Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The proposed draft UN climate agreement is reported to have ballooned to 100 pages, from the 38 page draft discussed at the Lima holiday conference.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald;
“… It’s like 195 authors trying to write a book together,” said Ahmed Sareer of the Maldives, chair of the 44-nation Alliance of Small Island States, which added text including stress on a need for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
“It’s to be expected,” Elina Bardram, head of the European Commission delegation, said of the additions.
The European Union added text, for instance, outlining proposals for cutting emissions from aviation and shipping under a global deal to avert more heatwaves, floods and droughts. The United Nations says 2014 was the warmest year on record.
The new text, of about 100 pages, swells a draft of 38 pages from talks in Lima last year, complicating the task ahead of a Paris summit starting in November that is due to agree a UN deal to limit global warming.
Given the fact that countries are free to write their own terms, including joke effort’s like China’s agreement to do nothing until the 2030s, in return for America agreeing to commit economic suicide, the greatest contribution to CO2 reduction Paris is likely to produce, will be the sequestration in some dusty filing cabinet, of all the carbon copies, of what promises to be the longest climate agreement ever written.
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misery.
13 Feb: Swissinfo: John Heilprin: Geneva negotiators prepare road to climate pact in Paris
For the Swiss, who have hosted the week-long Geneva negotiations, the 86-page draft text posted Friday could be seen as a hopeful though somewhat muted sign of a breakthrough – or at least a thaw – in the glacially-paced UN climate talks…
“My assessment of the Geneva outcome is mixed. First, we are glad that the meeting in Geneva succeeded to achieve the minimum that was necessary: to agree on a common negotiation text, the so-called Geneva text,” Perrez told swissinfo.ch on Friday…
“However, on the other hand, we would have liked to advance the work here in Geneva more, to have a text that is not only reflecting all the different views, but a text that is also reflecting the emergence of a consensus. This is not yet achieved, there is therefore still a lot of work to be done up to Paris.”…
Another key issue is how to pay for cutbacks, preparations and adaptations for climate change. Many of the developing nations, which argue their inhabitants are the least responsible for creating the problem of an overheating planet, want rich countries to help them grow using cleaner industries. Rich countries have previously pledged to give poorer nations $100 billion (CHF93 billion) in annual climate aid by 2020…
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/geneva-negotiators-prepare-road-to-climate-pact-in-paris/41272114
PDF: 86 pages: Negotiating text
Advance unedited version
12 February 2015
http://unfccc.int/files/bodies/awg/application/pdf/negotiating_text_12022015@2200.pdf
13 Feb: BBC: UN agrees negotiating text for Paris climate summit
“I am extremely encouraged by the constructive spirit and the speed at which negotiators have worked during the past week,” said Christiana Figueres…
“We now have a formal negotiating text, which contains the views and concerns of all countries. The Lima Draft has now been transformed into the negotiating text and enjoys the full ownership of all countries,” she added…
***Three special sessions have been added to this year’s schedule of climate meetings. They include talks about “intended nationally determined contributions”, the commitments to reduce emissions that are meant to pave the way towards a low-carbon future…
The World Meteorological Organization confirmed this month that 2014 had been the hottest year on record, part of a continuing trend. Fourteen out of the 15 hottest years have been this century…
The next meeting will be held in Bonn in June.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31456369
Reuters has less spin than BBC, apart from Figueres’ contribution:
13 Feb: Reuters: Alister Doyle: Governments face test of green promises amid low oil prices
“The very safe assumption that every country can make about oil prices is that they will continue to be volatile,” Christiana Figueres, the U.N.’s climate chief, told Reuters.
By contrast, solar or wind farms, once built, “have a clear and predictable price of zero dollars”, she said.
“Slowly but surely that is being understood.”…
A test will come when governments outline national plans for combating climate change beyond 2020 as part of the Paris deal. ***They have set an informal deadline of March 31 to submit plans, but many are likely to be late…
Low oil prices make renewables seem relatively more costly “but it’s not only about that. We need to reinvent what are stagnant economies,” said Elina Bardram, head of the European Commission delegation…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/13/us-climatechange-energy-idUKKBN0LH19U20150213
I am trying to imagine how the AGW/green scam/IPCC/warmist propaganda irrational tangled mess is going to change in response to abrupt, Dansgaard-Oeschger cooling. Rhetoric, propaganda, name calling and so on does not change the physics of what is currently happening to the sun. The planet will cool and it will cool abruptly.
Meanwhile back in the twilight zone, this madness continues to play out. The warmists are now appealing to luck as the reason why their incorrect general circulation models predicted warming and there is no warming. How will the warmists spin significant in your face global cooling. Bad luck? Ignore the cooling, hope warming will return?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/30/excuse-64-for-the-pause-in-global-warming-its-pure-luck/
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-global-slowdown-systematic-errors-climate.html#ajTabs
This is an interesting article that discusses why green scams do not work. I am curious when the light bulb moment will occur and the politicians will stop back scams that do not work. It is a fact that green scams do not work for fundamental engineering and economic reasons.
http://notrickszone.com/2015/02/04/germanys-energiewende-leading-to-suicide-by-cannibalism-huge-oversupply-risks-destabilization/#sthash.8tE9YRDj.o78pt3X2.dpbs
Who knew solar panels and wind mills grew wild like weeds, just free for us to pick and use as we need. Free energy for everyone. Yey! Ok she did [say], “once built” but that doesn’t it free does it. To keep the energy “free” either the UN has a global fleet of volunteers who work to maintain these installations for no wage or are bringing back slavery. Also spare parts and such will be handled by donation drives at local supermarkets.
Figueres apparently does not understand a very large part of energy cost is collecting and distributing energy reliably. Yes the sun is free in helping your garden grow tomatoes, but is far from free if you need to provide dependable energy to a populace. Please explain how such an idiot can have a job more complicated than sharpening pencils.
Connections and only connections.
Let’s start with people who denigrate individual dignity (e.g. diversity) and debase human life (e.g. pro-choice). We already sequester the carbon of several million unwanted, wholly innocent human lives annually. Not only should the proponents of global warming lead in any carbon sequestration scheme, but there is a predictable overlap between them and pro-abortion service providers, consumers, and supporters. With the sequestration of pro-abortion clumps of carbon, we not only stop an unprecedented genocide, but also restore integrity to science. Well, not quite, but there will be observable, reproducible positive progress.
In case you thought that accusing the UN climate change apparatus of having a hidden agenda to destroy capitalism, was just right-wing reactionary hysteria, here we have their leader, Christiana Figueres, openly and frankly admitting this fact:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/021015-738779-climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism.htm
The only mistake was to think of it as a “hidden” agenda. It’s not even hidden anymore.