EU looks to 2020 for new pact on global warming

EU Observer ^ | 28.11.11 @ 19:48 | Philip Ebels

[Olog-hai]

The stakes are high but expectations are low in Durban, South Africa, where talks began on Monday (28 November) on how to save the planet from the effects of rising temperatures. …

Big emitters like Russia, Japan and Canada have already said they will not sign up to a second Kyoto period. The US never has and is unlikely to now. It objects to the fact that in the protocol, developing countries are exempt from cutting emissions since it is the developed world which is responsible for the high levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today.

The European Union, for its part, has said it will gladly sign up to a second Kyoto period, but only if a road map is agreed upon that will lead to the implementation of another legally binding agreement by 2020. "A second Kyoto period with only the EU, representing only 11 percent of global emissions, is clearly not enough," EU climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard said. …

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[CowboyConservative]

Here in Wyoming I can’t wait for global warming, when does it kick in?

[beethovenfan]

I thought by 2020 we were all supposed to be fried to a crisp.

[hinckley buzzard]

The EU climate slut is full of shit. The EU has never come even close to meeting its "Kyoto commitments." All theater here, with the "public intellectual" lit major in charge of climate science for the whole European continent.

[hinckley buzzard]

I think it was 1990 they swore we only had ten years left.

[Signalman]

35F in Casper right now, according to wx channel website.

[familyop]

"Big emitters like Russia, Japan and Canada have already said they will not sign up to a second Kyoto period. The US never has..."

There they go, omitting China again.

[familyop]

Agreed. I’m on a high mountain basin in the commie state to the south of you, and the next colder spell will start about Thursday. ...saw -14 F one night earlier this month, and wind gusts to 109 mph another night.

[abclily]

I just heard Newt Gingrich say with his own mouth that he is not sure whether or not man is responsible for global temperatures!!!!! And soooooo many people say he is brilliant. If he is not sure that global temperatures depend on the activities of the sun and the tilt of the globe, then he is a DUNCE.

[abclily]

I just heard Newt Gingrich say with his own mouth that he is not sure whether or not man is responsible for global temperatures!!!!! And soooooo many people say he is brilliant. If he is not sure that global temperatures depend on the activities of the sun and the tilt of the globe, then he is a DUNCE.

[LibLieSlayer]

The eu will be gone soon.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

He loves globull warming and illegal mexicans... but reality and understanding are not his friends... the man is a big government progressive.

LLS

[palmer]

EU climate change commissioner

Probably the doorman who hands you an umbrella.

[abclily]

I just heard Newt Gingrich say with his own mouth that he is not sure whether or not man is responsible for global temperatures!!!!! And soooooo many people say he is brilliant. If he is not sure that global temperatures depend on the activities of the sun and the tilt of the globe, then he is a DUNCE.