PM Prayut attends climate change meeting in Paris

[baboon]

What a waste of tax-payer's money.

What will he bring from it? What will he take to it?

Nada. Zip. MAI MEE ARAI.

He'll take about the same as the 150 other "world leaders" and their 40,000 gofers. Sod all. America and Canada have already said they won't be bound by any agreement. China, India and the other mega polluting countries will never cut back. The whole subject is a joke. But a good excuse for some western governments (Britain) to put taxes up. A good chance for politicians to have a junket and forget about minor problems like terrorists and a billion economic refugees.

A mean spirited and cynical post. Problem is, I am having a great deal of difficulty disagreeing with any of it..

[ikke]

They write the meeting was with world leaders... why the hell Prayut was there ?

[phoenixdoglover]

Yep, except for the fact global warming is real, it's effects devastating, the consequences for not acting now catastrophic for humans and other life forms, and denying this is just hiding from reality.

The real question is if it's caused by humans or just a natural phenomenon. Would thoroughly suck if we go back to stone age, only to find out the temp rises anyway.

No this is not the "real" question. This is a pretend question signalling a closed mind.

[TheCruncher]

Wonder if he will have dinner with Jaran.

[DrTuner]

Yep, except for the fact global warming is real, it's effects devastating, the consequences for not acting now catastrophic for humans and other life forms, and denying this is just hiding from reality.

The real question is if it's caused by humans or just a natural phenomenon. Would thoroughly suck if we go back to stone age, only to find out the temp rises anyway.

No this is not the "real" question. This is a pretend question signalling a closed mind.

Good, because a closed loop is what you need. If you know anything about automation, then you'll know that to get a stable system you need to have working feedback. It obviously ain't working now.

[fasteddie]

In the US right now & just caught the CBS Evening News.

The television anchor said, in a SERIOUS tone "President Obama said that cutting carbon emissions would be a strike against ISIS".

I was boiling spaghetti noodles in a pot when I heard that. I almost killed myself with boiling water....I almost fell into the pot laughing.

Obama went on to say that the world would end or something by 2050 (not sure on that date - I was laughing too hard), if we didn't hurry up and tax the shit out everything even more.

I CANNOT BELIEVE people fall for this malarkey.

Save the bees! Save the trees!

Save the whales! Save those snails!

Yep, except for the fact global warming is real, it's effects devastating, the consequences for not acting now catastrophic for humans and other life forms, and denying this is just hiding from reality.

Oh please, nobody with an ounce of common sense believes that crap any more, it's the biggest scam in history, bigger even than capitalism.

[tonbridgebrit]

General, when you're there, go and tell them that Thailand burns LESS coal per person than most of the industrialised nations. Go and tell them, that when it comes to climate change, Thailand is LESS harmfull (on a per person basis) than a whole load of other countries.

[fasteddie]

Like the world leaders care what some jumped up little despot thinks.

[Reigntax]

He thought climate change referred to the overthrow of a government. If he had been correct, the world leaders could learn alot from this expert, especially what not to do.

[jaywalker]

How "Clean Up Your Own Backyard"/"Reduce Carbon Emissions" got tied into defeating ISIS has me baffled to no end.

Might be some sort of association between the droughts in Syria that decimated the crops and drove young men into ISIS's ranks. Still, if the US would go back to a bunch of hunters and gatherers today, what would that help, if anything at all?

It might help prevent the sun from turning into a super nova a billion years from now.

It also might help those poor little frogs who bump their asses every time they jump.

We have to do ALL we can!!!

[Thian]

Good that he goes there so he can see how to develop a metropole and still keep it clean and tidy.

I hope they let him walk around so he can feel how great it is to have perfect sidewalks where you really can walk.

[NongKhaiKid]

Go to Paris and try to be a legitimate national leader, mingle with the big boys if possible and get photographed, preferably shaking hands, to show the folks back home to how everyone wanted to be seen with him.

Expect the press release that his trip was a raging success and everyone he met expressed support for what's being done and applauded the successes to date.

[NongKhaiKid]

Go to Paris and try to be a legitimate national leader, mingle with the big boys if possible and get photographed, preferably shaking hands, to show the folks back home to how everyone wanted to be seen with him.

Expect the press release that his trip was a raging success and everyone he met expressed support for what's being done and applauded the successes to date.

[Bluespunk]

In the US right now & just caught the CBS Evening News.

The television anchor said, in a SERIOUS tone "President Obama said that cutting carbon emissions would be a strike against ISIS".

I was boiling spaghetti noodles in a pot when I heard that. I almost killed myself with boiling water....I almost fell into the pot laughing.

Obama went on to say that the world would end or something by 2050 (not sure on that date - I was laughing too hard), if we didn't hurry up and tax the shit out everything even more.

I CANNOT BELIEVE people fall for this malarkey.

Save the bees! Save the trees!

Save the whales! Save those snails!

Yep, except for the fact global warming is real, it's effects devastating, the consequences for not acting now catastrophic for humans and other life forms, and denying this is just hiding from reality.

Oh please, nobody with an ounce of common sense believes that crap any more, it's the biggest scam in history, bigger even than capitalism.

Keep telling yourself that if the truth scares you so much.

But you are wrong.

[digibum]

Thailand will be represented at the talks only as a cautionary tale.

[DonaldBattles]

If the generals had to live in the north of Thailand for the 2 months of burning of fields and forest they might change their minds about enforcing the law. We are choked every year and the hospitals are filled with suffering people. Is this a dereliction of of duty by public office holders. There is never mention of this major problem but they sure bitch a lot when Indonesia chokes the south.