Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Warsaw Climate Talks about Money

Various reports on the non-progress of the Warsaw Climate Change Talks should come as no surprise to Climate Change Activists.
The Guardian Reports on Sunday 17 November2013 :  Climate change pledges: rich nations face fury over moves to renege. The developing world also wants the rich western nations to commit to establishing a compensation scheme for future extreme weather events, as the impact of global warming is increasingly felt. And they want firm signals that rich countries intend to find at least $100bn a year by 2020 to help them to adapt their countries to severe climate extremes"
Climate Change Performance Index, Germanwatch, http://germanwatch.org/en

Also check out the Germanwatch Report: Climate Change Performance Index 2014 where Australia ranks near the bottom and is sliding downwards.


Given the Conservative side of politics ( in Australia) has always said they will do something if everyone else agrees and then walks away from high level attendance at those international meetings, its pretty obvious that they will do nothing other than extract our carbon resources and damn the poor and developing worlds to further poverty. Damning our own rich country in the process.


Can you imagine Australia giving more $$ to any poor country as a result of trying to adapt to severe climates?

Meanwhile the Climate Council has released its latest report
http://www.climatecouncil.org.au/
regarding warm October Weather. They will have trouble getting Victorian's to agree if November turns out to be the same, as we have had unusually wet and cold weather (or so it seems). This again shows how science and individual perspectives collide. My sense of the weather and the measurement of Climate are two separate things.

Science can, by its very nature, completely counter intuitive and you reject it at your peril.

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