UPDATE 2: Christopher Booker writes in The Telegraph: The great global warming scare has long been dying on its feet, but that sad fiasco of a conference in Rio last week saw it finally dead and buried. “It’s pathetic, it’s appalling,”… Read More ›
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Rio Earth Summit "doomed to fail"
New Scientist analyses 20 years of climate inaction since the original Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, blaming “government systems” for the failure. Just the incentive we need to “suspend the democratic process” in order to save the planet, perhaps, as… Read More ›
UN: sustainability an "easier sell" than climate change
As Basil Fawlty said, “Don’t mention the war”, or in this case, climate change. Who’d have thought it? Climate change has been good to the UN over the past few decades, delivering the global organisation influence and power well beyond… Read More ›
Idiotic Comment of the Day: Ban Ki-moon
The UN Moonbat is on cracking form today in Durban, trying to scare world leaders (most of whom are preoccupied with keeping their economies solvent) into taking utterly futile and eye-wateringly expensive action on climate change. Fortunately, there is little… Read More ›
Rich nations "give up" on climate deal as GHGs reach record levels
Greenhouse gases are continuing their steady rise, and the climate is stubbornly refusing to play the game: The amount of global warming-causing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to a new high in 2010 and the rate of increase has… Read More ›
Global climate action a distant dream as Kyoto crumbles
What is the government’s carbon tax modelling based upon? Global trading of emissions by 2016 (see here). What is the chance of that? Zero. Not only is Kyoto about to fall apart, but the divisions between developed and developing countries… Read More ›
Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism "basically a farce"
Why does this not surprise me in the least? Virtually everything remotely connected with the UN is “basically a farce”, but this disaster has been exposed more comprehensively than most. As Nature reports: Critics have long questioned the usefulness of the… Read More ›
Ban Ki-moon: clueless on climate
Ban ki-Moon has been in Sydney – lucky old us. He gave a speech at Sydney University and was interviewed (worshipped) from various different positions by the ABC, naturally. One of the key subjects was climate change, and as usual,… Read More ›
Denmark's ETS scam
Any ETS is ripe for fraud and corruption. In December 2009, ACM reported that fraudsters had pocketed an eye-popping €5bn from the European ETS, so it’s little surprise when stories like this come to light. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for… Read More ›
Cancun heading for a train wreck
Could it be worse than Copenhagen? Very possibly, says the UK Telegraph, under the headline ‘Global warming summit heads for failure amid snub by world leaders’: World leaders have snubbed the next round of international climate change negotiations in Mexico… Read More ›
