Posts in December 2009
“The time is up”
So the countdown has ended. The Summit has finally started. An estimated 15,000 official delegates are in Copenhagen for what is being billed as a make or break Summit. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer (pictured), has just held a pre-conference press briefing where he stated: “Well the time is up. Over the next two…
Continue reading ‘“The time is up”’.Gore Lambasts Copenhagen Targets Too
A day after being lambasted by Jim Hansen for compromising over climate change, veteran climate change campaigner Al Gore has also criticised the current CO2 targets as being way too soft. Gore has said that anything agreed at Copenhagen can only be the first step towards much tougher CO2 targets. “Even a final treaty will…
Continue reading ‘Gore Lambasts Copenhagen Targets Too’.Flawed Talks Must Fail, Says Hansen
The pseudo garbage that constitutes the British Daily Express newspaper yesterday ran a headline saying climate change was a con to put up taxes Quoting yet another climate sceptic the Express served up a disservice to journalism, by completely manipulating the climate debate. Suddenly sceptics are appearing out of the wood-work left, right and centre,…
Continue reading ‘Flawed Talks Must Fail, Says Hansen’.EU Stance on Climate Undermined by its Dirty Bank
On the eve of the Copenhagen Summit, the EU’s attempts to portray themselves as leading the international effort to reduce carbon dioxide have been shown to be completely hypocritical by a new report. Despite the promises by the EU’s politicians to lead on climate change, the EU’s own bank continues to invest heavily in fossil…
Continue reading ‘EU Stance on Climate Undermined by its Dirty Bank’.10% of Population Will be Affected by Sea-Level Rise
Only a week to go and the climate sceptics seem to be popping up everywhere, trying to undermine the Copenhagen conference. But what they can’t stop is the damning new credible scientific evidence that is being produced. One such study is from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The SCAR study was undertaken by…
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