As the Paris Climate Talk aka COP21 approaches, we get this familiar cry from The Vatican:
They say it is the ‘last effective opportunity’ to keep global warming to ‘a limit safe for humanity’.
Gosh.
How many times have we heard “last chance for climate” before? I’ve lost count.
Bonn 2001
A Global Warming Treaty’s Last Chance. That teetering edifice that is the Kyoto Protocol gets some emergency repair work this week as delegates from 180 countries gather in Bonn to work out problems that threaten to scuttle the deal altogether.
Montreal 2005
In an open letter to delegates at the Montreal environmental summit, beginning today, campaigner Mark Lynas explains why action on climate change can no longer be stalled.
“I’m scared. For 15 years I’ve watched international progress on climate change get slower and slower, even while the pace of global warming seems to get ever more rapid. With time running out for the global climate, your meeting in Montreal represents a last chance for action.”
Bali 2007
World leaders will converge on Bali today for the start of negotiations which experts say could be the last chance to save the Earth from catastrophic climate change. Bali could be the last chance to avoid the worst effect of global warming, said Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth.
The New Zealand Herald, 3 Dec 2007
Poznan Poland, 2008
The world will “suicide” if it cannot strike a strong climate pact soon, Australian environmental scientist Tim Flannery has warned. Professor Flannery, who is attending a UN climate summit in Poland, expressed dismay at the slow progress.
“Resistance is a suicidal tactic,” the former Australian of the year, scientist and author told reporters in Poland. “This round of negotiations is likely to be our last chance as a species to deal with the problem.”
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Humanity is approaching the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to WWF’s analysis of the latest climate science.The warning comes during UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland.
“Governments in Poznan must agree to peak and decline global emissions well before 2020 to give people reasonable hope that global warming can still be kept within limits that prevent the worst,” said Kim Carstensen, leader of WWF’s global climate initiative.
WWF, “Poznan provides last chance to curb climate change” 5 Dec 2008
Copenhagen 2009 (the real last chance, we really mean it this time!)
The world faces a final opportunity to agree an adequate global response to climate change at a U.N.-led meeting in Copenhagen in December, the European Union’s environment chief said on Friday.
It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created. This makes Copenhagen the world’s last chance to stop climate change before it passes the point of no return, European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told a climate conference in Budapest on Friday.
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Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, has warned of “catastrophic consequences” unless a new international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions is reached.
Climate change is “simply the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family”, Mr Ban said in a speech on Monday in Seoul. He urged international leaders to reach a deal to limit their countries’ carbon emissions at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
“No one said the road to Copenhagen would be easy. But the agreement we all hope to reach in Copenhagen next year represents the last chance to bring climate change under control before it is too late. There is progress, but we need to step up the pace. With resolve, cooperation and imagination, we can conclude an agreement at the end of next year, delivering the ambitious global action that is needed.”
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The Copenhagen summit is the world’s last chance to save the planet from “catastrophic” global warming, according to a major study led by Lord Stern of Brentford, the country’s leading authority on climate change.
Without an international agreement to limit global warming, temperatures are likely to rise by 9F (5C) by the end of the century – triggering mass migration, warfare and world hunger, according to the report.
Cancun 2010
A sense of foreboding is one of the few points of general agreement among the 15,000 participants congregating for the next two weeks on this long thin strip of land, marooned between a wide lagoon and the Caribbean Sea. Jairem Ramesh, the Indian environment minister, sees it as the “last chance” for climate change talks to succeed; Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s climate chief, believes a disappointing outcome would “put the whole process in danger”.
The Telegraph (UK), 29 Nov 2010
Durban 2011
Rev. Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit, who leads the World Council of Churches, says the upcoming climate conference in South Africa is mankind’s ‘last opportunity’ to address climate change. This week the World Council of Churches general secretary, Reverend Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, called the United Nations UNFCCC COP 17 meeting a “last opportunity for the international community to be responsible in addressing climate change”, and called on the meeting to “act now for climate justice.”
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Durban climate change meeting is “the last chance”. Attended by over 200 countries, this week’s major UN conference has been described by many experts as humanity’s last chance to avert the disastrous effects of climate change.
Together with around 20 000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, Ferrial Adam, the climate change and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Africa, will be attending the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which gets under way in Durban in the next two weeks, towards negotiating a new climate regime.
Doha 2012
Tomorrow: the earth’s last chance with climate change? Tomorrow, the whole world talks about irreversible global warming as this year’s international climate change summit begins. Participating are 195 countries (almost all of the United Nations).
There are two concurrent meetings: the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; and the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They will take place from Monday, November 26, 2012 to Friday, December 7, 2012 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar.
Warsaw 2013
Is the Warsaw Climate Change Conference a last-chance summit? The Warsaw Climate Change Conference opened on Monday 11th November. After the 2012 failure of Doha, this summit could represent a turning point in the fight against global warming.
