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Global warning: Greenhouse issue on the table
Published: 07 December, 2009, 21:10
Edited: 18 December, 2009, 10:21
TAGS: Ecology, Global warming, Meeting, Natural disasters, UN, EU, Europe
The United Nations climate change conference has gotten under way in the Danish capital Copenhagen Monday.
Delegates from 192 countries have gathered for two weeks of talks on how to combat global warming.
They want to agree on a deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol – which expires in 2012 – and is aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
56 world newspapers, one of them Russia’s Novaya Gazeta, have combined to run the same lead column today, calling on world leaders to create a meaningful and binding agreement.
15,000 delegates have already registered for the conference, while 34,000 wanted to come. 5,000 journalists are set to attend the event.
The latest news is that various countries have stepped forward with initiatives. South Africa has promised a 30% greater cut to greenhouse emissions by 2020 – if rich countries provide money and technology.
But some skeptics claim climate change is not the fault of mankind, and is being used by some for profit. So far, only one thing appears certain: the earth’s temperatures are rising.
“It’s the problem of how we interpret it and what the causes of global warming are,” says Sergey Roginko, the Head of Environment and Development Group at the Institute of Europe RAS.
Russian scientist Andrey Kapitsa is among those who say man is not to blame for global warming. According to him, carbon dioxide emissions play no role in creating the greenhouse effect.
“There are several factors affecting global warming,” he says, “Fluctuation of sun energy, fluctuation of Earth's axis, with Earth's orbit…As they change, we get either a warming or a cooling effect.”
The temperature surveys show quite clearly that temperatures on Earth have been rising since the mid-19th Century: long before carbon dioxide emissions reached their present level. It suggests the earth’s temperature seems to fluctuate in tune with solar activity.
So why the big hullabaloo, then? Who needs us to believe that factories, emissions, oil and gas production are killing the planet? Who is sending us on a major environmental guilt trip and why?
Russian TV producer Sergey Nadezhdin tried to answer those questions in his documentary on global warming, “A great bureaucracy exists around the idea of global warming, which depends on the danger of an imminent threat. And it's important to understand that the idea employs many people.”
So, when the world’s top environmentalists meet yet again in a fancy hotel to discuss how to save the planet over a glass of cabernet, critics ask: do they really care?
07.12.2009, 20:50
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It is all about money. "Poor" countries will cut emissions, provided "rich" countries "give" them the "technology". What a scam. "Poor" countries need to figure out how to transition from the financial bubble world, and into REAL economy, where something is actually made, such as food in Africa, where anything can grow to feed the entire mankind! Yet, the "poor" will be again begging the "rich" to give them the technology and save them from unknown disasters yet to come. Thanks to RTV to quote some REAL scientists, who know that the "global warming", as well as the sun radiation. ozone, carbon, etc. are the natural results of the very well known cycles, over which humans have no control. Global warming is no shocker as the Earth is still coming out of the ice age cycle, the 100,000 year cycle of Earth's eccentricity. But it is not that simple. The phenomena, the Precession, or the "wobble" of the Earth's axis at the poles, is in 26,000 cycles, and is currently such that it causes moderate climate in the northern hemisphere, and more violent in the south. The ice has EXPANDED in the South Pole, due to hotter, wetter, but shorter summers, and longer and colder winters. This is balanced out by norhtern hemisphere being cooler in the longer summer, and milder in the shorter winter. So, there is no lack of explanations (scientific) for what is going on, but some are determined not to listen. And when the whole new industry is created out of the whole cloth, who is to stop them? The new "science" will demand money, technology, etc. The question is, who will pay. Or will countries just decide to mind their own business and restructure their economies to the post-financial-bubble realities and produce something for a change.
Temperatures are CLEARLY NOT rising. I can see that in many different things from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.