Roundup: UN’s COP-20 Ignored by Sunday Talkies and Video of Greenpeace Activists Damaging World Heritage Site

Weekend Media Roundup: COP-20 Ignored by Sunday Talkies, Platts Interview on North Dakota Oil Regulations, and Video of Greenpeace Activists Damaging World Heritage Site http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalwarmingorg/~3/SInyRDZFN1g/ Two weeks ago, the New York Times warned that humankind faces “extinction” unless the international community reached a diplomatic breakthrough at the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United […]

UN summit rejects solar power as ‘too unreliable’ – Chose ‘diesel generators’ instead! Lima ‘organizers rejected powering the [summit] with solar panels on the grounds they were too unreliable’

At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 the United Nations agreed to the “stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. The agreed science is clear: avoiding “dangerous” climate change requires warming to be kept within 2C above pre-industrial levels. But more […]