Links tagged “cancun”
- Orange County Register Cites Climate Depot’s More Than 1000 Dissenting Scientist Report
Paper: Climate Depot is 'a leading global warming debunking site, identifying more than 1,000 dissenting scientists around the world who challenge the theory of a manmade global warming catastrophe. Dissenters include current and former IPCC scientists. It's become more difficult for global warming zealots to quiet critics, many of whom once held similar views.'
- Analysis: ‘Cancun climate deal falls flat, Kyoto Protocol on life support’
- Analysis: Cancun in a nutshell: ‘Nothing achieved but it’s a big PR success’
- Same old, same old — Cancun Closes with Deal: ‘Basically the deal on emissions is that countries will agree to agree on cuts at the next climate change conference’
'It would be cynical to call it a bribe, but agreements were largely reached because rich countries continued vague promises to hand over $100 billion in climate aid annually to poor countries beginning in 2020.'
- UN climate change talks in Cancun agree a deal: ‘Touted as a platform on which that comprehensive agreement can be built’
- ‘Stern won’t comment on whether this is the end of the Kyoto Protocol or not’
- India`s interests ‘protected’: ‘No commitments in Cancun Agreement’ Env. Minister: ‘India’s interests had been fully protected and enhanced’
'India's right to development safeguarded by the deletion of the clause which wanted global GHG emissions' cuts
- Deadlock over Kyoto — Cancún talks have little to show after 2 weeks: ‘Despite an all-night bargaining session, ministers had managed on the final day to agree on just 1 paragraph of text’
- Update: ‘Gore Effect’ on Steroids: 6 straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico – more coming
- Revkin of New York Times on UN Climate Summit: ‘The extravagance of some of the parties was beyond parody’
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CNN: UN report warns ‘the climate time bomb is ticking’
Climate Tipping Points date back to at least 1864
“As early as 1864 George Perkins Marsh, sometimes said to be the father of American ecology, warned that the earth was ‘fast becoming an unfit home for its “noblest inhabitant,”’ and that unless men changed their ways it would be reduced ‘to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.’” —MIT professor Leo Marx
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UN Is A Climate ‘Disinformation Threat Actor’ – If UN & U.S. govt are so committed to censoring disinformation, why are they themselves spreading it?
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UN IPCC’s new report insists we can control weather & climate: ‘Whatever future we end up with is within our control’ — ‘If we act now’
It “is quite clear that whatever future we end up with is within our control,” Piers Forster, who helped write one of the panel’s earlier reports, told the Times. “It is up to humanity … to determine what we end up with.”
- Report: ‘Here’s what to expect from the latest UN climate change assessment’ – ‘Likely to feature…bold headlines’
