According to the Vatican Avatar “gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature” and in the movie “Nature is no longer a creation to defend, but a divinity to worship”
— they must have been watching a different movie than I saw the other night.
They burned lots of fossil fuel going to #Copenhagen, while there they yammered, they disagreed, some walked out, they went home, they #fail
China and the US are still poles apart, and according to the media representatives from 28 (only 28?) countries spent all night working on the draft climate change agreement to be presented today – and if other media reports are correct many developing countries are less than amused at the idea that everything depends on a very few players that don’t include their numbers.
The official bunker prediction is that nothing of any real signifigance to address climate change will be agreed to.
Thanks, it’s appreciated.
Copenhagen climate summit: Al Gore condemned over Arctic ice melting prediction
Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, has become embroiled in a climate change spin row after claiming that the Arctic could be completely ice-free within five years.
U.S. snubs Canada – blogosphere laughs.
China, India, South Africa and Brazil – have put forth their own “non-negotiable demands” for the Copenhagen climate summit. Their draft declaration was signed in Beijing on Nov. 29, at a previously unannounced meeting called by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao with Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, Brazilian Presidential Advisor Marcel Fortuna Biato, South African Environment Minister Buyelwa Sonjica, and the Sudanese representative of the G77 nations, who were all in China for consultations.
According to the outspoken Indian minister, the declaration includes the threat of a joint walkout of those four countries, plus Sudan, should their demands not be met.
A quick post based on a short segment I watched on CTV AM this morning – one of the authors of Superfreakonomics (there’s apparently one chapter on climate change) was interviewed and he asked the question (paraphrased),
Human kind has solved virtually every other problem that it has faced in the last couple of hundred years with technology, so why then is that approach (for example.. strategic seeding the atmosphere with the same material that is issued from volcanoes when they erupt as large eruptions tend to block the sun and cool the planet) considered so off the table in the climate change issue.
First thing yesterday morning, before I’d even finished my first cup of coffee, I came across this – “Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released”
An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today:
We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents
World leaders back delay to final climate deal
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, under a compromise deal for next month’s Copenhagen summit.
Subtitled: Why I hold little hope for Copenhagen
Britain’s ‘Bedtime Stories’ TV ads aim to make parents feel guilty about the impact of global warming on their children. But critics say that fear tactics don’t work.
And they appear to have a point in at least some countries…….
Scientists Speak Out Against Alarmist, Misleading Global Warming Claims
Senior scientists are speaking out against those who make exaggerated or inaccurate claims. The scientists have said that those inaccurate claims are actually hindering the efforts to curb global warming. According to the scientists exaggerated scare tactics to get people on board with aggressive climate change measures are resulting in the actual facts about climate change and dangerous greenhouse gas emissions getting thrown by the way side.
They were helpful after all – in fact they taught us a lesson.
A group of climate change activists caused a ruckus in the House of Commons today when several protesters stood up and began chanting loudly from the public gallery during Question Period.
– the lesson for Canadians is simple….
A loud protest in the visitors gallery of the House of Commons resulted in several arrests and the brief shutdown of question period on Monday.
Around 200 young protesters chanted slogans to support Bill C-311, an NDP private member’s bill on climate change. Six people were reported to have been detained.
The protesters yelled, “I say 311; you say ‘Sign it’.”
…. sometimes ya just gotta hold yer nose, suck it up, and do some work.
The Canadian delegation will walk out of a speech at the United Nations by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad later Wednesday, to protest human rights abuses in Iran, as well as inflammatory comments the Iranian leader has made about Israel and the Holocaust.
If the media is to be believed there are a record number of world leaders at UN HQ today supposedly bent on finding a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – it’s a laudable goal in much the same way as sitting down and figuring out how to keep the barn door closed a hundred years after family pig herd escaped into the wild, went feral, and managed to breed itself into mammoth proportions that threaten crops and public safety, is a laudable goal.
Which is the more immediate problem? The growing herd of wild pigs? Or the barn door?
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