Our future under the hammer
With a stroke of a hammer the climate change talks were over – two weeks of intense negotiations for… for what actually?
Maybe it was the lack of fresh air in the conference centre but, more probably the lack of political will in capitals which meant a failure of delegates to make any real progress at the climate change talks in Bonn. While outside the weather has been stormy, inside the atmosphere was rather suffocating. This kind of inaction will not ensure a safe and just future for us and the generations to come. Instead, continuing down this path, we will be ‘facing catastrophic climate change’, as Julie-Anne Richards from Oxfam Australia pointed out at a press conference today.
Tuvalu is a case in point. In the closing session in the plenary its delegate congratulated Yvo de Boer, General Secretary of the UNFCCC, for his birthday today. Tuvalu’s own number of birthdays are clearly numbered as delegates here at the international climate change negotiations have failed to prepare the way for ensuring a fair and equitable deal in Copenhagen.
This makes me think of a Johnny Cash song: Five feet high and risin'
" Well, the rails are washed out north of town, We gotta head for higher ground,
We can't come back till the water comes down, Five feet high and risin' "
Next time the negotiators meet, we must ensure that negotiations move on and that our future is not auctioned away, just like that with a stroke of a hammer. Five feet high and rising…
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As Copanhagen approaches....
There's a great article on Ian Kiernan's blog (Clean Up the World/Clean Up Australia) about Copanhagen and what each of us should be doing. Those at the top need to be taking action, but so do we all.... Check it outwww.cleanuptheworld.wordpress.com
Tuvalu and rising sea level
The problem of Tuvalu is not a very moderate rising sea level of about 2 to 3 mm/year since a long time before "dangerous climate change" became a political and media hype but the increase of population since the 50th of the last century (about 3.000 to about 11.000). Coral reefs or atols rose together with the rising sea levels after the last large ice age for about 120 m because the corals just grew and always were a little ahead of the paticular sea level. But due to overexploitation by population, farming and domestic animals the pollution of the surrounding sea and the coastal areas entails erosion and destroys the islands but not rising sea level. The same happens on the Maledives. Those countries, like many others, find a perfect excuse for bad government in the (slowly disappearing) global warming hype. I bet that the copenhagen climate summit will not pass a international binding climate treaty but a bunch of non-binding "letters of intent" because neither the USA nor China is able to accept grave emission reduction targets due to economic reasons and capacities. At last the summit will close by a declaration: Everybody should try the best to avoid global temperatures rising more than 2 centigrades and everybody should decide on his own how to reach that. Funny!
Tuvalu and the coral reefs
Here you will find some additional informations to the a.m. comment (in german language - just let google translate) :-)http://www.mare-tv.de/mare/hefte/beitrag-buend.php?id=93&&heftnummer=5
Last news from
Last news from Bangkok: "Progress toward high industrialized world emissions cuts remains disappointing during these talks. We're not seeing real advances there," Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters. "Movement on the ways and means and institutions to raise, manage and deploy financing support for the developing world climate action also remains slow."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100201098.html