From Reuters AlertNet, the International Energy Agency gets it:
Fatih Birol, of the IEA, said the gains from the tougher EU reduction target would roughly equal only two weeks of China’s emissions.
“The United States and China are essential for combating climate change globally. We estimate extending Europe’s plan to cut emissions from 20 to 30 percent would roughly equal China’s two-week gas output,” Birol said in an interview.
But wait there’s more…
“The wind is not blowing in the right direction for fighting global warming. Frankly, there are virtually no chances for the Cancun summit to end in legally binding agreement,” Birol said, adding, “I would be very happy to be proven wrong on this.”
And of course, China has already given these people “the finger”, and is building coal-fired power plants at an amazing rate, so what’s the point of COP16 again?
h/t to WUWT reader “nolene”
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dbleader61 says:
November 22, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Of course, the presence of the Monarch as the COP16 poster species clearly indicates that it might just be endangered due to global warming so I googled “monarch butterfly global warming endangered” and got a lengthy list of references to how this insect is endangered by global warming. Predictably, it was the “cooler and wetter Mexican mountain winters” and “hotter drier Canadian/northern US summers” – caused by global warming – that were doing in the Monarch. It is interesting though how the WWF and Environmental Defense Fund have to admit the Monarch is not endangered but then go on to suggest its migration phenomenon is and global warming is what is endangered.
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If the WWF, at el used some old-fashioned observation, they’d realize that the presence of the milkweed plant is a “weak link” in Monarch survival (the mountaintop forests in Mexico where they hibernate in winter is another). As “weeds” on more & more land are removed, so Monarch populations decline. Nothing to do w/temperatures at all.
PS I purposely protect & support milkweeds on my lot, and just this past Sept, there were a dozen Monarch caterpillars just on the milkweeds in front of the house. They were the last generation of the yr, & presumably headed south to Mexico right after they emerged. How they can survive traveling ~1500 miles is amazing. Most butterflies survive only a short time as adults.