Holland and Obama step up pressure on climate change ahead of COP21

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Holland and Obama step up pressure on climate change ahead of COP21
By Alasdair Sandford



WASHINGTON: -- World leaders have been adding their voices to those of scientists on climate change, following the latest warning that levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high last year.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has produced evidence showing that carbon dioxide levels have climbed steadily each year since reliable records began in 1984.

“We have broken a new record once again. Over the last 25 years between 1990 and 2014, there was a 36 percent increase in the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases,” said the World Meteorological Organisation’s Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.

Officials including environment ministers from dozens of countries have started early negotiations ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP21 which starts at the end of the month in Paris.

The twelve-day event will be used to discuss a potential new global agreement on combatting climate change.

More than 150 countries including the US and China have issued plans to limit emissions – but not enough to meet a target to keep global warming to within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels.

Addressing scientists, the conference host President Hollande of France urged world leaders to go the extra mile.

“We have to make sure that politicians are able to decide beyond the terms of their mandate, and even beyond their own lifespans. I mean that we should make sure that those who hold the future of our planet in their hands can imagine that they will be judged after they are gone. That’s what the Paris conference is about,” François Hollande said.

President Obama has used his Facebook page to call for what he called “this beautiful planet of ours” to be preserved for generations to come.

Speaking from the White House garden, a US National Park, he urged Americans to become engaged on the climate change issue.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-10

[eliotness]

There will be lots of words, lots of pledges and promises (lots of fancy dinners too), but how many real actions will result ???

[RickBradford]

None.

The pledges are already in, and amount to business as usual. China has leeway to double its CO2 emissions by 2030, and India to increase them threefold.

A headline like 'Hollande and Obama step up pressure' underscores that this is nothing than a political grandstanding and vanity project.

[luckyman]

They forgot the last letter E in the title, so I thought my tiny little homeland Holland was involved, hhhh

[Pimay1]

Social Security is broke. Medicare is broke. US debt is nineteen trillion dollars that even our great grandchildren won't be able to pay off but no problem. We have to be politically correct and support this hoax with billions of dollars to other countries.

[rethaier]

Global warming is NWO BS.

[RickBradford]

Another believer in dangerous global warming, if not in the policies being adopted to avert it, (Bjorn Lomborg) has just released a paper analysing the mitigation of global warming which will occur from the pledges already made by the world's biggest emitters in advance of the COP21 conference, aka the Greenblob Annual Ritual. He summarises:

* ...if we measure the impact of every nation fulfilling every promise by 2030, the total temperature reduction will be 0.048°C (0.086°F) by 2100.

* Even if we assume that these promises would be extended for another 70 years, there is still little impact: if every nation fulfills every promise by 2030, and continues to fulfill these promises faithfully until the end of the century, and there is no ‘CO₂ leakage’ to non-committed nations, the entirety of the Paris promises will reduce temperature rises by just 0.17°C (0.306°F) by 2100.

* US climate policies, in the most optimistic circumstances, fully achieved and adhered to throughout the century, will reduce global temperatures by 0.031°C (0.057°F) by 2100.

* China climate policies, in the most optimistic circumstances, fully achieved and adhered to throughout the century, will reduce global temperatures by 0.048°C (0.086°F) by 2100.

* The rest of the world’s climate policies, in the most optimistic circumstances, fully achieved and adhered to throughout the century, will reduce global temperatures by 0.036°C (0.064°F) by 2100.

Minus, of course , the vast amounts of greenhouse gases spewed out each year as 40,000 "stakeholders" travel to yet another attractive location for 12 days on the taxpayer dollar.

COP21 Paris has already failed; the attempt to curb greenhouse gases has failed; the alarmists have failed.

If you are one of those who believe the catastrophic predictions of the global warming zealots, now's the time to contact rental agents in Oymyakon.

Edited November 10, 2015 by RickBradford

[RuamRudy]

Social Security is broke. Medicare is broke. US debt is nineteen trillion dollars that even our great grandchildren won't be able to pay off but no problem. We have to be politically correct and support this hoax with billions of dollars to other countries.

If we don't take affirmative action now, your great grandchildren will have a lot more to worry about than debt repayment.

[RickBradford]

Social Security is broke. Medicare is broke. US debt is nineteen trillion dollars that even our great grandchildren won't be able to pay off but no problem. We have to be politically correct and support this hoax with billions of dollars to other countries.

If we don't take affirmative action now, your great grandchildren will have a lot more to worry about than debt repayment.

Eh? Affirmative action? Assuming you know what the phrase means, do you want to explain the relevance of that to global warming?

[RuamRudy]

Social Security is broke. Medicare is broke. US debt is nineteen trillion dollars that even our great grandchildren won't be able to pay off but no problem. We have to be politically correct and support this hoax with billions of dollars to other countries.

If we don't take affirmative action now, your great grandchildren will have a lot more to worry about than debt repayment.

Eh? Affirmative action? Assuming you know what the phrase means, do you want to explain the relevance of that to global warming?

Hey, you are correct and I am partially wrong.

Affirmative is a synonym of positive, but apparently affirmative action has a specific meaning with regards to positive discrimination. You live and learn...