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Climate summit most chaotic show on earth - Miliband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8423227.stm


	Quote: Delegates largely backed a US-led climate deal which included limiting temperature rises to less than 2C. But the 193-nation summit ended with delegates taking "note" of the deal.


	Quote: He (Ed Miliband) said some developing countries, such as China, did not want targets to be under international legally-binding obligations. "They have doubts about whether we should, as a world, commit to a kind of bigger target, to say, for example - as the scientists say - we should cut our carbon emissions by 50% by 2050."


	Quote: There was also "importantly, finance in the deal", he said. The agreement outlined a goal of providing $100bn a year by 2020 to help poorer countries and also promised to deliver $30bn (£18.5bn) of aid for developing nations over the next three years. Mr Miliband said there would be more transparency in about six weeks, when countries had agreed to put forward their targets. He said he had "absolutely not given up hope, but it was important to move forward urgently" and a legal agreement "was still necessary". Developed countries also needed to raise their ambition in terms of targets, he said.

Check out those figures alone, the whole thing is so pie in the sky even the Green Party think it's a joke :lol:

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Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:32 pm

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Re: Climate summit most chaotic show on earth - Miliband

There was even talk on the news yesterday of a rumour that one delegate was so frustrated at not being noticed that she cut herself so that the blood would get her some attention.

I find it hilarious, they've agreed that global temperatures should rise no more than 2 degrees.... Right.... We decide do we?

Like we really have any say in the matter. Sure, find greener, more efficient, alternatives but for frak's sake we cannot completely control global temperatures, it's a frakking planet with a frakking atmosphere, circling a huge nuclear reactor....

Perhaps we really should be dealing with how to adapt to the changes in the environment that the planet imposes on us rather than blindly thinking we have its future under our control.

All of the hot air at the conference is probably contributing to the rise in global temperatures....

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