Madrid Climate Summit Ends In Disarray...

[seer]

What a cluster!

Failure In Madrid As COP25 Climate Summit Ends In Disarray

Negotiations at a U.N. climate summit in Madrid broke down today as the two-week meeting ended without a crucial agreement on the global carbon market rules of the Paris Agreementhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davekea.../#539bb7813d1f

[rogue06]

Obvious this was Trump's fault.

[seer]

Obvious this was Trump's fault.

And the US should jump into this pit of snakes! I thought we were all going to die and they can't agree on the basics!

[Sparko]

Obviously without the USA as the deep pockets, they have nothing to pay for their nonsense.

[Leonhard]

And the US should jump into this pit of snakes! I thought we were all going to die and they can't agree on the basics!

Well, the ocean will probably be 20-30 feet higher in 1000 years, and various parts of the world uninhabitable to humans, but the temperate zones would still be habitable.

That could be true, while at the same time we politically aren't able to do anything about it.

[Sparko]

Well, the ocean will probably be 20-30 feet higher in 1000 years, and various parts of the world uninhabitable to humans, but the temperate zones would still be habitable.

That could be true, while at the same time we politically aren't able to do anything about it.

Technological advancements would solve the problem long before then, and without a need to panic and change our way of life. Electric cars, clean energy, maybe even fusion power. You can't force advancement with panic. It will all happen at it's own pace.

[Leonhard]

Technological advancements would solve the problem long before then, and without a need to panic and change our way of life. Electric cars, clean energy, maybe even fusion power. You can't force advancement with panic. It will all happen at it's own pace.

A 1000 years is a long time, I agree. And maybe with radical automation, we might be able to do some massive geoengineering. I'm not someone who despairs Sparko, humans are resourceful, so I don't think this will wipe us out. At any rate I don't think God would allow it to wipe us out completely.