Environmental summit a bust
Lewis DiuguidFailure is the only word that defines Rio+20.
The environmental summit ended last week with no outcome that would reverse global warming or result in a greener energy push or in more sustainable developments. Negotiators for 188 nations fumbled in efforts to do something for the planet.
The best they could come up with was to agree to meet again. That merits a one-hand applause.
Also notable in his absence was President Barack Obama. Being at Rio+20 when Republicans are the world’s biggest climate change deniers would have been too hot a political issue for Obama in this election year.
Another cloud over Rio+20 is the ongoing world economic climate. No one wants to do anything to push the spreading global recession into a planet-wide depression.
However, the opposite approach is needed. Unless sustainable development and green energy are harnessed now, the planet may become too sick and violent to put up with any of the continuing damage from our human occupation.
JR Beillenhouser
11 months agoThat’s because climate change is a joke. Let’s hear what James Lovelock has to say about it. You know, James Lovelock, one of the first proponents of climate change whose books pushed these theories.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite
““The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.
“The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said.
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,” he added.
He pointed to Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” as other examples of “alarmist” forecasts of the future.”
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“As “an independent and a loner,” he said he did not mind saying “All right, I made a mistake.” He claimed a university or government scientist might fear an admission of a mistake would lead to the loss of funding.”
And there you have it. Climate Change, Global Warming, whatever you want to call it this month, in a nutshell.
George Hunsucker
Northland
11 months agoearth to lewis #16…
stick to your racial columns lewis, you have been hoodwinked on this global warming, oops, “climate change” crap….
Ron Vanlerberg
11 months agoSorry Lewis,