Updates
December 2, 2019: now it's down to one year. LOL.
Link here.
Original Post
Did anyone catch this?
Some "experts" now suggest we have only two years when it comes to global warming.
I cannot make this stuff up.
From S&P Global Platts:
While major economies are yet to commit to extending Paris Agreement commitments, more than 70 countries, 10 regions and 102 cities, including California, New York State, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro, have committed to work towards net zero emissions status by 2050, according to the UN.
Data gathered by Platts show the vast majority of emissions are focused on energy and transport, where cleaner technologies already exist and, in electricity generation at least, the costs are reaching grid parity after 20 years of support.
"Unless in the next one or two years countries double or triple their pledges and fully implement them, we won't meet Paris, and we will be on a pathway of greater than 2 degrees Celsius with profoundly negative consequences," Watson told the BBC on Wednesday.
"When the US pulls out it will make it harder to make 2 degrees, while sending the signal to the rest of the world that, if one of the richest counties can't be bothered, why should anybody else?" Watson said. [To be more precise, he "asked."]
Two years:
- double or triple their pledges
- fully implement them
- otherwise we are all toast, literally and figuratively
Two years.
This, by the way, will be
the issue for the 2020 presidential election: global warming.
Most ridiculous graphic I've seen in years.
The "title": eight major economies ... can anyone name any major economy other than these eight?
- China: and this is before China starts building those hundreds of new coal plants.
- US
- EU
- India
- Russia
- Japan
- Brazil
- Indonesia
Oh, I guess there's South Korea, and OPEC.
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Largest Economies In The World
Link here, November 4, 2019:
In 2018, China was the world's largest economy for the fourth year in a row. It produced $25.3 trillion in economic output according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund. It contributed 19% of the world's total gross domestic product of $135.2 trillion.
The European Union was in second place, generating $22 trillion. Together, China and the EU generate 35% of the world's economic output.
The United States remained in third place, producing $20.5 trillion. The world's three largest economies combined produced 50% of the world's total economy.
No other economy is even close to any of these three. The fourth-largest economy was India, producing $10.4 trillion. Japan was fifth, at $5.6 trillion. Germany, the strongest country in the EU, produced $4.4 trillion.
These measurements use purchasing power parity to account for exchange rate changes over time. It also adjusts for government rate manipulation.