“Global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak this decade, and get to zero net emissions by the second half of this century,” announced Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC in a press release dated 8th November. “We have the money and technology, the knowledge and the new economic models to get the job done in time,” she confirmed before describing the next two years as “a critical period to act faster on climate.”
Sustainable Mobility, 14 Nov 2013
Lima 2014
Last chance: Change needed for climate negotiations in Lima 2014. WWF issued the following statement today from Samantha Smith, Leader of WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative, as the UN climate talks drew to a conclusion:
“A repeat performance next year would be disastrous, not just for the progress of these negotiations, but more importantly for vulnerable communities everywhere and the natural world on which we all depend…By the time we get to next year’s meeting in Lima, we urgently need to have political will, real commitments, and a clear path to a comprehensive and fair agreement in Paris 2015, where a new global agreement on climate change has to be signed.”
Paris 2015
Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris. The key element is the goal to limit global warming to below 2C by moving to zero carbon emissions by 2050. The UN meeting in December is “the last chance” to avert dangerous climate change, according to the Earth League.
If Paris doesn’t work out, I’m sure there will be another “last chance” coming to a destination city very soon.
h/t to Bishop Hill and to the website climatechangepredictions.org who rounded up this list.
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I remember back in the 1990s hearing that we had already reached a tipping point. The Northern Tundra was now melting and would release greenhouse gasses that would cause runaway global warming. 20 years later, we still have yet another last chance.
Well, it is the Last Chance, until the next time!
It’s the Lastest Chance
Well I sure hope so.
It’s about time put a stop to these ridiculous junkets over nothing.
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Eleven times we missed the “Last Chance”, life still goes on, and warmists wonder why they’re not taken seriously?
Wow, Gaia is sure giving us a lot of second chances !!! LOL
I guess it’s a ‘fat chance’ that we won’t have to hear anymore about the ‘last chance’.
Yes, but has anybody with any credibility ever said it is the last chance?
That’s not possible since they have no credibility.
I missed the boat when I became an IT nerd instead of a climate scientist. Who knew there would be so many travel opportunities in that field?
Gore’s we have ten years to stop global warming was from a presentation by James Hansen claiming after 2015 it would be too late.
“Last Chance”, as everything in climate science, is always subject to adjustment.
Paris (cop21) may be the “last effective opportunity” to negotiate arrangements – See more at: http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/paris-last-chance#sthash.swbi1YQV.dpuf
Coming from from The Vatican, I took it as Political Spin Speech, meaning – “This will be our last chance to force policy before the weather changes to the cold cycle and no amount of adjustments will hide that fact.”
I sense a tipping point coming when the MSM decides it can sell more news by “outing” failed Climate Change hysteria for what it really is.
YES! When it starts to bleed, it starts to lead, only a matter of time.
That’s when the climate pseudo-scientists will find the downside of selling your integrity for prestige and profit. The political class will claim they were deluded by these scientists and the ‘scientists’ will be thrown to the media for chastising and perhaps to the law for investigation for fraud. And of course, in line with modern practices, they will have to be ‘punished’.
Then the ‘scientists’ might realise they were just being used, like everyone else in politics.
Should be interesting.
are you kidding??? This is WWAAAAYYYYY too profitable for the political class to do anything but give the scientists their next cue. Sooner than later we will be fighting the next ice age. And the only solution will be to give all our money to the same people we’re giving it to now to fight the warming.
Yeah, Cancun was a really major last chance. Up until the weather turned unseasonably cool and rainy, and all of the important people hopped back in their private jets and went home early, leaving the second-rank assistants to sit around and do nothing important…
You think this might be the planet’s way of telling them something?
If you have been a “Climate Scientist” since 2001 , It looks as if you will have undertaken a really nice world tour of exotic places. Nice perk for the saviours of the world.
When I first heard that term “climate justice” I knew what it was all about; MONEY
This is THEIR last chance, surely? Anyone with a brain and access to the internet is either rolling in the aisles at their antics, or rolling their eyes. Something’s gotta give, soon.
And if the last chance of Paris (COP21) falls flat, there’s always COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco, in November 2016 … the gullible have such short attention spans.
That’s because they’re already on the Marrakech Express.
What an utter waste of money. The only beneficiaries of the COP21 meeting are Parisian businesses.
Where all future COPS should be held: Last Chance Saloon
How does that saying go….”Better to keep quiet and only be thought of as a fool rather than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
Have to admit I have foolishly opened my own mouth at times.
The following is a quote by Fred Thompson, particularly appropriate with his passing today.
“Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.”
Fred was a frequent voice of reason in a city filled with unreasonable people.
Always the “Last Chance”. But then there are “Last Chance” saloons all over the continent. Maybe no one remembers it was their last chance after downing a few. I am sure the wine consumption at COP21 with be prodigious.
On the other hand, I just read a bit of the “Draft” agreement for COP21. Although it contains some very scary items about paying damages by countries that don’t comply with damages to be assessed by an “International Climate Tribunal”, they damages are to be based on “human caused climate change”.
