Copenhagen summit - a failure - what's next?

01/13/10 - Time for border taxes? 
A positive step must occur soon! This economics Nobel prize winner (in the Star today) has an approach that might work ... if only countries could see the value.
Instead of wasting billions on unprofitable companies, why not invest in saving a dying planet?






 12/19/09 - As has been said before ... "a lot to do about nothing".

This summit mtg was a bust!
These 'heads of state' should be embarrassed for creating a lot of CO2 and making no progress. Another boondoggle...


The 'resulting agreement' is a draft to re-look at  things without committing to anything. 
350.org is also not happy about the progress ... 

approx 770ppm of CO2 instead of 350ppm. Can't keep the temperature increase below 1.5 degrees with that commitment.






12/17/09 - Well I guess nothing of substance ia going to happen in Denmark ... so says the Star today. 
Harper is not participating, as we had hoped.
The world leaders don't appear to want to be leaders. 
Are you surprised?
After all, why should they consider others, when their personally well-being is at stake?


They seem to have decided to not take the necessary steps to restrict temperature increase to only 2 degrees (20B tonnes per year vs expected 90B) by 2050.
It appears scientists will now need to accurately specify exactly what will happen each year as greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) continues to rise.


If the most ambitious plans under discussion were agreed to, the increase in GGE would be triple the "acceptable" level (2 degree temperature rise) by 2050.

This chart outlines the key sticking points at the conference . Seems to be like immature children ... "I won't play unless the others treat me as special".
Harper is a total embarrassment ... to-date.



One of the significant points at Copenhagen is to take immediate steps to stop rainforest destruction. This is now a world-wide mgmt responsibility! 
This article (Star today) speaks of the obvious - PLANT TREES. Seems to be another aspect of government now being overlooked.


May be time for cities and provinces/states to take action and embarrass federal gov'ts into action.




12/02/09 - There is a lot of build up to this summit meeting. 
Various articles in the Toronto Star highlight the reticence of our federal leader (does he really represent the majority?) to promote Canada's enthusiastic adoption of global warming reductions.


Are we in for a Canadian surprise next week? 


For some reason, I am optimistic ... maybe it's the scotch martini (my own concoction to soften the Harper oil sands conundrum) and the Everly Brothers Greatest Hits are responsible.


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