Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/10/2011 6:22:22 PM PST by Hunton Peck
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) -- The president of a U.N. climate conference has announced agreement on a program mapping out a new course by all nations to fight climate change over the coming decades.
The 194-party conference agreed to start negotiations on a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime to enforce their commitments to control greenhouse gases. It would take effect by 2020 at the latest.
Currently, only industrial countries have legally binding emissions targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Those commitments expire next year, but they will be extended for another five years under the accord adopted Sunday.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - Diplomats frazzled by sleeplessness debated into the early hours of Sunday at a U.N. conference over a complex and far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades.
South Africa's foreign minister and chairman of the 194-party conference, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told delegates that failure to agree after 13 days of work would be an unsustainable setback for international efforts to control greenhouse gases.
"This multilateral system remains fragile and will not survive another shock," she told a full meeting of the conference, which had been delayed more than 24 hours while ministers and senior negotiators labored over words and nuances.
The proposed Durban Platform offered answers to problems that have bedeviled global warming negotiations for years about sharing the responsibility for controlling carbon emissions and helping the world's poorest and most climate-vulnerable nations cope with changing forces of nature.
The package must be approved by consensus, and no vote will be called. Determined opposition from even a small group of countries would unravel...
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It's cheaper to rent a psychiatrist.
Geeze—I always thought God was in charge of our climate.
agreement on a program mapping out
agreed to start negotiations
Nothing firm, nothing legal, nothing really accomplished. After spending millions for a conference and quite a bit of drinking, prostitution, bestiality, and other recreation they had to have something to say to their followers.
So the agreement we wisely stayed out of is being extended?
LOL.
“a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime to enforce their commitments to control greenhouse gases”
No thanks.
There was another document dump today of 5000 e-mails from these moonbats.
“a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime to enforce their commitments to control greenhouse gases”
No thanks.
There was another document dump today of 5000 e-mails from these moonbats.
“a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime to enforce their commitments to control greenhouse gases”
No thanks.
There was another document dump today of 5000 e-mails from these moonbats.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next, they’ll discuss the possible naming of a blue ribbon commission to look into the question of whether it’s too early to take a wait-and-see approach...
TODAY...another 5000? Or was that the one from last week? I need to know.
By 2020 I’ll probably be outta here - praise God.
Its ANOTHER 5000 released today.
Here is the link on Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/
Its a wealth redistribution scam to send money from rich ethically conscientious countries to underdeveloped corrupt countries.
It has nothing to do with climate change and the fake science behind it.
Actually, I believe that is from Nov 23rd. Thanks.
Wealth redistribution is the excuse given, so that the vast majority of nations will vote for it, thinking they will get in on the gravy train.
What this is really about is a power grab by the U.N., and graft. Imagine the opportunities for corruption within the organization who administers the redistribution.
Actually sounds like a really pathetic defeat for the CAGW forces..... we’ll have to see about the fine print, but all it really does is kick the can down the road.
Of course all rational people would prefer that a stake be driven through the heart of the CAGW hysteria right now, but this kind of stalling process is the best that can be hoped for.
There are no new “commitments” beyond continued discussions, it seems.
The globalist hysterics had to have a document that could keep the pretense alive, but the US public and Congress are increasingly unreceptive to CAGW hysteria, China and India are not going to do anything meaningful, Canada is pulling out, and the EU nations will be increasingly unwilling to harm their economies for no real benefit to anyone except the freeloader “rent seekers” in the green mafia.
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