BACK “live” (ish) for the FINAL HOURS of DURBAN.

Posted on 09/12/2011 by ixpieth

THESE ARE SOME FINAL FILMS FROM THE LAST HOURS OF DURBAN.

News round-up from One Climate early Friday morning, good summary.

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7pm GMT A day of hurried drafting of texts, geopolitical alignments, allocating work with an eye on 2020. I wonder what will happen when the new I.P.C.C. Reports come out in 2014 with even worse news than we have today.

7:01pm GMT update from Bill Gunyon

Before we encounter any more draft texts, here’s an outline summary of the day’s events. (I invite my colleagues to follow up with any errors or omissions).
With the overnight wind in her sails, the European Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard used the day’s opening press briefing to add pressure on those parties yet to be won over by her roadmap.
Soon we heard that Brazil and South Africa had been seduced, leaving China, India and US as the main hold-outs. Perhaps the gameplan was to isolate the US and repeat the endgame of the Bali conference in 2007.

http://oneworldgroup.org/durban

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LATEST REPORTS INDICATE A SATURDAY FINISH, WITH U.S.A. INDIA & CHINA HOLDING OUT ……………….

YOKE LING CHEE, MALAY DELEGATE & 3RD WORLD NETWORK WITH A NEGOTIATOR’S POINT OF VIEW.

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When Worlds Collide, Naom Chomsky on the UNFCCC Durban talks.

Posted on 09/12/2011 by ixpieth

MARCHING OFF THE CLIFF by NAOM CHOMSKY http://www.truth-out.org/marching-cliff/1323195281

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The standard “he says/she says” coverage of the issue keeps to what is called “balance”: the overwhelming majority of scientists on one side, the denialists on the other. The scientists who issue the more dire warnings are largely ignored.

One effect is that scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming – far less than the global average, and radically inconsistent with the facts.

As ominous reports were released this year from I.E.A. & U.N. agencies, the Financial Times devoted a full page to the optimistic expectations that the U.S. might become energy-independent for a century with new technology for extracting North American fossil fuels.

Though projections are uncertain, the Financial Times reports, the U.S. might “leapfrog Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest producer of liquid hydrocarbons, counting both crude oil and lighter natural gas liquids.”

In this happy event, the U.S. could expect to retain its global hegemony. Beyond some remarks about local ecological impact, the Financial Times said nothing about what kind of a world would emerge from these exciting prospects. Energy is to burn; the global environment be damned.

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http://www.truth-out.org/marching-cliff/1323195281

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Meanwhile, back at the Ranch ……..at the E.U. “emergency” crisis summit.

Posted on 09/12/2011 by ixpieth

HOW ON EARTH CAN WE CONCENTRATE ON MAKING MONEY OUT OF THIS WHEN WE’RE CONSTANTLY DISTRACTED BY THE ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . .

FROM THE AUTOMATIC EARTH , http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/

Ilargi: Earlier today, in a fancy location in Brussels, – no, you’re right, they probably had it €500 a plate catered, can’t take the risk of venturing out into the real world where the people live they’re supposed to represent-, one bullet-proof limo after another arrived to deliver the honorable hoi polloi from 27 EU countries and their servants for an informal gala dinner during which they could, in hard-fought peace, discuss the maximum extent to which austerity measures can be taken in various member countries without provoking outright civil war.

“You’re either at the table or you’re on the menu.”

Only, he meant his country’s government should have a say in what goes on (not just France and Germany). He did not mean the people of Poland themselves should be at the table. They are, like all other European people who were not delivered by bullet-proof limo to attend the dinner, very much on the menu. It’s the 1% vs the 99%.

Look, the US has a constitution. The EU has 27 different constitutions. Some modeled after England, some after France, some after the US, and some just made it up as they went along. There are lawyers and judges in all these 27 countries that know their respective constitutions.
And I’ll leave you a wild guess as to how many of them stipulate that you can’t just sign away broad based sovereign powers and rights to Brussels or anyone else without first consulting your parliament and/or your people.

CONTINUE READING AT TAE.

DURBAN “live” (almost)

Posted on 09/12/2011 by ixpieth

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTIST BROUGHT THE CLIMATE CRISIS TO THE WORLD’S ATTENTION IN 1992 WITH THIS;

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Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about

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http://www.ucsusa.org/about/1992-world-scientists.html

ALDEN MEYER FROM U.C.S. gives an opinion on the DURBAN negotiations to date.

http://oneworldgroup.org/2011/12/06/alden-meyer-of-union-of-concerned-scientists-sums-up-the-state-of-play-at-cop17/

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TOVE RYDING FROM GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL , “ASKS” THE U.S. TO “STEP ASIDE”, THEY DON’T BRING ANYTHING ………………….

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CHRISTIANA FIGUERES executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), delivers the 2011 Robert Schuman lecture TO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY in Lisbon PRE DURBAN.

http://oneworldgroup.org/2011/11/10/christiana-figueres-updates-business-leaders-on-progress-at-the-un-climate-talks/

No place like home.

How do we start again?

Daily Archives: 09/12/2011

BACK “live” (ish) for the FINAL HOURS of DURBAN.

When Worlds Collide, Naom Chomsky on the UNFCCC Durban talks.

MARCHING OFF THE CLIFF by NAOM CHOMSKY http://www.truth-out.org/marching-cliff/1323195281

One effect is that scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming – far less than the global average, and radically inconsistent with the facts.

As ominous reports were released this year from I.E.A. & U.N. agencies, the Financial Times devoted a full page to the optimistic expectations that the U.S. might become energy-independent for a century with new technology for extracting North American fossil fuels.

Though projections are uncertain, the Financial Times reports, the U.S. might “leapfrog Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest producer of liquid hydrocarbons, counting both crude oil and lighter natural gas liquids.”

In this happy event, the U.S. could expect to retain its global hegemony. Beyond some remarks about local ecological impact, the Financial Times said nothing about what kind of a world would emerge from these exciting prospects. Energy is to burn; the global environment be damned.

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch ……..at the E.U. “emergency” crisis summit.

DURBAN “live” (almost)

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MARCHING OFF THE CLIFF by NAOM CHOMSKY http://www.truth-out.org/marching-cliff/1323195281

One effect is that scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming – far less than the global average, and radically inconsistent with the facts.

As ominous reports were released this year from I.E.A. & U.N. agencies, the Financial Times devoted a full page to the optimistic expectations that the U.S. might become energy-independent for a century with new technology for extracting North American fossil fuels.

Though projections are uncertain, the Financial Times reports, the U.S. might “leapfrog Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest producer of liquid hydrocarbons, counting both crude oil and lighter natural gas liquids.”

In this happy event, the U.S. could expect to retain its global hegemony. Beyond some remarks about local ecological impact, the Financial Times said nothing about what kind of a world would emerge from these exciting prospects. Energy is to burn; the global environment be damned.

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