"There Is No Cavalry" - Cities Face Prospect Of Dealing With Climate Issues On Their Own

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5. The "pledge" is useless and meaningless and is sure to fail.

So called "renewable energy" has not worked; is not working; and will not work.

St. Petersburg is simply announcing it will burn dangerous natural gas and pull accounting games that will pretend that they are not doing so.

This morning, after the expenditure of trillions of dollars on so called "renewable energy" in the last decade the data at Mauna Loa for the week ending November 27, 2016 is 3.63 ppm higher than the same week last year.

In previous years, this would have been an astounding result; in 2016 it's "ordinary," if "ordinary" is a word that can describe a catastrophe.

Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Observatory

It makes no difference whether one denies climate change or if one announces that one will embrace a useless finger in a dike holding back rising seas; the result is the same.