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.
Next time they should have the conference in France on the Mediterranean:
“…the beach covered by snow in Nice, southeastern France, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009.”
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//091219/481/603d554f4c774822bd1a36f32ae5c907/
“John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: “The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport.”
Lydia Baker of Save the Children said world leaders had “effectively signed a death warrant for many of the world’s poorest children. Up to 250,000 children from poor communities could die before the next major meeting in Mexico at the end of next year.””
This stuff is pure gold. Their writers must be geniuses.
By all means, line up the “guilty parties” before an eco-nazi firing squad, for murdering 250,000 children. Yes, that’s the ticket.
Actually, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Where they turn their quivering, enraged accusatory finger at us, the skeptics. Oh, how they would love to line us up!
Having temprarily got rid of this warming fraud, we must focus now upon permanently getting rid of the UN.
Copenhagen: the sweet sound of exploding watermelons
James Delingpole
I take it all back. Copenhagen was worth it, after all.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020337/copenhagen-the-sweet-sound-of-exploding-watermelons/
The green movement will consider anything but the absolute destruction of mankind to be a “failure” in some respect. I’m ashamed to admit I once counted myself among their numbers.
Man, is it ever snowing in Washington, DC…. snigger.
Obama walks on stage to do his famous pull the rabbit out of his hat trick. He takes his hat off puts it on the table reaches in and finds out he has packed the wrong hat, This one does not have the top that flips open. Meanwhile the rabbit who is very, very bored gets out from the bottom of its cage in the table with the trap door on top and hops away into the distance. Obama declares it a success since he managed to take his hat off.
It appears Obama wasn’t the only one worried about the blizzard back home. So was the Saudi Arabian delegation. Wonder if they sell parkas and snow boots in downtown Riyadh?
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/508585-king-sends-aid-to-snow-hit-saudi-arabians?ln=en
The next time anyone tells you the science is settled and the debate is over, here’s proof that the debate rages among the science-based professionals themselves. Below is a link to the letters forum in the latest edition of The PEGG, the monthly journal of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geophysicists and Geologists of Alberta.
http://www.apegga.org/Members/Publications/peggs/Web12-09/Readers-Forum.html
Copenhagen has failed. The UN has failed to address the most important crisis in human history. This is now the time for sanctions, boycotts and embargoes. A new alliance is needed. An alliance of hope and peace and justice must be built to oppose the axis of pollution, extinction and self destruction.
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/12/beyond-copenhagen.html
Ok, now it’s time to buckle up for Mexico in 6 months time – we need to cancel this so no further works is made on this crap.
Where is the link for the lady politician who wanted to ban carbon, anyone?
Seems that Mother Nature has been playing “Whack A Mole” with most of the delegates!
This report just in from Hound News (the liberal dog side of Fox News). The following conversation was heard throughout the conference hall in several different languages Friday night: “Mr. Chairman, we should come to a binding agre…(ring, ring RING, RING RING RING) xcuse me, (yes…what!?! You don’t say, how deep? More on the way??? Get me a plane ticket!)…ement. We need money to pay for all this sno…er…global warming that has been com…er…foisted on us! But let’s talk later. Gotta run. My camel is waiting.”
Just thought of something. If this stuff actually goes through, the UK, along with the other signers of the noted agreement to look good, will have to come up with a new University that figures out a new formula to cause the temperature to drop 2 C! And then we will have to take them to task for lowering the temperature to suit their political agenda!
Unwise to crow, Anthony (re your Simpsons cartoon). We didn’t win in Copenhagen. Our arguments were just not presented. The warmists will now regroup and another agreement will be reached in 2010.
If God were actually on our side they’d all be holed up in Copenhagen by the weather for three months, learning to look out of the window occasionally. (Would the Danish prostitutes extend their offers in that case? We’ll never know).
Don’t worry Mr Johnson. I’m just biding my time……
[quote]DR (21:10:50) :
Who cares about Copenhagen when there is the EPA![/quote]
The EPA is certainly the greatest threat to the US. It’s going to take them quite a while to get this one through the challenges. Let us hope that industries that fight this battle go in well equipped.
I’d love to see the warmists try to prove their case in court if we get a fair judge, but on that issue, don’t ever let anyone tell you that it does not matter who is POTUS. Our country has been transformed by activist judges and they are proliferatiing like dandelions in spring.
that is Bonn, Germany in 6 months, Mexico in a years time
The current chaos in the AGW movement resulting from Copenhagen allows for a window for progression toward more open science and independent thought.
The need now is a fundamental philosophy that supports open science and independent thought. We have just seen the kind philosophy that causes the failure that is based on government influence/control of science and the lack of independence/integrity of most media.
Ultimately, it is the battle for a certain system philosophical. Systems that support a rational, scientific and open structure are needed.
The philosophical approach is hard, but of such things are cultures made of.
Brian (08:27:46) :
The green movement will consider anything but the absolute destruction of mankind to be a “failure” in some respect. I’m ashamed to admit I once counted myself among their numbers.
There are real conservationists out there and their aim is not to punish mankind for it’s existence. We need to care for our inheritance because it should remind us that we are a part of this magnificent planet.
There is no moral imperative for us to preserve anything, but would we be happy in a world devoid of a link to our own development?
The environmentalists are not intersted in science much less biology. They are full of hatred for what must be the most unlikely outcome of evolution. The universe looking at it’s self through man.
Deadman
That was funny
The victorious Generals: Anthony Watts (Wattsupwiththat) and Steve McIntyre (Climate Audit)
Never forget that the political class (bureaucrats) pushing for carbon exchanges and massive transfers of wealth are the same that slowly and surely pushed Europe into the EU. Their backers are those who will benefit financially from the AGW market (Golden Slacks, GE, Hedge Funds, and all manner of bureaucracy and NGO) They don’t take no for an answer, and with each summit and conference, they take a tiny bit more power and money. They are like the undead, and just when you think you’re done with them, they come back at you from another angle. This whole thing is about money, which means that there is infinite incentive for those who wish to profit. Beware.
Friends:
In a presentation I gave at York University in October I said;
“The desires of developing and developed countries for the Treaty are directly opposed and the negotiations are deadlocked. But something will come out of No-Hope-in-Hagen because it has to. That is the nature of politics.”
So, what did come out of the Conference?
Meaningless words, nothing but meaningless words.
Developed countries will provide to developing countries up to $30 billion for 2010-12, with the intention of increasing this to $100 billion by 2020. This will be “scaled up, new and additional, predictable and adequate funding” to developing countries via a “Copenhagen Green Fund” with a “Technology Mechanism” to “accelerate technology development and transfer” to developing countries.
Simply, nothing on climate except meaningless words but a completion of the Gleneagles Agreement for Third World Aid that was decided a year ago. And that agreement is meaningless words, too.
So, what do I conclude from that? Take hope, the end is nigh (for AGW) !!
AGW is dead. Its corpse will rot and the smell of it will pervade the world when CoP16 meets in Mexico.
But something else (‘ocean acidification’?) will take the place of AGW and we need to be ready to fight that coming monster.
For now we can rejoice that the giant of AGW has been slain while we enjoy the Festive Season.
Seasons Greetings.
Richard
From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen:
http://sppiblog.org/news/parturient-montes-nascetur-ridiculus-mus#more-314
Great news. In the coming years, temperatures will continue to dive, harsher winters will expand, so will glaciers. More scientists will shift camps and more climategate scandals will unravel. This minor treaty will plateau in a few years, than be shredded.
I wonder what the next environmental catastrophe is supposed to be?