Climate change: UN plans 'shock therapy' for world leaders on environment
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/20/united-nations-summ...
The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, are dangerously adrift.UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and negotiators say that unless they can convert world leaders into committed advocates of radical action, it will be very hard to reach a credible and enforceable agreement to avoid the most devastating consequences of climate change.
As the digital counter ticking off the hours to the Copenhagen summit – which had been supposed to seal the deal on climate change – hit 77 days today, progress at the UN summit in New York is seen as vital. Nearly 100 heads of state and government are to attend the summit, for which a pared-down format has been devised.
"We need these leaders to go outside their usual comfort zones," said one diplomat. "Our sense is that leaders have got a little too cosy and comfortable. They really have to hear from countries that are vulnerable and suffering."
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel peace prize with Al Gore, agreed. Commenting on the leaders attending the G20 summit in Pittsburgh next week, he said: "We need to remind these people about impacts of climate change – the fact that they are inequitable and fall very heavily on some of the poorest people in the world. We are likely to see a large number of failed states if we don't act in time."
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tommic
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If world leaders are not shocked by the facts that the Gulf Stream is slowing, the largest glaciers in Antartica are melting, ice flows the size of Rhode Island have broken off the Antartic ice sheet. Ocean tempratures have risen. CO2 is at record highs in percentage of the atmosphere they account for. The increase in the strength of hurricanes and cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific.
One can only wonder how leaders from around the world can't see the forest through the trees and the reprucussions of our inaction and its implications. The point of no return may have already passed in relation to our ability to alter the future course of the planet Earth. Better to act late than never but we will never know because mankind will not agree to halt the outflow of fossil fuel exhausts which contribute to climate change.
Sad but true mankind will sign its own death warrant.
tommic - 5 months ago
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tommic
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manfreddrake:
i don't think 1 Meteorologist trumps 98% of the worlds climatologists. - 5 months ago
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manfreddrake
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Just watched a CNN report, the Meteorologist the UN sites just reported that he expects the world temperature to stabilize and begin to cool over the next decade. Soo...what is the real story?
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manfreddrake
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jkw077
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The time for waiting for world leaders to act has long passed:
the "Great Change" has already begun all over the world, it just hasn't gotten to the States in full effect yet, but it will very soon, Hurricanes Wilma, Rita, and Katrina were only warnings of what is to come:Atlanta hit by severe flooding, 3 dead:
http://current.com/items/90988790_atlanta-hit-by-severe-flooding-three-dead-atla... - 5 months ago
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jkw077
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cool0ne
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China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s largest emitter of gases that are warming the planet.
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cool0ne
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cool0ne:
China also has more people than the U.S., Europe, and Japan combined.
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GrinningSatyr
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stephenk29111
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my how far we've come, from saying global warning doesn't exist and it was only being used as propaganda and a scare tactic to this. It's about time, i for one am part of the next generation, and its time for action here and now and not letting the next generation deal with the problems left behind from the previous one. The water levels rise almost an inch every 3 years, and it could be 3-5ft in the next decade if things keep up. So, that should be interesting to see how the maps change of the world when that time comes.
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