Climate emergency demands united action Our view
It is Not beyond imagination for the world to Behave in concert Contrary to a global ecological threat. After all, it’s happened before. When scientists found that chemicals used in refrigeration and aerosol cans were depleting a protective layer of ozone within the Earth, risking widespread skin cancer and departure, nations agreed under the 1988 Montreal Protocol into some solution.
It worked. Use of these chemicals was cut drastically. While the damage takes decades to correct, an ozone hole over Antarctica each year has grown smaller.
Global warming is a far greater and more complex threat. But The solution is still the same — the planet’s countries acting as you can.
Signed by almost 200 countries
On Monday, the president chose the earliest opportunity, under complex United Nations principles, to begin the yearlong procedure of extracting the United States from the 2015 Paris climate accord signed by nearly 200 nations. America will be the only country to leave the accord.
Under the arrangement, the planet’s states established Voluntary goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and working to prevent the planet from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The agreement, though far from perfect, is your best effort thus far toward united action.
SEN. JOHN BARRASSO:President is right to get us from this bad Paris Agreement
He ignored his own federal scientists, and countless Others worldwide, who found evidence last year that the planet is warming faster than expected — even as 2015.
And that without reversing current trends, cataclysmic Declines in crop yields and fisheries — added to losses from from bigger storms, more droughts and fiercer wildfires — will price the U.S. market $500 billion annually by 2100, double the losses from the Great Recession a decade ago.
Only a week, scientists noted that rising seas from Melting glaciers and ice caps will cause the evacuation of 150 million people from coastal areas by 2050.
However, Trump knows better.
He acted even though the United States of America is the second largest Emitter, following China, of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas. Under Trump’s watch, America reversed a three-year tendency in cutting carbon dioxide emissions and recorded a 3.4% increase in 2018.
dismantling, Obama-era limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and vehicles. His government is turning a blind eye toward the broadly heralded idea of implementing a carbon tax that could reduce emissions while returning earnings to taxpayers.
However, Trump knows better.
Over 11,000 scientists in 153 countries issued a Report Tuesday warning — at a first for the scientific community –“clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate crisis.”
Also Tuesday came news that month was the hottest October on record worldwide.
Most Americans get it. Eight in 10 agree that people are to and nearly four in 10 view it as a catastrophe. But Trump knows better.
It is Not beyond imagination for the world to Behave in concert Contrary to a global ecological threat. After all, it’s happened before. When scientists found that chemicals used in refrigeration and aerosol cans were depleting a protective layer of ozone within the Earth, risking widespread skin cancer and departure, nations agreed under the 1988 Montreal Protocol into some solution.
It worked. Use of these chemicals was cut drastically. While the damage takes decades to correct, an ozone hole over Antarctica each year has grown smaller.
Global warming is a far greater and more complex threat. But The solution is still the same — the planet’s countries acting as you can.
Signed by almost 200 countries
On Monday, the president chose the earliest opportunity, under complex United Nations principles, to begin the yearlong procedure of extracting the United States from the 2015 Paris climate accord signed by nearly 200 nations. America will be the only country to leave the accord.
Under the arrangement, the planet’s states established Voluntary goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and working to prevent the planet from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The agreement, though far from perfect, is your best effort thus far toward united action.
SEN. JOHN BARRASSO:President is right to get us from this bad Paris Agreement
He ignored his own federal scientists, and countless Others worldwide, who found evidence last year that the planet is warming faster than expected — even as 2015.
And that without reversing current trends, cataclysmic Declines in crop yields and fisheries — added to losses from from bigger storms, more droughts and fiercer wildfires — will price the U.S. market $500 billion annually by 2100, double the losses from the Great Recession a decade ago.
Only a week, scientists noted that rising seas from Melting glaciers and ice caps will cause the evacuation of 150 million people from coastal areas by 2050.
However, Trump knows better.
He acted even though the United States of America is the second largest Emitter, following China, of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas. Under Trump’s watch, America reversed a three-year tendency in cutting carbon dioxide emissions and recorded a 3.4% increase in 2018.
dismantling, Obama-era limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and vehicles. His government is turning a blind eye toward the broadly heralded idea of implementing a carbon tax that could reduce emissions while returning earnings to taxpayers.
However, Trump knows better.
Over 11,000 scientists in 153 countries issued a Report Tuesday warning — at a first for the scientific community –“clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate crisis.”
Also Tuesday came news that month was the hottest October on record worldwide.
Most Americans get it. Eight in 10 agree that people are to and nearly four in 10 view it as a catastrophe. But Trump knows better.