Links tagged “durban”
- NY Times Gets Blunt: Climate Action Requires ‘Fundamental Remaking of … The Sinews of Modern Life’
NYT's John Broder's sentence in his report from Durban: 'Effectively addressing climate change will require over the coming decades a fundamental remaking of energy production, transportation and agriculture around the world —the sinews of modern life'
- Email from UNFCCC: ‘We won’t let Canada out of the Kyoto Convention responsibilities’ — (Remember how this was phrased? ‘sign it,it’s just voluntary!’)
UN to Canada: 'Whether or not Canada is a Party to the Kyoto Protocol, it has a legal obligation under the Convention to reduce its emissions'
Recall Rio 1992 'Earth Summit' where the meme was 'hey,it's voluntary!...with a negotiating schedule attached'. Apparently,like a Roach Motel, 'countries check in but they can't check out'
- S. African scientist disputes AGW: Renewables not the solution for Africa
'Electricity use is set to rise rapidly in Africa. To try to oppose this reality is not only immoral, but also totally impractical'
- Warmist Brad Johnson goes full climate astrology: Blames carbon dioxde for eight weather events over the last two
- Gore-trained UN climate hoax chief Christiana Figueres: Why can’t the US be more like China, which only increased its CO2 emissions by 171% since the year 2000?
- Lord Monckton Slam-Dunks Panicky Ocean-Acid-Head At Skeptics Press Conference at UN
- Paper: Durban failed: Relax, everyone: ‘Only agreement is to keep going to conferences’
- WSJ on Durban’s ‘Global Warming Wash Out’: ‘The Kyoto Protocol can now be ignored for another 5 years’
- Prof. Philip Stott: ‘Brazil, South Africa, India, and China – played a blinder. They outwitted comprehensively the ever-zealous, naive, and hypocritical EU’
They wanted to 'achieve their fundamental goals, which were to delay any agreement on a replacement for the failing Kyoto Protocol until at least 2015, and any actual action to cut emissions until at least 2020'
- UK Telegraph: ‘A new deal to ‘save the planet’ will force the world’s 3 biggest emitters, US, China and India to cut carbon emissions for first time’
'Scientists fear it will come too late to stop global warming...the most vulnerable countries to climate change said waiting until 2020 to enforce the deal will not be enough to save small island states from sea level rise or stop droughts and floods'
