UK: Global deal on climate change at risk

Hopes for an agreement being reached at a United Nations summit in December "hang in the balance," undermined by a climate of suspicion between rich and poor countries, said Foreign Secretary David Miliband, speaking at a press conference with his brother, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband.

[LessHypeMoreFact]

Only an agreement on a global 'carbon surcharge' can hope to provide a fair deal to both developed and developing nations. By nature, such a charge is 'progressive' and puts more onus on those who use more fossil fuel.

The political 'gamesmanship' is actually the PROBLEM here. Trying to gain UNFAIR advantage is why the process has stalled..

[Brian_G]

F the UK deal! I won't pay a carbon surcharge; let developing nations develop for themselves. Stay away, unless you have some useful capital to contribute. Dumb climate policymakers need not apply.

[Earthling]

Any more proof needed that this whole scam is political?

[Brian_G]

LessHypeMoreFact wrote:

Only an agreement on a global 'carbon surcharge' can hope to provide a fair deal to both developed and developing nations. By nature, such a charge is 'progressive' and puts more onus on those who use more fossil fuel...

More fossil fuel than what?

[lol]

David Miliband - on top of all bs issues ...why does it not surprise me..

[truthist]

lol wrote:

David Miliband - on top of all bs issues ...why does it not surprise me..

CNN says today: Earth's oceans had warmest summer on record

Summer temperatures for the globe's ocean surface ranked as the warmest on record, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Climatic Data Center.

Overall, when the Earth's land areas and oceans are included together, the three-month June-August period measured as the third-warmest summer on record. Global climate records go back to 1880.

Climatologists measure summer from June 1 to Aug. 31. The climate center is a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

"During the season, warmer-than-average temperatures engulfed much of the planet's surface," the center wrote in an online report. One exception to the warmth was the north-central USA and central Canada, which had an unusually cool summer due to a persistent trough of low pressure that kept the area cloudy and cool.

The ocean's summer temperature was 62.5 degrees, 1 degree above the 20th-century average of 61.5 degrees.

The cause of the warmth? Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch at the climate center, says it's due to a combination of man-made global warming and El Nino, a natural periodic warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather around the world. "Each of those is a component in this summer's temperatures, he said.

"If El Nino continues to mature as projected by NOAA, global temperatures are likely to continue to threaten previous record highs," noted the center's report.

What really jumped out at Arndt, he says, was the heat in the Southern Hemisphere. "The warmth in Australia and South America in August was striking," he says. "Land areas in the Southern Hemisphere in August broke their previous record by a large amount."

Overall, it was the second-warmest winter on record in the Southern Hemisphere.(June-August is winter in the Southern Hemisphere.)

Additionally, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic sea ice covered an average of 2.42 million square miles during August. This is 18.4% below the 1979-2000 average extent and is consistent with a decline of August sea ice extent since 1979.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2009-...

[Brian_G]

truthist wrote:

CNN says today:...

Why do you post this as a reply, you are spamming every thread with this garbage. Do you even read the posts you reply to? I know they aren't written by CNN. Why do you brag you follow what CNN says?

[theworldasweknow it]

As world leaders plan to meet in Copenhagen to sign away the sovereign and democratic rights of their Countries, as a city it Copenhagen will become a byword for hate, the place where the world was deceived into communism and free speech was denied.

http://twawki.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/one-fa ...

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