When the Guardian, that champion of everything “green” says it, you know it was a failure.
Excerpt:
The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come.
After eight draft texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders, it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord “recognises” the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve that goal.
American officials spun the deal as a “meaningful agreement”, but even Obama said: “This progress is not enough.”
“We have come a long way, but we have much further to go,” he added.
The deal was brokered between China, South Africa, India, Brazil and the US, but late last night it was still unclear whether it would be adopted by all 192 countries in the full plenary session.
The agreement aims to provide $30bn in funding for poor countries to adapt to climate change from next year to 2012, and $100bn a year after 2020.
But it disappointed African and other vulnerable countries who had been holding out for far deeper emission cuts to hold the global temperature rise to 1.5C this century. As widely expected, all references to 1.5C in previous drafts were removed at the last minute, but more surprisingly, the earlier 2050 goal of reducing global CO2 emissions by 80% was also dropped.
The agreement also set up a forestry deal which is hoped would significantly reduce deforestation in return for cash. It lacked the kind of independent verification of emission reductions by developing countries that the US and others demanded.
Obama hinted that China was to blame for the lack of a substantial deal. In a press conference he condemned the insistence of some countries to look backwards to previous environmental agreements. He said developing countries should be “getting out of that mindset, and moving towards the position where everybody recognises that we all need to move together”.
Read entire story at the Guardian here
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Now compare what the Guardian has written, to what Obama says:
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My summary of the Copenhagen Climate Conference is just a bit less wordy.
I can’t believe we don’t have an iron clad planetary regime after all that fuss and bother.
They’re going to have to go the back-door route with a global goods and services tax to provide us with the Malthusian utopia we’ve been promised for so long.
The Mississippi sea should have woken us up.
It’s official.
It’s a failure.
The Copenhagen Conference did not approve the agreement reached by Obama, China, India, Brazil, & S. Africa. Instead they decided to only “take note” of the agreement.
So, with apologies to Mr. Bill Shakespeare,
Copenhagen’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was interviewed about Copenhagen on Nine Network TV tonight. The reporter actually laughed when Rudd described Copenhagen as a success.
evanmjones 22:58- a quote from The Yes Album!? Obscure but most welcome.
The tribute money can be called Copengeld
It’s like Danegeld, but it’s to help folks Copin’ with “global” “warming”. Or to line the pockets of tyrants and bureaucrats…
Haaaaallalujah! Haaaaallalujah! Hallalujah! Hallalujah! Hallaaaaaaaluujah!
Anthony … quote of the week candidate … or at least humor quote of the week. ☺☺
Derryman said, I suggest that for all their wailing we won’t see too many Greenpeace activists protesting in Tiananmen Square!
Good one …
2 things on ‘realclimate’. 1. Gary is attacking Scarfetta for not sharing his data or code – says he can’t by hook or by crook replicate his findings – However,in the comments another chap says ‘yes,I was able to reproduce the work from what was included in the paper,no problem’ ( oops,titter). 2. A link to a presentation that Scarfetta gave to the EPA. I found it interesting. I really don’t know why these people can’t see that with all this money riding on the outcome,we want to be sure AGW is based on proper (not ‘post-normal’) science?
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/vwpsw/360796B06E48EA0485257601005982A1#video
Really, that’s worth reading. Thank you very much. Here is also the link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574573723651114320.html
Beware of people like the Norwegian Minister of the Environment, Erik Solheim in the coming months
“Minister of the Environment, Erik Solheim (SV) is of the opinion that countries who wish to sabotage the climate negotiations got too much room to perform their action during the summit in Copenhagen.
– The conference exposed major weaknesses in the organization of the international climate effort. We allowed far too much so that countries that wanted to ruin the conference could use up valuable time on pure procedural questions. We must prevent this the next time, ” said Mr Solheim to VG Net”
Translated from Norwegian
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/klimatrusselen/artikkel.php?artid=581106
ATD (04:53:26) :
“FWIW: I just read that, back in the day, East Anglia was the headquarters of the Pilgrim / Puritan movement.”
And today is mostly known for – how shall we put it delicately – a long tradition of “close families”.
