PROBABLY one of the best ways to cut CO2 emissions dramatically would be to cancel climate Conferences, starting with Poznan.
One has only to look at the skies filled with private jets and the subsequent use of limousines to ferry delegates to these. Once there, consider the great increase in emissions required to pamper these people in the style to which the climate industry has accustomed them. Carbon neutral? What a joke.
Similarly, look at the long line of climate scientists who happily travel the world to warn of the dire need for the rest of us to cut emissions. If they were really sincere, they would use teleconferencing. Their admonitions are not dissimilar to those of overpaid CEOs preaching about the need to cut wages.
Incidentally, since Kyoto was ratified: emissions worldwide increased 18%; emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21%; emissions from non-signers increased 10% and emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%
Art Raiche
Sydney, Australia
Originally published as a letter to The Australian newspaper.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
The definitive concern troll.
Bravo.
As cheap shots go, that’s about as cheap as they get.
What a pathetically peurile argument fully worthy of the Bolter. Oh wait… he’s in the blogroll.
“Incidentally, since Kyoto was ratified: emissions worldwide increased 18%; emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21%; emissions from non-signers increased 10% and emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%”
Can we have a reference for those figures please?
As the climate activists and climate
skeptics debate the pros and cons of global warming — and whether
man-made global warming is even happening at all — representatives
from over 150 nations are meeting this week in Poland to try to map
out a strategy to save the planet. Over 9000 people are participating
in the 12 days conference, and while some critics are worried that it
will be all “talk, talk, talk”, with little real action to try to stop
global warming before things go past a tipping point, participants are
the meeting are thinking positive.
The goal, of course, is to get some important actions agreed upon by
national governments around the world, without geopolitics and
economics getting in the way. Officially, the confab is being billed
as the Conference of Parties (COP14), and as he told
me in an email from Poland, “the activist and NGO community is
buzzing with ideas about how to make the most of these sessions to
come out with a strong path toward the increasingly looming deadlines
in 2009 in Copenhagen.”
he was adamant on this point: “One of the concerns is that the
delegates here in Poland are trying to lower expectations for this
process, telling the press (and each other) that it’s okay not to
expect too much from these talks this week and next. But across the
world, we all know that we can’t wait anymore.”
If all that happens is more “talk, talk, talk”, pessimists will say
“told you so”. But if some real action strategies and agreements are
inked in Poland this month, it wil be a victory of the Earth, and for
the human race, according to another participant at the meeting.
Actions speak louder than words, and never has it been more important
than now. The very survival of the human species, in the far distant
future, is at stake.
“The clock is ticking and time has run out. It is now we have to face
the consequences of our over-consumption in the West,” said one
climate activist at a protest outside the meeting halls. There are
protest signs appearing all over the place on the streets of Poznan
this week, some held up by skeptics and denialists who insist there is
no such thing as global warming, and other signs held up by cliamte
activists fighting the fight of their lives.
“This is not about rich nations or poor nations,” one climate activist
told RushPRnews via Twitter. “This is about the human race, about
planet Earth. We simply cannot go on talking and talking, without
taking direct, major actions that might even call for huge sacrifices
by people around the world. This is a life and death meeting, and we
hope life will win out over the death threats.”
The clock is ticking. James Lovelock is mulling it all over and at
work on a new book about climate change. Journalists like George
Monbiot and Mark Lynas and Andrew Revkin and Marian Wilkinson are
watching the Poznan talks intently. It’s the end of 2008, and several
important dates loom in the future: the Copenhagentalks in 2009, and
then the pivotal years of 2012 and 2015 and 2020.
“If nothing is done by 2040, it may very well be too late,” a top
scientist in Britain told this reporter by email this week, asking
that his name be left off this report for fear that his career might
suffer if he told the truth about global warming in public. “By 2050,
the fate of humankind might be sealed, in a very negative way. So the
talks this week in Poland are very important. Actions are needed, not
more talk. Time realy is running out. It might already have run out,
if people like Dr Lovelock and others are to be believed.”
Keep your eyes on Poznan this week and next. It’s not the end of the
world — yet! — and one hopes that time will never come. At least not
for another 10 million years or so. But the next 100 years, the next
200 years are going to pivotal years for the human species. And this
week marks the beginning of those pivotal years.
There is hope in Poznan this week. And also despair. Pay attention,
read the newspapers, read the blogs, stay tuned. The human race has
come so far already, it would be a shame if we blow it now.
The 9000 COP14 participants carry a huge weight on their collective
shoulders. And the world is watching. Listening. Hoping for some major
breakthroughs.
All 9,000 delegates at Poznan, even the highly paid consultant Peg Putt – former green politician turned paid Wilderness Society activist), should all read “We’re not scared anymore Mr Gore (A Climate Change story for little skeptics)” its available at http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2433911.htm
It makes a change from blowing up greenhouse pigs at ABC science for kids web site.
Right on cinders, that’s a great little e-book. We’ve needed something to counter the shameless propaganda that has been directed at vunerable children.
Have you noticed how if something is written about climatists with their noses in the trough, the first four or five blogs comes down on the article, and the author cops the usual ad hominem attacks.
It happened with Bali 07 with it’s 10,000+ attendees, private jets and limos, looks like Poznan will be another Bali, and Copenhagen will be the granddaddy of ’em all, because of Kyoto 2.
And they don’t like Andrew Bolt or Piers Akerman, but will defend SMH and Aunty ABC.
As some jester said about Bali, imagine the overload of the sewerage system at these conferences, maybe they should be like the bush walkers in wilderness areas, and take all waste home with them.
I just hope it freezes the butts of ’em all (caused by Climate Change of course).
We’re not scared anymore Mr Gore!
J.
Hmm, and a post before you folk let loose on Obama for addressing the conference by closed circuit TV. Doesn’t Charlotte read this blog??