EyeSawYou wrote:
Friend,
Administration officials say President Trump has decided to officially exit the UN's Paris Climate Agreement!
If this holds true, it is great news for America, the environment, and the world.
The UN's Paris Climate Agreement imposes massive economic burdens, redistributes fortunes, lines the pockets of profiteers and dictators all while having little or no impact on the temperature of the Earth. It will impoverish people and pressure the environment. It is the most expensive all-pain, no-gain scenario imaginable.
America would be making the right move in breaking free.
At its founding, America was a developing nation. Getting enough calories and protein in your diet was not a sure thing. For many, hunting was not about sport or wildlife management, but survival. In more settled areas game became scarce.
Why is today's America canopied by trees and teeming with turkeys, deer, bear, waterfowl, you name it?
Because American economic freedom has made food so plentiful that today the problem is all about people eating too much, not too little. Nature has also rebounded so successfully that we could actually use more hunters, not less.
When the price of energy rises above what people can afford, forests disappear as people turn to firewood. When food becomes scarce and expensive, people pressure the land and animals vanish.
In Africa, habitats disappear and species become endangered when people turn to "bush meat" to put protein on their tables. Even in highly developed Germany, trees vanish when government pushes the price of energy above people's means.
In America free-market innovations such as hydraulic fracturing are defying hostile bureaucracies to keep energy affordable. It took new supplies of natural gas to reduce American CO2 emissions (if that's your thing) while expensive government solutions remain feckless.
Climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer writes "human health and prosperity depend upon access to affordable energy. Unfortunately, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and its 2015 Paris Climate Treaty, will hurt the human condition by making that energy much more expensive."
The warming crowd is going way over the top to paint a dire picture of what will happen if President Trump exits the UN Climate Agreement. We provided a taste of the hysteria brewing on the climate Left at CFACT.org.
Congratulations to President Trump for reportedly seeing past the hype.
As Dr. Spencer reminds us, "the truth is, we owe it to the poor to get out."
For nature and people too,
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"Why is today's America canopied by trees and teeming with turkeys, deer, bear, waterfowl, you name it?"
Answer: It is canopied by trees because there is more CO2 in the atmosphere. They are teeming with turkeys, deer, bear (except polar bears who are losing their habitat) and waterfowl because of effective management by government bureaucracies.
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"Even in highly developed Germany, trees vanish when government pushes the price of energy above people's means."
Answer: The price of gasoline in Frankfurt Germany is $5.57. This is a lot higher than here in the U.S. I don't think the Germans are cutting down trees to burn in their cars.
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"It is the most expensive all-pain, no-gain scenario imaginable."
Answer: Excerpt from Bloomberg:
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/for-cheapest-power-on-earth-look-skyward-as-coal-falls-to-solarSolar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less than a decade, it’s likely to be the lowest-cost option almost everywhere.
In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, half the average global cost of coal power. Now, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Mexico are planning auctions and tenders for this year, aiming to drop prices even further. Taking advantage: Companies such as Italy’s Enel SpA and Dublin’s Mainstream Renewable Power, who gained experienced in Europe and now seek new markets abroad as subsidies dry up at home.
Since 2009, solar prices are down 62 percent, with every part of the supply chain trimming costs. That’s help cut risk premiums on bank loans, and pushed manufacturing capacity to record levels. By 2025, solar may be cheaper than using coal on average globally, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
“These are game-changing numbers, and it’s becoming normal in more and more markets," said Adnan Amin, International Renewable Energy Agency ’s director general, an Abu Dhabi-based intergovernmental group. "Every time you double capacity, you reduce the price by 20 percent.”
Better technology has been key in boosting the industry, from the use of diamond-wire saws that more efficiently cut wafers to better cells that provide more spark from the same amount of sun. It’s also driven by economies of scale and manufacturing experience since the solar boom started more than a decade ago, giving the industry an increasing edge in the competition with fossil fuels.
The average 1 megawatt-plus grounde mounted solar system will cost 73 cents a watt by 2025 compared with $1.14 now, a 36 percent drop, said Jenny Chase, head of solar analysis for New Energy Finance.