UN Names Leonardo DiCaprio ‘UN Messenger of Peace on Climate Change’
…Warmist analysis: How To Assess The Upcoming U.N. Climate Summit
Measuring Up: How To Assess The Upcoming U.N. Climate Summit
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/16/3566893/how-to-assess-un-climate-summit/
CREDIT: flickr/ United Nations Photo The September 23 U.N. climate summit in New York City is not an official U.N. negotiating session but in many ways it is more than that. While the official United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings have the potential to usher in bold treaties, they are also subject to bickering over minutia and watering down of expectations. The extensively hyped Conference of Parties (COP) in Copenhagen in 2009 boiled over with anticipation of a post-Kyoto protocol before it ended up simmering into mediocrity. The summit in NYC is all about building momentum and moving forward. Nearly five years after Copenhagen, a new set of world leaders, with new ideas about climate change and how to tackle it, will be leading the discussions — and looking for real change. With 15 months to go before the next potentially game-changing climate conference, COP Paris in late 2015, some 125 heads of state will descend on NYC for the climate summit. In conjunction with business executives, activist groups, and civil representatives, they are being encouraged to announce major initiatives to try and snowball the momentum-building discussion toward the next big meeting, COP Lima this December. These leaders represent a world of different interests, and must hope to find common ground between rich countries, island states, less developed countries, conservative states, oil wealthy kingdoms, and everything in between. While an all-encompassing treaty is not on the agenda, expectations are high. “I think we need to talk in terms of transformation, of change — it’s not business as usual with a bit of green attached,” U.N. climate envoy Mary Robinson recently said. “That won’t do it.” Commitments for the Paris summit are due next March, and Robinson said the statements by leaders at this gathering will give a good idea of the work that needs to be done between now and then. “I hope it will be a good deal more ambitious (than previous announcements), and open the way for further understanding that we need pressure and urgency of real commitments,” she said. Deliverables There are three main deliverables to look for coming out of the summit, according to Andrew Steer, President & CEO of the World Resources Institute (WRI). These include strong national statements and re-commitments to fighting climate change, the launch of important new initiatives, …
Obama’s Lonely Climate Summit – world leaders are staying home
Obama’s Lonely Climate Summit – world leaders are staying home
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/16/obamas-lonely-climate-summit-world-leaders-are-staying-home/
Eric Worrall writes: The imminent climate summit in New York is rapidly turning into an utter embarrassment for President Obama and UN Secretary General Bank Ki-Moon, in addition to becoming a bit of a punishment round for national deputy leaders. Aussie PM Tony Abbott today defended his decision not to hop on an earlier flight…
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Swiss News Weekly Calls IPCC Lead Author Thomas Stocker ‘A Butler For Politicians’! Scientists Growing Shriller
Swiss News Weekly Calls IPCC Lead Author Thomas Stocker “A Butler For Politicians”! Scientists Growing Shriller
As climate observations continue their now obscene divergence from the earlier IPCC model projections, some media outlets are becoming harsher in their criticism of a science that increasingly appears corrupt and politicized. Moreover climate scientists are looking ever more shrill and desperate.
Hat-tip: hajo.
A recent feature story by Markus Schär in the print edition of Swiss news weekly Weltwoche even goes so far as to call IPCC lead author Thomas Stocker a “butler for politicians”. Weltwoche’s introduction reads:
Climate scientists, foremost some from Switzerland, are issuing increasingly louder warnings of catastrophe. This is because next year the global community should obligate itself to a strict treaty on protecting the climate. Despite the alarm, hardly anyone desires to keep playing along.”
Weltwoche adds later in the article that the way things stand now, the chances that of a new binding treaty getting ratified “are close to zero“.
As a result global warming alarmists are mounting another scramble to salvage a hypothesis that is increasingly looking unsustainable.
With the next large climate conference in Lima, Peru in December, more than ever scientists are coming under pressure to explain why warming has stopped and the models have been so embarrassingly wrong so far. The steam (science) that is supposed to be powering climate policy forward has blown a major gasket. Ironically science is beginning to act as a brake.
Weltwoche writes that the final (up-to-now confidential) Synthesis Report scheduled for release in October is designed to salvage the movement and supply the necessary urgency to get the binding climate treaty process to replace the expired Kyoto Protocol back on track. Here Weltwoche writes: “Dramatic proclamation are in demand in order to wake up the global public.” It adds:
The authors of the Synthesis Report, among them as always are environmental activists, have to threaten with an apocalypse.”
Clearly among those involved in the effort, Weltwoche writes, are Swiss scientists Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern and Reto Knutti of the ETH Institute, a leading climate modeling center.
As part of the effort to rescue the alarmism, Weltwoche describes how Reto Knutti, once a student of Stocker, was the lead author of a recent paper that systematically analyzed the reasons for the global warming pause. The paper concluded that it was due to ocean cycles …
‘UN Climate Propaganda At Full Throttle In Advance Of New York Climate Summit’
German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up
German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up
German scientists Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning ridicule the New York climate conference nobody is going to. Enjoy!
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Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes
By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated, edited by P Gosselin)
Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes. Already months ago South Korean UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon busily sent out invitations to world leaders, kindly requesting them to appear at the Climate Change Special Conference in New York on 23 September 2014. The aim of the conference is to agree on concrete actions for a CO2 reduced world in order to curb a menacing climate catastrophe. At the German Huffington Post Ban Ki-moon set forth his underlying motivation for September 2014 conference(translated from the German):
I have travelled the world in order to see the impacts with my own eyes. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, from low-lying islands of the Pacuífic, which are threatened by rising sea levels, to the melting glaciers of Greenland, the Andes and the Alps. I have seen expanding deserts in Mongolia and in the Sahel Zone, and threatened rainforests in Brazil. Everywhere I have spoken with the affected people who are deeply worried about the threat to their way of life and their future because of climate change.”
Dear Mr General Secretary: If you really wish to cut back on CO2 emissions, then you should NOT jet around the globe in your UN jet to supposedly see climate change with your own eyes. Perhaps you have heard that the Pacific Atolls are living corals that are growing along with sea level rise. The glaciers already melted before, 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period when it was as warm as today. Currently the Sahel desert regions are not expanding as you claim, rather they are becoming greener. Moreover the rainforests of Brazil are threatened foremost by deforestation thanks to palm oil and biofuels. That is something to be really worried about, and not about climate change.
As opposed to the UN General Secretary, many world leaders have obviously realized that the science is overheated. An increasing number of scientists are distancing themselves explicitly from the catastrophe mindset. After 16 years of no global warming, the basis for trust between policymaking and the IPCC scientists is sustainably …
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres: ‘Emissions have to be zero or near zero by the end of the 21st century’
Warmist Bob Beckel: Obama’s New Climate Plan ‘Violation Of Treaty-Making Power’
‘Obama, the king of climate change’: ‘The Constitution is of no consequence when there’s a planet to save’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/31/michaels-barack-obama-the-king-of-climate-change/
Barring an unlikely electoral earthquake off the Richter Scale, no new coal-fired generation facility is ever going to be built.
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Climate Change Costs By 2100: ‘Doing Nothing Has the Same Price Tag as Doing Something’
http://reason.com/archives/2014/08/29/climate-change-costs-by-2100…