Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming
Posted on 11/30/2010 7:36:11 PM PST by Kaslin
'Cancun" doesn't rhyme with "Copenhagen." But the results of the meeting on global carbon dioxide emissions in the Mexican resort town that runs through Dec. 10 will undoubtedly look and sound the same as the results of the meetings held in Denmark a year ago.
Last year's much-ballyhooed meeting in the Danish capital was seen as the best opportunity to finally get a binding international agreement on limits on carbon emissions. But after days of wrangling, posing and activists prancing around in polar-bear suits, the result was ... nothing. And that's exactly what will happen in Cancun.
The reasons to expect no action this year can be seen by looking at the numbers contained in the latest edition of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook, which was released earlier this month.
The Paris-based agency reports that 1.4 billion people on the planet still lack access to electricity and that 2.7 billion people are still using traditional biomass for their cooking needs. Think about what those numbers mean: Over 20% of the people on the planet don't have access to electric power and about 40% are still using wood, straw, dung and other dirty fuels in their kitchens.
In India alone, more than 400 million people lack access to electricity while twice that many are using biomass for cooking. Given those numbers, why would India ever consider signing an agreement that would restrict the country's ability to use coal, oil and natural gas?
Indeed, last year, in the months leading up to the meeting in Copenhagen, Indian leaders made it clear that their country would continue using coal and other hydrocarbons.
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The scam is falling apart.
I hope the cartels go looking for hostages.
Out of all the places in the world, why cancun
Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming
These grant hustling, pseudo scientific, hucksters should hold their seances in a third world slum. It may be the only way they have a chance of regaining any professional respect.
“Out of all the places in the world, why cancun”
Because it’s really nice there, the police keep the workers in line, and the real riff-raff is on the mainland and out of sight...sort of “limousine liberalism” on a larger scale. That’s why.
Why don’t they teleconference, rather than emitting all that carbon getting to Cancun?
Did they have FREE HOOKERS this time?
Back in the early 70s, Mr. Mercat and I were in Cancun, before there was anything there. We went skin diving on the reef which was amazing since there was a significant flow (underground) of fresh water bathing it. I remember the rays mostly. But nothing yummy to spear so we went back to the reef at Tulum and stayed there several more weeks.
Senor’ Frogs...
I had a dream once where I was standing on top of one of the pyramids there at Telum a few hundred years ago...Dressed in my fabulous Sun God regalia, with thousands of beautiful naked women crawling their way up to me throwing dill pickles at me...
I’m still trying to figure it out...Therapy has not helped me so far...
;-)
Because Copenhagen sounds too much like a tobacco product?
It's a nice day at the beach
No chance of embarassing snowstorms
They might be able to convince someone it is warmer?
Best of all, it probably isn't their (personal) money, so why not spend it some place nice?
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