Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Blah blah blah. I'll call on you next time I need a string of empty words.

Market-radical think tanks from the USA now want to fight the global climate agreement in Europe as well.
The Trump fans were at the climate summit in Madrid to establish right-wing influencers and networks in Germany.

Parallel to the UN climate summit, European and US climate change deniers met in Madrid at the "Climate Reality Forum" conference. The conference focused on how the world could defend itself against alleged "climate alarmism" and "climate madness".
The conference was organised by the US think tank Heartland Institute and the German climate change denier association EIKE from Jena. The thesis of Heartland's environmental expert James Taylor: "We are winning Europe".

The new "young star" of the movement was also invited: the right-wing blogger Naomi Seibt from Münster. She was the only female speaker at the event, which was traditionally dominated by older men.
The Heartland Institute in particular is currently trying to stage the 19-year-old as an "Anti-Greta". Naomi Seibt is trying to be a once "naive" environmentalist, who has now "woken up" and seen through the "climate lie".

Since the conference in Madrid Heartland has been promoting the Münster woman on its channels, the right-wing "Breitbart-Blog" interviewed Seibt, and also the German climate deniers praise her as Jugendliche mit Sachverstand ("youngster with expertise") against the alleged puppets of the industriellen Klimakomplex ("industrial climate complex"), as it is said on the EIKE blog.

Heartland's environmental spokesman James Taylor explained a that it was a good idea to hire Naomi Seibt on a permanent basis.


The LKR ("Liberal Conservative Reformers"), a small right-wing Germany party, organises now 'climate conferences', co-sponsored by the Heartland Institute.

UNFORTUNATELY no matter your ultimate wish for return of the "Dark Ages", time as perceived by us all will never go backwards.

EVERYTHING you wish for , does not reduce carbon's reaction with oxygen, it merely moves the reaction elsewhere.

It appears that you merely want to Lower the first world's entire standard of living so that the third world's standard isnt so far behind. That sounds like " Lets stick our heads in the sand and our problems will go away"

Have you considered that perhaps you're not as deep as you think?

Court rules Dutch government has duty to protect citizens’ rights in face of climate change

The Netherlands’ supreme court has upheld a ruling ordering the country’s government to do much more to cut carbon emissions, after a six-year fight for climate justice.

The court ruled that the government had explicit duties to protect its citizens’ human rights in the face of climate change and must reduce emissions by at least 25% compared with 1990 levels by the end of 2020.

The non-profit Urgenda Foundation, which brought the case, welcomed the “groundbreaking” judgment. The original judgment in 2015 was seen as a landmark in the then nascent field of climate litigation, and inspired similar cases across the world, from Pakistan to New Zealand.

David Boyd, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, said it was “the most important climate change court decision in the world so far, confirming that human rights are jeopardised by the climate emergency and that wealthy nations are legally obligated to achieve rapid and substantial emission reductions.”

The Dutch government had previously said it would comply with the substance of the ruling, but it repeatedly appealed over the legal basis for the decision. The latest national statistics show the Netherlands is very unlikely to meet the 2020 emissions target.

The Netherlands passed its first piece of national climate legislation in 2018, it has published a more ambitious carbon plan for 2030, and it is closing its first coal plant next year.

According to the supreme court, individual nations have direct obligations under articles 2 and 8 of the European convention on human rights, covering the right to life and the right to private and family life.

Dennis van Berkel, a member of the legal counsel for Urgenda, said: “The enormous importance of this case is not just that the Netherlands is obliged to act but that these principles are universal. No court outside the Netherlands is bound by this decision but the influence that this court has and the inspiration that it will give to others are really big.”

Van Berkel said that if the government did not comply with the ruling, Urgenda could start separate legal proceedings against it.

The Dutch climate minister, Eric Wiebes, said the government had “taken note” of decision and would issue a full response in January. He said the Netherlands had announced an “ambitious” set of measures this year to implement the judgment, although campaigners think it could go much further.

As well as inspiring cases against other national governments, Urgenda’s success has encouraged campaigners to take up legal arms against corporations. In April a group of social and environmental justice groups led by Friends of the Earth Netherlands began the process of suing the oil firm Shell, arguing that its business model threatens international climate goals and endangers human rights.

In a formal reply in November, Shell denied it was liable. A month earlier the company’s CEO said it had “no choice” but to invest in oil and claimed it was “entirely legitimate” to do so.

Nine de Pater, a climate and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Netherlands, said the supreme court decision set an important precedent for the Shell case because they used similar legal arguments. “It is a huge decision for all current climate litigation cases,” she said.

The Netherlands’ supreme court has upheld a ruling ordering the country’s government to do much more to cut carbon emissions, after a six-year fight for climate justice.

The ruling may have far-reaching consequences: on the one hand for plaintiffs in other EU countries who are taking legal action against their governments for what they consider to be inadequate climate protection. On the other hand for the German energy companies Uniper and RWE. They operate several coal-fired power plants in the Netherlands, some of which were only opened a few years ago. These piles may now have to be closed much sooner than planned. This is because by the end of 2018 the country had only achieved CO2 savings of 15 percent.

The government declared a few days ago that it would implement the Supreme Court's ruling. However it turns out.