Sin City Vol
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You don't need to be a Climate Scientist to understand that the threat is real. I mean, I've never been to the moon but I know it's not made out of cheese.
Let me put it to you bluntly. If the climate is changing I'm not really worried about it because there isn't shyt we can do about it.
Nobody is arguing the threat is not real. Its the ignorant fear mongering, money grabbing and the role humans have played in the climate. When it comes to the climate, nothing is settled.
I can see the climate is changing. Doesnt mean humans had anything to do with it.
Our pets are destroying the planet!
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181301
The corporations are reporting false numbers, have been caught doing it. These numbers are lower than actual. The Chinese government then turns around and takes the cooked numbers and fakes them even more to the world to say, hey look we are lowering our amounts.
while they are quietly doing audits on reports and just now implementing stuff they were supposed to have online during the Olympics. The Chinese government and media fake their news/outlook worse than the US or Russia does.
But Dr Reimann told Counting Carbon: "We still see 10,000-20,000 tonnes coming out of China every year."
"That is something that shouldn't be there.
"There is actually no Chinese inventory for these gases, as they are banned and industry shouldn't be releasing them anymore."
China's approach to reporting its overall output of warming gases to the UN is also subject to constant and significant revisions.
Its last submission ran to about 30 pages - the UK's, by contrast, runs to several hundred.
Back in 2007, China simply refused to accept, in official documents, that it had become the largest emitter of CO2.
"I was working in China in 2007," said Dr Angel Hsu, from Yale University.
"I would include a citation and statistics that made this claim of China's position as the number one emitter - these were just stricken out, and I was told the Chinese government doesn't yet recognise this particular statistic so we are not going to include it."
A report in 2015 suggested one error in China's statistics amounted to 10% of global emissions in 2013.
But Prof Glen Peters, from the Centre for International Climate Research, in Oslo, said: "The core part of Paris [is] the global stock-takes which are going to happen every five years, and after the stock-takes countries are meant to raise their ambition, but if you can't track progress sufficiently, which is the whole point of these stock-takes, you basically can't do anything.
"So, without good data as a basis, Paris essentially collapses. It just becomes a talkfest without much progress."