Posted on 12/12/2011 12:57:11 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Nearly 200 countries agreed Sunday to work on extending limits on greenhouse gas emissions well into the next decade, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Participants in the U.N. climate talks agree a legal deal on an effort to control global warming.
At a conference in Durban, South Africa, governments agreed to adopt a legal agreement “as soon as possible” but no later than 2015 to curb greenhouse gas emissions to limit the rise in average global temperatures by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
The agreement would extend the Kyoto Protocol that was adopted in 1997 and is set to expire in 2012. The U.S. never ratified the protocol.
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I would like to see a plank in the Republican Party platform calling for the U.N. to be dismanteld.
Effect on climate: zero; effect on economies: disaster.
Can any rational person explain our funding of this silliness?
It’s a Redistribution plan dressed up.
Ignore the “click here” message...its a Reuters vido plus advertisement....go to the website for that and the rest of the excerpted article.
The agreement would create a Green Climate Fund of about $100 billion by 2020.
This was all about saving face. It still takes a 2/3 vote of the U.S. Senate to ratify any treaty. Hate to tell ‘em but it ain’t gonna happen, not even with a Dim in the White House.
“I would like to see a plank in the Republican Party platform calling for the U.N. to be dismantled.”
So would I, but we are both going to be disappointed. That would be a conservative measure, favorable to national sovereignty. Not gonna happen.
Twenty years ago, we had ten years to fix the problem. We’re toast, why bother?
Do these idiots who believe this tripe think humans can have ANY effect on 5000 trillion metric tons of atmosphere which is GAS? When it comes to the size of the atmosphere we are microbes. You can't even see us from space unless you zoom almost to the surface. But you can see PLENTY of green PLANTS from outer space WHICH USE CO2! These idiots should read up on how Venus became a greenhouse planet, by WATER VAPOR but the UN can't really put a ban on that, or maybe I shouldn't speak too soon...It wouldn't suprise me in the least if they do, then out comes the demands for money.
My God, look at all the green colored people and green colored cars on earth.
Humans are but a speck upon this huge planet in everything we do. Like leaving the reefer door open expecting that to cool someones front yard on the other side of the world.
Durban: Wild ambit fails, but money flows. “Landmark” non legal something-arother agreed to.
Dismantle and defund the UN now!
They don't have a clue what causes global warming, but they insist on taxing us anyway.
What does it cost the U.S. to maintain the U.N.?
I say we dump the U.N. and spend that money to develop modern nuclear plants, STET!
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* Ø A new International Climate Court will have the power to compel Western nations to pay ever-larger sums to third-world countries in the name of making reparation for supposed “climate debt”. The Court will have no power over third-world countries. Here and throughout the draft, the West is the sole target. “The process” is now irredeemably anti-Western.
See their latest antic....post #16.
Betcha we won’t ratify this one, either. However, Obamao will proceed to implement it administratively.
Nothing new here. Per Darwin, “Origin of Species” which is my throne room reading, we have been doing this since when.
Nothing new here. Per Darwin, “Origin of Species” which is my throne room reading, we have been doing this since when.
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