Tag Archives: Durban

Where there’s a need for immunity, there’s a crime – Green climate fund looking to UN for diplomatic immunity protection from lawsuits.

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

It seems to me, that if you are asking for immunity up-front, you already know that something has been done that without immunity, would land somebody in the slammer. From Fox News: Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style … Continue reading →

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A controversial look at Blackbody radiation and Earth minus GHG’s

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Guest Post by Reed Coray On Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this blog on Dec. 5, 2011. In that comment he wrote: … Continue reading →

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Post COP 17 – The Road to Nowhere

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Guest post by Professor Will Alexander  Roadmaps The key word used during the COP 17 discussions was ‘roadmap’ used by the European Union delegation. The following is a map of my travels through southern Africa. My two principal destinations at … Continue reading →

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Email from UNFCCC: “we won’t let Canada out of the Kyoto Convention responsibilities”

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

People send me stuff… UPDATE: See below for another interpretation Remember how this was phrased? “sign it, it’s just voluntary!” Recall Rio 1992 “Earth Summit” where the meme was “hey, it’s voluntary!…with a negotiating schedule attached”. Apparently, like a Roach … Continue reading →

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Oxfam—Betraying its Roots and Sabotaging its Own Mission

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany On its website Oxfam reminds us that its name comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Today it claims to work to “find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.” So imagine the surprise … Continue reading →

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Kyoto – in the past for Canada

Posted on December 12, 2011 by
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Quote of the Week – what Durban is really about

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

WUWT commenter Cal65 from Hawaii burns away all of the irrelevancy of posturing and pronouncements and gets to the core truth of what the Durban climate deal is really all about. He writes: The UN plan will shift wealth from … Continue reading →

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The True Failure of Durban

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

Guest post by Dennis Ray Wingo First I want to say thanks to Anthony for providing this forum for the discussion of climate in a different sense, that is to focus on Durban and what this conference means from the … Continue reading →

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Latest extortion attempt from Durban COP17: $1.6 Trillion

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

Gosh. Who knew that a massive tax could solve all imagined climate problems? David L. Hagen writes: The UN is demanding control over $1.6 trillion per year to control climate. See Section 47 in draft # FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/CRP.39 9 December 2011 … Continue reading →

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The tweet end view of Durban

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

 Some Twitter reports from Durban Twitter / @john_vidal: how many countries will he … how many countries will head home so they dont have to be seen rejecting #cop17 Durban deaL? Twitter / @JonathanWootlif: I just saw EU #cop17 #clim … Continue reading →

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Durban: what the media are not telling you

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish … Continue reading →

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The worst kind of ugly climate propaganda: David Suzuki targets kids at Christmas in the name of climate change

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Here’s the popup message solicitation you get when you visit the website for the first time:

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Penn State to lecture on “climate ethics”

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

I got this late, but this must be the most clueless thing I’ve ever seen, especially coming on the heels of the biggest ethics scandal ever in the history of Penn State. Maybe clueless doesn’t even describe it. I’m at … Continue reading →

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BREAKING: Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

CTVNews.ca Staff Date: Sun. Nov. 27 2011 10:08 PM ET Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.

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Climate Craziness of the Week – occupy Durban

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

You know it had to happen. What better place could there be for the great unwashed to protest? Gotta love the dead green tree growing out of the Earth. Here’s their message: ============================================================== #OccupyCop17: Climate Justice General Assembly Governments of … Continue reading →

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Just in time for Durban: US backs off on UN Green Climate Fund

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Thanks perhaps in part to Climategate 2, it is looking less like success and more like FAIL at Durban. The US has backed off and now refuses to agree to structure and funding of the United Nations Framework Convention on … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is … Continue reading →

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Durban climate conference DOA before it gets started

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser, The GWPF Europe’s Durban Plan Kaput Europe’s attempt to formulate a ‘coalition of the willing’ seems doomed. The BASIC countries – China, India, South Africa and Brazil — have already taken a position that any … Continue reading →

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China’s climate ca$h blackmail

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

Who says you can get rid of entitlements? WUWT covered this issue over HFC-23 production previously in The biggest environmental scandal in history. It seems it is about to get bigger. China just decided to blackmail the brilliant minds soon to … Continue reading →

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“…the world’s only structure for curbing greenhouse gas emissions appears about to crumble”

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Uh oh. From the NYT, a harbinger of failure. But then again looking at Copenhagen and Cancun, why should this meeting in Durban be any different? Nations Heading to Durban Climate Talks Remain Deeply Divided – NYTimes.com U.N. climate chief … Continue reading →

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