By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2014/cop20/eng/inf02.pdf
What do the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, World Association of Girl Guides, the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Maryknoll Sisters of Dominic, Women in Europe for a Common Future and the University of East Anglia have in common? They’ve all just come back from a beano in Peru!
Along, that is, with 1342 other organisations.
The UK Government sent 36 delegates, while British universities managed 32 more. Even the Buddhists managed to send 10, including their Weather Risk Specialist, Mr Ming Peng.
Greenpeace, WWF, Christian Aid, FOE and Oxfam together despatched 148 people. Has nobody told them about duplication of effort? Are those who donate to such charities really happy to see their money lavished on nonsense like this?
Even the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (!) thought it worth sending 7 delegates. I thought they were not bothered about earthly affairs!
The list goes on. (Well I expect you guessed that already!).
Wait for it – the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation sent their Chair, yes, Bianca, along with her research assistant.
As well as sending journalists, the BBC also sent 2 staff from BBC Media Action, described as the BBC’s international development charity. (More on them later).
At a conservative estimate of £5000 per head, the cost of participating must have been in the region of £50 million. Heaven knows what the carbon footprint was.
Well, I suppose it’s better than working. See you all in Paris next year!
Afghanistan sent three people. Don’t they have other more urgent concerns?
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru – several people. So the Pope is being kept informed, hence his recent insensate outburst of eco-inanity, instead of Christianity http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/29/pope-francis-to-catholics-its-time-to-take-action-on-global-warming/
Catholic Fund for Overseas (Arrested) Development – greenshirts don’t want third world development.
Three from the Holy See
“Afghanistan sent three people. Don’t they have other more urgent concerns?”
Of course. Getting on board ferries in the mediterranean as stowaways and lighting fires to keep warm.
“Women in Europe for a Common Future.” WTF???
Funded by taxpayers as usual. Lots of cash from the EU, government departments in France, Germany and Netherlands, and receives UN cash as well. Not the biggest NGO but add all these together and it mounts up.
I think we have a solution, Lobby the UN to schedule the next 3 or 4 conferences based on minimising the carbon footprint for the attendees. we would probably then end up with the conference held in a airport hotel (within walking distance of the terminal) next to some domestic hub airport in the middle of the US. Also make sure that there is no methane producing meat on the menu and that all of the produce is sourced locally to minimise the footprint. In particular ensure that there is no imported wine or spirits served.
Watch the attendance plummet and watch the enthusiasm of the green movement dissipate once the gravy train is cut out.
“Lobby the UN to schedule the next 3 or 4 conferences based on minimising the carbon footprint for the attendees…….”
Exactly. There should be a conference to figure out how to the minimize the carbon footprint of all these green and leftist organizations who keep meeting and holding conferences around the world for the purpose of figuring out how to minimize the carbon footprint of humanity. You know, first things first.
Or just forget the whole thing and have everybody stay home. /sarc
…..IOW, a Conference of Parties to assess the carbon footprint of the Conference of Parties…..
…or should I say a Secondary Conference of Parties to assess the carbon footprint of the Primary Conference of Parties who are assessing the carbon footprint…….oh, never mind. /sarc
“‘Women in Europe for a Common Future.’ WTF???”
If you look at the history of this group, they were founded a short time after the Soviet Union fell apart, and after the USSR’s extensive covert funding to European leftist groups ceased to flow.
Thousands of people formerly on the payroll of Moscow Centre suddenly were forced to find themselves a new gig.
Absolutely classic environmentalist “watermelons”, in other words. Green on the outside, red on the inside.
Thanks Chris, I think I will suggest to them that they spell “women” “wimmin” so the rest of us get a clearer picture of who they are.
The problem is that, whatever one’s view on cAGW may happen to be. it is clear that all these meetings are a complete and utter waste of time since China, at Rio in 2014, said that it was not even going to consider its position before 2020, and the latest rhetoric coming out from China is that it MAY start to curb its emissions around 2030.
Without China on board, since it is now the largest CO2 emittter, nothing can be achieved. Other developing countries such as India are also not interested in curbing emissions and wish to pursue policies that would help lift their people out of abject poverty.
Accordingly, there is no point in any meetings prior to 2020, at the very earliest. Any sensible person, whatever their views on cAGW may be, would recognise this as a fact.
Of course, by 2020, the cAGW scenario may be in complete tatters since if the ‘pause’ (and I consider that name to be as good as any since we do not know what the future will bring), all the models will be outside their 95% confidence band, and there will be an ever growing plethora of papers suggesting a climate sensitivity below 2, probably below 1.7. That will make life very difficult in 2020 for those selling the idea of drastic and immediate action. The ‘settled’ science position will become ever increasingly difficult to sell and maintain.
