Comments on: Rudd’s weak targets undermine progress at UN http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927 Greenpeace Australia Pacific Energy blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: KP http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927#comment-7334 KP Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:06:19 +0000 http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927#comment-7334 Does anybody know what the Climate Treaty says? What in fact will Rudd be signing? None of us really know - he could be signing a Treaty that overrides every Australian's right to freedom under a one world government, who knows. Have been reading some scientific findings recently that state global warming is a cyclic thing - found "AIR CON the seriously inconvenient truth about global warming" interesting. I have personally made some headway in making a difference by changing the way I live, harvesting water and gearing up my house to go solar, growing veges/chooks, surely each one of us can make some changes to make a difference and decrease our consumption. Signing a Treaty may give some an excuse not to make changes personally, mind you at a financial cost which may or may not go toward aiding the reduction of global warming. I believe this cost is estimated to be about $3,000 per household per year at a minimum. I would rather spend this money on my own household sustainability thanks! Does anybody know what the Climate Treaty says? What in fact will Rudd be signing? None of us really know - he could be signing a Treaty that overrides every Australian’s right to freedom under a one world government, who knows.
Have been reading some scientific findings recently that state global warming is a cyclic thing - found “AIR CON the seriously inconvenient truth about global warming” interesting.
I have personally made some headway in making a difference by changing the way I live, harvesting water and gearing up my house to go solar, growing veges/chooks, surely each one of us can make some changes to make a difference and decrease our consumption.
Signing a Treaty may give some an excuse not to make changes personally, mind you at a financial cost which may or may not go toward aiding the reduction of global warming. I believe this cost is estimated to be about $3,000 per household per year at a minimum. I would rather spend this money on my own household sustainability thanks!

]]> By: Steve Woodman http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927#comment-7315 Steve Woodman Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:05:31 +0000 http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927#comment-7315 "...The science is clear..." Not quite! Are you aware of the recent Univerity of Bristiol study that shows the environment is stronger at absorbing atmopspheric carbon than modelled ... http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6649.html oops, and it looks like another error has been made ... "Another result of the study is that emissions from deforestation might have been overestimated by between 18 and 75 per cent. This would agree with results published last week in Nature Geoscience by a team led by Guido van der Werf from VU University Amsterdam. They re-visited deforestation data and concluded that emissions have been overestimated by at least a factor of two." “…The science is clear…”

Not quite!

Are you aware of the recent Univerity of Bristiol study that shows the environment is stronger at absorbing atmopspheric carbon than modelled …

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6649.html

oops, and it looks like another error has been made …

“Another result of the study is that emissions from deforestation might have been overestimated by between 18 and 75 per cent. This would agree with results published last week in Nature Geoscience by a team led by Guido van der Werf from VU University Amsterdam. They re-visited deforestation data and concluded that emissions have been overestimated by at least a factor of two.”

]]> By: Steve Woodman http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927#comment-7306 Steve Woodman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:13:55 +0000 http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=927#comment-7306 Democratically elected governemnts are probably balking at the idea of signing Copenhagen as it will be a clear liability for their re-election prospects. For example, if Rudd signs a $7billion dollar cheque to the UN, money that will go to foreign governments with questionable human rights records, I doubt he will get a second term. With the refugee fiasco playing out and damaging his popularity, he is probably glad Copenhagen is failing ... one less dent in the opinion polls. Rudd's hysterical rant against freedom of speech aimed at skeptics and opponents of his ridiculus ETS (no doubt timed to be a distraction from his refugee disaster) has seriously dented his credentials to be the leader of a democracy. To think that Australia's 1 % contribution to global emissions warrants the world to pay any attention to what we do or don't do is, I'm sorry to say, delusional. Sure, poor countries will be glad to take our money, but that is all. They don't give too figs about whether or not our reducing of 1% to 0.6% of global emissions will make a difference (it won't) - they just want the money. Hopefully the working families of Australia won't be burdened by the costs of a ludicrous ETS or a yearly $7billion dollar tax bill payable to the UN. Democratically elected governemnts are probably balking at the idea of signing Copenhagen as it will be a clear liability for their re-election prospects. For example, if Rudd signs a $7billion dollar cheque to the UN, money that will go to foreign governments with questionable human rights records, I doubt he will get a second term. With the refugee fiasco playing out and damaging his popularity, he is probably glad Copenhagen is failing … one less dent in the opinion polls.

Rudd’s hysterical rant against freedom of speech aimed at skeptics and opponents of his ridiculus ETS (no doubt timed to be a distraction from his refugee disaster) has seriously dented his credentials to be the leader of a democracy.

To think that Australia’s 1 % contribution to global emissions warrants the world to pay any attention to what we do or don’t do is, I’m sorry to say, delusional. Sure, poor countries will be glad to take our money, but that is all. They don’t give too figs about whether or not our reducing of 1% to 0.6% of global emissions will make a difference (it won’t) - they just want the money.

Hopefully the working families of Australia won’t be burdened by the costs of a ludicrous ETS or a yearly $7billion dollar tax bill payable to the UN.

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