Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/03/2009 11:57:54 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (AFP) – The world is speeding towards a climate catastrophe, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Thursday, urging rapid progress in talks to cut emissions and tackle global warming.
"Our foot is stuck on the accelerator and we are heading towards an abyss," the UN Secretary General said in a speech to the World Climate Conference.
Ban, who this week visited the Arctic to witness first hand the changes wrought by global warming, warned that many of the "more distant scenarios" predicted by scientists were "happening now."
"Scientists have been accused for years of scaremongering. But the real scaremongers are those who say we cannot afford climate action -- that it will hold back economic growth," he said.
"They are wrong. Climate change could spell widespread disaster," Ban warned.
The UN leader pinned his hopes of a breakthrough on a summit of world leaders in New York this month to discuss climate change.
Talks on an agreement to extend the Kyoto protocol on emissions cuts in time for December's Copenhagen conference had been too limited and slow, he said.
"We have 15 negotiating days left until Copenhagen. We cannot afford limited progress. We need rapid progress," he added, criticising "inertia" towards climate change.
"In New York, (I) expect candid and constructive discussions. I expect serious bridge building. I expect strong outcomes," Ban told delegates and ministers from some 150 countries at the meeting in Geneva.
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methinks the UN has lost its rudder or anything approaching such to guide it.
it is a monstrosity that is a bureaucracy full of bureaucracies that does nothing well.
Zzzzzzzz..........death......abyss........only twelve months...zzzzzzzz........catastrophe......global warming.....zzzzzzzz
This seems like much more of an imminent threat than global varming.
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One can only hope that the Abyss will swallow the UN.
H2O comprises 95% of the “greenhouse gases”.
CO2 comprises about 3.5%.
The variation in the density of H2O in the atmosphere is greater than ANY POTENTIAL contribution man could be making to CO2 levels.
Therefore, man has NO IMPACT ON THE CLIMATE!!!!
If global warming is really a problem, the solution is SO SIMPLE a four year-old can see it. My daughter explained it to me a long time ago. As an engineer, I’ve analyzed it and it is absolutely perfect.
Has the UN considered a move to Nigeria? Then they could take their real place among the world’s greatest scam artists.
Apparently, these dudes have no Earthly idea how ridiculous they sound, how badly, deeply and irrevocably they’re damaging their credibility, and how obvious it is that they’re trying to use fear and deception to enslave the world.
Mr. Moon...BUZZ OFF!
Don’t forget Khadafi :-]
Amazing how the fallen are now the stars..
Allow me to change something here....”The world is speeding towards a climate catastrophe”....should read “The world is speeding towards a climate TAX”.
And human generated CO2 is only 4% of that 3.5%
Just how much US tax $$ will this cost?
Bat Ki-Moon, we oughtta call him.
Which is approximately equal to 0.1% overall.
So, with the vast variation in water density in the atmosphere, how can man’s one tenth of a percent have ANY effect on the climate??
It CAN NOT!!
This is a scam designed to gain control over our lives and the U.S. economy!
LLS
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