The warming campaigners at WWF describe the COP 20 agreement as going from weak to weaker to weakest. The only thing better than that would be no agreement at all. Share the facts at CFACT.org: telegraph.co.uk/comment/11291389/Lima-climate-talks-The-same-old-farce.html Lima is just yet another re-enactment of the three-stage ritual that has become only too familiar over the past 20 years. First, we are treated to months of ludicrously unscientific hype, telling us that the threat of global warming is now worse than ever. Then, they all gather in some agreeable venue, for the “developing” nations – led by China and India – to say they will only play ball if the “developed” world, led by the EU, the US and Japan, pays them $100 billion a year to curb their “carbon emissions”. In days of acrimony and stupefying boredom, when the poorer nations bid up the bribe they want (some were this time suggesting it should eventually be £1.5 trillion a year), it emerges that the rich countries aren’t really intending to deliver. The mere $1 billion promised to the “Green Climate Fund” by Japan, for instance, is all going to Japanese firms to build three coal-fired power stations in Indonesia. Finally, at the eleventh hour – or more likely 4 o’clock in the morning – a “breakthrough” is announced. Everyone has finally agreed on a meaningless document that commits no one to anything.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:59:00 +0000
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