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Anguished cries from environmental lobbyists, crony capitalists, and some foreign governments about the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement

U.S. right to withdraw from a con triggered by propaganda not science!



PRINCETON, New Jersey — The United States was right to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement which makes no scientific or moral sense and was extremely unfair to Americans. Misled by inaccurate “scientific” arguments, a world-wide network of sanctimonious policy makers generated The Agreement to solve a problem that does not exist — “carbon pollution” from burning coal, oil and gas. Indeed, uncontrolled combustion of fossil fuels can generate real pollutants: fly ash, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, heavy metals, etc. that can and should be controlled with cost effective technologies as has been done in the United States resulting in one of the cleanest environments in the world.

Satellite images already show a significant greening of the Earth from more CO2

But carbon dioxide, CO2 — the main target of the Paris Agreement — is not a pollutant, but a benefit to the Earth. Agriculture, forestry and plants benefit from having much more CO2 in the atmosphere. Since humans and other animals are fed, clothed and sheltered by the products of plants, the entire biosphere will benefit from more CO2, which makes plants grow more efficiently and need less water. Satellite images already show a significant greening of the Earth from more CO2. Some 15 percent of the impressive increases in crop yields over the past fifty years is due to more CO2. The very major benefits of more CO2 to agriculture have been largely ignored or downplayed in the economic models used to justify the Paris Agreement. And the costs of the Paris Agreement will fall most heavily on the poor, who will be compelled to pay much more for unreliable “sustainable” energy. Energy costs in the EU have doubled since 2005 in the name of CO2 reductions, leaving many unable to heat their homes! Sincere policy makers and other trusting people, including many scientists, have been hypnotized by lurid predictions of computer models.

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In ominous colors, computer screens show a future Earth that is afflicted by droughts, hurricanes and the seven plagues of Egypt

In ominous colors, computer screens show a future Earth that is afflicted by droughts, hurricanes and the seven plagues of Egypt. But there has been no change in the incidence of observed droughts, floods, tornados, hurricanes, etc. This is propaganda, not science. The climate models that are the basis for the Paris Agreement predicted temperature increases that are three to four times larger than the very modest temperature changes that have been observed over the past few decades. Much of the temperature increase of the last century appears to be due to natural climate variability. Warming from additional greenhouse gases will be very moderate, probably about 1℃ from a doubling of atmospheric CO2. Sea levels will continue to rise slowly as they have since the end of the little ice age in the early 1800’s. There is no sign of the accelerated rate of rise predicted by alarmists. The Earth has already experienced much larger CO2 levels than those of today, about 400 CO2 molecules per million air molecules, or 400 ppm.

Anguished cries from environmental lobbyists, crony capitalists, and some foreign governments about the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement

Over most of the geological history of Earth, CO2 levels were 1000 ppm, 2000 ppm, even more. Life was more abundant than today at these higher CO2 levels, both on land and in the oceans. Coral reefs flourished, sea creatures did not die from ocean “acidification” and there were no mass extinctions. New species of every sort evolved at impressive rates. Anguished cries from environmental lobbyists, crony capitalists, and some foreign governments about the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement remind me of Aesop’s fable about the silly fox who lost his beautiful bushy tail (reliable, affordable fossil energy) in a trap (unreliable, expensive renewable energy). To try to cover up his embarrassment, the tailless fox used all sorts of absurd arguments (we have to save the planet) to persuade all the other foxes to cut off their tails. Luckily, at least one fox, the United States, has decided to keep its tail. William Happer is Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton University and former Director of Energy Research of the US Department of Energy. Readers may write him at 258 Jadwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544


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