Planet facing 'catastrophe' – Brown
Taken from a Press Association article of the same name which should have been called Planet facing catastrophe Brown. But enough of that at least for the time being & on with this morning’s climate nonsense...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that the planet is facing "catastrophe" if action to stop rising greenhouse gas emissions was not agreed at forthcoming UN talks on climate change. Mr Brown said letting the emissions which cause global warming run unchecked would have massive economic, human and environmental costs. He warned that ignoring emissions would leave the UK facing a future of killer heat waves, floods and droughts
These rabid assertions are made in the face of embarrassingly inconvenient scientific data that shows that the planet is in fact getting colder & the oceans are cooling. This has caused a fresh outbreak of climate hysterics that run along the lines of ‘we know that earth average temperatures are falling but they might increase again in the future ... at least that is what our latest unsubstantiated geo-climatic models show’ & they are probably about as accurate as the last lot that proved that by last November snow would be thing of the past & the Southern Atlantic would have by now reached the temperature of the hot tub that I don’t own ... only it hasn’t.
In a speech to 17 leading nations meeting in a bid to make progress towards agreeing a new treaty on climate change at UN talks in December, he warned of the "heavy price" of failure - with no Plan B for the planet if negotiations collapse.
Failing to tackle climate change would have an economic impact worse than that of the two world wars and the Great Depression, he said, but action could provide economic opportunities in green jobs and technology
Actually continuing to have the country bankrupted by Nu Labour is probably more destructive than two World Wars & the Great Depression – certainly Blair & Brown have destroyed many more of our much loved historic institutions that the Luftwaffe ever managed
He told the Major Economies Forum - gathered in London for talks which aim to narrow the gap between different countries on areas of dispute ahead of the climate summit in Copenhagen - that a deal was possible.
But with less than two months to go before the crunch UN conference, he warned countries were not making progress quickly enough to reach agreement and urged leaders to step in to break the impasse.
He said heads of state should work together directly to secure a deal with binding targets for rich countries to cut their emissions in the coming decades, action by developing nations and funding to help the poorest countries cope with the impact of climate change.
& yet China and India have all but refused to do anything & as anyone who has ever visited either country can testify, you have no comprehension of what pollution looks like until you have seen firsthand what those fellows kick into the atmosphere
The Prime Minister's warning over the consequences of failure were welcomed by environmental groups, who want rich countries primarily responsible for the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to take the lead in signing up to tougher emissions cuts.
In fact, as pointed out by Simon, Lord Christopher Monckton sums it all up rather nicely, certainly from the US perspective.
I make that last point from the American perspective because loss of sovereignty isn't an issue for us bulldogs ... the Westminster Village sold us out to Brussels years ago.
Comments
sitting here waiting to get cab harvest in...low sugar and mould rearing its ugly head...what warming?
Posted by: thud | October 20, 2009 4:34 PM
Gordon Brown and Global Warming are very much the same just so much BULLSH1T
Posted by: ajdshootist | October 20, 2009 7:15 PM