Posted on 10/18/2011 2:31:42 PM PDT by Cardhu
There seems little possibility that next month's climate summit in Durban will produce an emissions reduction agreement -- meaning the world will soon lack any binding CO2 targets. Europe may soon find itself alone in the fight against global warming.
A climate catastrophe descended on the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin early last week. Politicians and diplomats from around the world were attending a conference to discuss how global warming will affect the world. They examined scenarios depicting how millions of people living in coastal areas could escape flooding, what will happen to the fishing and mineral rights of island nations when they no longer exist and how China and Russia will benefit from an ice-free Arctic.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that it intended to "openly and creatively address" the dangers of climate change. The exercise was designed to help "find new paths of international cooperation."
But the belief that global warming can be halted through international cooperation is elusive. The Kyoto Protocol, the world's only binding climate agreement, will soon expire. The most important means to date of compelling industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions seems likely to become a mere footnote in history.
The current CO2-reduction agreements expire at the end of 2012, and there is enormous resistance to new targets. The environment ministers and negotiators from roughly 200 countries, who will travel to Durban, South Africa at the end of November for the latest global climate conference, are a long way from breathing new life into the Kyoto process.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Now there is some good news.
As the Euro burns.
I love the sound of tiny, microscopic European violins in the morning.
Global money making scam, can we round some off these criminals up and prosecute now?
I hope a nuke-and-coal free Germany and $1000 per month electric bills supplied by solar and windmills makes Der Spiegel readers feel the love of Al Gore’s myth.
I would also submit for consideration the possibility that luxuries such as indulgence in junk science are trumped by bleak economic circumstances.
OMG!!! We're all gonna FRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Environmentalist: The oceans are rising!
Me: Dude...it’s not that the oceans are rising...it’s that the land is sinking...
Back in the days before excessive CO2 turned liberal and progressive brains to mush, idiotic social engineering like the Kyoto Protocol never got born, sparing this nonsense the bother of dying. Either way though, we are better off.
The Kyoto Accords, Treaties, whatever the hell mess they’re trying to foist on this country should be synonymous with Nagasaki and Hiroshima (figuratively)....dead, “stick a Rahm Emanuel Knife in it, d-e-a-d period!” I for one will now laugh every time I hear the word, Kyoto....
In addition, mistakes and slip-ups have harmed the credibility of climate scientists. In particular, an incorrect prediction about the melting of Himalayan glaciers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has given opponents of climate protection new ammunition.
It seems as if they are finding it difficult to “hide the decline” in enthusiasm for their lies.
That, plus the fact that the governmental departments and scientists have been fudging the temperature data for years to make it look like temperatures are rising. For example, they stopped using data from northern Russia, which of course made global averages go higher.
It is true they have been doing everything possible to manipulate the data - they could not care less about the climate it was to keep the gravy train running.
The good news will come when Hansen and Mann are both fired and prosaecuted, along with Algore!
These idiots need to first come up with an accurate method for determining the real time global temperature metric. We need millions of real time sensors at all atmosphere altitudes, at all land elevations and at all ocean depths to just develop a crude approximation.
Fire every EPA parasite.
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