Paris Climate Change Summit.

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So much is happening overseas ATM. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has just finished in Malta and leaders are moving to Paris for the latest round of climate change talks. Hopefully this time there will be serious commitment to reducing emissions at a suitable rate to limit global warming to less than catastrophic levels.

The talks will begin in earnest on Monday. Nearly 150 world leaders are expected attend the United Nations climate change summit, called with the aim of reaching a landmark global deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

The leaders of the United States, China and India -- the world's top three carbon-emitting countries -- are among those scheduled to attend the opening day of the event, known as COP21.
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We are watching our new PM very keenly to see what how he handles himself at the summit. I'm also interested in the bigger picture.

How do you think your leader will approach this very critical meeting of world leaders?
 

If this "Climate Summit" is anything like the IPCC summits, about the Only thing that will come out of it is where to hold the next extravagant taxpayer funded BS session.
 
Warri, with our new Prime Minister at the helm, Canada, which under the previous Conservative gov't was a huge contributor to global warming, and refused to even admit it's existence, has finally joined the program. We will address the ecoterrorism

in Alberta's oil sands etc. we are in favour of reducing emissions at home and abroad. Alberta is scrambling to clean up. Positive beginnings. Now that our scientists are no longer muzzled, progress can be made.
 
I thought that our PM David Cameron, spoke very well today and was firm about getting sone countries moving ( who have been dragging their heels on this, notably India.)
 
Global warming summit will produce '300,000 TONS of C02' as 50,000 people travel to Paris from across the world for two-week conference
By SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-world-two-week-conference.html#ixzz3t0Dq2OmL

It seems like many of those touting global warming, are some of the most guilty of helping to cause it. Al Gore's private jet burns 415 gallons of fuel an hour and emits 8,785 lbs of carbon dioxide and a Boeing 737 burns 800 gallons of fuel per hour and emits 16,800 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air, yet I have never read about the climate change promotors talking about the global warming dangers of planes.
 
Davey Jones said:
With all the REAL problems on this planet they are worrying about the weather?
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Some of us are concerned about the world we will be leaving for our Grandkids, and beyond. None of us will live long enough to see anything the scientists are telling us...but I sure wouldn't want to be on this planet 100 years from now.
Those living in the 22nd century will curse their ancestors.
 
Davey Jones said:
With all the REAL problems on this planet they are worrying about the weather?
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C02 holds in 100 X the heat that does O, the intensity in the accumulation of which, is changing more than what was 'normal' weather. Items for your perusal:

*Paris last summer was 102, over 100 for the first time ever.
*Boston set a new record all time for snowfall http://www.weather.com/news/news/new-england-boston-record-snow-tracker
*While Boston was getting all of that snow, S. Cailf. set 6 new 100 year record highs all over 100 degrees.
*1990-2015 25 year definitive trend, Phoenix had 271 new record high temps. 0 (zero) new lows and set 39 new record high/low temps. for a day. Scientists say that we can pick a decade, 2020, 2030, 2040.....there will be a time when for summer and maybe both spring and summer, (and thus 90-`120 days) at no time in any 24 hour period will the temp. in Phoenix fall below 90 degrees.

*The ocean is getting so warm that prey and predator alike are beginning to die off and as bad, is losing its viability as a carbon sink.

This summit, like all of the rest, is as much about the future...as the present. We don't need to create new speculation in carbon markets. (a new piece of paper...turned into money) We need a technological approach similar to the Manhattan Project to get off carbon altogether.
 
*The ocean is getting so warm that prey and predator alike are beginning to die off and as bad, is losing its viability as a carbon sink.
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A good point.

There are a number of sinks that may be opening up because of global warming. The arctic tundra where the soils are normally frozen are melting and allowing organic material - peat, woolly mammoths etc) to be exposed to decay which is another source of atmospheric CO2. T

he oceans have the capacity to absorb a certain amount of CO2 but in the process form carbonic acid, thus decreasing the pH of the water. Increasing acidification kills of a lot of marine organisms that protect themselves with a hard shell. It is particularly bad for reef building organisms. There is a limit to the amount of CO2 that the waters can hold and as the temperature rises, like the tundras, they will release more of it back to the atmosphere adding to the amount already being produced by burning fossil fuels.

Global warming affects a lot more than weather. It has serious consequences for natural food chains and for agriculture in general.
 
People just do not deal well with complex problems.
As climate change damages food supplies, (not eating people under stand)
They will be more wars (people seem to like to solve problems with wars)
One way or another, allot people are going to die.
 

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