The UN issues Global Warming Warning to the US and 17 US Governors Pledge to Fight Climate Change.
While Hurricane Florence Ferociously reaching the US East Coast Another Super Typhoon Mangkhut will hit Southeast Asia make its first entry to the Philippines and reaching all the way to Laos.
Meanwhile not far up north at the U.N. headquarters in New York where the secretary general in a speech addressing the world leaders and warning them that they have less than 2 years to avoid ‘runaway climate change’. He outlined 3 facts:
That the scientists have warned us for decades: “Scientists have been telling us for decades. Over and over again. Far too many leaders have refused to listen.”
That Leasers should internee to protect their people: “The time has come for our leaders to show they care about the people whose fate they hold in their hands,”
Guterres warns of the true enemy, fossil fuels. “We need to rapidly shift away from our dependence on fossil fuels.”
He said that we are not even close to the third of the commitments agreed upon at the Paris Agreement that was suppose, to avoid catastrophic consequences of the global warming. Guterres even hitting directly at Trump that shifting from Fossil Fuels will not help to stop Global Warming. He blamed the high cost for this denial by saying, “Over the past decade, extreme weather and the health impact of burning fossil fuels have cost the American economy at least $240 billion a year,”
President Trump did not only withdraw with the Paris Climate Accord but also eased the regulations on power plants emission. He repeals the car fuel efficiency rules set by Obama’s environmental protection and weakened the regulations on monitoring methane leaks for the Oil & Gas companies.
Because a major contributor to Climate Change, the United States, withdrew from their Paris Accord commitments, the UN was always counting on individual’s cities and states to continue their commitments without the help of the Federal Government.
At 50% of the bet made by the UN came through with the pledge made by 17 Bipartisan Governors to fight Climate Change by independently committing to the Paris Accord. These 17 states, that represent 50% of the U.S. GDP, vow $1.4 billion to promote electric cars and policies to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
These policies were supposed to work around the Trump’s administration rollbacks like car fuel efficiency by building new infrastructure to accommodate electric cars and create subsidies to ease their purchase. They also wanted to issues their own laws to halt the release of gases like methane that is worse that CO2.
These governors are part of a coalition of these membered states that vowed to execute the conditions agreed upon by the US at the Paris Climate Agreement. This U.S. Climate Alliance is almost the third-largest economy in the world only constitute 25% of U.S. carbon emissions. Nevertheless, their move should entice other governors to join in therefore forcing the Trump administration to backup and reclaim their role as the world leader by joining again the Paris Accord.
