trade revenues....

these delusions have to do with building supra national international agencies beyond the control of people to manipulate macroeconomics and finance and taxation policy and demand what nations must do, not to mention developing population reductions mechanisms such as war and colonialism to eliminate grass roots people living off the land without contributing to the pockets of the megacorporate elites and their bureaucrats of these multi national agencies...

let´s face reality...the left has lost it totally, totally bought out with their climate change internationalsit demands, their corporate globalist neoliberal politics...nor of course does the right have the slightest clue...so where do we turn to...why do people refuse to deal with the need to develop alternative politics...beyond me to understand!

Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-rec...

Earth's last major warm period was as hot as today, but had higher sea levels:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earths-last-major-warm-period-was-ho...

Canada Cannot Have It Both Ways on Climate and Fossil Fuel Expansion

With great fanfare and a claim that “Canada is back,” Prime Minister Trudeau helped usher in the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015. Since then, however, the federal government has pushed to expand fossil fuel production through new bitumen pipelines and LNG terminals.

This contradiction points to a loophole in the Paris Agreement, one that perfectly fits Canada: countries have committed to reducing emissions within their borders, but not the carbon that is extracted and burned elsewhere.

Paris poses no limits or sanctions on the supply of fossil fuels being brought to market by producing countries. For exporters like Canada only the emissions from getting fossil fuels out of the ground and to the border are counted.

As a result, producing countries have a powerful incentive to respond to the Paris Agreement by doubling down on fossil fuels now before their value evaporates.

This “green paradox” is bad news for the climate....

World's oceans losing oxygen, threatening marine life, study finds:

http://www.cbc.ca/1.3985933