Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/27/2011 7:01:54 AM PST by Libloather
U.S. blocks key fund in climate agreement: report
LONDON | Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:03pm EST
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. is refusing to sign a flagship global climate fund as negotiations intensify ahead of the UN climate summit next week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
It quoted U.S. officials as saying the United States, backed by Saudi Arabia, had still not agreed to adopt a blueprint for the Green Climate Fund.
Countries agreed to create the fund last year to channel up to $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change and a U.N. committee completed the draft design of the fund at a meeting in South Africa in October.
Negotiators from around the world will consider the proposals at a climate summit in Durban from November 28 to December 9, as they try to agree on steps toward a global binding climate deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
UN climate summit gets 'occupy' warning
S Africa police not to tolerate "criminal acts" as activists demanding "climate justice" gear up for protest in Durban
Climate change hits Africa's poorest farmers
Climate summit faces big emitters' stalling tactics
Not just no, but HE** NO!
what was Beijing’s comment on this topic? I'm sure that all those tinpot dictators in Africa, like cousin Odinga, are anxiously awaiting the inflow of more western cash, since they seem to have run through all the resources left behind by the white settlers.
You absolutely, positively could not make this $hat up; this wouldn't even make it as a comedy skit on SNL.;
Just say....Sorry.
Whe ain’t got no more Scratch.
Kein Gelt.
We done blown’ our wad.
Pocket’s empty.
Busted our piggy bank.
FIND ANOTHER SUCKER, folks—Uncle Sam’s BROKE!!!
(Thanks, Barry.)
£1 billion of UK aid to fight climate change in Africa
The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries fight climate change. Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is due to announce details of a foreign aid package ahead of government talks at a United Nation's summit on climate change in Durban, South Africa, which start this week.
... projects include installing solar power in rural villages and building slurry pits that can produce gas to power generators.
The move, however, is expected to attract intense criticism at a time when the UK economy is struggling to recover from recession.
Solved: CO2 emissions 93% correlated with temperature and soil moisture, NOT human activity!
Carbon cycle questions
Posted on August 4, 2011 by curryja| 960 Comments
by Judith Curry
I just finished listening to Murry Salby’s podcast on Climate Change and Carbon. Wow.
The abstract for his talk is here:
PROFESSOR MURRY SALBY
Chair of Climate, Macquarie University
Atmospheric Science, Climate Change and Carbon – Some Facts
Carbon dioxide is emitted by human activities as well as a host of natural processes.
...
Andrew Bolt has some reactions in the Herald Sun:
Salby’s argument is that the usual evidence given for the rise in CO2 being man-made is mistaken. It’s usually taken to be the fact that as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase, the 1 per cent of CO2 that’s the heavier carbon isotope ratio c13 declines in proportion. Plants, which produced our coal and oil, prefer the lighter c12 isotope. Hence, it must be our gasses that caused this relative decline.
But that conclusion holds true only if there are no other sources of c12 increases which are not human caused. Salby says there are – the huge increases in carbon dioxide concentrations caused by such things as spells
of warming and El Ninos, which cause concentration levels to increase independently of human emissions. He suggests that its warmth which tends to produce more CO2, rather than vice versa – which, incidentally is the story
of the past recoveries from ice ages.
http://judithcurry.com/2011/08/04/carbon-cycle-questions/
New research: warmth produces these carbon dioxide concentrations
Professor Murry Salby, chair of climate at Macquarie University, has inleashed on global warming alarmism in a lecture this week to the Sydney Institute.
Salby has worked at leading research institutions, including the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, Princeton University, and the University of Colorado, and is the author of Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics, and
Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate, due out in 2011.
Salby’s argument is that the usual evidence given for the rise in CO2 being man-made is mistaken. It’s usually taken to be the fact that as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase, the 1 per cent of CO2 that’s the heavier carbon isotope ratio c13 declines in proportion. Plants, which produced our coal and oil, prefer the lighter c12 isotope. Hence, it must be our gasses that caused this relative decline.
But that conclusion holds true only if there are no other sources of c12 increases which are not human caused. Salby says there are - the huge increases in carbon dioxide concentrations caused by such things as spells of warming and El Ninos, which cause concentration levels to increase
independently of human emissions. He suggests that its warmth which tends to produce more CO2, rather than vice versa - which, incidentally is the story of the past recoveries from ice ages.
I’ve summarised this from just a rushed hearing of his lecture, not having access to his notes or the charts he produced on the evening. His findings, he says, have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, so more will
follow.
Some other highlights of his talk:
He said he had an “involuntary gag reflex” whenever someone said the “science was settled”.
“Anyone who thinks the science of this complex thing is settled is in Fantasia.” The climate models used by global warmists suggest we should have twice the warming we’ve actually seen recently.
Listen here. ... [see for link:]
(NB: you may have to cut’n paste that link to make sure you get it all into your browser correctly)
The reason we’re not kicking in money is we’re dead broke. And so is the rest of the planet.
It hardly matters in the grand scheme of things if climate change is real when we can’t pay our bills.
We’ve got more important things to worry about right now.
The reason we’re not kicking in money is we’re dead broke. And so is the rest of the planet.
It hardly matters in the grand scheme of things if climate change is real when we can’t pay our bills.
We’ve got more important things to worry about right now.
Another green slush fund. Drain the system before it collapses.
And of course, Zero will be absolved of all blame for this, and the refusal will be blamed on his Republican successor.
IOW, the same media shilling that went on after Kyoto was refused by Slick.
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