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America Is The Real Climate Hero: Natural Gas Has Helped Reduce US Emissions More Than Many Paris Signatories

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A top item of discussion among world leaders at this week’s United Nations meetings was how to get countries to comply with the Paris Climate Accord.

Well, that certainly is a tricky problem for the climate change lobby – which sees the Paris Accord as their last-ditch hope to save the planet. As it turns out, FEW of the signatory nations to the Paris Climate Accord are meeting their solemn promises. As of last year, only five European nations were even within 50 percent of their target reductions. Asia is a bigger disaster. China and India’s emissions are getting much worse; they are building coal plants every week.

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Two years after pulling the United States out of the Paris scam treaty, it is Donald Trump who now looks like the prophet. Trump knew the inconvenient truth that so many in the U.S. government, starting with President Barack Obama who so wanted the treaty to work, chose to ignore. Few, if any of the other nations least of all the Chinese had any intention of slowing their economies to pay homage to the gods of global warming. The Paris agreement was little more than a $100 billion shakedown of the United States for more foreign aid money to the rest of the world.

Trump is still cast by the Europeans, Asians, Canadians and the American press as the climate change villain. He is, as the left says, “a denier.” But the denial that is going on or should I call it the grand fraud is that the multi-billion-dollar Climate Change Industrial Complex is pretending that the Paris Climate Accord is a wondrous success showing the power of the UN and “collective action.” So far, the treaty has been just the opposite.

Hollow promises. All sound and fury, but no action. Which is why the constant verbal spankings directed at Trump and the American delegation at the UN is so farcical.

Meanwhile, what isn’t reported at all, as the UN apocalyptics spread doom and gloom about the state of the planet, is that America has done far more than the rest of the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is because we invented something called shale gas yes, the same thing that Bernie Sanders wants to ban, and Joe Biden wants to “phase out.” Shale gas is replacing coal and other inefficient energy sources and it is doing so at low cost.

What irony: the one nation that is not a signatory to the Paris Treaty, is the nation that has reduced its carbon emissions the most over the past two years.

How many of the thousands of young people demanding swift action and admonishing the U.S. for ignoring the dangers of climate change, know this? It’s a pretty good bet that the teacher unions that have used eight-year-olds as foot soldiers in their ideological campaign against fossil fuels, have never told these facts to the youngsters.

If we look at the list of nations that are the biggest cheaters on the Paris Climate Treaty, we see that the more sanctimonious a nation is, the worst offender it is. Spain, Germany and Italy aren’t making much progress, but they sure make grandiose promises to clean up the planet. The leaders in Beijing who are much more interested in becoming the planet’s superpower than combating global warming, are laughing all the way to the bank. Just China’s annual increases in greenhouse gas emissions are greater than the entire annual emissions of Canada each year.

Now we have Vietnam, Indonesia, India and many other Asian nations rapidly developing and thirsting for more low-cost energy. That isn’t going to come from windmills. They build coal and gas plants because they work. They are cheap and reliable sources of electric power that empower their citizens.

A little over two years ago Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Accord – keeping a key promise to voters. We now can safely congratulate Trump for a gutsy decision to pull out of a treaty that benefits no one.

Rather than trying to salvage this flawed treaty it is time to rip it up and move on to environmental policies that work.

If the world leaders who attended the UN meetings had an ounce of integrity, they would admit that the Paris Accord has been about as successful as the Bay of Pigs invasion. Time to rip it up and adopt environmental policies that work and are cost-effective.

If the rest of the world would follow America’s lead and use more natural gas, the planet would be a much cleaner and wealthier place. Energy poverty is one of the great inhibitors of economic development across the globe and for the wealthy nations to lecture poor nations to use wind and solar power is to deny them the path to better and healthier lives.

Technology, innovation, and private enterprise will save the world from ecological disaster. America is proving that, and the rest of the world would be wise to stop lecturing and start following our lead.

Stephen Moore is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. His latest book is: “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.”


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  1. LIEberals rely on Consensus Opinion for everything. They have no ability to be objective on their own opting for the opinions of idiots who only want grant money from the government.
    Let me introduce you to my favorite BS detector-Michael Crichton. May he rest in peace:
    “I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
    Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
    There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” – From Aliens cause Global Warming Speech, Michael Crichton

    https://youtu.be/mtHreJbr2WM climate change hoax

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