Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/08/2008 2:32:24 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
In meetings at Hokkaido, Japan, the leaders of the G8 made a breakthrough on climate change when they agreed to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a draft communique.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
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"This is a strong signal to citizens around the world," the European commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said today, adding that the EU's benchmark for success at the G8 summit in northern Japan had been achieved.
"I am very happy. A new, shared vision by the major economies in the climate challenge within the UN framework has emerged. The science is clear, the economic case for action is stronger than ever. Now we need to go the extra mile to secure an ambitious global deal in Copenhagen that will enable the world's nations to rise to the challenge together," he said.
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Gordon Brown will be pleased with the deal since it keeps open talks ahead of the new US president taking over in January, leaving nearly a year for talks to reach a conclusion at the end of 2009.
This is just plain depressing.
“Settled science” my foot! The government in Australia is trying to lumber us with an emissions trading scheme by 2010 and the closer you look at it the more crazy its seems.
The asylum is being run by the lunatics. Its just unbelievable.
“The communique also said mid-term goals would be needed to hit the shared target for 2050, but that it would be up to individual countries to adopt them.”
“But environmental campaigners said the G8 agreement did not go far enough. “At this rate, by 2050 the world will be cooked and the G8 leaders will be long forgotten,” said Antonio Hill, spokesperson for Oxfam International.”
A “goal” two generations away, by which time all the principle actors will be dead, is a cheap way to paper over disagreements on the issues. As always, statements of grand rhetoric made at the end of such summits are meaningless. The end result is “Someday somebody somewhere should really do something about this”.
Leaving it up to the individual states with no enforcement means there is no deal to actually DO anything, as the activists plainly see.
stupid and evil.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m certain China and India will be the first to sign on.
G-8 endorses halving global emissions by 2050
Global Warming on Free Republic
Exactly. Everybody knows this is just lip service, especially the greenies, hence all their whining.
Since there is absolutely no feasible means to reduce the current load in the atmosphere, cutting back new emissions to zero would still have no effect on the future environment except for leaving us all dead.
A “goal” two generations away, by which time all the principle actors will be dead, is a cheap way to paper over disagreements on the issues. As always, statements of grand rhetoric made at the end of such summits are meaningless. The end result is “Someday somebody somewhere should really do something about this”.
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Yup!
In 2050, I’ll be 99 years old. Frankly, this stupidity amounts to exactly that, and it does not distress me in the least.
The only thing that concerns me is knowing how many people are so stupid as to actually support anything along this line.
I'll be 92.
Let's meet somewhere then and toast the death of this stupidity on a glacier somewhere in, say, upstate New York....
It is my honest, scientifically informed opinion, supported as well by historical political and sociological trends, that by 2050 it is about 85% likely that the current AGW hypothesis will have been absolutely discredited. It isn’t likely we’ll have NY glaciers by then, though. I would be happy to meet you at glacier in Alaska or Washington or Greenland, though, for that toast.
I'll have to make a side trip south of me (to Franklin County, VA) for some "corn squeezins" for a proper toast. I have some family down there (wink, wink)....
I’ll believe it when I see anything substantive actually happening.
Sign me up. There will probably still be a few glaciers available that could provide a location. ;-)
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