Post by missouriboy on Jun 7, 2015 23:25:26 GMT
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21 or CMP11 will be held in Paris, France in 2015.[1] The international climate
conference will be held at the Le Bourget site from 30 November to 11 December 2015.[2] This will be the 21st yearly session of
the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the
11th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 11) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.[3].
The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate,
from all the nations of the world.
As the conference approaches, no doubt we can look forward to a new fusilade of "facts" and warnings of our upcoming demise.
I note a new survey that just hit the wires. news.yahoo.com/global-citizens-very-concerned-climate-poll-144409976.html
Global citizens 'very concerned' about climate
Paris (AFP) - The widest global effort yet to gauge citizens' views on climate change showed 79 percent to be "very concerned"
about its effects, but less than half support a carbon tax to curb emissions, organisers said Sunday.
Results of the day-long consultation held in 75 countries on Saturday were posted on the website of the initiative dubbed World
Wide Views on Climate and Energy.
Next week, they will be put to climate negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany ahead of a year-end United Nations conference in
Paris, where nations have undertaken to sign a new world pact to curb global warming.
Responses to a multiple-choice questionnaire showed that 71 percent of the 10,000-odd participants believe the UN negotiations
process has not done enough to tackle climate change.
A large 64 percent believes the Paris agreement should "do whatever it takes" to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius
(3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels -- the UN goal.
As seems obvious from the title, the results of this survey, which appears to have been conducted among likely conference participants,
will be played up as proof that the majority of all global citizens are very concerned about the climate...and that two-thirds
believe that 'the agreement' should do whatever it takes to meet the UN goal. I'm surprised that they admitted that less than half
support a carbon tax. This may simply be a rallying call to the troops to pound the pavement and do some convincing.
I'm pretty sure that a 'real survey' in my neck of the woods would not yield any such results ... and the personal comments obtained
might be very colorful. Those concerned about what this conference could produce should be sure that their 'elected' representatives
get an 'ear full'.
If the Atlantic continues to cool, along with the temperatures of northwestern Europe and northern North America, it will be quite
interesting to see if this gets any play at or during the conference. A cynic might suggest that the quality of science in the run-up to
this conference might reach new lows. We can always hope for better.
conference will be held at the Le Bourget site from 30 November to 11 December 2015.[2] This will be the 21st yearly session of
the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the
11th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 11) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.[3].
The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate,
from all the nations of the world.
As the conference approaches, no doubt we can look forward to a new fusilade of "facts" and warnings of our upcoming demise.
I note a new survey that just hit the wires. news.yahoo.com/global-citizens-very-concerned-climate-poll-144409976.html
Global citizens 'very concerned' about climate
Paris (AFP) - The widest global effort yet to gauge citizens' views on climate change showed 79 percent to be "very concerned"
about its effects, but less than half support a carbon tax to curb emissions, organisers said Sunday.
Results of the day-long consultation held in 75 countries on Saturday were posted on the website of the initiative dubbed World
Wide Views on Climate and Energy.
Next week, they will be put to climate negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany ahead of a year-end United Nations conference in
Paris, where nations have undertaken to sign a new world pact to curb global warming.
Responses to a multiple-choice questionnaire showed that 71 percent of the 10,000-odd participants believe the UN negotiations
process has not done enough to tackle climate change.
A large 64 percent believes the Paris agreement should "do whatever it takes" to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius
(3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels -- the UN goal.
As seems obvious from the title, the results of this survey, which appears to have been conducted among likely conference participants,
will be played up as proof that the majority of all global citizens are very concerned about the climate...and that two-thirds
believe that 'the agreement' should do whatever it takes to meet the UN goal. I'm surprised that they admitted that less than half
support a carbon tax. This may simply be a rallying call to the troops to pound the pavement and do some convincing.
I'm pretty sure that a 'real survey' in my neck of the woods would not yield any such results ... and the personal comments obtained
might be very colorful. Those concerned about what this conference could produce should be sure that their 'elected' representatives
get an 'ear full'.
If the Atlantic continues to cool, along with the temperatures of northwestern Europe and northern North America, it will be quite
interesting to see if this gets any play at or during the conference. A cynic might suggest that the quality of science in the run-up to
this conference might reach new lows. We can always hope for better.