Global Warming/Climate Change Super Thread

[daftandbarmy]

Taliban: Women's voices should be "concealed" along with their bodies when outside their homes.

Also Taliban: Guess who is coming to the UN COP29 Climate Conference.

"Professor Abid Arabzai, from Kabul University, said the climate conference would help to secure international assistance and funding to address Afghanistan's climate challenges."

Of course all the money will go to address climate change

 

[OldSolduer]

Keir Starmer is in Baku,

From what I have seen Keir is on another planet....

 

[Kirkhill]

From what I have seen Keir is on another planet....

The Brits should be so lucky.

 

[daftandbarmy]

But they mean well...

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds​

Published: 17th October 2024

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C.

An Oxfam audit of the World Bank’s 2017-2023 climate finance portfolio found that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance went unaccounted for between the time projects were approved and when they closed.

There is no clear public record showing where this money went or how it was used, which makes any assessment of its impacts impossible. It also remains unclear whether these funds were even spent on climate-related initiatives intended to help low- and middle-income countries protect people from the impacts of the climate crisis and invest in clean energy.

“The Bank is quick to brag about its climate finance billions —but these numbers are based on what it plans to spend, not on what it actually spends once a project gets rolling,” said Kate Donald, Head of Oxfam International’s Washington D.C. Office. "This is like asking your doctor to assess your diet only by looking at your grocery list, without ever checking what actually ends up in your fridge.”

The Bank is the largest multilateral provider of climate finance, accounting for 52 percent of the total flow from all multilateral development banks combined.

The issue of climate finance will take center stage at this year’s COP in Azerbaijan, where countries are set to negotiate a new global climate finance goal, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). Climate activists are demanding the Global North provide at least $5 trillion a year in public finance to the Global South "as a down payment towards their climate debt" to the countries, people and communities of the Global South who are the least responsible for climate breakdown but are the most affected. Oxfam warns that the lack of traceable spending could undermine trust in global climate finance efforts at this critical juncture.

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds | Oxfam International

www.oxfam.org

 

[Rifleman62]

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds​

I didn't know that the Trudeau Liberal government oversaw these funds.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Interesting thread

https://twitter.com/x/status/1862197772419563576

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Yes well.....

 

[Brad Sallows]

Carbon taxes have some of the same shortcomings as tariffs. Readers may reconciles their views among themselves.

 

[suffolkowner]

Interesting thread

https://twitter.com/x/status/1862197772419563576

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861187877767651548

more on carbon tax

 

[ArmyRick]

An interesting watch. Yet another scientist with some interesting insights

 

[Good2Golf]

At least supportive of a non-biased (ie. non-‘Kuhnian’) model to assess the role that CO2 has in a causal, not a correlative effect.

Ozone layer destruction and the causal effect of fluorocarbons was well founded, and indeed when action was taken globally to ban CFCs, the ozone layer recovered. Clear causal link, action taken, and positive results seen.

Not sure we’re in the “Human-added CO2 is 100% responsible for global warming” place, where less CO2 will correlatively reduce global warming.

 

[daftandbarmy]

At least supportive of a non-biased (ie. non-‘Kuhnian’) model to assess the role that CO2 has in a causal, not a correlative effect.

Ozone layer destruction and the causal effect of fluorocarbons was well founded, and indeed when action was taken globally to ban CFCs, the ozone layer recovered. Clear causal link, action taken, and positive results seen.

Not sure we’re in the “Human-added CO2 is 100% responsible for global warming” place, where less CO2 will correlatively reduce global warming.

Lookout G2G!

 

[Good2Golf]

Lookout G2G!

Trust me, if I were King for a day, I’d go full send on nuclear (fission and fusion) to make the electricity, make boatloads of hydrogen, use fuel cells for cars instead of toxic chemical storage, and use petroleum products with care for the variety of products that consumers forget come from organic and/or synthetic petroleum.

Let’s revisit this thread I. 2025 and see where we’re at?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Trust me, if I were King for a day, I’d go full send on nuclear (fission and fusion) to make the electricity, make boatloads of hydrogen, use fuel cells for cars instead of toxic chemical storage, and use petroleum products with care for the variety of products that consumers forget come from organic and/or synthetic petroleum.

Let’s revisit this thread I. 2025 and see where we’re at?

I saw that movie...

 

[ArmyRick]

At least supportive of a non-biased (ie. non-‘Kuhnian’) model to assess the role that CO2 has in a causal, not a correlative effect

For my own research and reflections, I find it very deep and lets say grey. ten years ago, I was much a drum beater of reduce carbon emissions, switch to EVs, promote solar (I support small scale solar, it is good), etc (although I was never pro large wind turbines)

However, listening to many different scientist, economist, etc, I found out there is much more to the element carbon, carbon cycling, climate in general and the history of our climate (Going back 500 million years)