Bonn negototiations take toll
I have to confess, I haven’t achieved much today – illness and
tiredness have caught up with me. There’s a virus doing the rounds of
delegates at the negotiations as we have all become more tired and
it’s got me. So I’ve had a quiet day. When you’re at something like
this, you don’t want to waste a moment so it’s easy to overwork and
it’s also frustrating to feel less than 100%.
I missed the big event of the day when my Greenpeace colleagues set
off a large alarm outside the Maritim Hotel to highlight that failure
of countries, including New Zealand, to show the level of urgency
required to tackle climate change. There is no sense of urgency here whatsoever.
Subsequent reaction to the protest by delegates from countries has
varied from annoyance at the disruption to satisfaction that someone is
reminding delegates that there is a world out there.
Yesterday I mentioned New Zealand’s efforts to undermine references to
the rights of indigenous people. Recent events in the Amazon show how
important protecting indigenous people’s rights is. It appears that
the Peruvian police have massacred native Peruvians who live in the
forest so that the Government can offer the land large companies to
convert to farming and allow oil exploration. The Independent has a
story on it here:
After two weeks, it feels like the negotiations are not much
further ahead, which is a worrying signal of what may happen in
Copenhagen. It’ll take a bit of effort from all of us to create the
momentum needed to get an effective climate-saving treaty in
Copenhagen.
New Zealand could show real leadership in these negotiations. As I’ve
written before, the New Zealand delegation is talented, capable and
effective. They just need new instructions from the Government and
the backing for a 40% target.
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I am a sceptic about global warming and nothing Greenpeace or your symbiotic IPCC mates will ever change my stance. Current Global Warming is not due to C02 emmissions caused by human activity. IPCC science does not stack up when subjected to historical climate data comparisons.
Earth inhabitants will not ‘fry or freeze’ nor will they drown anytime in the fore-seeable future! We have nothing to fear from rising C02.
The so called green house effect presents no danger to life on earth – period!
How do I know this? Despite all of its climate cycles, life on earth still exists, historically C02 emmission have been much higher in various past centuries to what we have today. Right now the earth is cooling not heating up. I suspect Greenpeace is towing the IPCC line of fear mongering for a power gain, aka new world order elite and one world government.
The writing is on the wall my friend, United Nations have been found wanting, Copenhagan will achieve nothing towards their climate change deception, the sheep are fast awakening and a sea change is coming. We no longer believe ‘chicken little’s story.
I see Al Core is recruting students to evangelise his version of “climate change” no supprises here. The herd follow their leader as sheep do no questions asked.
Ben, why do you repeat denialist drivel?. Is it because you’re a parrot?. You demonstrate that you haven’t the faintest clue about climate change. Believe what you want, but keep your crap opinions to yourself.
Wake up Rob, this climate change is smoke and mirrors and you know that’s true. A new world order is the real agenda behind this bs climate change scare mongering. You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time the internet is proof of that.