Moving the climate change debate, which has settled down into a consensus on AWG, out of the scientific body advising the UN — the IPCC — and into the General Assembly seems like a good idea.
Even better, Ban seems to expect results coming out of his attempt to bang heads together:
"I have been advised by many experts that if we act now - since we have the resources and heightened awareness - we can reverse it," he said.
"Then we can give a much more prosperous planet Earth to our great, great, grandchildren. "
Even better, Ban seems to expect results coming out of his attempt to bang heads together:
He said that the outcomes from this meeting would feed into the UN climate negotiation process.
"I have been advised by many experts that if we act now - since we have the resources and heightened awareness - we can reverse it," he said.
"Then we can give a much more prosperous planet Earth to our great, great, grandchildren. "
The international climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking" to tackle the problem, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged. He called for both industrialised and developing nations to focus on limiting future global greenhouse gas emissions. Mr Ban added that he would convene a climate summit to help reach consensus on a global climate action plan. The idea of making developing nations enforce emissions caps has also faced opposition.
"To build on the current momentum, I am going to convene a high-level UN General Assembly debate on 24 September." "Business as usual is no longer an option - we must reach complete agreement," he told the audience in central London.
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2 comments:
Dear Editor, July 21/07
Recent research by Henrik Svensmark and his group at the Danish National
Space Center points to the real cause of the recent warming trend. In a
series of experiments on the formation of clouds, these scientists have
shown that fluctuations in the Sun's output cause the observed changes in the
Earth's temperature.
In the past, scientists believed the fluctuations in the Sun's output were
too small to cause the observed amount of temperature change, hence the need
to look for other causes like carbon dioxide. However, these new
experiments show that fluctuations in the Sun's output are in fact large
enough, so there is no longer a need to resort to carbon dioxide as the
cause of the recent warming trend.
The discovery of the real cause of the recent increase in the Earth's
temperature is indeed a convenient truth. It means humans are not to blame
for the increase. It also means there is absolutely nothing we can, much
less do, to correct the situation.
Thomas Laprade
480 Rupert St.
Thunder Bay, Ont.
Ph. 807 3457258
Canada
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One problem I have with this whole ‘debate’ is the concept of ’scientific consensus’. Consensus is a political, not scientific, term.
Here’s an interesting, albeit non-scientific, exercise: You know there’s lot’s of information to find out there by doing a Google search for ‘global warming’, and a lot of it is quite scary; but try adding ‘climatologist’ to your search terms and the results - the ‘consensus’, if you will - changes dramatically. It’s quite interesting how many climatologists are anthropogenic global warming doubters, compared with the doomsayers who are in other fields like geology, biology, politics, fashion, and entertainment.
Try it -
http://www.google.com/ search?hl=en&q=climatologist+global+warming
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