Help put a brake on climate change, Angela Merkel tells Australia

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Help put a brake on climate change, Angela Merkel tells Australia
Peter Hannam

SYDNEY: -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has added to international calls on Australia to reveal its plans for cutting emissions.

Mrs Merkel said that, while it was important for countries such as Germany and Australia to pool their efforts to promote free trade and curb the spread of Ebola, it was also important to "put a brake on climate change".

She said that global warming would have "catastrophic" consequences if left unchecked, including more extreme weather.

"Climate change knows no borders," Mrs Merkel told the Lowy Institute in a lecture in Sydney a day after the G20 summit wrapped up in Brisbane with action on climate change contained in a list of commitments.

"It will not stop at the Pacific Islands."

The German leader also pressed Australia to reveal its post-2020 goal "by the first quarter [of 2015] at the very latest", to give time for the UN's Paris Summit to achieve the ambition of binding emission cuts for all states.

Full story: http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/help-put-a-brake-on-climate-change-angela-merkel-tells-australia-20141117-11o17o.html

-- The Age 2014-11-17

[ABCer]

This woman is too big for her bridges.

"Telling" everybody what to do and how to do it.

Must like seeing herself in the mirror every morning.

Australians know more about dangers of climate change than Germans.

We have the ozone hole. We have the forest fires. We have the deserts. We have the droughts and the floods.

Climatic changes are a part of the Earth ecology.

When they come - they come. And no additional taxes or 1000 Merkels will change that.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Scott

[Chicog]

Does she mean "tell us how much coal you're selling to the Chinese"?

[ABCer]

 

Does she mean "tell us how much coal you're selling to the Chinese"?

 

Any country sells what they can, what they have and what the buyer wants.

Russia sells oil and gas to Germany. Are you questioning the morality of this?

Better than selling arms right, left and center. Arms that kill other people including your own.

In any case Merkel speaks like a self-appointed moralist to UK, Russia, Australia, EU. She should know her place.

[Credo]

Oh, I do believe she emitting her fair share of methane.

[makkam]

This woman is too big for her bridges.

"Telling" everybody what to do and how to do it.

Must like seeing herself in the mirror every morning.

Australians know more about dangers of climate change than Germans.

We have the ozone hole. We have the forest fires. We have the deserts. We have the droughts and the floods.

Climatic changes are a part of the Earth ecology.

When they come - they come. And no additional taxes or 1000 Merkels will change that.

'Too big for her bridges'???

Bet her command of English is superior to yours ..what a buffoon you are.

[Starre]

This woman is too big for her bridges.

"Telling" everybody what to do and how to do it.

Must like seeing herself in the mirror every morning.

Australians know more about dangers of climate change than Germans.

We have the ozone hole. We have the forest fires. We have the deserts. We have the droughts and the floods.

Climatic changes are a part of the Earth ecology.

When they come - they come. And no additional taxes or 1000 Merkels will change that.

Is that you Tony Abbott?

[samran]

wow, misogyny and climate deniers.

Will make for a typical fascinating Thai visa thread

[masuk]

Well, a lot of folk shafted Putin for his Putsch, and Dr NO (Abbott) deserves it too.

The country had set a good example in having a Carbon Tax, but he caved in to big industry and cancelled it.

Roll on climate change.

[Baerboxer]

"In June 2011 German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that for Germany to phase out nuclear power that it would need more coal plants. In 2011 there were over a dozen proposed coal plants in the country. However, Merkel stated that the country would still reach its carbon emissions limits.^[4] In February 2013 the Muenster-based IWR renewable energy institute said new coal plants with about 5,300 megawatts of capacity will start generating power that year, while about 1,000 megawatts of coal-fired capacity was expected to come offline.^[5]

In 2011, 2012 and 2013 coal use rose in Germany, despite the country's ambitious push for wind and solar power."

Above from Wiki.

Perhaps the millionaire Frau Merkel wants to share the German "wonder" technology that reduces carbon emissions whilst using more coal fired power plants?

No doubt some interesting and innovative statistics will be provided.

[johnmcc6]

Merkel buys her power from French nuclear power plants even though she shut her own plants down. Kinda stupid when you think of it. If the neighbouring plants go toxic they are on Gemany's border anyway so makes no different than having your own. Just another politician talking crap for her own ends.In this case it's to appease the looney greens and keep her job. No matter the little guy has to pay higher power charges for absolutly no benefit to the planet. But then again she has reopened a couple of coal mines to fill in the gaps so a few jobs are created. The same political nonsense With the so called Obama China agreement. Lets China continue to do as it please's for a couple of decades while goofus Obama is about shutting down the coal industry in his useless quest to seem relevant. Again it's the little guy who will pay for subsidies to these clowns with their constantly failing green schemes. The american electorate has just told Obama what it thinks and worry about climate change is near the bottom of their concerns.

