Obviously they lack the scientific data or else they
would be already screaming through the roof the world is coming to an end unless we
need to act now!!!
Data or no data, they announce that despite this they
are going to write a report that is designed to scare people and governments to
sign a global climate treaty.
Need any more proof that global warming is not science but a
political agenda?
(http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au) THE next United
Nations climate report will ''scare the wits out of everyone'' and should
provide the impetus needed for the world to finally sign an agreement to tackle
global warming, the former head of the UN negotiations said.
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009
Copenhagen climate change talks, said his conversations with scientists working
on the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested
the findings would be shocking.
"That report is going to scare the wits out of
everyone,'' Mr de Boer said in the only scheduled interview of his visit to
Australia.”I'm confident those scientific findings will create new political
momentum.''
The IPCC's fifth assessment report is due to be
published in late 2013 and early 2014.
Before then is the next end-of-year UN climate
meeting in Doha, Qatar. Delegates will discuss a second commitment period for the Kyoto
Protocol, the only legally binding accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Last December nations agreed in South Africa to
work on a binding agreement that would cover all countries. That work is
expected to continue until 2015.
Mr de Boer, who is now special global advisor on
climate change for KPMG, said the best prospect may be for nations to settle on
targets that they write into their national laws, rather than a binding
international deal.
The latter would be "almost impossible to get
through the US Senate", he said, no matter whether incumbent Barack Obama
or challenger Mitt Romney wins the US presidential election.
'Slipped between our fingers'
Three years on from Copenhagen, Mr de Boer said he
has neither nightmares nor withdrawal symptoms from those failed talks, which
included a final 12-hour marathon of discussions behind closed doors with Mr
Obama, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd and 23 other global leaders.
"That was such a fantastic opportunity and it
slipped between our fingers," said Mr de Boer. "That's my big
frustration."
He said Copenhagen's legacy had changed political attitudes to climate
talks.
"Most politicians will think twice about going to a climate event, and if
they go again, they will be damned sure that they'll be celebrating success
rather than be associated with failure,'' he said.
Expectations of global action on climate change have diminished, but Mr de Boer
said it would still be "a very, very difficult conference" for his
successor, Christiana Figueres.
He said the mandate for 2015 remained ambiguous and nations would be reluctant
to sign up before they know what they were getting into.
The Kyoto Protocol has not been ratified by the US, and Canada, Japan and
Russia have said they would not sign up to a second round when the current
commitment lapses at the end of the year. Australia is yet to announce whether
it will commit. Developing nations are holding back until they can see the rich
acting.
They also
want proof the UN's Green Climate Fund - aimed at supporting efforts to counter
climate change - will get the $US100 billion in government and private
funding promised.
He said
superstorm Sandy may spur more Americans, and people elsewhere, to consider the
risks of climate change, but warned:
"It's
a bit like being shocked into stopping smoking when you've been told you've got
terminal cancer."
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