The Paris Climate Agreement Won’t Change the Climate | 5 Minute Video
The Paris Climate Agreement will cost at least $1 trillion per year, and climate activists say it will save the planet. The truth? It won’t do anything for the planet, but it will make everyone poorer–except politicians and environmentalists. Bjorn Lomborg explains.
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Much has been made of the Paris Climate Agreement signed by the leaders of 178 countries in 2016. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, speaking for many, called it a “historic turning point.”
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, echoed the minister’s remark when she testified before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. The Paris Agreement was, she said, an “incredible achievement.” But when pressed by committee members to explain exactly how much this treaty would reduce global temperatures, she would not – or could not – say.
This combination of grand pronouncements and vague specifics is a good strategy for Paris Agreement fans to take. Because the agreement will cost a fortune, but do little to reduce global warming.
Consider the Obama administration’s signature climate policy, the Clean Power Plan. Using the same climate prediction model that the UN uses, I found that the power plan will accomplish almost nothing. Even if its cuts to carbon dioxide emissions are fully implemented – not just for the 14 years that the Paris Agreement lasts, but for the rest of the century – the Clean Power Plan would reduce the temperature increase in 2100 by just 0.023 degrees Fahrenheit.
The President has made further, and grander, promises of future U.S. carbon cuts, but these are only vaguely outlined. In the unlikely event that all of these extra cuts also happen, and are adhered to throughout the rest of the century, the combined reduction in temperatures would be 0.057 degrees.
To put it another way, if the U.S. delivers for the whole century on the President’s very ambitious rhetoric, it would postpone global warming by about eight months at the end of the century.
Now let’s add in the rest of the world’s Paris promises. If we generously assume that the promised carbon cuts for 2030 are not only met (which itself would be a U.N. first), but sustained, throughout the rest of the century, temperatures in 2100 would drop by 0.3 degrees – the equivalent of postponing warming by less than four years. Again, that’s using the UN’s own climate prediction model.
But here’s the biggest problem: These miniscule benefits do not come free; quite the contrary.
The cost of the Paris climate pact is likely to run to 1 to 2 trillion dollars every year, based on estimates produced by the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum and the Asia Modeling Exercise. In other words, we will spend at least one hundred trillion dollars in order to reduce the temperature, by the end of the century, by a grand total of three tenths of one degree.
Some Paris Agreement supporters defend it by claiming that its real impact on temperatures will be much more significant than the U.N. model predicts. But this requires mental gymnastics and heroic assumptions.
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Well so if you think it is a good thing sit in a cave no fire good luck with that.
Politicians to come up with the fixes for climate change. These fixes will kill more humans than the changing climate.
The AGW movement made a strategic blunder by making unsupported radical claims about CO2 and then arrogantly moving on as though their perverse exaggerations about the greenhouse effect were self-evident.
While alarmist climate scientists manipulated data and programmed rudimentary CO2 driven models to no avail – real scientists using the Scientific Method experimented and wrote papers adding to the body of literature on demonstrated CO2 physics that invalid the AGW hypothesis – which alarmists have never disproven. AGW is a social engineering tool and a business model not a scientific endeavor.
Now after 50+ years of fear-mongering, failed prediction, data fraud, ethics scandals, bullying, violence, vandalism, censoring peers, canceling careers and livelihoods, ‘climate scientists’ have the worst reputation and track record in the science business, and they also have an enormous credibility problem and PR crisis on their hands, as they are losing the information war they started decades ago. Turns out the greening planet had the last say aligning with the published literature.
CO2 is the element of life – now the conversation shifts from a position of ignorant fear to informed appreciation for the amazing CO2 molecules we exhale and plants consume everyday.
For being an idiot, Trump as President did very smart things
Ever wonder… since 1997 and the formation of the Kyoto Agreement global surface temperatures have done nothing but increase steadily, putting the Greenland Ice-Sheets at extreme risk!
And since the formation of the Paris Accord that dangerous trend in our world has continued unabatedly. Now it's 2030 our next target date for the reductions of green-house gases of 40 % to take effect
. That's 33 years of trying and not much success to report to the World Citizens! Global surface temperatures are rising at a dangerous rate of increase.
The Prague Agreement (1989-2039) was to replace the original agreement, "The Antarctica Agreement" which was better than the Prague Agreement ever could be, as it did not permit the mining or even surveying of Antarctica.
Through the Prague Agreement surveying of Antarctica is now permitted of what and where natural resources exist and their locations on this continent, but no mining permitted yet,
This brings us one step closer progressively to the actual mining of Antarctica into the near future (2040)
For this to happen Global Warming must continue to melt down this polar ice- cap, which is what is occurring, As the meltdown continues glaciers measuring the size of France have collapsed into the Antarctica ocean and a whole lotta more will into the future,
So far anyway it's like Kyoto and the Paris Agreement never even happened environmentally and the Greenland Ice -Sheets hang in the balance.
So why build sea- port access to Antarctica? Logically and rationally why? Future mining operations post 2039!