[Haecksler]

Merkel buys her power from French nuclear power plants even though she shut her own plants down. Kinda stupid when you think of it. If the neighbouring plants go toxic they are on Gemany's border anyway so makes no different than having your own. Just another politician talking crap for her own ends.In this case it's to appease the looney greens and keep her job. No matter the little guy has to pay higher power charges for absolutly no benefit to the planet. But then again she has reopened a couple of coal mines to fill in the gaps so a few jobs are created. The same political nonsense With the so called Obama China agreement. Lets China continue to do as it please's for a couple of decades while goofus Obama is about shutting down the coal industry in his useless quest to seem relevant. Again it's the little guy who will pay for subsidies to these clowns with their constantly failing green schemes. The american electorate has just told Obama what it thinks and worry about climate change is near the bottom of their concerns.

The trivial and blunt BS from people which does not understand anything what is happen now.

Better use information from verified sources than those from the bar at walk-in street.

[IAMHERE]

It is merely a scheme to get more taxes by the government. There is nothing that can be done to reverse the warming. If it eventually kills people then it is sort of like Ebola, self limiting. Cut the population in half if you want to reverse global warming.

[masuk]

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

But at our present rate of pollution, burning of fossil fuels, fracking to get the last drop of oil/gas from the ground, the pollution of our oceans with plastics, overfishing, logging tropical and temperate forests, it does not appear that a lot of forward planning is taking place.

Right now we're acting like a few thousand fishermen emptying the oceans of cod and herring, and then looking stunned because the stocks are close to zero.

If we don't stop polluting and over harvesting in the immediate future, there's not going to be a lot left for our kids, and the future will be one big, hot, dust bowl.

Sorry to be a prophet of doom, but open your eyes politicians and act now, as people won't do it on their own.

[johnmcc6]

Merkel buys her power from French nuclear power plants even though she shut her own plants down. Kinda stupid when you think of it. If the neighbouring plants go toxic they are on Gemany's border anyway so makes no different than having your own. Just another politician talking crap for her own ends.In this case it's to appease the looney greens and keep her job. No matter the little guy has to pay higher power charges for absolutly no benefit to the planet. But then again she has reopened a couple of coal mines to fill in the gaps so a few jobs are created. The same political nonsense With the so called Obama China agreement. Lets China continue to do as it please's for a couple of decades while goofus Obama is about shutting down the coal industry in his useless quest to seem relevant. Again it's the little guy who will pay for subsidies to these clowns with their constantly failing green schemes. The american electorate has just told Obama what it thinks and worry about climate change is near the bottom of their concerns.

The trivial and blunt BS from people which does not understand anything what is happen now.

Better use information from verified sources than those from the bar at walk-in street.

Your post is obviously trivial as it offers nothing to the debate. Are you saying Germany does not buy power from France? That Germany is not using coal again? That germany did not close some nuke stations? Perhaps sources of up to date information is not getting through to you? Anyway your sarcasm sounds like you are the one who hangs out on walking street.

[ABCer]

 

This woman is too big for her bridges.

"Telling" everybody what to do and how to do it.

Must like seeing herself in the mirror every morning.

Australians know more about dangers of climate change than Germans.

We have the ozone hole. We have the forest fires. We have the deserts. We have the droughts and the floods.

Climatic changes are a part of the Earth ecology.

When they come - they come. And no additional taxes or 1000 Merkels will change that.

'Too big for her bridges'???

Bet her command of English is superior to yours ..what a buffoon you are.

 

makkam,

Thanks for correcting my spelling. I meant BRITCHES.

Thanks for pointing out that you are a buffoon.

It is generally considered to be bad taste to pick out spelling mistakes - makes you a buffoon.

English is not my native language. I speak and write better than many native speakers - makes you once more a buffoon.

I write, read and speak more than one language. Makes you a buffoon for the third time compared to me.

Reverting to personal insults on basis of a spelling mistake makes you a buffoon yet again.

This is a BUFFOON to the forth degree! Are you getting the idea?

I hope the TV members who "liked" your stupid personal attack will alleviate your predicament by sharing some degree of your 'BUFFOON' title.

Edited November 17, 2014 by ABCer

[pattayasnowman]

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

But at our present rate of pollution, burning of fossil fuels, fracking to get the last drop of oil/gas from the ground, the pollution of our oceans with plastics, overfishing, logging tropical and temperate forests, it does not appear that a lot of forward planning is taking place.

