Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/28/2011 8:05:07 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
As delegates arrived in Durban on Sunday, dark skies gave way to thunder and lightning storms and torrential rain which waterlogged parts of the city’s conference venue and swept away tin shacks in townships on the outskirts of the city, killing eight people.
On Monday, many of the estimated 15,000 delegates packed into the main hall for the opening session, only to be kept waiting for 40 minutes by South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma.
Aides to the president blamed the president of Chad, saying Mr Zuma arrived on time but was forced to wait for him.
The 17th Conference of the Parties summit represents the last chance for developed nations to sign up to a second term of the Kyoto Protocol, which specifies legal limits for their carbon dioxide emissions, before it expires at the end of next year.
Speaking at the opening session of the talks, Christiana Figueres, the UN’s chief climate change official urged parties to be flexible.
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations, who is chairing the 12-day, 194-nation meeting, said “We are in Durban with one purpose: to find a common solution that will secure a future to generations to come,” she said.
But within hours of the summit’s start, most of the major players made clear their unwillingness to negotiate their positions.
The European Union led a charge to revive Kyoto, saying it would sign up for a second term. But it stipulated that the United States – the sole developed country to shun Kyoto – and China – still classed as a developing country – should also agree to legally-binding emissions cuts before 2015.
The US said that China signing up to a such a deal was a “basic requirement” for its own participation but even then, it offered no guarantees.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Such is the caricature of the average warmist today.
I never thought I’d be cheering China. What the hell. If that’s the excuse we need to tell them no, it works for me.
I’m glad to see that Canada is taking a strong stand against global warming scams. Quite a change from the previous government.
Where’s Obama on this? Oh, yeah, golfing.
These are people whose clothing, transportation, living accommodations, diet, remuneration, and recreation are at a level unattainably lofty compared to the vast majority of the people whose sacrifice they are demanding; unimaginable to the vast majority of developing peoples whose interests they purport to represent. These are people residing at five-star hotels who frown on those living in modest private homes for consuming too much. These are people flying in private jets who are making demands of people owning automobiles on behalf of those who are on foot. They are glib, arrogant, unworthy and in any enlightened society would be relegated to beggary from their betters, because that is exactly what they are really about and no more.
They all should get a copy of “Cold Sun” by John Casey
It lays out the fact that the sun is entering a solar hibernation. We are going into a period of global cooling.
That ought to make their heads explode.
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations, who is chairing the 12-day, 194-nation meeting, said “We are in Durban with one purpose: to find a common solution that will secure a future to generations to come,” she said.
Here is an idea to facillate that goal Maite: Pack your bags and go home. The jig is up. The US should immediatly cease ALL funding of the UN.
After all, if there are "crooshal" issues left un-resolved, they will just "have to" meet again next year at some other resort locale. Poor babies.
The so-called "climate scientists" need to get their lies in order before these conferences...
this is what their lecture/propaganda at the UN-sponsored meetings in Durban, South Africa was about:
On Tuesday, November 29th, in a seminar organized by Penn State University and the University of Washington on the ethical dimensions of climate change join us to look at two issues.
One, an ethical analysis of the climate change disinformation campaign. We will examine whether this is a new kind of crime against humanity?
Second, we will look at the piratical significance for negotiations in Durban if climate change is understood to create human rights violations.
18 posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:30:26 PM by Enchante
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