September 23, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By Brett Schaefer ~ Every year at this time, a majority of the world’s leaders gather in New York at the United Nations for the annual General Assembly debate. Excited to be on the world stage and to burnish their standing before both international and domestic audiences, leaders are seldom able to restrain themselves to […]
June 21, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By Joshua Meservey and Brett Schaefer ~ At the behest of all 54 African countries, the U.N. Human Rights Council held an “urgent debate” June 16 to discuss racism and police brutality, with a special focus on the U.S. Earlier, the head of the African Union, Moussa Faki, publicly condemned George Floyd’s killing. Floyd’s killing […]
May 21, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By Brett Schaefer ~ President Donald Trump has sharply criticized the World Health Organization and its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, for months. The administration’s dissatisfaction resulted in a decision last month to “halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and […]
April 15, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By Brett Schaefer ~ President Donald Trump is justifiably upset with the World Health Organization and its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The World Health Organization is supposed to be the world’s early-warning system for pandemics, but failed spectacularly with the novel coronavirus. In particular, the WHO took Chinese statements about COVID-19 at face value and […]
March 16, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The UN’s climate action machinery is on the verge to collapse, beginning this November in Glasgow, Scotland. This time the annual climate summit, called COP 26, is most likely to end in complete disarray, even more than COP 25 did last year in Madrid, Spain. The failure of COP 25 […]
February 6, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The CLINTEL “There is no Climate Emergency” Manifesto puts it this way: “Stop with the Misleading Computer Models” and I agree completely. It is clear by now that these models predict temperatures that appear much too high. No policies should be based on them and the ones that are should […]
December 30, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Larry Bell ~ Attendees at the United Nation’s 25th annual climate conference (COP 25) in Madrid earlier this month concluded with little more than net-zero benefit alarmism and virtue-signaling based upon two very shaky scientific and technological foundations. The first creates a bogus climate crisis premised upon consistently failed theoretical models of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental […]
December 20, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ “Action Now!” radicalism has destroyed the slow moving, consensus based Paris Agreement. It is not just COP 25 that failed; the UN climate change machinery has collapsed. This is good news, even though the reason is bad news. I have been writing about the climate alarmism movement tearing itself apart […]
December 17, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Craig Rucker ~ UCOP 25 was an utter failure for the United Nations. Despite extending the conference into double overtime making it the longest COP ever, the UN was forced to adjourn without advancing the “rule book” for the Paris Climate Accord, or agreeing on a framework for an international carbon market. UN Secretary […]
December 14, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Loss and Damage (L&D) is the name of the hugely dangerous issue whereby developed countries would compensate the developing world for damages caused by things like bad weather and rising seas, in the name of climate change. It has been slowly inching forward at every COP. This time L&D made […]
December 12, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Craig Rucker ~ Crying kids is the latest imagery popping out of the climate-left’s playbook. CFACT was there when Greta Thunberg’s group “Fridays for Future” staged a press conference at COP 25 in Madrid. Daisy Jeffrey has been called Australia’s Greta Thunberg. She’s been leading regular climate “strikes” Down Under where students boycott their […]
December 11, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ If you hold your nose and look closely there is some pretty funny stuff going on at the UN climate summit in Madrid. It is hard to hold your nose and laugh at the same time, but if you want to be UN watcher it is a necessary skill. I […]
December 9, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Friday was hysterical marching day, so they dutifully filled a street in Madrid. In addition, in a carefully orchestrated show, hundreds of demonstrators were let into the COP 25 conference center. These marches are family social affairs, so there were mothers with babies, etc. Ironically, while this family social occupied […]
December 7, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Craig Rucker ~ Representatives around the world are meeting in Madrid to expand the UN climate regime under the Paris Climate Accord. Climate bureaucrats move at a glacial place and speak a language all their own. Bloomberg posted a useful glossary. For Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Greta Thunberg and the rest of the radical wing […]
December 4, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By James Taylor ~ When it comes to the United Nations and climate change, it is all about the UN altruistically serving the people of the world. Or maybe not. Here in Madrid for the UN Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP25), UN attendees have special privileges. Arriving a day before the start […]
December 3, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Every year the UN produces a climate action report just before the annual climate summit (this year COP 25 in Madrid). This time the UN greens have outdone themselves, but not in a good way for them. The UN Environmental Program has produced a report that graphically demonstrates why what […]
November 17, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Here is a recent screaming statement of the supposed climate change emergency: “Trump’s greatest dereliction of duty – – his disgraceful denial of climate change” in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/05/trumps-greatest-dereliction-duty-his-disgraceful-denial-climate-change/ This alarmist diatribe says: “At a time when the international scientific community has concluded that we have 11 years to […]
November 15, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ Writing in Slate, bicycle activist and journalist Alex Baca argues that the Green New Deal has a big blind spot: It doesn’t address the places Americans live. Sprawl, she claims, along with the transportation and other issues it creates, is perhaps the largest contributor to climate change. Baca mocks progressive Berkeley, California, […]
November 8, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ In Madrid the negotiators will be trying hard to finalize the Paris Accord emission trading scheme. The non-binding Paris Accord targets may have big bucks value for some developing countries and this has led to a paralyzing controversy. Emission trading means any country that does better than their target can […]
February 24, 2021 by PA Pundits - International
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