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Newfie wrote:It would seem the entertainment consists of hurling insults at one another.
Newfie wrote:
What and when are the next round of climate negotiations?
The United States has refused to sign an agreement on challenges in the Arctic due to discrepancies over climate change wording, diplomats said on Tuesday, jeopardizing cooperation in the polar region at the sharp edge of global warming.
With Arctic temperatures rising at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, the melting ice is creating potential new shipping lanes and has opened much of the world’s last untapped reserves of oil and gas to commercial exploitation .
A meeting of eight nations bordering the Arctic in Rovaniemi in Finland on Tuesday was supposed to frame a two-year agenda to balance the challenge of global warming with sustainable development of mineral wealth.
Newfie wrote:Arctic pact scuttled by USA.
A major study on how to limit global warming could be dropped from formal UN climate talks in Bonn this week after a “gentlemen’s agreement” was made under pressure from Saudi Arabia.
onlooker wrote:https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/un-climate-talks-in-bonn-saudi-arabia-15c-ipcc-rejects-a8970481.htmlA major study on how to limit global warming could be dropped from formal UN climate talks in Bonn this week after a “gentlemen’s agreement” was made under pressure from Saudi Arabia.
Newfie wrote:He has given you the gift of being a convenient person to blame.
asg70 wrote:Plant, your enviro-guilt projection posts are boring and repetitive.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:They should be holding it in northern cities like Fairbanks, Alaska or Magnetogorsk, Russia where arctic amplification boosts their viewpoint. Half or more of these meetings are in year round warm zones where change is subtle at best and unnoticeable by outsiders.
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