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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If they really believed this is truly the last chance and when it is all over and nothing gets done, they will all give up and go out and find real jobs. Sorry , was daydreaming a bit there.
As far as this thread is concerned we had our first ‘last chance’ in 2005. I reckon they were absolutely right we are way way past the tipping point we are completely doomed, there is nothing that can possibly be done to save the world from Armageddon.
So there is absolutely no point in going on about it or spending money any longer trying to work out how fast it is coming. Lets have the money back in our pockets so we can spend it how WE see fit in these last few miserable years we have left…………/sarc
This technique was long ago perfected along old Route 66, mostly along the New Mexico Arizona stretch.
“Last Chance” gas
“Last Chance” diner
etc. etc.
Last chance? Sounds more like a groundhog day gone sour. Punxsutawney Phil has superior personality (includes also optimism) and prediction skills (39% correct).
OK, so theme song for Paris. Might as well go old-school: http://youtu.be/A8xv1MXrwNc
I suspect that what we are seeing in many of these “big show” pronouncements and events, is essentially material for “future history”. Which is to say, potential entries in a narrative that is not yet definite as to details, but will require details when it is “finalized” at some later time.
The earlier forecasts of “last chances” simply won’t appear as that, if the history is written by the people now intending to acquire the power to write history, literally. There will be mentions of warnings unheeded, no doubt, but edited to reflect how wise and prescient the “globalists elites” were, and how unwise and stubborn “we” were.
The implication I am suggesting folks consider, is that there will be a “collapse” of society as we know it now, intentionally induced, after which the “globalists elite” intend to erect a new society, complete with a historical narrative that justifies the (return of) rule by a few “elites”, through vilification of our then “failed” attempts at rule by consent of the governed. (You know, the racist, sexist, wasteful, violent, xenophobic, environment insensitive, ignorance and selfishness dominated society our little fling with self governance has resulted in?).
And the next glaciation will render that horse hockey useless.
Got on a roll and just couldn’t stop, huh 🙂
I tried many solutions to the puzzle, till one made sense of it.
Wouldn’t it be better if COP-21 (sic) actually represents grant-mongering AGW deviants’ own final fling, affixing their Watermelon-green/red armbands to goosestep as one off Gaia’s climatological cliff-face?
The unbearable asininity of these proctocranial Know Nothings will resonate in times-and-places greater than pea-brained academicians will ever know.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
‘If Paris doesn’t work out, I’m sure there will be another “last chance” coming to a destination city very soon.’
Likewise if Paris ‘works out’ !
Now, … this is really, … I mean REEELY, REEEEEly the last chance.
(Algore needs his bathrooms renovated for the latest live-in crack whore.)