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Behind The Scenes At Cop 15

admin /24 December, 2009

local produce  (Source New Matilda Com.)

24 Dec 2009

Behind The Scenes At COP15

By Fake Penny Wong

FakePennyWong

While the rest of the world was trying — sorta — to strike a deal at Copenhagen, the internet entity known as Fake Penny Wong prowled the corridors looking for something to eat

Prelude to the conference
One of the things that I’ve learnt in the three months leading up to Copenhagen is how arbitrarily the Liberal Party will destroy good policy, purely to suit their short-term objectives. The National Party supporting sensible policy is about as likely as Warren Truss opening a gay dance club with a hemp product co-operative out the back. That’s fine, but I did expect the Libs to back the CPRS due to its perfect balance between saving the world’s environment and ensuring jobs are protected (colloquially titled “comparative amelioration” in the policy). Tony Abbott is a climate sexist: he believes the Earth is just perspiring a little when in fact it’s a hirsute, obese menopausal woman with a swine flu induced fever. My point? A good outcome at Copenhagen is crucial in order to be able to come back and put a blowtorch to Tony Abbott’s Speedo-crushed testicles over the need for a CPRS. 

Tipping Points- the Facts

admin /24 December, 2009

Tipping Points – the Facts

 Dr.John James.    www.planetextinction.com 

When the temperature gets high enough to cause forests to give up their CO2 rather than sequest it, then every tonne of gas given up to the air increases the temperature and causes even more gas to be given up. This is a tipping point – an irreversible moment when the dreaded feedback loop begins.

This is now the central issue for the scientific community: have humans already have gone too far, and may we now be helpless to stop abrupt and runaway global warming.

Green energy scheme is a fraud

admin /22 December, 2009

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

admin /21 December, 2009

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

Garrett axes forest ecology and solders up greenhouse trigger

admin /21 December, 2009

Garrett axes forest ecology and solders up greenhouse trigger

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has axed the Hawke Review’s
recommendation of an independent watchdog over native forest logging
with the power of sanctions for environmental destruction, Australian
Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown said in Hobart today.

This fiasco will further alienate an angry public

admin /20 December, 2009

This fiasco will further alienate an angry public

I hate to say I told you so, but I have predicted the failure of the Copenhagen summit to agree to binding commitments for over a year.

The Copenhagen fiasco was not just foreseeable, it was inevitable. The inability of the international community to break the climate deadlock reflects the incompatible national interests and demands that divide the west and the rest. This is now a permanent feature in what is likely to become an indefinite moratorium on international climate law-making.

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