Archive for December 16th, 2009
Interesting! -Why Copenhagen will fail and why it doesn’t matter By Paul Gilding December 16th, 2009
There will probably be some kind of agreement at Copenhagen. It’s hard to imagine all those world leaders walking away without one. However I’m not spending anytime at all wondering what the result will be. Why? Because it just doesn’t matter.
You see we’re not ready to fix climate change, not yet. We have not accepted [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, COP15, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations
Comments: 1
Highlights of COP 15 press briefing – see now
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Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, COP15, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations
Comments: 1
Not so much Gore – but with feeling. Thanks Al for speaking up!
Yesterday, Al Gore issued a bold challenge from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, calling on Members of Congress to pass clean energy and climate legislation in the United States by next April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. In an inspiring speech that was interrupted often with outbursts of applause and [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, COP15, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, global warming, Tipping Points
Comments: 1
Copenhagen summit is failing. Let’s make it the largest petition in history in the next 24 hours!
With one day to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. World’s leaders now arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations.
Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees. Click below to sign the petition for a real [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, COP15, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations
Comments: 3
There really is clean coal!
Mother Nature had the right idea when she sequestered carbon away over the millennia. And like any woman she loves diamonds. So her plan was that eventually everyone would have the opportunity to have some.
What she didn’t see coming was that we would get to it first before she had time to finish the process [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under General, Nature.
Tags: coal, Stop Coal
Comments: 2
Gore’s ice-cap claims disputed – poor old Al got it wrong again!
Scientists stunned after ex-Vice-President says Arctic could be ice-free in five years
Al Gore yesterday faced an inconvenient truth of his own after a blunder over arctic ice levels.
Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit for the first time, Mr Gore quoted new research that showed the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
“These figures [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, COP15, Copenhagen, global warming, Ice free Arctic, International negotiations
Comments: 1