If one can add to that scenario, Antarctic ice at record observable highs, and a slow recovery to Arctic ice, it will be difficult to sell the need for any urgent and/or drastic action to be taken to curb CO2 emissions. This is especially so since everyone knows that these summits are a complete farce since everyone knows that China and India will take no action, before they are ready to do so, which would impede their economic development.
Quite frankly nothing is achievable in such a diverse world with each country having different prorities. For once, the selfishness of man, may be man’s best friend.
What would we do without the regularly scheduled Conference of Climate Partiers?
In 2015, let us give all our support to Senator James Inhofe … our one and only hope of finally bringing a halt to the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism, which is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity.
With such a big show coming to town it is a dead cert there will be massive transport strikes. My advice would be to stay well clear.
And the religion of “CO2 drives the climate” rolls on and on and on…….
Awfully glad that the International Potato Centre sent three people.
There is no climate change on Tchouri, hence we can look for the origin of life on it, according to Ségolène Royal, Ministry of ecology, durable development and energy.
Paul. Don’t be too amused at the list of organizations. What percentage of the world are members or donors of these organizations? These people have been put on the world stage and they will be zealous pushers of the dogma when they get back home. Probably they will get funding for the evangelism that will follow. This is how it works. This is a deliberate plan. They realize the science idea has run into roadblocks and co-opting world organizations is their ultimate plan. Socialist elites are experts at this, having co-opted governments, universities, associations, agencies, Nobel committee …. of the scientific establishment (using cold hard cash and celebrity status of the players to lock them in) plus planned education curricula for children. They patiently lay this groundwork over many decades.
Despite the scary percentage of the doctrinally ‘educated’ population that are useful fools, thankfully, the inertia of the rest of the system eventually wears on their patience and they blow it with ideological revelations, hysteria, threats and then have to collapse back into the woodwork until a new generation is ripe for this stuff. They will soon be retreating into the woodwork. We need to create sources of more objective education and get it into the system. We need to teach logic and ethics, hard science, reclaim the social sciences. We need to teach case histories of how this social virus operates. We need to teach children to think for themselves, to question, to verify….
In 1945 the accalimed Fabian socialist pervert Bertrand Russell suggested a pre-emptive depopulation of the USSR with nuclear weapons; so; if they have degenerated to simple parasitic slime that’s a boon for humanity.
Lima is far away from the University of Lapland, but never mind.
UN has listed 1348 interested parties with 11 185 participants in total, including observers and media.
Nearly 188 (14%) parties represent governmental organizations with 6291 participants (56%) in total. These include for example, over 100 EU public civil servants and climate experts such as the second driver of the Embassy of Finland. The good news are that normally each governmental party has a vote in these type of UN events and the others observe.
Thanks, Paul.
These organizations have more in common than tourism preferences; They all think they can perpetrate the AGW scam.
You cant miss an event with 186 parties in 12 days. (Er… I know this one is getting stale.)
I suspect that many of the the small and off-topic organizations that attended did not do so out of any great interest in AGW themselves. I suspect they were offered an all-expenses-paid deal by various warmist foundations and other entities. Why? I suspect the warmists’ intent was to raise their consciounesses on the issue and get them to speak up on behalf of “action now.”
Doesn’t that make sense?
May I recommend signing on to follow Paul Homewood’s blog. His evidence based exposure of the climate fraudsters is relentless.
As Polar Bears are thriving perhaps some could be spared to make up a delegation for the Paris Gig? The menu would be Canapes for the other delegates and ‘other delegates’ for the Polar Bears.
Why not French bears?
We have some in the Pyrénées.
Ooh, you are naughty! 😉
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The 9th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway, with the title: Climate and Energy, from Sunday 18 January to Friday 23 January 2015.
2015 4th International Conference on Climate Change and Humanity (ICCCH 2015) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan during January 24-25, 2015.
CLIMATE WORLD 2015 March 3-6, 2015 Expocentre Moscow (Krasnaya Presnya)
Moscow, Russian Federation
2015 Conference Registration and One-Year Membership to the Climate Change Knowledge Community UBC Robson Square Vancouver, British Columbia
10-11 April 2015
Climate Change Symposium – Adaptation and Mitigation 2015 3–5 May 2015
Chicago, United States
Climate Change Technology Conference 2015 Monday May 25th, 2015 – Wednesday May 27th, 2015 Montreal, Quebec
3rd Annual International Conference on Ecology, Ecosystems and Climate Change, 13-16 July 2015, Athens, Greece
World Engineers Summit on Climate Change 2015 Conference 21st to 24th July 2015
Singapore
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