Climate what?

Bangladesh's climate compensation push a ray of light after dismal Doha

United States must pay for climate change

OK, first off, talk of justice is bullshit whether it’s climate justice or any other kind.

And it’s nasty, bullying bullshit.

To see why, start with the earliest posts with the label, “amoralism.”

You won’t have to read very far.

But apart from that, per capita pollution rights?

Really?

Within no nation do emissions limits work even remotely like that across provinces, states, cities, towns or even individuals.

National emissions standards on cars, for example, don’t vary depending on what subordinate jurisdiction you live in, whether this is your first car, how long you’ve been driving, or how many cars you have.

And older cars are generally exempt from newer, tighter standards that are always prospective, applying to new vehicles.

That last may allow greater per capita emissions among non-whites in America than among whites.

Yes, I’m supposing that the average age of cars belonging to whites is lower than that of cars belonging to non-whites, based on the assumption of greater wealth among whites.

Probably they’re generally kept in much better – and much more strictly legal – running condition, too.

OK, so maybe we have to ignore the statistical outliers with incomes in the millions to get our result.

But maybe not.

And, anyway, do you guess anybody on the left would tolerate the suggestion that the burden ought to be heavier on non-whites than on whites?

As for the whole idea of compensation for damages, nothing remotely like that happens inside any nation, either, with transfers being demanded by people who don’t own factories or cars from people who do.

Not even among victims of Sandy, trumpeted in nearly all the media as a piece of extreme weather caused by global warming.

Fiddlesticks.

Anyway, there is this at the Washington Times.

Those concerned about the climate also claim that weather events such as Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Bopha, that hit the Philippines last week, were strengthened by man-made warming.

But empirical evidence shows that, on a global basis, neither the strength nor the frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms has increased over the last 35 years.

The theory of man-made global warming is increasingly suspect.

The 1990 First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted a rise in global surface temperatures of 0.3oC per decade.

The report provided a “high estimate,” a “best estimate,” and a “low estimate” for global temperature rise.

But 22 years later, global temperatures sit far below the IPCC’s 1990 low estimate.

Recent data from the University of East Anglia do not show statistically significant warming in global surface temperatures for the last sixteen years.

No treaty!

The inequality of proposed constraints makes them an engine to enrich China, India, Indonesia, and other freshly industrializing nations at our expense and that of Europe - and maybe Japan - by crippling industry and severely penalizing investment and development here.

The compensation fund is pure global redistribution for its own sake.

Just say NO to Doha!

On the other hand, we really do need to slow and even reverse population growth or we will still end up facing an age of Soylent Green, though for different reasons.

Well, somebody will.

Lord knows how soon.

And what's up with the global ice?

Just catching up to the warming that did NOT occur more recently than 16 years ago?

Oh, wait.

Did Doha Sputter or Succeed?

NRO says,

Himalayan glaciers are growing, interior Greenland is not melting, summer Antarctic sea ice is near record extent, and seas are not rising any faster than for the past 100 years.