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Progress in climate-treaty negotiations has been blocked because the United States has pushed to abandon the Kyoto Protocol while placing blame on developing countries.
Discord blocks climate deal
They say tension is rising as the US, which never ratified the Kyoto agreement, presses hard to change the nature of commitments made by developed and developing countries, with the Cancun climate summit only a month away.
China's chief climate negotiator, Su Wei, said attempts to thoroughly revamp the Kyoto Protocol have blocked any possible progress in the talks.
"During the past six days, some developed countries have kept silent on their mitigation plans after 2012, when the first commitment period of Kyoto Protocol expires," Su said....
The just concluded United Nations climate meeting in Tianjin laid some cornerstones for the creation of a global climate fund at the upcoming climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico.
Securing climate financing and technology transfer is a must to assist the millions of vulnerable, poverty-stricken people in poor countries. We all witnessed how homes were washed away and millions of people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan in July and August.
Millions more in the developing countries struggle for a decent life. In the words of Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), giving thousands of villages "efficient solar cookers and lights" will provide people with "the opportunity to take control of their future stability, security and sustainability".
It is encouraging to see emerging economies, including China, providing help to poorer countries under the framework of South-South cooperation.
However, there is danger that some rich countries may treat the new climate fund as a bargaining chip. A number of developed countries led by the United States have set preconditions that require developing countries to have their emission reduction projects measured, reported and verified according to their prescribed routine.
At the same time, these rich nations have been dragging their feet in coming up with new targets to cut their own emissions. According to researchers, the national pledges made by developed countries under the Copenhagen Accord cannot achieve their share of the 25-40 percent of CO2 emission reductions from the level of 1990 required to slow down global warming.
Some nations even want to free themselves from the legally binding Kyoto Protocol, of which most developed countries, except the US, are signatories.
The much publicized debate between China and the United States is not simple "bickering".
China and all developing countries must hold onto the principles agreed upon by the 194 countries under the UNFCCC and stop rich countries from backtracking on their previous promises.
China must also go all-out to commit itself to tough targets to reduce its emissions, and make the results transparent for the good of China as well as the world.
Above all, developing countries cannot allow the rich countries to limit the space and scope of the developing countries' future economic growth and shirk their historical and present responsibilities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping mitigate the impact of climate change.
A successful Cancun climate change conference does not allow for compromises in principles.
(China Daily 10/11/2010 page8)
Originally posted by Faiol
reply to post by sum1one
The problem is that the global warming theory says that MEN are causing the world to become warmer
but history says its part of a cycle and we have no big influence on it and we have no evidence that we are getting warmer (since 95 I think)
thats the discussion
another discussion is that, maybe, we are not becoming warmer, but colder ...
You can relate to pollution, but thats a different deal: I agree we should stop killing the rest of the nature, but I dont agree with the fact that these people are imposing an idea without giving anyone the chance to discuss it
You can relate to pollution, but thats a different deal: I agree we should stop killing the rest of the nature, but I dont agree with the fact that these people are imposing an idea without giving anyone the chance to discuss it
Originally posted by sum1one
so wait a minute.. am I reading this right? This guy is saying the Global Warming is a scam?
The important question is how much warming does the future hold, is it good or bad, and if bad is it too much for normal adaptation to handle. The real answer to the first is that no one knows, the real answer to the second is more likely good than bad (people and plants die from cold, not warmth)
I think it's actually a LOT more complicated than that - first of all, what "history" says its "part of a cycle and we have no big influence on it" -- you're not referring to the Mayan Calendar are you? Cuz.. it's kinda funny, the only "history" I've ever came across saying anything about it being part of a "cycle" RATHER than it being based on pollution is... the Mayan Calendar.. oddly enough.
I'm not even going to bother with the "it's not getting warmer, it's getting colder" discussion because that entire idea as far as I'm concerned is a joke.
The problem is that the global warming theory says that MEN are causing the world to become warmer
but history says its part of a cycle and we have no big influence on it and we have no evidence that we are getting warmer (since 95 I think)
another discussion is that, maybe, we are not becoming warmer, but colder ...
You can relate to pollution, but thats a different deal: I agree we should stop killing the rest of the nature, but I dont agree with the fact that these people are imposing an idea without giving anyone the chance to discuss it
Maya concepts of time
With the development of the place-notational Long Count calendar (believed to have been inherited from other Mesoamerican cultures), the Maya had an elegant system with which events could be recorded in a linear relationship to one another, and also with respect to the calendar ("linear time") itself. In theory, this system could readily be extended to delineate any length of time desired, by simply adding to the number of higher-order place markers used (and thereby generating an ever-increasing sequence of day-multiples, each day in the sequence uniquely identified by its Long Count number). In practice, most Maya Long Count inscriptions confine themselves to noting only the first five coefficients in this system (a b'ak'tun-count), since this was more than adequate to express any historical or current date (20 b'ak'tuns cover 7,885 solar years). Even so, example inscriptions exist which noted or implied lengthier sequences, indicating that the Maya well understood a linear (past-present-future) conception of time.
A baktun (properly b'ak'tun) is 20 katun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equivalent to 394.25 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred during the 8th and 9th baktuns of the current calendrical cycle. The current (13th) baktun will end, or be completed, on 13.0.0.0.0 (December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation). This also marks the beginning of the 14th baktun, as such a term is usually used among Mayanists.
J. Eric S. Thompson stated that when a Long Count of, say, 9.15.10.0.0 is placed in the 9th baktun, we are almost certainly committing an error, like placing the year 2009 in the 2nd millennium. However, that practice is so well established among Maya epigraphers and other students of the Maya that to change it would cause more harm than its perpetuation.
And how do you propose that we stop the killing of nature? Big Oil and Coal run tings. And they are the ones funding skeptics.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by xxshadowfaxx
Why would anyone in their right mind think that
Anyone who isn't a moron knows that trees breathe in carbon dioxide, so obviously would benefit from CO2 rises. Any hydroponic grower with experience can confirm this.
WTH does this have to do with global warming
If the fauna all over the globe could take in all this carbon without any difficulties, don't you think ... oh I dunno, that the CO2 atmospheric levels would not keep going up each year ??