So – “Human Caused Climate Change”. First, show me how you would quantify the human portion. Second, show me that it is a negative affect and not a positive effect. Someone point me to papers that quantify the human effect and demonstrate that the benefits don’t outweigh the costs.
If you can’t do that, how can you possibly assess damages? Well, I suppose if you are a Troika (connotative inference intended).
http://www.cfact.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/UNFCCC-Draft-agreement-10-23-15.pdf?utm_source=CFACT+Updates&utm_campaign=8400b0966d-judicial_UN_Tribunal_of_Climate_Justice_10_29_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a28eaedb56-8400b0966d-269656441
“Someone point me to papers that quantify the human effect and demonstrate that the benefits don’t outweigh the costs.”
Easy peasy. Just give me a big swag of grant money and I will fudge some up quick smart. Really, I thought it was obvious. One hundred billion in government money can’t possibly be wrong.
Edit for readability: by countries that don’t comply; with
Is there a full delegate list for COP21? I am just curious – but it would be nice to have a convenient list of known pigs and associated tax troughers just in case the revolution does ever materialise! Seriously though, these people do need to be recorded for posterity. I would hate for the majority of the ‘AGW/climate regime’ to end up worming their way out of their ‘scientific crimes’ or pseudoscience misdemeanors, should the whole scam eventually unfold!
Don’t be fooled by those other “last chances”. This is the real “last chance”. My uncle Olaf made $170,000 US on a $13milllion dollar grant to study a new way of counting sunspots so it doesn’t look like their numbers have been declining these last two solar cycles. My friend Larry made hundreds of thousands just jiggling some old NOAA surface temp data around. You can too. Its easy, governments pay big money for this and there’s plenty for everyone! Contact me at http://www.hidethedecline for all the details.
@Martin
Anthony really needs to add a like button….
Would my luck be better getting a cushy job working for “climate change” or winning the Publishing Clearing House Sweepstake? They’re offering $10,000 a week for LIFE!
Simply replace “last” with “latest” and all statements become true. So Paris is not the last, only the latest opportunity to gather at some posh location and cry wolf yet again.
Right, but this time Obama seems to be willing to bet the farm acquiring an agreement of some sorts. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/257511-gop-senators-obama-circumventing-congress-in-climate-deal-talks
Jason Bradstreet commented: “….but this time Obama seems to be willing to bet the farm acquiring an agreement of some sorts….”
All he can do is make promises that he cannot fulfill when it comes to contributing to a UN sponsored climate reparations fund. Congress would need to approve any money he offers up and that won’t happen. Even some Dems are adverse to contributing to the fund (and some, but fewer, Republicans are complimentary of the fund). He can make non binding promises of goals but that’s it. Among significant CO2 producers so far only the UK has come close to making their goals along with the slam dunk goals that required no effort from some countries.
It is true that the UK is committed to this rubbish, but it is not a large contributor to CO2 emissions.
The UK emits only about 1.3% of global CO2 emissions, so even if the UK was to cut back its emissions by 50% that is only a saving of about 0.7%. I bet that China and India would completely wipe out such a cut back within a few months (or so) with all the new coal fired power stations that they are planning to build through to 2030.
‘Congress would need to approve any money he offers up and that won’t happen’
Obama seems to successfully bypass Congress at will. Why would this be different?
Jeff (FL) commented: “….Obama seems to successfully bypass Congress at will. Why would this be different?…”
Unless there’s a hidden $XB in the budget where will it come from?
markl: Look what’s he’s doing with the EPA.
Next up, have the IRS declare that deductions by companies that create too much CO2 are being cancelled.
MarkW commented: “…Look what’s he’s doing with the EPA. Next up, have the IRS declare that deductions by companies that create too much CO2 are being cancelled.”
I admit there is no end to the possibilities of his over reach but telling the United States to transfer $Bs to the UN as reparations for their past industrial success won’t happen. (He said.) I also believe that if the US goes over the top in Paris….which I think we will as a parting gesture by our lame duck POTUS…. it will cause needed scrutiny to the whole AGW narrative when people realize athe affect on our economy and their personal finances. Everyone wants to be part of saving the world but how many want to finance the effort? Politics will do to AGW what science has been unable to do.
Some university a few decades back, lost their tax exempt status because they didn’t permit inter-racial dating. In the public interest of course.
“Public interest” will be the fulcrum that he will use to completely rewrite the tax code. Without any input from congress.
Hopefully “Last Chance” refers to the Democrat’s hold on the White House. If the current executive branch and all of its attending tsars are replaced with nonbelievers in CAGW, then it will cast a pall on the believer’s hope for a world unified under one green flag.
The Pointless Climate Crusade http://joannenova.com.au/2015/10/french-society-of-mathematicians-global-warming-crusade-is-aburd-and-pointless/