Climate change: UN plans 'shock therapy' for world leaders on environment

The Observer ^ | September 20, 2009 | Susan Goldenberg

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The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, are dangerously adrift.
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and negotiators say that unless they can convert world leaders into committed advocates of radical action, it will be very hard to reach a credible and enforceable agreement to avoid the most devastating consequences of climate change.

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As the digital counter ticking off the hours to the Copenhagen summit – which had been supposed to seal the deal on climate change – hit 77 days today, progress at the UN summit in New York is seen as vital. Nearly 100 heads of state and government are to attend the summit, for which a pared-down format has been devised.

"We need these leaders to go outside their usual comfort zones," said one diplomat. "Our sense is that leaders have got a little too cosy and comfortable. They really have to hear from countries that are vulnerable and suffering."

[Tarpon]

The UN hopes to get the scam’s money.

[DBrow]

I wonder how they will address the current cooling of Earth. For the last decade it’s been cooling off, even in Hansen’s NASA database, which is the most “cooked” data.

I’ve been trying to make the case that the cooling is human-caused, the result of many of us buying Gorebulbs and driving efficient cars- IT WORKED! just look at the global temperature database, anthropogenic cooling will save us all. Thank you, Al Gore, for leading the way!

But the Warmers insist that a mere decade of cooling is not a trend, not like a decade of warming would be, and that we still must regulate the flow of cash, I mean carbon, globally to meet the requirements of a global progressive government to save the children.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[benjibrowder]

Current... as in Al Gore’s television network?

Al Gore wants them to get together so he can make more money. Just like he made money inventing the internet.

[alecqss]

“Shock” probably means no champagne in the morning to reduce carbon footprint...

[jessduntno]

I think it is intended to enable the “World Currency” that is about to come rolling our way...and to enable the paradigm shift away from power held by the current dominant powers to “spread the wealth” through the world.

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It is a type of global tax. Will only hurt US.

[ssaftler]

This is starting to read like Michael Crichton’s novel “State of Fear”!

[jessduntno]

“It is a type of global tax. Will only hurt US.”

I hope you are right...but it looks like plain old means of redistribution...which can have a much heavier hand.

[opus86]

The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, are dangerously adrift.

I recommend Death Therapy, both for the UN and for any ridiculous climate change treaty. /whataboutbob

[MichiganConservative]

...badly needed urgency...

Maybe this means the peons are waking up to the fact that anthropogenic global warming is one of the largest frauds in history.

By the way, when did summer happen in Michigan this year? Was I napping that afternoon?