Why COPs Should Have No Teeth

There has curiously been very little comment about the willingness of the UN to go on having Conferences calling for actions that don’t happen.

COP26 Climate Politics: Contraction And Convergence

Was someone in the UN at that time tempted to put the dollar-cart before the dangerous climate-horse? Surely not. Yet Mr Meyer’s concept appeared years before UNFCCC’s emphatic reliance on…

Climate is everything

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on May 2, 2021 by curryja |  by Judith Curry . . . according to the cover story of April 26 issue of Time Magazine. How have…

UNFCCC Extends the Deadline for Climate Award Entries

If you missed the 30th April deadline for submitting your application for recognition for your climate efforts, the UN has extended the deadline, because their awards are so popular.

China as Climate Change Saviour: The Triumph of Hope Over Experience?

Credulous Western environmentalists and government officials expect China to play a lead role in “combating” climate change, especially since President Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement. China’s trumpeted…

Palestinian Climate Change

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Very short post. I read today that Palestine has been granted full member status in the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.…

New bill to limit IPCC funding from USA

Luetkemeyer Seeks to Prohibit Federal Funding for Job-Killing UN Climate Change Initiatives  WASHINGTON, D.C. _ Following last night’s State of the Union Address in which the president pledged to implement…

UNFCCC wants 'immunity' from prosecution prior to Rio+20

Oh, this can’t be good. Dr. Tim Ball writes in with: “What is going on here? It suggests they are feeling pressure for liability for their activities?” From Fox News:…

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

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…

Email from UNFCCC: "we won't let Canada out of the Kyoto Convention responsibilities"

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,…

Uh oh, "…organized and deeply committed environmental activism has long been an important part of the UNFCCC process…"

Maybe this is why the US bailed out of the UNFCCC “Green Climate Fund” this week.The science has been “McKibbenized” for quite some time. Email 340.txt date: Wed, 29 Nov…