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Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:58:25 PM
Youth climate activists crashed the Koch Industries - Americans for Prosperity climate-denial tour with a call for clean energy now. Denier-moonbat Christopher Monckton called them "crazed Hitler youth":
Copenhagen, Day Three: From Tuvalu To Sarah Palin
The Wonk Room is reporting on the scene from Copenhagen during the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
At this morning’s plenary session of the Copenhagen climate negotiations, the tiny island nation of Tuvalu called for strengthening the Kyoto Protocol to limit warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, rather than the current standard of 2 ° C. Their proposal to amend the Kyoto Protocol with a new, legally binding agreement to set a target of 350 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere fractured the session, as Tuvalu was supported by other small island states and poor nations in Africa, but was opposed by fifteen richer developing nations, including Saudi Arabia, China, and India. Stabilizing carbon dioxide concentrations at 350 ppm would be 25 percent above pre-industrial levels, but is 10 percent below the present concentration of 390 ppm, so the targets would require significant and immediate reductions in emissions from both developed and developing nations. Tuvalu negotiator Ian Fry told the conference that “our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.”
The chair of the session, Danish conference president Connie Hedegaard suspended the negotiations because an agreement on whether to establish a “contact group” — a new formal negotiating session — could not be reached. Outside the plenary hall, activists rallied around the Tuvalu plan.
Developing Development
.............go read the whole thing, much much more with embedded links
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/09/copenhagen-tuvalu-palin/
Copenhagen, Day Three: From Tuvalu To Sarah Palin
The Wonk Room is reporting on the scene from Copenhagen during the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
At this morning’s plenary session of the Copenhagen climate negotiations, the tiny island nation of Tuvalu called for strengthening the Kyoto Protocol to limit warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, rather than the current standard of 2 ° C. Their proposal to amend the Kyoto Protocol with a new, legally binding agreement to set a target of 350 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere fractured the session, as Tuvalu was supported by other small island states and poor nations in Africa, but was opposed by fifteen richer developing nations, including Saudi Arabia, China, and India. Stabilizing carbon dioxide concentrations at 350 ppm would be 25 percent above pre-industrial levels, but is 10 percent below the present concentration of 390 ppm, so the targets would require significant and immediate reductions in emissions from both developed and developing nations. Tuvalu negotiator Ian Fry told the conference that “our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.”
The chair of the session, Danish conference president Connie Hedegaard suspended the negotiations because an agreement on whether to establish a “contact group” — a new formal negotiating session — could not be reached. Outside the plenary hall, activists rallied around the Tuvalu plan.
Developing Development
.............go read the whole thing, much much more with embedded links
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/09/copenhagen-tuvalu-palin/
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