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US, EU 'owe half the cost' of repairing climate damage
[NEWS.YAHOO] The United States and Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
 bear more than half the cost of repairing the damage already wrought by climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said Monday.

Based on their historic greenhouse gas emissions, the US and EU should be held jointly responsible for 54 percent of funding owed to developing nations already dealing with extreme flooding, droughts and megastorms rendered more frequent and intense by global warming, the groups said.
Based on current emissions measurements, China and India are putting out more “greenhouse gasses” than the U.S. and EU combined, emissions that are forecasted to continue increasing. And the US has significantly more carbon dioxide absorbing trees now than a century ago, so we’ve been doing our bit to absorb what we’ve produced. Perhaps you should go back and calculate net emissions after plant growth before pointing fingers.
A week ahead of a UN climate summit in Madrid -- in which the controversial issue of how funding for the so-called "loss and damage" inflicted by climate change will be provided -- they said the amount needed would hit $300 billion annually within a decade.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, under which the 2015 Gay Paree agreement was signed, is based on the principle that all countries must give at least their fair share in global efforts to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate.
That would be the one President Trump tore up, so we don’t owe anybody anything. Sorry.


Posted by: Fred 2019-11-26
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