If it comes down to a choice between Saving The Greenland Ice-Sheets or The Mining of Antarctica (Trillion$$$$$) … then the Ice-Sheets have had it,… long ago!
experiencing 1.5 degree increase since pre-industrialization began and is continuing on this path globally.
"I found…." And you are? Let's say your some expert in climate science, what do your peers say about what you found. And you barely showed any data to support your claims.
Show me your data in a peer reviewed journal before I give a shit what you found.
Yeah if oil barons keep getting subsidies.
It's believed to have helped with the current healing the ozone layer which had been damaged
Is nothing but an scam for the government to waste our money on juice contracts or jobs for some people
For 100 trillion dollars society could easily cure cancer, and all other diseases.
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Under the Paris Agreement the Chinese are allowed to bring online a new coal burning power plant every 3 weeks for the next 20 yrs because they are an Emerging Economy.
Fatal flaw in this argument, is that CO2 cannot physically force global temperature.
So, when subsidies are given to accelerate the development of solar panels it’s a waste, but fracking saves the climate?
I gotta congratulate you for delivering that BS with a straight face.
Hello, just wondering what are you references for all these statistics you have in your video?
Someone send this to trudumdum also to that rude little girl can't stand that girl.
Paris Climate Agreement = Virtue Signaling
Someone needs to set up giant televisions in inner cities across the country playing Prager you videos 24/7. Especially the ones about the 10 Commandments ,and the truth about the Democrat party.
It doesn't make scientific sense. It makes perfect political sense. You have to view everything the Left does thru the lens of politics.
Yes, the temperatures are ‘rising’… right.. it was so cold here in the past year.. cannot trust mainstream media!
This is so bad lol
i walk with a stick i walk with a bacon egg and cheese and i drink arizona for fun
Following KILL GATES? HELL NO!! 🖕🖕🖕
https://youtu.be/wbR-5mHI6bo
I understand that global warming is not a ‘burning’ issue 😉 but its sad how many people trashed on trump for pulling the US out of the agreemnt
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Bjorn Lomborg is a discredited mouthpiece masquerading as an academic, if you want accurate climate science go to a scientific organisation (IPCC, NASA, CSIRO, etc) not a youtube video funded by fossil fuel executives.
04:39 It is possible that Great Thunberg was inspired by this video, Lol!
Paris be like I got the hook up holla if you hear me. It is just another way to hurt america and help other world powers get stronger. I have worked in the oil business and it's the best way for now. It needs to lead to the real answer. Wind is a big no Solar is just not there yet for a major populated area.
Man-made. late change is a pure hoax or mental retardedness. Only an Al Gore or John Kerry may get convinced by it. But Al Gore can get convinced by anything, not just the hoax if man-made climate change. So Al Gore getting convinced isn't worthy of being counted.
Just going to point out even a minuscule reduction in the temperature means it doesn't get WORSE over the next 100 years either.
As each one of these climate agreements have been made for the last 30 years…
The atmospheric co2 content has steadily risen.
As co2 has risen…
The global mean temperature anomaly has remained the same.
But NOAA has consistently tampered with historic temperature data to reflect the agreements, and reflect the IPCC's "alleged" findings.
After all these years…
It is painfully obvious that the data books have been cooked.
The onkl true constant in this global con scheme is the misappropriation of funds between governments and corporations.
Why would THEY try so hard to cancel out any whistleblower from calling them out on social media?
The more THEY complain about deniers of their ideologically driven political con scheme…
The more obvious it is to ANYONE possessing any critical thinking skills.
Why would an alleged eminent global disaster be so easily controlled by simply ending the use of fossil fuels…
But the very same individuals that tell us to end the use of fossil fuels be so very dependent on the profit from said fossil fuels?
Most of you are SO EASY to fool.
Its VERY obvious how ignorant the common man is in this particular scenario…
Cuz our education system keeps the common man ignorant.
There is NO convincing the common man that someone is lying to them.
QUOTE-Mark Twain…
It is easier to lie too them…
Than it is to convince them someone is lying to them.
Its true.
And every single day…
The common man proves this.
Environment is A priority
Since CO2 is not the main driver of climate change but rather a very insignificant one, the whole Paris accord is mainly a money theft scam !
Bjorn Lomborg is not even going into the climate politics fake facts.
And fracking is so good for water sources and have no negative impact (notice the irony) and when that gas is out?
Subsidising green energy may be not the most efficient way to spend money, but promotes reusable energy…. except that the resources building those equipment… create alot of co2….. meh we're screwed either way :p
If we wanted to prevent climate change we need to go back to before we discovered fire and metal, and anything that is combustible
Imagine the balls of these people. For years they denied climate change. To this day they deny it is caused by human activity.
And then they say the different agreements will not do anything.
Buddy….the time to act was in the 90's, but we had to convince you morons about the disasters.
Now go back to your overpriced house and enjoy the upcoming water shortages and the blistering heatwaves
We're screwed.
Can we just do nuclear plz. Anyone got the negatives on nuclear energy besides safety?
Looks like having control, real science will tell the tale.
Well, the cost is still less than the Iraq war.
C'mon we just need to slow the acceleration before we decrease it.