U.N. Environment Programme leader warns of high cost of climate change delays

by Rich Heffern on Nov. 24, 2009

U.N. environment chief Achim Steiner, director of its Environment Programme, issued a plea for world leaders to avoid failure in the Copenhagen climate change talks next month.

The likely delays in sealing a global deal to fight climate change would have a "human cost", and increase the risks of great harm to the planet and the economic costs of dealing with it, the head of the UN environment programme said today. Achim Steiner also said there was an "extremely high" risk that the UN-hosted talks would drift into deadlock if the summit in Copenhagen next month failed to deliver a meaningful agreement. "The world has been focused on this moment for years," he told the U. K.'s Guardian.

A new global treaty to address climate change which many have hoped would be completed in December at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen "will take at least six months and possibly another year to finalize," according to negotiators at the heart of the UN talks as reported November 5 in the Guardian News and Media.

In a related item, Oxfam America has produced a new video on the urgent and critical need for action on climate disruptions. It's about 2 ½ minutes and is currently posted on the Oxfam America home page.

And why should we believe

Submitted by Clint Green (not verified) on Nov. 24, 2009.

And why should we believe anything that anybody says regarding global warming, given the thousands of emails that were hacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia? Those emails gave clear evidence of tampering and skewing of research data, suppression, hiding, and destruction of data that disputed the myth of man-made climate change, and, according to Andrew Bolt, "Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more".

Man-made global warming is nothing but a hoax, a myth. The evidence of the last several years clearly indicates that the planet it NOT warming, but rather cooling. The evidence of these emails is that the very scientists charged with determining the truth have been systematically lying to the world for years.

There is a growing body of

Submitted by Mr. H (not verified) on Nov. 24, 2009.

There is a growing body of evidence that refutes the idea of man-made climate change.

The fact is that global warming ended in 1998, and we are now in a 10-20 year period of global cooling. A period of cooling that was not predicted by the climate models used to push global warming. This development is now starting to be reported in the mainstream press.

For details:

http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-evidence-against-man-ma...

http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2009/10/bbc-reports-that-global-warm...

Understandably, this new data will be difficult acknowledge for those who have emotionally invested in the idea of man-made climate change.

But the truth will prevail in the end. Hopefully we won't irreversibly damage the global economy before enough people see the light.

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