The global warming (or is it climate change, it has been cool lately) crowd keeps pretending that the planet is warming and that we are all doomed unless we subscribe to their policies and change our lifestyles.
Via the New Scientist:
What hope is there for a deal on climate change based on science? The answer seems to be “not much”.
Climate negotiators meeting over the past two weeks in Bonn, Germany, enjoyed a new spirit of bonhomie as they worked to heal the rifts created by the failure of UN talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, last December. At the close of talks on 11 June, they believed they were back on track to deliver a new climate agreement by the end of 2011.
But diplomatic harmony has come at a price: sacrificing a cool future for planet Earth.
Until Copenhagen, the aim was to set targets for major emitters of greenhouse gases that would limit warming to 2 °C. That required, as a first step, that by 2020 industrialised countries cut emissions by 25 to 40 per cent compared with 1990 levels.
While that target remains an option in draft deals, most negotiators say they will have to accept whatever pledges industrialised countries are prepared to make. Right now those pledges add up to cuts of between 12 and 19 per cent, according to the UN climate secretariat. And there are loopholes that could mean even these pledges amount to virtually nothing.
“As things stand now, we will not be able to halt the increase in global greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years,” UN chief negotiator Yvo de Boer said in Bonn. “The 2-degree world is in danger. The door to a 1.5-degree world is rapidly closing.” De Boer is stepping down at the end of this month, and his successor, Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres, said her priority was “rebuilding trust” rather than setting objectives.
You cant say the entire planet is warming if its not warming in my back yard.
The global warming / climate change crowd are only interested in control and wealth distribution. Not science.
*Video shamelessly lifted from whatreallyhappend.com
