Green energy scheme is a fraud
Green energy scheme ‘a fraud’
CLANCY YEATES AND JACOB SAULWICK
December 23, 2009
KEVIN RUDD’S environmental agenda is under attack on two fronts, with the country’s biggest private renewable energy business declaring his green power target at risk of failure.
As criticism of the emissions trading scheme grows bolder after the fractured Copenhagen summit, AGL has labelled the administration of the the renewable energy target a fraud.
The Prime Minister, in his first public comments since returning from Denmark, said plans for an ETS would not be affected by the Copenhagen Accord. But he faces calls to ensure the integrity of his renewable energy policy, aimed at encouraging companies to invest in green power.
AGL threatened not to invest in alternative energy forms until the Government addressed a collapse in the price of certificates designed to encourage investment.
A CLIMATE CON- ANALYSIS OF “COPENHAGEN ACCORD
Dear friends I pass this important report on to you in full. It is worth reading carefully.
John James
A CLIMATE CON – ANALYSIS OF “COPENHAGEN ACCORD”
Climate Action Centre Briefing Note www.climateactioncentre.org
21 December 2009
Prepared by David Spratt and Damien Lawson
http://climatecodered.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-con-analysis-of-copenhagen.html
QUOTE: ”In biblical terms it looks like we are being offered 30 pieces of silver to betray our future and our people … our future is not for sale.” Ian Fry, Tuvalu negotiator
QUOTE: “This is a declaration that small and poor countries don’t matter, that international civil society doesn’t matter, and that serious limits on carbon don’t matter. The president has wrecked the UN and he’s wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming. It may get Obama a reputation as a tough American leader, but it’s at the expense of everything progressives have held dear. 189 countries have been left powerless, and the foxes now guard the carbon henhouse without any oversight.” Bill McKibben, 350.org
QUOTE: “”The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport. There are no targets for carbon cuts and no agreement on a legally binding treaty. It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen.” John Sauven , executive director of Greenpeace UK
QUOTE: “So that’s it. The world’s worst polluters – the people who are drastically altering the climate – gathered here in Copenhagen to announce they were going to carry on cooking, in defiance of all the scientific warnings. They didn’t seal the deal; they sealed the coffin for the world’s low-lying islands, its glaciers, its North Pole, and millions of lives. Those of us who watched this conference with open eyes aren’t surprised. Every day, practical, intelligent solutions that would cut our emissions of warming gases have been offered by scientists, developing countries and protesters – and they have been systematically vetoed by the governments of North America and Europe.” Johann Hari, The Independent, 19 December 2009
The Copenhagen farce is glad tidings for us all
The Copenhagen farce is glad tidings for allSource. The Times.
After two weeks of increasingly ill-tempered negotiations, one of the European delegates at the Copenhagen summit “to save the planet” had clearly reached breaking point; or perhaps it was the ingratitude of the people he was trying to save that caused this negotiator to tell the BBC’s science correspondent, Susan Watts, that millions of Africans now “deserve” to be incinerated.
What happens to us when the Earth is 2 degrees warmer
What happens to us when the Earth
is 2 degrees Warmer?
The fact that CO2 and methane concentrations have passed the threshold of 400ppm is of the most enormous significance. It means we have entered a new era – the era of dangerous climate change.
We have reached the point where our children
can no longer be promised a safe climate.
The most urgent outcomes of a 2°C rise, which is now at the low end of what is expected, and without even considering the devastation of triggering even one of the climate tipping points, would be:
Copenhagen climate conference: The grim meaning of ‘meaningful’
Copenhagen climate conference: The grim meaning of ‘meaningful’
- The Guardian, Saturday 19 December 2009
- Article history
Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something “meaningful” arouse suspicions that the opposite is in fact true. And “meaningful” was about the best word the spin doctors could muster in respect of the agreement of sorts that was brokered in Copenhagen late last night.
Gutless,yes. But the planet’s future is no priority of ours.
Gutless, yes. But the planet’s future is no priority of ours
Source. The Guardian.
While Copenhagen may fall far short of the deal we need, leaders know voters are not prepared to change their lifestyles
Despair is not acceptable, but it may be inevitable. Social democrats are the world’s optimists, knowing human destiny is in our own hands if we have the will to change. Leave pessimism to the world’s conservatives, ever fearful of the future and yearning for a better yesterday. But today optimism feels impossible. The chance of world leaders preventing a more than 2C increase in temperature looks vanishingly small.
Politics is being weighed in the balance and found wanting. The writing is on the wall. The leadership required within and between each nation is heavier lifting that the weak machinery of governmental power can manage. Most leaders in Copenhagen were out ahead of their people. Most understand the crisis better than those they represent, promising more sacrifice than their citizens are yet ready to accept – while no doubt praying for some miraculous technological escape. This is the way the world ends, in communiques expressing insufficient commitment.