Efforts continue to rescue us from the end of civilization as we know it;
Calculations suggest flying the 15,000 politicians, civil servants, green campaigners and television crews into Indonesia will generate the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes of extra CO2. That is similar to the entire annual emissions of the African state of Chad.
Have you rid yourself of that gas-guzzling SUV yet?
Attendees are expected to include celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, the actor, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, and Al Gore, the former US vice-president.
Many are merely “observers” who have no formal role to play in the talks, which largely involve government ministers and officials. Among these observers are 20 MEPs and 18 assistants whose itinerary includes a daytrip to the idyllic fishing and surfing village of Serangan.
Got your CFL bulbs?
The UN has also recently received thousands of new registrations from groups campaigning for the environment or fighting against poverty. WWF, one of the largest, is sending more than 32 staff to the meeting.
Thousands more are coming from businesses, especially the burgeoning carbon trading sector, which already carries out global transactions worth £12 billion a year and has an acute interest in the outcome of Bali.
Turn down your thermostat?
Indonesian officials say the final tally could reach 20,000 — and fear it could stretch the resort’s infrastructure to the limit. About 90% of the emissions will be generated by delegates flying thousands of miles to Bali, with the rest coming from the facilities they will be using.
How’s that new clothesline working for you?
Britain has tried to ensure its delegation is one of the smallest among the leading developed nations. Three ministers — Hilary Benn, the environment secretary, Phil Woolas, junior environment minister, and Gareth Thomas, junior minister for international development — will attend accompanied by about 40 civil servants.
Recycling your waste?
One of the biggest delegations is being assembled by the European Union, which is expected to send Stavros Dimas, the environment commissioner, and 90 officials. In addition, all 27 EU countries are expected to send separate national delegations. Germany has one of the biggest, with around 70, and France follows close behind with 50. Even Latvia will be represented by four delegates, while Malta, an island populated by 400,000, will have two.
Did you plant your tree?
And don’t forget to visit David Suzuki’s Bali blog to learn how our right-wing government is failing in their duty to sufficiently repress your C02 emissions. Because climate change is a non-partisan issue…
We’re keeping our fingers crossed [for a Rudd victory]. It would be great to have Australia on board in Bali. Heck, I’ll even buy their negotiators the first round of drinks at the swim-up bar
The Suzuki Foundation blog’s top post is titled – without a hint of irony – “Reality Check”.
Great column today by Lorne Gunter in The Post.
“Of the 2,500 scientists the UN claims support its global warming conclusions, only 62 actually reviewed the chapter said to “prove” that man is causing catastrophic climate change.
Of the 62, 60% submitted critical reviews that UN scientists refused to include in the final document. ”
There is a mistake in those calculations based on the statement human activity currently releases 6 billion tons CO2 annually. That should be 6 billion ton of carbon. Which would corrospond to 22 billion tons of CO2.
The point still stands since, in preceding years, much less CO2 was released due to human activities.
http://environment.newscientist.com/articleComments.ns?articleId=dn11638&page=2
According to monitoring station data, the levels of atmospheric carbon-13 CO2 in the atmosphere are increasing by 0.02-0.03 per mil per year. The difference between carbon-13 levels in atmospheric CO2 and carbon found in petroleum and organic matter is roughly 18 per mil. That means that the proportion of atmospheric CO2 attributable to anthropogenic sources is rising by 0.1-0.15 per cent per year. This is equivalent to 0.4-0.6 ppmv. But the TOTAL amount of atmospheric CO2 is increasing by about 1.5 ppmv. Conclusion: the majority of the increase in atmospheric CO2 is NOT from anthropogenic sources!
Someone mentioned john cross. Is that the same john cross who ignores the FACT that ipcc scientists, Major scientists who originally signed on to the argument in favor of ‘man-made’ gw, are now jumping ship? The john cross who ignores or attempts to trivialize the growing numbers of factors that are NOT in the ‘man-made’ gw models? That john cross?
*YAWN*
Can anyone tell me why we should pay other countries for carbon offset credits when we only contribute 2% o the total green house gasses.Shit we could shut canada completely down and we would make no difference lol.
Can anyone tell me why we should pay other countries for carbon offset credits when we only contribute 2% o the total green house gasses.Shit we could shut canada completely down and we would make no difference lol.
Suzuki’s Foundatuion should have its charitable status removed. It is overtly political.
Sean thinks that “HOW” the message is offered is more important than the message. Shake your head Sean,I doubt you will hear anything
horray at last.
http://www.nrsp.com/releases/release-07.11.26.html
now to send Borat Dion, Taliban Jack and Dizzy miss Lizzy May on the same jet plane.
“Sean thinks that “HOW” the message is offered is more important than the message.”
Uh huh. Go to a lot of job interviews dressed like a homeless person?