Facing Climate Emergency, UN Summit Staggers On

International Business Times ^ | 12/14/2019 | Patrick GALEY and Marlowe HOOD

[RightGeek]

A UN climate summit in Madrid was on life support Saturday after marathon negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.

Diplomats from rich nations, emerging giants and the world's poorest countries -- each for their own reasons -- found fault with a draft agreement put forward by host Chile in a botched attempt to strike common ground.

Faced with fire-alarm warnings from science, deadly extreme weather made worse by climate change, and weekly strikes by millions of young people, negotiations in Madrid were under pressure to send a clear signal that governments were willing to double down in tackling the crisis.

But the 12-day talks, more than 24 hours after their scheduled end, had retreated even further from this goal on Saturday.

Simon Stiell, Grenada envoy, told AFP that the lack of ambition in the initial agreement text was "crazy".

"It isn't reflective of the kids who are demonstrating on the streets the world over, communities being washed away by rising sea levels," he said late Saturday.

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Veteran observers of UN climate talks were stunned by the state of play nearly 24 hours after the negotiations had been due to close.

"I have never seen such a disconnect between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, versus what the climate negotiations are delivering," Alden Meyer, strategy and policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told AFP.

Alexandria Villasenor, a 14-year-old climate activist, said she was "disappointed" in the lack of action at COP 25.

"The difference between the youth on the streets and the negotiations is that the youth on the streets are acting with urgency," she told AFP.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"There has so far been — as the IPCC confirms — no measurable increase in droughts, floods or storms worldwide, no reversal in the continuing rapid decline in deaths due to insect-borne diseases, and no measurable impacts of the continuing very slow rise in global sea levels. In stark terms, Bangladesh is still gaining land from sedimentation in its rivers’ deltas, has suffered no increase in cyclones, but has benefited from reduced malnourishment to the tune of billions of dollars from higher crop yields as a result of carbon dioxide emissions."

Benefits of carbon dioxide - global greening

[CaptainPhilFan]

Well ya know if the USA would just ante up the lion’s share (and a half) and pay off all the countries in this Globull Extortion Circus they’d all be happy and make nice and promise the 14 year old activist that “we’re doing all we can” but until that time they are just going to stand around and scream, cry, fight and point fingers because now THEY are in the spotlight and THEY are deer in the headlights with their pants down and their hands looking for the cookie jar which is empty anyway so THANK YOU President Trump.

Thank the good Lord in Heaven for president Trump.

[USS Alaska]

But the 12-day talks, more than 24 hours after their scheduled end,

Ya, you read that correctly...12 DAY TALKS.

If they keep talking, the world and will end and they will still be in meetings.

[seawolf101]

It´s all fake and made up.

[goldstategop]

We’re all gonna die in 11 years! What emergency?

[goldstategop]

Listen son, to what ol’ Foghorn is telling you: its all kabuki theater. There’s no climate emergency. What its really all about, son - is money.

[gogeo]

...marathon negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.

"You have some money. Give it to us."

[gogeo]

Alexandria Villasenor, a 14-year-old climate activist, said she was "disappointed" in the lack of action at COP 25.

Okay....

[oldasrocks]

So why aren’t they going after china who produces 93% of the pollution?

[seawolf101]

So why aren’t they going after china who produces 93% of the pollution?

Because China will not put up with the bullshit. If they go after China their airplanes will have a sudden accident. Any idea who were the people inside those airplanes that suddenly get shot down by terrorists?

It´s all a distraction. It´s what magicians do. Keep people distracted, and occupied so they will not look in the wrong direction.

They even help morons get elected and put idiots like Greta on the front pages. Anybody that is really observant can figure it all out. What a joke.

[Captain7seas]

Looks like if you retire from the UN you should be able to help out paying for the “ravages”.

As of 2018, the (UN Pension) Fund has a market value of $64 billion,

Yep...$64 BILLION.

[Oatka]

Next it will be “Climate Holocaust”

Followed by "Climate Armageddon".

A Freeper posted something like:
Real scientists: When a model fails, it is discarded.
"Woke" scientists: When a model fails, rename it.

A very pithy observation.

[trebb]

Trump refusing to be brow-beaten into donaing scads of cash and others realize they don’t have to do it either....poetic way for a movement to shrivel up and die....of its own, internal, climate change...