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UN: World not close to avoiding dangerous warming
Yahoo! News ^ | 11/19/14 | Seth Borenstein - ap

Posted on 11/19/2014 3:17:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That's despite some nations' recent pledges to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions.

The report looks at the gap between what countries promise to do about carbon pollution and what scientists say needs to be done to prevent temperatures rising another two degrees. The two-degree level is a goal that world leaders set in 2009.

"The time window (for reaching that goal) is closing, closing," said United Nations undersecretary for environment Achim Steiner. And the cost of getting to that goal "is increasing, increasing."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: avoiding; climatechange; co2; dangerous; demagogicparty; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; ipcc; unipcc; warming
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To: NormsRevenge

For the record, we have this warming problem pretty well knocked here in Connecticut.


21 posted on 11/19/2014 3:29:33 PM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: NormsRevenge

Let the UN put some pressure on the Chinese,their unregulated coal fired plants are killing the planet. s)


22 posted on 11/19/2014 3:31:10 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah....

Not by a mile...


23 posted on 11/19/2014 3:31:21 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: NormsRevenge

And, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.


24 posted on 11/19/2014 3:31:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: NormsRevenge

When the ENTIRE UN Staff goes Carbon Negative for 18 months, I will stop and listen to what they have to say.

If they shift all of their various Headquarters to Chad, CAR or Yemen I will listen in 16 months.

If ALL of their Conferences and various Assemblages of High Muckety-Mucks are held in towns of 100,000 population, elevation less than 2,000 feet located within 15 degrees of the Equator AND the first two conditions are met, I will listen in 12 months.

Just so they all don’t die of heat stroke, they can take a break in villages in North Korea, Nov-Feb, as long as there are no facilities for the military brass or the Communist Party elite and the population is less than 5,000.

Y’all have fun, now!!


25 posted on 11/19/2014 3:31:37 PM PST by BwanaNdege (I wonder which side they choose whe)
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To: NormsRevenge

BTW, it rained here quite heavily a month ago, and then there was a light frost on the ground the next morning. Then we’ve had record-breaking lows for the last few days. I’m pretty sure all of this has been caused by climate change. Who should I report this to?


26 posted on 11/19/2014 3:31:37 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Tell it to the people of Buffalo and Watertown, NY.


27 posted on 11/19/2014 3:32:41 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: NormsRevenge

Seth Borenstein is well connected to if not part of the “inside group” of warmist alarmists, starring famed Hockey Stick originator, Michael Mann. Anything he writes about this topic is pure propaganda. He has no credibility as either a journalist or scientist. The fact he now writes for AP shows how desperately far it has fallen as an objective news source.


28 posted on 11/19/2014 3:34:25 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: NormsRevenge

Looks like what used to be a tired old “and, and, and ....” supplement to the Communist Party Platform is now becoming a platform for world government, Communist style ..... especially the part about suppressing every meme that is not Official Truth.


29 posted on 11/19/2014 3:34:28 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: NormsRevenge

Anymore of this global warming and there will be no crops due to the freezing temperatures.


30 posted on 11/19/2014 3:35:07 PM PST by mylife
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To: BwanaNdege
If they shift all of their various Headquarters to Chad, CAR or Yemen I will listen in 16 months.

Bikini Atoll. Get that, and I'm in.

31 posted on 11/19/2014 3:35:47 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.

Shouldn't that be "wymyn", Sister?

32 posted on 11/19/2014 3:36:47 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: TheDon

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.

As for the UN, what do you expect when you put anti-semites and petty tyrants in charge of something.


33 posted on 11/19/2014 3:37:54 PM PST by thorvaldr
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To: molson209

You put your finger on the REAL concern - that the UN was not going to get its “greedy fingers” on our money.

In any scenario of gloom and doom, follow the money to find out who is pushing the line of disaster, and how they would benefit from “averting” said disaster.

It has happened millions of times, but people do exaggerate to emphasize a point.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seemed last night in the dark.

And if it is, how would anybody be able to make an unbiased observation?


34 posted on 11/19/2014 3:40:19 PM PST by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: NormsRevenge
No warming in the last 15 years? Now, some scientists admit the warming isn't hiding in the deep ocean as they have claimed.

Damn that warming is clever! Hiding out for years only to jump out and barbeque us! And, Seth, when will this happen? 2050? Seriously?

This is sounding more and more like the Population Bomb hoax. It's always in the future.

35 posted on 11/19/2014 3:49:28 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: NormsRevenge

Does the UN building in New York have HEAT?? WHY?? Can’t we have it permanently DISCONNECTED, they obviously don’t need it anymore with the Planet on Fire likr they claim. they could go outside and enjoy the Global Warming that way.


36 posted on 11/19/2014 3:50:24 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: NormsRevenge

Can somebody arrange a trip for these bozos to the Amazon basin and point out the richest and most varied ecosystem on the planet? Oh, and leave them there?


37 posted on 11/19/2014 3:50:54 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: NormsRevenge

The depth of the stupidity of our rulers is unfathomable. Remember when the U.N. decided to shut down the A/C there on the weekends in 2008? Ever wonder how long it lasted? Probably until the first batch of computers had to be replaced and/or until they walked in to an unbearably hot building on Monday morning.

http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/cool-united-nations

I’m a systems engineer and it drives me absolutely crazy when the “Smart, Concerned” people pick a single piece of a complex system and determine they can ‘fix’ it. They make as much sense as sacrificing virgins to ensure the sun comes up in the morning.....


38 posted on 11/19/2014 3:52:44 PM PST by TMD (Behind enemy lines.....)
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To: TheDon

“How did so many crazy people get in charge of our gov’t and the U.N.?’

They are not crazy. They have different assumptions about reality than we do.

They see nothing wrong with lying if it advances their cause. The biggest sin that they have is getting caught, and then, only if it leads to failure.

The have no problem with lying about global warming or “climate change” because they think it necessary to concentrate power in the hands of well meaning technocrats.

They do not admit that the technocrats have agendas of their own that can be more destructive than any evil they claim to control.

Perhaps we can say they are crazy, but only if we posit that believing that power is the only thing that matters is crazy.

I say it is closer to evil than crazy.


39 posted on 11/19/2014 3:59:29 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: NormsRevenge

What the UN actually said is: “We are lunatic luddite assholes with little to no knowledge of basic physics or science of any kind and anything we say about climate should be ignored.” A translation issue.


40 posted on 11/19/2014 4:02:15 PM PST by jwalsh07
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