We’re In For Stormy Weather

The tit for tat argument about global warming being real or hype will not end anytime soon. No real changes in co2 producing activities will happen anytime soon either. The global economy is simply too dependent on the transportation that is fueled by oil. Any real action by any of our global leaders to change this would be political suicide.
Two facts are important to note here. Humans will not change their behavior until personal hardship or pain motivates them to do so. For the forseeable future, people are not going to give up their SUVs and big screen TVs, etc. Mother Nature, over time, has a way to even things out and maintain a certain equilibrium. The pink elephant sitting in the corner of the room that noone seems to be mentioning is overpopulation. What strikes me out of this conversation is the comment from Interested Scientist about the world population doubling in his lifetime. If we have indeed gone from a global population of 3 to 6 billion in a lifetime, that to me is the biggest red flag. The earth simply does not have enough resouces to sustain that kind of population growth. I would expect a some population correcting catastrophe/catastrophies sooner rather that later. Definitely within the lifetime of us thirty somethings.

People need to realize that the earth was lonely without people. We came and gave the earth a lot of good company. In exchange for all the good company, the earth gives us its bounty. In giving us its bounty, the earth uses itself up for us. We are not despoiling the earth. It is giving of itself so that we may be happy. It is the same with the human condition. We are lonely. We have children to give us company. In return for that, we use ourselves up to provide for our children. It is all symbiotic. One day the earth will die happy because it gave us all of its youth and beauty. Try not to say that we are despoiling earth any more than you would condemn your children for your ills and infirmities.
The earth may not last too much longer because it has more and more of us to please. Enjoy this. The earth wants you to be happy. There is no charge for this information. Enjoy it for what it is worth. Just what you paid for it.

He's wrong from the get-go. Carbon Dioxide is NOT the "leading" greenhouse gas. It's a minor greenhouse gas. Water vapor is by far the leading greenhouse gas..

Make-or-break time

The violent weather sees no national borders, no colors and no politics, and no rich or poor. It strikes indiscrimately. It strikes hard. It leaves lasting scars and ruins. And the cycle of destruction may feed on itself. An out-of-control positive feedback. Destroyed forests, destroyed habitats, molten ice sheets enhancing absorption of sun light by ten folds, etc.

The local climate change is already clear. The vastly increased snow and rain falls. The vastly increased violent wind speeds. etc. etc.

Mr.Ban, I hope your leadership can move some of the stubborn political leaders. Once Bush is gone, hopely others will be more cooperative.

We are being told, that yes, the last few years have been cooler and the next few years may well be cooler. BUT THEN it's going to get real hot real fast!
If so much effort and money wasn't being wasted it would be funny.

Saying humans cause climate change and dismissing the evidence to the contrary does not make it true. You must prove that a climate change has a cause and effect relationship with humanity. I challenge anyone to do so. Can you present a single provable fact, without calling me names, that any relation exists between humanity and a change in global climate????

We accomplished what we really needed to in Poland to lay the foundation for the hard work in 2009 of getting a strong international agreement, but we still have a lot of work left (as I discuss here: http://tinyurl.com/poland-outcomes).

The Chair of the group tasked with coming up with new commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was given a mandate to begin to produce a negotiating text for the agreement. While a small step, this is an important procedural effort that will allow the negotiations to now be focused on the final agreement in Copenhagen.

And the meeting witnessed developing countries continuing to show an emerging willingness to engage in emissions reductions. We aren't quite there yet with these signals, but we are getting closer. While not firm commitments at this point, I think these steps show a major opening when the developed countries show leadership in committing to cap their emissions and put on the table significant "performance-based" incentives.

Will it all come together in Copenhagen? Let's hope so as the Secretary-General points out...too much is riding on our sucess!

Used to be called Global Warming, now its called climate change. Why not call it what it really is...a hoax.

To the posters on this site telling us climate change is a rouse, to borrow a recently spoken phrase, your comments are "stunningly superficial" showing a lack of depth of knowledge. Global warming is very real and the data that supports this fact as well as man's responsibility for much of it, grows every year despite what blowhards on talk radio and a minority of corrupted scientists say. Repeating talking points handed to you from the polluters and their paid for politicians via Fox Noise and hack web sites does not make you an expert. Thank God that the ditto heads and their so called leaders are no longer in charge of this country.