Posted on 12/06/2009 1:20:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
COPENHAGEN – Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as U.N. officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse gases put the world within reach of keeping global warming under control.
Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate official, said on the eve of the 192-nation conference that despite unprecedented unity and concessions, industrial countries and emerging nations need to dig deeper.
Finance — billions of dollars immediately and hundreds of billions of dollars annually within a decade — was emerging as the key to unblocking an agreement that would bind the global community to a sweeping plan to combat climate change.
"Time is up," said Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate official.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
UN = YOU LIE!
People walk on the street with a huge globe in the background in Copenhagen December 6, 2009. Copenhagen is the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, which lasts from December 7 until December 18. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (DENMARK ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
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People look at an ice sculpture of a polar bear in downtown Copenhagen December 6, 2009. Copenhagen is the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, which lasts from December 7 until December 18. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (DENMARK ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENT)
Alternate title: Climate finale may have tragic ending as human civilization commits suicide.
“UN says climate finale may have happy ending”
Would this have anything to do with the freebies at the Hoaxenhagen bordellos?
A woman on a bicycle passes a huge tree stump which is a part of the Ghost Forest Exhibition in front of the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen December 6, 2009. Copenhagen is the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, from December 7 until December 18. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (DENMARK ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENT)
We need our Country back.
This is an assault on all freedom loving people.
sponsored by answer and world can't wait and all the usual suspects, of course.
Demonstrators gather at the Climate Camp in Trafalgar Square in London, December 6, 2009. Demonstrators camped in central London demanding action to be taken to prevent further climate change, and for world leaders to agree a deal to protect the environment at their summit in Copenhagen. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN SOCIETY POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
Finance — billions of dollars immediately and hundreds of billions of dollars annually within a decade — was emerging as the key to unblocking an agreement that would bind the global community to a sweeping plan to combat climate change.
This isn't about "climate change". It's about more big bucks for the mental midgets who wrote the Climategate emails.
AHNULD is no longer to be trusted...period.
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer (C) gestures during a news conference with Michael Zammit Cutajar (L), Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA), and John Ashe, Chair of Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP), on the eve of the opening of the United Nations Climate Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 6, 2009. Delegates from 190 nations are gathering for the start of the Dec. 7-18 Copenhagen climate meeting. The biggest U.N. climate talks in history are aimed at working out a new pact to curb global warming, replacing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK ENVIRONMENT POLITICS)
Not so many decades ago, Another fella out of Austria tried to hoodwink the world too.
Coincidence? ;-)
Now are these the same "UN scientists" who wrote emails about using tricks to "hide the decline"?
Funny how the ONLY people who don't seem to know about Climategate are climate reporters.
Oh yes it is, Mr. de Boer.
More than you will ever know.
A glass of champagne is poured. This year's crop has been one of the best yet for England's winegrowers, with a record three million bottles produced -- twice the average production of the past five years -- and producers think the changing climate is the cause. (AFP/File/Alain Julien)
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