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- Nine African cities commit to reaching zero carbon by 2050 Tue, 22 May 18, 2:59amNine cities across Africa, a continent vulnerable to climate change, are taking action. Recently, these cities pledged to deliver their share of carbon emissions reductions to hit Paris Agreement goals. The cities, several...
- Chilling images show how sea level rise will affect cities around the world Wed, 18 Nov 15, 12:57pmThe images show major cities, including London, Shanghai, Mubmai, Rio de Janiero, Durban, and New York City, flooded with water, submerging streets and buildings...
- Where there’s a need for immunity, there’s a crime – Green climate fund looking to UN for diplomatic immunity protection from lawsuits. Sat, 24 Mar 12, 6:01pmIt seems to me, that if you are asking for immunity up-front, you already know that something has been done that without immunity, would land somebody in the slammer...
- Official Doomsday Clock Moves One Minute Closer to End of World Due to Climate Change, Nuclear Proliferation Thu, 12 Jan 12, 5:51amA well-known group of scientists decided yesterday that Earth’s doomsday is now one minute closer due to global inaction on climate change and the ongoing threat of nuclear disaster...
- Official Doomsday Clock Moves One Minute Close to End of World Due to Climate Change, Nuclear Proliferation Thu, 12 Jan 12, 5:51amA well-known group of scientists decided yesterday that Earth’s doomsday is now one minute closer due to global inaction on climate change and the ongoing threat of nuclear disaster...
- A controversial look at Blackbody radiation and Earth minus GHG’s Mon, 26 Dec 11, 10:00pmOn Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this blog on Dec. 5, 2011. In that comment he wrote: “First, it is not difficult...
- Post COP 17 – The Road to Nowhere Sun, 18 Dec 11, 6:14amGuest post by Professor Will Alexander Roadmaps The key word used during the COP 17 discussions was ‘roadmap’ used by the European Union delegation...
- Email from UNFCCC: “we won’t let Canada out of the Kyoto Convention responsibilities” Wed, 14 Dec 11, 4:20amPeople send me stuff… UPDATE: See below for another interpretation Remember how this was phrased? “sign it, it’s just voluntary!” Recall Rio 1992 “Earth Summit” where the meme was “hey,...
- Durban: Wild ambit fails, but money flows. Landmark non legal “something-arother” agreed to. Sun, 11 Dec 11, 9:48pmGood news. The talented strategists left the UNFCCC team before COP17 in Durban. The A-graders saw the trainwreck coming and moved on.
- Oxfam—Betraying its Roots and Sabotaging its Own Mission Tue, 13 Dec 11, 7:04pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany On its website Oxfam reminds us that its name comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Today it claims to work to “find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.” So imagine...
- Kyoto – in the past for Canada Tue, 13 Dec 11, 10:43amMore at BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310 UPI says: The cost of meeting Canada’s obligations under Kyoto would be $13.6 billion, Kent said. “That’s $1,600 from every Canadian family...
- Climate scientists: not evil, maybe a bit stupid, definitely in a world all of their own Tue, 13 Dec 11, 5:13amThe Durban climate conference has been an abject failure. But that hasn't stopped those who were there desperately trying – with all the plausibility of Monty Python's Black Knight – to spin their disaster as...
- COP17: Talks in Durban End With Failure to Cut Current Global Emissions Tue, 13 Dec 11, 5:20amThe UN Climate talks in Durban ended early Sunday morning in overtime as nations around the world struggled to agree on how to prevent catastrophic climate change and ensure the future of the human race on planet Earth...
- Quote of the Week – what Durban is really about Mon, 12 Dec 11, 4:45amWUWT commenter Cal65 from Hawaii burns away all of the irrelevancy of posturing and pronouncements and gets to the core truth of what the Durban climate deal is really all about...
- Durban: Wild ambit fails, but money flows. “Landmark” non legal something-arother agreed to. Sun, 11 Dec 11, 9:48pmGood news. The talented strategists left the UNFCCC team before COP17 in Durban. The A-graders saw the trainwreck coming and moved on.