Buffalo Burns while Climate Negotiations COP out

Buffalo Burns while Climate Negotiations Cop-Out

Yes, we just broke a record or two here in WNY.

1. Latest measurable snowfall in Buffalo. We broke that one by a mile. In the south-towns, we had snow a long time ago. Hunters are not happy. Snow makes it easier to track the deer that I have not seen in my driving around the countryside.

2. Warmest temperature on Monday December 14^th. And we didn't beat it by 1 degree. We broke it by over 5. All the weathermen (and women) were surprised by that.

3. We also had the highest low overnight temperature on Sunday night – Monday morning.

OK three.

Records are falling and shattering like fine china on a concrete floor.  And I need to get snow tires fast because the south-towns are projected to get up to a foot (12 inches) of snow Friday night & Saturday morning. 

And the climate conference in Paris was fiddling around while the world burns.

We have droughts, multiple “once in a century” storms, jet stream fluctuations that are dumping snow and ice in Texas, and perpetual drought and deluge in California. I could goon with all the turmoil in Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia, but I would like to go to bed tonight.

And what did the COP conference produce?

A voluntary agreement to reduce global warming to 2° Celsius.

We needed 1°. And fast.

The climate conference produced voluntary goals for reducing carbon pollution that guarantees that the goal will not be met. This means that Pacific Island nations will be wiped out. I remember the Concert for Bangladesh. We will be remembering when Bangladesh was a nation because this agreement guarantees that it will be under water. Write off the Netherlands, Denmark, most coastal nations, Venice, New Orleans, New York city… Any Low lying populated land.

And the negotiators at the Paris conference are so proud of themselves because they think that they produced something that will work.

It is said that when Rome burned, Nero fiddled.

I think that the Paris negotiators were doing less.

They gave us a treaty that was a COP-out.

Either that or they were playing dice and crapped out.

Either way, they played and we lost.