A double whammy of reality preceding the Cancun COP16 climate summit

Watts Up With That? ^ | November 22, 2010 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Reuters AlertNet, the International Energy Agency gets it:

Fatih Birol, of the IEA, said the gains from the tougher EU reduction target would roughly equal only two weeks of China’s emissions.

“The United States and China are essential for combating climate change globally. We estimate extending Europe’s plan to cut emissions from 20 to 30 percent would roughly equal China’s two-week gas output,” Birol said in an interview.

But wait there’s more…

“The wind is not blowing in the right direction for fighting global warming. Frankly, there are virtually no chances for the Cancun summit to end in legally binding agreement,” Birol said, adding, “I would be very happy to be proven wrong on this.”

And of course, China has already given these people “the finger”, and is building coal-fired power plants at an amazing rate, so what’s the point of COP16 again?

h/t to WUWT reader “nolene”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ronnie raygun]

These criminal bastards will not give up and niether should we

[Paladin2]

It’s a summit of socialists interested in taxing the world to fund their illness.

[Paladin2]

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~prakash/coalfires/co2_emission.html

[Voltage]

so what’s the point of COP16 again?

Worthless bureaucrats have to have something to do...spend taxpayers money!

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again Ernest !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right....from the Comments

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P.F. says:

November 22, 2010 at 8:18 am

Didn’t the new co-chair (Edenhofer) say it’s no longer about “environmental protection,” but negotiating the distribution of the world’s resources? I noticed that the other co-chair was from that bastion of free thought and equality known as CUBA.

If one reads the early work of Maurice Strong (or Holdren, for that matter) it becomes obvious: it never was about protecting the environment or stopping climate change. The science is only a tool to forward the agenda and used only when it served the purpose. It has always been about social justice and “environmental justice” (Strong’s favorite variation of the notion).

[American Constitutionalist]

" And of course, China has already given these people “the finger”, and is building coal-fired power plants at an amazing rate, so what’s the point of COP16 again? "

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.... to destroy the United States economic power.

[NRG1973]

Thanks for posting this article...I’d almost forgotten that this dog & pony show was coming up so soon. I hope it is as bad a disaster for the left as the Copenhagen meetings were.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related threads:

The Chinese Coal Monster ( Some facts no carbon tax in China either)

The Chinese Coal Monster - running out of puff(??)

[samtheman]

We estimate extending Europe’s plan to cut emissions from 20 to 30 percent would roughly equal China’s two-week gas output...

And 10 minutes IEA gas output.

[SouthTexas]

Why don’t they go meet in Detroit or somewhere that NEEDS their wasteful spending?

[Publius6961]

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Not sure about this group.
Who funds it?
What goal do the emphasize?
Do they advocate some energy sources over others?

Are they political or scientific?

I will have to read a lot more about this group. What I have seen so far is the usual bureaucratese boilerplate Bullshit.*

*BULLSHIT

[Publius6961]

It’s a summit of socialists interested in taxing the world to fund their illness.

It's so good to know. Anything that Maurice Strong is attached to is a definite danger to all industrialized nations. They refence the following as their do-gooder mandate...

International Agreement

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

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