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Climate talks in trouble as green groups walk out
AFP
By Mariette Le Roux | AFP – 12 hours ago

Exasperated green groups walked out of faltering UN climate talks in Warsaw on Thursday as rich and poor nations bickered about who must do what to curb planet warming.

Negotiators were at loggerheads on the penultimate day of talks over divvying up responsibility for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and scaling up aid to poor states vulnerable to climate change effects.

In a dramatic flourish, six environment and development groups walked out, saying the annual round of talks had delivered little more than hot air since opening on November 11.

"The Warsaw climate conference, which should have been an important step in the just transition to a sustainable future, is on track to deliver virtually nothing," said a statement announcing the groups' decision to "voluntarily withdraw".

The signatories are Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam, ActionAid, the International Trade Union Confederation and Friends of the Earth.

They claimed more than 800 UN-accredited observers were part of the mass protest.

The groups pointed the finger at Poland for its "endorsement" of a global coal summit held in the same city and at the same time as the climate talks. They also singled out Japan for slashing its carbon emissions goal, and Australia for its decision to scrap a carbon tax on high emitters.

"Governments here have delivered a slap in the face to those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change," said Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo.

Non-governmental organisations attend the talks as observers and advisors. Decision-making is reserved for UN member states.

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Good riddance. Don't come back now, ya hear?

Innocent bystander wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 10:05am:


The unfortunate fact is the whole of science now is tarnished by the actions of the so called 'climate scientists'.

But they were all happy to add "impact of climate change" to any funding request made so I suppose they deserve to be locked out for a while.

Countless Billions $$$ pissed up the wall and we struggle to predict a smacking dryspell or above ave rainfall scenario a month in advance.  Absolutely no flow on research benefits to date. Just bullsh1t models programmed to meaningless CO2 vagaries.

Talk about being taken hostage by alarmist fraudsters, time for the real scientists to stand up and dump on these shysters from a great height.

They are conflating charity groups with environmentalists and therefore drawing totally invalid conclusions.

muso wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 7:00pm:

I don't think anyone disagrees, but it is such a small consequence, the benefits of it as plant food outweighs.

You and your ilk have not proven any amplifications of h2o effects caused by humans % of the trace gas co2.

Most sane people know co2 agw has been a witch hunt by the socialists looking for a way in, a way to control. They almost got there too.

muso wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 7:00pm:




Is this the time to link us all to that nice little youtube video of two bottles some co2 and a couple of heat lamps and thermometers - I can say that that really convinced me never to live in a sealed glass bottle (because that is just so representative of the earth) 

Now, just where is the catastrophic global warming???  is it really hiding in the deep oceans or is it in the snow at the poles.....or has it nipped out to the solar system and can be found firmly planted in Uranus?

Chimp_Logic wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2013 at 10:29am:

Book of chimp
If you hold 1 banana and break it in 2, you have 2 banana'

If you break it in to 1000 pieces, you will have enough banana' to feed a village