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espola said:
It is technically easy to control emissions from single-point sources like power plants andlarge factories. It will be much harder to control emissions from heating and cooking fires in individual homes, and the emissions from the 2-cycle engines on motorcycles (and small generators), which provided the bulk of personal transportation until China began to enjoy enough prosperity so that they could afford cars.

China has increased its wind-powered electricity production by 80x or so in the last 10 years, and is currently installing more PV panels annually than any other country in the world.
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Gee a forward looking society . . . I wonder if they will pass up those that aren'T?
 
Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump "more knowledgeable" and with "evolving" views about the global climate accord he's threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. Trump also was impressed by their arguments about how crucial U.S. leadership is in supporting international efforts.

The president's new apparent openness to staying in the landmark Paris climate pact came amid a determined pressure campaign by European leaders. During Friday's gathering of the Group of 7 wealthy democracies — as well as at earlier stops on Trump's first international trip — leaders have implored him to stick with the 2015 accord aimed at reducing carbon emissions and slowing potentially disastrous global warming.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the G-7 leaders "put forward very many arguments" for the U.S. sticking with the agreement. And by Friday evening, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump's views were indeed "evolving."

"He feels much more knowledgeable on the topic today," Cohn said. "He came here to learn, he came here to get smarter."

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us...ving_on_climate_action_pressured_by_europeans
 
espola said:
How would a policy of denial make anyone great again? Or ever?
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Gay Joe has gone over the ledge and now revels and embraces in everything and anything the left would be perceived to dislike. He now exists only as a middle finger to the left.

Meanwhile the ruling class are laughing themselves to the bank while the Proletariat fight over nonsense and scraps...
 
Wez said:
Gay Joe has gone over the ledge and now revels and embraces in everything and anything the left would be perceived to dislike. He now exists only as a middle finger to the left.

Meanwhile the ruling class are laughing themselves to the bank while the Proletariat fight over nonsense and scraps...
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You and yours started it with all your crying and whining, just a bunch of sore losers.
 
Sheriff Joe said:
You and yours started it
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Wez said:
Gay Joe has gone over the ledge and now revels and embraces in everything and anything the left would be perceived to dislike. He now exists only as a middle finger to the left.

Meanwhile the ruling class are laughing themselves to the bank while the Proletariat fight over nonsense and scraps...
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Please define your word usage of the term " Gay ".... because it appears you are slandering the poster Sherrif Joe with false accusations through the misuse of a word, or you misunderstand the proper terminology and wish to describe him as just a " Happy " guy.

Dave Wilton, Monday, February 02, 2009
This adjective, meaning joyful or light-hearted, is of uncertain origin. The English word comes from the French gai, but where this French word comes from is uncertain. There are cognates in other Romance languages, notably Provencal, Old Spanish, Portugeuse, and Italian, but no likely Latin candidate for a root exists. The word is probably Germanic in origin, with the Old High German gāhi, fast or fleeting, suggested as a likely progenitor.1

The word is first recorded in English c.1325, with the meaning of beautiful, in a poem titled Blow, Northerne Wind, which appears in the manuscript British Library MS Harley 2253 (As an aside, Harley 2253 is a very important manuscript. It is a treasure-trove of early English lyric poetry, containing early and unique copies of many poems.):

Heo is dereworþe in day,
graciouse, stout, ant gay,
gentil, iolyf so þe iay.
(She is precious in day
gracious, stout, and gay,
gentle, jolly as the jay.)2

Over the next few decades, the meaning of the word evolved from beautiful to bright, showy, and finely dressed. By the end of the 14th century, the modern sense of light-hearted and carefree had appeared. From Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde, Book II, lines 921-22, written c.1385:

Peraunter in his briddes wise a lay
Of love, that made hire herte fressh and gay.
(By chance, in his bird’s manner [sang] a song
Of love, that made her heart fresh and gay.)3

In recent years, however, this traditional sense of gay has been driven out of the language by the newer sense meaning homosexual. Many believe this new sense of gay to be quite recent, when in fact it dates at least to the 1920s and perhaps even earlier. This early existence is as a slang and self-identifying code word among homosexuals, only entering the mainstream of English in the late 1960s. So how did this word meaning joyful come to refer to homosexuality?
 
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