Eric Worrall writes:
Reuters reports that the upcoming COP21 Paris climate conference, widely hyped by greens and politicians to be the conference which will achieve the great international climate breakthrough, is already in trouble – that the USA is one of the few countries which could be bothered to submit their climate action plan homework by the agreed deadline.
According to Reuters;
“… emitters such as China, India, Russia, Brazil, Canada and Australia say they are waiting until closer to a Paris summit in December, meant to agree a global deal.
“It’s not the ideal situation,” said Niklas Hoehne, founding partner of the New Climate Institute in Germany which tracks submissions, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs).
In 2013, the United Nations invited INDCs by March 31, 2015, from governments “ready to do so” – the early, informal deadline was meant to give time to compare pledges and toughen weak ones.
Late submissions complicate the Paris summit because it will be far harder to judge late INDCs.
“The earlier the better,” said Jake Schmidt, of the U.S. National Resources Defense Council. “It allows people to look at each others’ targets and judge whether or not they pass muster.”
The White House official noted that both the United States and China already outlined plans last year, saying: “That adds up to a fantastic running start.”
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/03/29/climatechange-emissions-idINKBN0MP0D020150329
The lack of enthusiasm by major CO2 emitters strongly suggests that the Paris meeting will simply be a dreary repeat of the pointless Lima circus – but then, we already knew that, didn’t we?
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What China agreed to do is to continue increasing CO2 emissions unabated until 2030. They supposedly won’t increase emission beyond the 2030 peak, but then the agreement ends in 2030, so are they really committing to do anything at all? If that adds up to a fantastic running start, I have to wonder what it would take to disappoint them.
The US plan will be submitted tomorrow. So far European Union, Mexico, Switzerland and Norway have submitted. With the US that makes a fair percentage of the world economy.
As the story goes, the reasons for deadlines are so the newspapers know when to schedule a report.
What did anyone expect with a mundane venue like Paris?
Bubba Cow
March 30, 2015 at 5:47 am
@Non Nomen –
you’re right, of course
a camera and a microphone are much trickier than computer models
When compared to the computer models the climate scientists produce you are totally right. They do not even model the natural parts of the main variable CO2 they are that simple.
In 2009 left radicals in Strasbourg tried to save the world by burning a hotel, customs office and pharmacy in an impoverished area. Some of the videos are not suitable for family audience, but you’ll get the idea:
Judging from the last election result, the reception is perhaps a bit calmer this time. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32114520.
https://www.upr.fr/
let hope that our next president will be François Asselineau
strange that nobody talks about him ??
François who? Never heard of him. Perhaps because French media preferred Olivier Besancenot last decade.
ASSELINEAU
for the moment, they prefer FN Marine Le pen – besacenot is a communist –
Oh man, he seems to have impressed you somehow.
yes he has – it is high time to get rid of sarkozy, hollande (hollandouille – bad joke) and so on
https://www.upr.fr/programme-politique
Anyone for a lottery on how deep the snow will be during the conference?
I would put in a wager on 6″\152mm. Anyone want to go for broke say 12″/300mm?
Well, the liklyhood of snow in Paris, even in (early December) is very small. Average temp is around 5-6 deg C – with a confidence level of +- 2 deg C (on average). But it would be fun …. like it was in Copehagen. But Copenhagen is more north compared to Paris.
we had no snow at all this year –