Alan Partridge: “Norwich is an attitude,”
Sorry, OT, but a foot and a half of snow here in western MD overnite and continuing, accumulating on power lines & trees. Electricity hasn’t gone out yet, but the strong winds won’t start until Sunday when the storm passes to the east.
Did Al Bore fly back into DC?
From the Telegraph weather report:
“Most of the snow is falling in East Anglia [plus Essex and Kent] and will continue to do so,” she said.
Nature’s revenge for Climategate?
IanM
The conference ends as a shambles and Portsmouth just beat Liverpool 2 – 0 !
My cup runneth over….
Why is it that North American television commentators pronounce East Anglia as if it were East Angola?
Because it IS. 😀
Obama: ‘This manmade global warming is a crock of poop isn’t it?’
Wen: ‘Yep.’
Obama: ‘What are we going to do?’
Wen: ‘Why don’t we just say we won’t let the Earth warm up by more than 2 degrees?’
Obama: ‘Good idea. The only ones we can trust to tell us what the temperature really is don’t believe in this fairy story either.’
Wen: ‘What about emissions?’
Obama: ‘Not bothered.’
Wen: ‘Me neither.’
“it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord “recognises” the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C”
Is it any wonder no-one takes this bunch of Cnuts seriously?
Three overriding facts:
CO2 is beneficial, not deleterious.
The sun and the stars control our climate.
The base component of climate is weather.
Use these three demonstrable facts and you can win an argument against false science every time. The term “climate change” has been hijacked by the powers that would enslave us–don’t be fooled; a changing climate is the status quo and doesn’t need “saving”.
Dave Wendt (21:11:12) : “I’d like to feel relieved, but I can’t escape the notion that these folks are a nightmare combination of Freddy Krueger, Michael from”Halloween”, Jason from “Friday the 13th”, and the “Terminator” all rolled into one. No matter how many times you think they’ve finally been stopped, they keep rising zombie like from the flaming ruins and resuming the chase.”
The Whack-a-mole game comes to mind…..
IanM
Oh how i wished AGW was real. At least a little. Here in Braunschweig, Germany, temperature this morning was -14 degrees Celsius. Which i last remember at this time of the year in about 1982 or so.
Let’s just hope that other attempts to impose world socialism are equally effective. These people are not going to go away easily- it’s what they do because they have no actual productive skills.
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The scientific evidence that this summit is based upon has now been questioned. No deal should be agreed until the true facts are agreed. No political spin, ideals or showmanship should be considered. Clean air is one thing, global warming or climate change is another. The UK government and its agencies are prime suspects in this conspiricy to fleece everyone of yet more tax for idealistic and unworkable ends.
John Wurrows, Nottingham
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The tide is turning
Obama and the rest of the warmingales seem bent on placing all the blame on skeptics. As though their lies and the reality has nothing to do with it. A good analogy might be how all prisoners are “innocent” when asked. It is frightening because it is a skewed way of viewing the world and allows one to shirk the responsibility that one has to accept. Admit that you were wrong and we can move forward. Blame everyone else for your woes and we remain where we stand. Sadly, it seems that we have come no further than Galilean times.
Politicians-governments were set to make trillions of dollars with so called carbon tax and carbonfootprint control,climate worries no, money worries yes.
News media-scare tactics and sensationalism feeding hysteria , news channels have become tv shows more interested in viewer ratings than news.When will journalists become journalists again.
Enviromental groups-socialist anticapitalists not interested in climate just manipulation and social control.Weve forgotton what saving the planet is really about.CO2 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
A win for the little guy? .Will common sense take control again.Hope so.
geronimo (01:03:48) :
realclimate are alive and well and have published an article by a guy from Oxford University that is critical of realclimate. What’s going on?
It is alive. But it is not well, not well at all. And it’s getting worse for them.
What’s going on? You shouldn’t expect too much from Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann. They are not as smart as people think a scientist should be. Don’t look for a deep answer. Lower your expectations and things will begin to make sense.
Mike McMillan (01:33:20) :
Gerard (20:53:48) :
King Canute (Obama) eloquently telling the sun not to make the 2 degrees warmer – a snowballs chance in hell!
That’s 2 °C saved or created by the Obama Administration.
Yes, that’s what their own ‘Baghdad Bob’, Robert Gibbs, would claim.
http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/1108/BaghdadBobImage34.jpg