By Paul Homewood

  

h/t Robin Guenier

Theresa May will raise the issue of climate change with Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to the UK, Downing Street has told BBC News.

The confirmation coincides with UK climate researchers asking the prime minister to "robustly challenge" President Trump on the topic.

In a letter to Mrs May, 250 academics say the president’s "reckless approach is a threat to the whole world".

In 2018, the president accused climate experts of having a "political agenda".

A spokesperson for the UK government said: "The prime minister has raised climate change with the president before and will do so again during his visit.

"Tackling climate change is a priority for the UK. We are driving forward international action through our work at the UN and with our Commonwealth partners, and we’re proud to have offered to host COP26 (the UN climate summit in 2020).

"As the prime minister has said previously, we were disappointed by the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017 and continue to hope they will return."

The academics’ letter was organised by Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE). He welcomed the news that the prime minister would talk to President Trump about climate.

"The prime minister can robustly challenge President Trump about his inaction on climate change with the knowledge that she has the extremely strong support of all the experts who signed the letter," Mr Ward commented.

"We all stand behind her on this issue. I hope she will raise the issue with him in public, as well as privately, so that Americans can see how much the president’s climate change denial is damaging the international standing of the United States.

"It would be a tremendous legacy for Theresa May if she can shift Mr Trump from his position of stubborn denial of the risks of climate change."

The letter was signed by academics and policy analysts from 35 universities and research institutes across the UK.

In it, they ask the prime minister to urge the US president to accept "the overwhelming scientific evidence which shows that climate change is driven by human activities and poses a serious threat to the lives and livelihoods of people all across the world".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48473658

Bob Ward is paid to spread climate alarm on behalf of the left wing Grantham Foundation, and I’ve no doubt that the 250 academics also profit hugely from the whole scam.

But if Ward had bothered to check his facts, he would have realised that Trump’s withdrawal from Paris had nothing to do with hoaxes, it was because the Agreement was worthless. as well as damaging to the US.

Below is the White House statement at the time:

 I am fighting every day for the great people of this country.  Therefore, in order to fulfil my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.  So we’re getting out.  But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair.  And if we can, that’s great.  And if we can’t, that’s fine. 

As President, I can put no other consideration before the wellbeing of American citizens.  The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers — who I love — and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production….

Not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals.  As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States — which is what it does -– the world’s leader in environmental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world’s leading polluters.

For example, under the agreement, China will be able to increase these emissions by a staggering number of years — 13.  They can do whatever they want for 13 years.  Not us.  India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries.  There are many other examples.  But the bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States.

Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree — think of that; this much — Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100.  Tiny, tiny amount.  In fact, 14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America — and this is an incredible statistic — would totally wipe out the gains from America’s expected reductions in the year 2030, after we have had to spend billions and billions of dollars, lost jobs, closed factories, and suffered much higher energy costs for our businesses and for our homes.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/

 

And as he also might have pointed out, the Paris Agreement imposes no obligation to actually reduce emissions on developing countries, even though they account for two thirds of global CO2.

Unsurprisingly then, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to climb since the ineffectual Paris Agreement of 2015.

Last year alone they rose by 1.7%, mainly to meet increased energy demand in Asia:

https://www.iea.org/geco/emissions/

If Bob Ward and his chums were genuinely concerned about emissions, surely they would be writing to the leaders of China and India, rather than the useless Mother Theresa!

via NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

http://bit.ly/2IdTPVa

June 3, 2019 at 12:45PM