{"id":424513,"date":"2026-02-03T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424513"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:30:35","slug":"celebrating-paris-climate-agreement-at-ten-postmodernism-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424513","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Paris Climate Agreement at Ten? (postmodernism in action)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It\u2019s just bullshit for them to say: \u2018We\u2019ll have a 2C warming target<\/a> and then try to do a little better every five years.\u2019 It\u2019s just worthless words\u2026. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.\u201d (James Hansen, The Guardian<\/em>, December 12, 2015<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jean Boissinot<\/a> is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boissinot\u2019s celebration post<\/a> about Paris 10 follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About yesterday \u2013 on the occasion of the day to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement organized in\u00a0<\/em>Acad\u00e9mie du Climat<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0<\/em>Fondation PARC \u2013 Paris Agreement Research Commons<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/em>Coll\u00e8ge des Directeurs du D\u00e9veloppement Durable (C3D)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Thank you to the organizers (<\/em>St\u00e9phane VOISIN<\/a>, <\/em>Quitterie Lasserre<\/a> ) for taking the time to create this moment. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Thank you to <\/em>Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore<\/a> for assembling its bouquets of speakers. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Thank you to all those who, on stage and at the microphone or backstage, shared their memories of the \u201cmaking of\u201d of COP21. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Thank you to the readers of \u201cGreen Finance\u201d (the 1st and 2nd editions) \u2013 it\u2019s always a pleasure to exchange with you!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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 And thank you to my fellow signers, especially <\/em>Sylvianne VILLAUDIERE<\/a>, especially for this very improbable double <\/em>Dunod<\/a> (<\/em>Marie-C\u00e9cile de Vienne<\/a>, <\/em>Ludivine L.<\/a>, <\/em>Garance M.<\/a>, <\/em>Delphine Lev\u00eaque<\/a>, <\/em>Eglantine Assez<\/a>, <\/em>Adeline Coffinier<\/a> ) \u2013 and a friendly nod to the booksellers who made it possible despite, in short\u2026 (<\/em>librairie et \u00e9ditions Utopia<\/a> )<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Celebration? For what exactly? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confirmation bias is certainly present as the true believers grasp at any good news and sugarcoat the bad. Such is the nature of a failing crusade, when it is otherwise time to question assumptions and acknowledge energy and political reality. As I stated in a\u00a0previous post<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a funny, scary time in the climate alarmist camp. Once-favorable economic and political trends are going the other way in the U.S. and increasingly in the world. What to do? Literally thousands of climate-issue employees (grifters?) need to find alternative employment, almost all in net-positive (CO2) industries where value is being created rather than redistributed and lost. Big Money Green will keep \u2014\u2013priming the pump for many, however, so a base of false-green advocacy will remain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Will Jean Boissinot et al. change their mind? Can they with all the emotional and financial capital invested in a failing worldview? Human betterment requires fossil fuels, not wind\/solar\/batteries. Here\u2019s to open minds at the current inflection point. There are signs aplenty, beginning with politics<\/a> and continuing with (pragmatic) business<\/a> and ending with the great middle (citizen voters) unmoved by climate alarmism relative to other issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other Paris Climate Agreement posts at MasterResource:<\/p>\n\n\n\n