Al Gore arrives at UN summit – Gets poetic in call for Lima climate action
2014 ‘Warmest ever’? ‘Conflicting Reports’ – Surface temps show it may be warmer by ‘a couple hundredths of a degree Celsius’ — A Fancy Ways of Saying Temp Standstill Continues!
UN Chief: Give me more money
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. rips NYT’s Coral Davenport for ‘false claims’ about typhoons: ‘Tropical cyclones, including the most powerful ones, have not become more common in the Philippines’
Australia to give $200 million to UN climate fund
Lima climate talks hear big polluters should pay for climate ‘damage’
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: ‘Attempts to spin 2014 as a possible ‘warmest year’ is spin designed to influence the Lima UN deliberations’
By Dr. Judith Curry, former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology Via: http://judithcurry.com/2014/12/09/spinning-the-warmest-year Spinning the ‘warmest year’ Posted on December 9, 2014 by Judith Curry The buzz is intensifying about 2014 possibly being the warmest year globally in the historical temperature record. The spin The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued […]
Hardly green, Lima UN climate talks on track for record carbon footprint
Carbon footprint: —Construction, nearly 20 percent of the footprint. —Jet fuel burned by the estimated 11,000 delegates and observers who flew in from abroad. About 30 percent. —Local transportation. Organizers hired more than 300 buses since there are no public transit services to the venue. All burn fossil fuels. About 15-20 percent. —Electricity, solid waste […]
Goal to End Fossil Fuels by 2050 Proposed at Lima UN Climate Talks
Goal to End Fossil Fuels by 2050 Proposed at Lima Climate Talks http://ecowatch.com/2014/12/09/end-fossil-fuels-2050-lima-climate-talks/ It’s one of the most ambitious proposals to come out of the conference… The post Goal to End Fossil Fuels by 2050 Proposed at Lima Climate Talks appeared first on EcoWatch. — gReader Pro
350.org Protests Allowing Fossil Fuel Lobbyists To Attend Lima UN Summit
Report from COP-20 in Lima: 350.org Protests Allowing Fossil Fuel Lobbyists To Attend http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalwarmingorg/~3/R4vRWwphKTc/ My first day at the twentieth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-20) in Lima, Peru was pleasant, but a little dull. The energy level of leaders, delegates, and environmental NGOs seems a little low. […]