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Five reasons COP25 climate talks failed

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By Marlowe HOOD

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For the health of the planet and the people living on it, hope and pray that no Republicans are ever again elected to the White House. It is a terrible shame that the will of the American people has twice in the last five presidential elections been overturned by the decision of the electoral college. Without the electoral college, the USA would most likely have had a Democratic president in each of the last five presidential elections.

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The climate summit in Madrid earlier this month did not collapse -- but by almost any measure it certainly failed.

.....To an unsettling degree, the outcome of a U.N. climate summit -- where 196 nations must sign off on every decision -- depends on the savvy and skill of the host country, which acts as a facilitator.

.....From Day One, when Schmidt's mishandling of a request from the African negotiating bloc mushroomed into a diplomatic incident, veteran observers worried that she was not up to the job.

.....When it comes to climate change, Beijing holds the fate of the planet in its hands.

China accounts for 29 percent of global CO2 emissions, more than the next three countries -- the U.S., Russia, India -- combined, according to the Global Carbon Project.

Its carbon footprint has tripled in 20 years from 3.2 to 10 billions tons in 2018. The core commitment of China's voluntary carbon cutting plan, annexed to the Paris treaty, is to stabilize its CO2 output by 2030.

Experts agree that China could hit that mark earlier and more countries are asking Beijing -- ever so gingerly -- to promise it will.

Even Greta what's-her-name has quit the movement, and shuffled off home. Why can't the CO2-is-evil crowd convince others that CO2 is actually evil? Why aren't they believable? What are they doing wrong?

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Ah yes, the climate. Don´t the believers realize that it is already decades too late to save our planet?

Here is from AP in 1989:

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

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