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 …
I just saw EU #cop17 #climatechange negotiator, Connie Hedegaard, have temper tantrum on reviewing the latest draft text here in #durban
Twitter / @YolandiG: Standing at the entrance o …
Standing at the entrance of the minister’s meeting. Not much happiness here #COP17 #grimfaces
Twitter / @BBCRBlack: Overheard #cop17 outside c …
Overheard #cop17 outside closed room; “that is the ‘what the heck do we do now?’ meeting”
Twitter / @LangBanks: #COP17 #climate update: no …
#COP17 #climate update: no new developments other than to say there are far fewer people here now + they all keep checking their watches!
Twitter / @ClimateGroup: #COP17 question marks over …
#COP17 question marks over whether enough ministers left to provide a quorum. Things need to move faster to agree any outcome.
Thanks to Tom Nelson for collecting these
Brandon Caswell says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:46 am
“……Err… yes it is. It’s only 12 days to midwinter. *Mid*winter.”
Umm, no. Winter starts on the shortest day of the year. In the northern hemisphere that is december 21st. It last for 3 months. This is grade school atronomy.
Umm, no. Meteorological winter starts on December 1st to end of February. (Met. spring, March-May; summer, June-August; fall, September-November).
Has the realisation finally hit the politicians that the ratbags have taken over the AGW movement?
This doesn’t look promising:
@nagidapc: Though acknowledging not perfect, Japan agrees to compromise and hopes text will be adopted in its entirety #COP17
Well, like they said when a fracus broke out at the Quasimoto Look-Alike Contest, the crowd has turned ugly.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/10/us-climate-idUSTRE7B41NH20111210?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71
Connie said that they need to deliver.
How about pizzas?
crosspatch says:
December 10, 2011 at 11:08 am
“Now just who is 350.org? Apparently it’s job is to extract cash from businesses and is a spinoff or merger of 1sky:”
This is what I found:
Rockefeller’s financing of 350.org:
Rockefeller Family Foundation >> Sustainable Markets Foundation >> 350.org
>> “It’s hot in here” (Youth lunatics)
http://compleatpatriot.blogspot.com/2009/10/peer-reviewed-earth-sciences-literature.html
You go to the Rockefeller Family Foundation and enter “Sustainable Markets Foundation” in their search box. You get 126 nondescript hits; some of them just showing a postal address; others showing individual grants granted to the Sustainable Markets Foundation with designation of a purpose, like this one:
http://www.rbf.org/grant/11449/sustainable-markets-foundation-1
“GRANT DETAIL
New York, NY
United States
$100,000 for 1 year
For its Project 350.”
Good. From here we can stop using the rather slow search and directly change the URL, changing the number at the end,
for instance to
http://www.rbf.org/grant/11449/sustainable-markets-foundation-2
and so on and so on…
Let me close with the words of David Rockefeller:
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
OH – HOLY- CRAP
@LauraDzelzyte: #COP17 US is embracing the whole package and is happy to look into a new legal instrument. That is exciting amazing!
What is almost sickening to watch is how absolutely delusional some of these people are about COP17. Many of these poor folks seem to sincerely believe that the UN is capable of manipulating the world’s climate.
This better NEVER fly:
@MichaelSzaboCO2: Eu, china, india, us agree on “outcome with legal force”. #cop17
Apparently some kind of deal reached. Live webcast of the session here:
http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop17/templ/live.php?id_kongresssession=4152&theme=unfccc
Looks like confusion still reins supreme at Durban. Russian delegate basically asks “can you tell us exactly what was just agreed to?”.
Well, they’ve reached full agreement on the need to meet again sometime. “Let’s do another multi-million-dollar lunch again, say what? Have your girl call my girl.”
Not bad, considering how awful it could have been. This gives more time for the rich countries to go totally bankrupt so we won’t be able to spend any more money on anything, no matter how much our idiot rulers want it.
(I won’t say it gives more time for the ruling class in the West to wake up and see facts. That will never happen. They will die whispering their devout faith in Gaia and regretting their total failure to slow down the burning burning burning heat, as they quickly turn into a block of ice along with the rest of us.)
Sarah Rifaat, 27, 350.org – Egypt
…. “We are solidifying the global movement.”
Golly gosh,
If I ever had need to solidify one of my movements, I’d take an anti-diahorreal medicine.
Perhaps Sarah & friends should; cos it sound like they’re full of it.
crosspatch says:
December 10, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Looks like confusion still reins supreme at Durban. Russian delegate basically asks “can you tell us exactly what was just agreed to?”.
Humm, just like Obummer care, first it has to be passed, then 100,000 pages written to explain the 10,000, then 1,000 new bureaucracys formed, then, when all hell brakes loose, we will know what was passed.
They call it the scam of the century because it is and here is proof it was all concocted in 1961 http://youtu.be/SvcuylMrkXk .
Impossible. They couldn’t take over from themselves.
@ur momisugly old44 ” Has the realisation finally hit the politicians that the ratbags have taken over the AGW movement?”
These are the ratbags who have set up the AGW scam in the first place. They are just mumbling and bumbling under the pressure of greater and greater evidence that their science and predictions are unsupportable. This doesn’t stop them from still persuing financial control of governments and countries.
It will take a few honest and iintelligent politicians to speak up and be counted before this debacle becomes obvious to the people who matter. The one’s who will say “AGW organizations, get out of our country, you are scamming us!”.
Nice to know that in the two years since Copenhagen we have reached this point. Nature has done much of the work, ably assisted by the bloggers of realism. It’s not over yet. Our CO2 tax is to come in in seven months time and the government and their well paid advisors are still banging the drum.
The vote was made so these people could get home otherwise they would still be talking and their home plane would be airborne without them.
@Paul Maynard:
“But the BBC are still talking about a “breakthrough”. Apparently, failure to agree anything and then a vague plan to do something by 2015 counts as a breakthrough in warmist circles.”
From the point of view of the typical UN or EU bureaucrat that is indeed a breakthrough. Just imagine how many more meetings, frequent flyer miles and junkets in nice warm places that means. This is what their careers are built on.
I must admit, I’m on a steep learning curve in terms of all the ramifications of climate change, whether environmental or political. It’s one of those things that I have been vaguely aware of since watching Al Gore ’s behaviour-changing movie, An Inconvenient Truth , several years ago. I have made small changes to try and make the world a better place – I unplug gadgets when not in use, use energy-efficient light bulbs, go easy on printing and wish I could afford an electric car. But I’m not sure if I have grasped the full seriousness of the issue or am doing enough. My relatively small involvement in COP17/CMP7 – that is, in working with a tiny and very dedicated team in communicating what Durban is doing in preparation for the conference, and what it will be doing beyond the conference to green the city – will no doubt change all that.