Posted on 11/22/2013 7:17:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Bleary-eyed ministers began a final push on Friday to lay the groundwork at UN climate talks in Warsaw for a new, global deal to stave off planetary disaster.
On current emissions trends, scientists warn the Earth could face warming of 4.0 C or higher -- a recipe for catastrophic storms, droughts, floods and land-gobbling sea-level rise.
Another point of contention is money.
Developing nations are challenging wealthy countries to show how they intend to honour a 2009 pledge to muster up to $100 billion (74 billion euros) by 2020, up from $10 billion a year from 2010 to 2012.
Rich nations fear this would amount to signing a blank cheque for never-ending liability.
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Alive and well.
F**K the UN!
Outside the democrat party I hate them worse than the old communist guard from Russia.
If these people fail to meet, perhaps then we can avoid global disaster.
Which scientists? And how does that temperature compare with various times in the past? Has it never been that warm before?
After the third world countries to which western jobs had fled (in the wake of absurd environmental regulations) realized they could keep those jobs simply by never signing on to any such regulations themselves this became an unadvancable agenda.
It is not going to happen ever because the autocrats can not offer the third world as much for participating in the scheme as they can get simply by becoming the world’s manufacturing centers.
Basically, the plan required that the third world remain mired in unimaginable stupidity forever. That didn’t happen.
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