Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The United Nations has announced a long anticipated extended session in Bangkok, to help climate delegates overcome their differences.
Extra climate talks scheduled amid Bonn stalemate
Published on 08/05/2018, 7:51pm
UN climate officials add a week-long session in Bangkok in September to the diary, as Bonn talks make insufficient progress on the Paris Agreement rulebook
By Karl Mathiesen
The UN will hold an extra round of climate talks in Bangkok in September after lacklustre progress this fortnight.
Long-rumoured talks in the Thai capital were confirmed by UN officials on Tuesday night, according to several sources, including Poland’s climate envoy Tomasz Chruszczow.
Countries have spent the past nine days in Bonn, Germany, negotiating the rules that will govern the Paris Agreement, with a decision due in December in Katowice. But dealmakers have become bogged down in technical detail.
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“We’ve seen some progress here on several issues on a technical level. Other discussions are really stuck because of sharp political differences,” said Meyer [Union of Concerned Scientists].
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Read more: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/05/08/extra-climate-talks-scheduled-amid-bonn-stalemate/
Perhaps expert delegates attending the September Bangkok conference will take the opportunity to advise Thai authorities about their city’s ongoing soapy massage eco-disaster. The Thai capital is rapidly sinking into the swamp, due in part to excess groundwater drawn illegally by megabrothels seeking to avoid large utility bills.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44005013
Do you think the BBC will get it???
Bangkok looks like a clown-show — appropriate place to meet.
Eh, don’t take the seediest part of any place as the whole place.
In the very small Arizona town that I grew up in, there were about a half-dozen houses on one street where you could, essentially, get anything you wanted to pay enough for. Almost every place, from rural villages to megacities, has a district like that – just larger or smaller depending on demand.
By and large, these are the result of tacit “deals” between the shady characters and law enforcement – “You keep the shenanigans in your own territory, and we won’t bother you for the small things.” LEOs know that they cannot stamp out that part of the economy, only control it so that it doesn’t disturb the “upright” citizens.
Seems like Bangkok would be a good place for the UN headquarters.
NOT finding a resolution is incentivized. Don’t finalize it and get a free trip to Thailand.
Maybe they can go to Istanbul in November. So many cities; so little time.
But they can’t go to Constantinople!
A virtual meeting, powered by prevailing winds or solar energy, in order to reduce their carbon footprint, right?
Indeed. With VR, there’s no need to travel to meet up. Just do it over the Internet.
If the Warmists are so, so worried about CO2 emissions, they should be having VR meetings to show the rest of the world the way of the future.
Since they’re instead taking jollies all around the world, it’s clearly completely bogus.
No doubt they will be just as busy planning and organizing meetings and agendas when global cooling becomes more cyclically obvious.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/AMO%20GlobalAnnualIndexSince1856%20With11yearRunningAverage.gif
To sum up, the US isn’t paying. Will AGW need to knit more blankets for the baby elephants like this past winter? Where ever AGW goes, cold follows…. ( I’m sure nobody in AGW thought there’d be snow in Morocco. ) … Also known as the ” Gore Effect “.
Once again the conference will end and the press will herald a “New World Commitment” (except for USA 🙂 ) to stopping Climate Change but there will be nothing, nothing new or different about any ‘agreements’. The same intimidation and name calling will be leveled against Western industrialized countries and all the recipients of AGW largess will jump up clapping their hands at once while hoping this time, please let it be this time, money actually starts flowing into their coffers. Meanwhile the UN bureaucrats will retreat to their palace in New York for more planning/scheming on how to change their approach to squeeze more money out of the West and relocate their economies to China and India. Do we have to put up with this merry go round every year from now on? How long will the people of the world put up with it?
With luck nature will show them what real atmospheric pollution looks like when one or two in the “Pacific Ring of Fire” give them an unforgettable welcome.
Bangkok has better more interesting hookers than Germany. That is the real reason for the move.
These UN guys are on permanent vacation.
That’s what I think, Marque. What is the logic in packing up and going thousands of miles away when everyone was already co-located? Very expensive. And think of all the VDs they’ll be bringing home. Makes no sense to me.