Xi, Putin snub high-stakes U.N. climate
summit, momentum lags among world’s
major polluters
Posted By: Rush Was Right, 10/27/2021 11:09:03 AM
The president of China, by far the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, isn’t going. Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose economy would collapse if the world stops buying and burning Russia’s fossil fuels, also won’t be there. Their absence, coupled with weak or vague climate action plans put forward by other major polluters such as India, Brazil and Mexico, is already hanging like smog over COP26, the United Nations-led climate summit that begins Nov. 1 in Glasgow, Scotland. President Biden says he’ll be in attendance “with bells on.” CORRECTION*
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Xi, Putin snub high-stakes U.N. climate
summit, momentum lags among world’s
major polluters 20 replies
summit, momentum lags among world’s
major polluters 20 replies
The president of China, by far the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, isn’t going. Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose economy would collapse if the world stops buying and burning Russia’s fossil fuels, also won’t be there. Their absence, coupled with weak or vague climate action plans put forward by other major polluters such as India, Brazil and Mexico, is already hanging like smog over COP26, the United Nations-led climate summit that begins Nov. 1 in Glasgow, Scotland. President Biden says he’ll be in attendance “with bells on.” CORRECTION*
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As he finished remarks in a classroom in New Jersey's East End Elementary, Biden stopped to point at the press in the back of the room and say, "As president, see all these people here, they're with you all the time."
"They get to ask you all kinds of questions, and you try to figure out how you’re gonna avoid answering them sometimes," Biden added, laughing.
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Well, let’s see.
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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot posts maskless
photo at WNBA game, apparently violating
indoor mask mandates 10 replies
photo at WNBA game, apparently violating
indoor mask mandates 10 replies
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After the Sky took the title, Lightfoot posted a picture online of her celebrating without a mask among legions of masked fans — going against her own city’s mask mandate.
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A Canadian judge is ordering a Christian pastor to speak about what the judge claims is the scientific consensus of “medical experts,” compelling speech as a sentence for violating Canada’s draconian mask and coronavirus state of emergency laws. Pastor Artur Pawlowski and his brother Dawid were sentenced this week for inciting citizens to violate Canada’s coronavirus obedience laws, having been previously convicted of contempt of court in an Alberta Court. The second any scientific theory is ordered as a mandatory belief on the part of the state, it ceases being legitimate scientific inquiry and becomes a religion in its own right. CORRECTION*
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standing in the breach against the insurrectionists 21 replies
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Breaking: Vatican Abruptly Cancels Live
Broadcast of Biden Meeting with Pope without Explanation 34 replies
Broadcast of Biden Meeting with Pope without Explanation 34 replies
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The Trump effect is gathering steam
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“This has been accomplished by making monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines widely available throughout our state while protecting Floridians from government overreach,” he added.
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If China isn't going why bother? And even if they did go, it's all pointless virtue-signaling anyway. It's all about optics. Leaders from 20 countries get to show their voters how responsible they are; as they arrive on their fossil-fuel burning jets. It's a joke.