Re: Climate Negotiators Hail ‘Historic’ Paris Draft Agreement - Bloomberg Business

Wed Dec 16 17:27:06 CST 2015

“Pace is now the key word for climate,” said 350.org co-founder Bill
McKibben after the agreement was finalized. “Not where we’re going,
but how fast we’re going there. Pace—velocity, speed, rate, momentum,
tempo. That’s what matters from here on in.”

“We know where we’re going now,” he continued. “No one can doubt that
the fossil fuel age has finally begun to wane and that the sun is now
shining on, well, solar. But the question, the only important
question, is: how fast?”

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Misc. just learned today serendipitously. Sorta relevant. 5 years ago
> ARCH COAL $350 a share. Today the NYS Exchange just sent them word
> they were going to be delisted. Under 90c a share.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Peter M. Fitzpatrick
>> <petopoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Here is a short summary of the history of global warming.
>>>
>>> -Pete
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/16/3731098/food-agriculture-climate-agreement-paris/
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/14/a_turning_point_for_the_climate
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The movement of difference and hope from Paris  is that there are now
>>>> >> World-Organized incentives for business and countries to leave fossil
>>>> >> fuel
>>>> >> in the ground because investing
>>>> >> In other forms of energy, in sucking c02 from the atmosphere--there is
>>>> >> technology to do that---
>>>> >> will accelerate. Hansen mentions this in a Sci Amer article and
>>>> >> elsewhere
>>>> >> which Joseph did not send around)
>>>> >> "It will take the international business community" ---JohnKerry.
>>>> >> (Paraphrase surely)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I personally, Polyanna that I am, prefer the former skeptic who
>>>> >> foresees
>>>> >> an accelerating cascading effect of change because Paris. Look up all
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> Good that has recently been effected.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> few I've ever talked to can talk scale of effect and change.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I like toting up all the positive changes the world has made to feel
>>>> >> better for the future. Another massively complex problem. Many must not
>>>> >> believe there are ongoing positive changes.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> But we, the whole world, have  to do more than we can NOW AND FOREVER
>>>> >> more
>>>> >> ASAP
>>>> >> To save the planet...new book coming with that premise.....and I am now
>>>> >> barely reading
>>>> >> An intelligent philosopher on how,the world will change in the near
>>>> >> future
>>>> >> because climate change and what we need to know to do.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Climate change is happening. Real bad shit. Q is Can we save the world?
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Sent from my iPad
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Dec 16, 2015, at 6:44 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> We are talking about governments here, i.e., massive business
>>>> >> aggregates.
>>>> >> They are not eager to drop immediate profits in the interest of
>>>> >> long-term
>>>> >> survival. Business is not conducted with the next generation in mind,
>>>> >> only
>>>> >> the profit margin, ergo governments act in kind. Pulled out The Sacred
>>>> >> and
>>>> >> the Profane again the other day and came across a passage that struck
>>>> >> me as
>>>> >> particularly applicable in these times, if only we acknowledge that our
>>>> >> leaders today honor the gods, not of pre-history, but of recent
>>>> >> history. The
>>>> >> world they know was made by gods such as Pierce Inverarity, not those
>>>> >> old
>>>> >> gods of the Nile, of Beth-el, or of Olympus. Profit, i.e., the stronger
>>>> >> hand
>>>> >> in trade, is the only environment that concerns them.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> > On Dec 12, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > If all the pledges are actually fully met it will still lead to a
>>>> >>> > temperature rise between 3 and 4 degrees C global average( land
>>>> >>> > temps will
>>>> >>> > be more extreme) That will produce massive global catastrophes.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/10/climate-2c-global-warming-target-fail
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >  Naomi Klein: We know, from doing the math and adding up the targets
>>>> >>> > that the major economies have brought to Paris, that those targets
>>>> >>> > lead us
>>>> >>> > to a very dangerous future. They lead us to a future between 3 and 4
>>>> >>> > degrees
>>>> >>> > Celsius warming. These are figures from the Tyndall Centre and Kevin
>>>> >>> > Anderson, who have analyzed those numbers. It does not lead us to 2
>>>> >>> > degrees
>>>> >>> > Celsius, which is what many of our governments pledged to do in
>>>> >>> > Copenhagen
>>>> >>> > in 2009.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > KEVIN ANDERSON: The message is that the voluntary submissions that
>>>> >>> > have
>>>> >>> > been put forward by all of the countries, when you add all of these
>>>> >>> > up, they
>>>> >>> > are far, far above the level of what we call dangerous climate
>>>> >>> > change, that
>>>> >>> > all of our leaders have committed to, to avoid going above this 2
>>>> >>> > degrees C
>>>> >>> > rise, I think about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. But actually, when you
>>>> >>> > add up
>>>> >>> > all of the commitments that the countries are making in terms of
>>>> >>> > their
>>>> >>> > reductions in emissions, then actually it’s far, far above that,
>>>> >>> > nearer 3 or
>>>> >>> > 4 degrees C temperature rise, which is a huge increase. That’s a
>>>> >>> > global
>>>> >>> > average. Remember, that is a global average. And most of the globe
>>>> >>> > is
>>>> >>> > covered in water, so on land that’s an average of, if we carry on
>>>> >>> > like we’re
>>>> >>> > going now, 4, 5, possibly even as high as 6 degrees C temperature
>>>> >>> > rise.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > James Hansen also agreed with this estimate
>>>> >>> >> On Dec 12, 2015, at 6:56 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> >>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-12/climate-envoys-prepare-for-broadest-deal-yet-limiting-pollution
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> Sent from my iPad-
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>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>>
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