Right now we're acting like a few thousand fishermen emptying the oceans of cod and herring, and then looking stunned because the stocks are close to zero.

If we don't stop polluting and over harvesting in the immediate future, there's not going to be a lot left for our kids, and the future will be one big, hot, dust bowl.

Sorry to be a prophet of doom, but open your eyes politicians and act now, as people won't do it on their own.

Try not to confuse pollution with anthropogenic climate change.

The former is IS a problem whereas the latter is not.

[Haecksler]

masuk, on 17 Nov 2014 - 20:32, said:

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

But at our present rate of pollution, burning of fossil fuels, fracking to get the last drop of oil/gas from the ground, the pollution of our oceans with plastics, overfishing, logging tropical and temperate forests, it does not appear that a lot of forward planning is taking place.

Right now we're acting like a few thousand fishermen emptying the oceans of cod and herring, and then looking stunned because the stocks are close to zero.

If we don't stop polluting and over harvesting in the immediate future, there's not going to be a lot left for our kids, and the future will be one big, hot, dust bowl.

Sorry to be a prophet of doom, but open your eyes politicians and act now, as people won't do it on their own.

Try not to confuse pollution with anthropogenic climate change.

The former is IS a problem whereas the latter is not.

Yes, pattayasnowman

don't confuse therms and before write posts with sophisticated

words understand the simple ones first "pollution"

[chuckd]

Obama has agreed to throw $3 Billion of taxpayer money down this endless drain.

Lots of new grants in the pipeline...assuming, of course, the new Republican Congress will approve the appropriation.

[RickBradford]

India's Government to double use of domestic coal from 565 million tons last year to more than a billion tons by 2019.

“India’s development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future,” India’s power minister, Piyush Goyal, said at a recent conference in New Delhi in response to a question. “The West will have to recognize we have the needs of the poor.”

Who says politicians don't know how to "act now"?

Rather puts Australia's puny emissions into perspective.

[RickBradford]

And even as Merkel publicly berates the Australians about their emission cuts policy, Der Spiegel reports:

The German coalition government is planning to withdraw from its 2020 climate change goals. Notwithstanding public protest, Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) has abandoned the requirement of cutting 40 percent of CO2 emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2020.

“It’s clear that the [2020 CO2] target is no longer viable,” said the vice-chancellor according to information obtained by SPIEGEL, adding: “We cannot exit from coal power overnight.”

So much for "putting a brake on climate change."

[snarky66]

Yeah merkel should mind her own business & keep her mouth shut.

Not all of us are buying into the global warming hoax.

[thaibeachlovers]

It is merely a scheme to get more taxes by the government. There is nothing that can be done to reverse the warming. If it eventually kills people then it is sort of like Ebola, self limiting. Cut the population in half if you want to reverse global warming.

Cut the population in half

It's what I've been saying from the get go, but no politician has the guts to say that, let alone do anything about it.

Abortion should be free and on demand, plus let's stop paying people to have babies.

BTW, I don't have any children myself, so I've done my bit.

[thaibeachlovers]

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

But at our present rate of pollution, burning of fossil fuels, fracking to get the last drop of oil/gas from the ground, the pollution of our oceans with plastics, overfishing, logging tropical and temperate forests, it does not appear that a lot of forward planning is taking place.

Right now we're acting like a few thousand fishermen emptying the oceans of cod and herring, and then looking stunned because the stocks are close to zero.

If we don't stop polluting and over harvesting in the immediate future, there's not going to be a lot left for our kids, and the future will be one big, hot, dust bowl.

Sorry to be a prophet of doom, but open your eyes politicians and act now, as people won't do it on their own.

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

[masuk]

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

But at our present rate of pollution, burning of fossil fuels, fracking to get the last drop of oil/gas from the ground, the pollution of our oceans with plastics, overfishing, logging tropical and temperate forests, it does not appear that a lot of forward planning is taking place.

Right now we're acting like a few thousand fishermen emptying the oceans of cod and herring, and then looking stunned because the stocks are close to zero.

If we don't stop polluting and over harvesting in the immediate future, there's not going to be a lot left for our kids, and the future will be one big, hot, dust bowl.

Sorry to be a prophet of doom, but open your eyes politicians and act now, as people won't do it on their own.

We're supposed to be an intelligent species, capable of looking into the future.

yup, R.O.T.F.W.L. A pity it's so close to the truth.

[ABCer]

 

Oh, I do believe she emitting her fair share of methane.

 

BTW it was an Australian(?) joke - "save natural gas, fart in a bottle".