Saturday, November 28, 2009

World leaders spur on climate debate

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PORT OF SPAIN — World leaders sought on Friday to spur on the global-warming debate ahead of a Copenhagen climate conference that has been fired up by pledges from China and the United States to cut emissions.

The UN is seeking a common stance for the talks in Copenhagen. [i.e., all 'debate' must center on how severely to saddle developed countries with growth impediments with no discussion on the irrefutable evidence that the problem they' re to 'combat' doesn't exist. So much for 'meaningful talks'.]

Fears that the conference starting December 7 would fail to reach a deal were eased this week with pledges by Beijing and Washington. The offers by the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters were widely hailed, even if there were questions over how effective they would be.

The United States said it was aiming to curb emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. [not, possible.]
US President Barack Obama will also present at Copenhagen longer-term pledges of a 30 percent reduction in emissions by 2025, 42 percent by 2030 and 83 percent by 2050 [from inane to insane].

China said that by 2020, it would cut the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 40 to 45 percent compared to 2005 levels. .

China's Communist Party leadership pledged Friday to "actively" tackle climate change while sticking to its economic expansion.

Experts said however that while China was touting its plan as a "major contribution" to the struggle against climate change, its already massive greenhouse gas emissions will still rise for years to come.

"We think it represents a relatively small move away from business-as-usual for China and still implies quite a large growth in emissions,"

[But its real goal is to force the US to commit its political suicide - and it will work perfectly unless we the people stop this scam when Congress is called on to ratify any related 'treaty'.]


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