Monthly Archives: July 2017

Dr. Roy Spencer Responds To Stephen Hawking’s Statement About The Paris Agreement


A  recent video has  Stephen Hawking saying that leaving the Paris Agreement will result in Earth becoming like Venus.  That, of course, would destroy all life, animal and plant.  It is pretty far out for anyone to make a statement like that but ……..

Dr Roy Spencer, a noted scientist, responds to Hawking’s comment in the following:

Stephen Hawking Flies off the Scientific Reservation

I can understand when pop-scientists like Bill Nye spout scientific silliness.

But complete nonsense coming from Stephen Hawking? Really?

In this video, Stephen Hawking claims that Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Accord could lead to the Earth being pushed past a tipping point, with Venus-like 250 deg. C temperatures and sulfuric acid rain.

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Paris Agreement Doomed By Projected Coal Based Power Plants


The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) posted “Forget Paris—1600 New Coal Power Plants Built Around The World.”  The GWPF provides the chart below that focuses on Europe, Asia and Africa using data from Coal Exit.com:


 

 

 

 

As you can see, China already has 2,363 coal based plants and expects to have 1,171more.  It comes as no surprise that China and India are major users of coal based power currently and they will be the major builders in the future.  No other country is even close.  It is illustrative to see that European nations are forecast to be increasing coal based capacity, not reducing it as their none too subtle “holier than thou” attitude would suggest.

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