The G-8 Countries Climate Agreement: A Lot for A Little — MasterResource

So apparently the G8 have the climate aspects of the plan all figured out. Now they just need to figure out some way of actually achieving an 80% reduction of their own CO2 emissions (a near impossibility) and convincing the rest of the world to do the same (a virtual impossibility).

It is orders of magnitude easier for the G8 nations to reach this agreement than to actually pull it off. That applies also to the Waxman-Markey (HR 2454) aspirational goal of a 83% reduction by 2050. Reality, as they say, is real.

Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"

It would be bad enough if the alarmists misused the precautionary principle merely to impoverish people with mad 'carbon reduction' laws. But shockingly, the alarmists are not stopping at wrecking our economies with nutty schemes. Many of them want to put cold-generating sulphur pollution into the atmosphere, or seed the oceans with iron or, even worse, lime, or any number of other hare-brained schemes designed to cool the Earth. Can anything be less like a sensible precaution than that?

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It is estimated that current global rates of extinction are in the range of thousands of species every year.

Mass Climate Summer takes State by Storm « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Sally Sharrow, a junior at Tufts University explained, “the idea is that as the polar ice caps melt, Santa will become the world’s most celebrated climate refugee..."