The key decision on preventing catastrophic climate change will be delayed for up to six years if the Copenhagen summit delivers a compromise deal which ignores advice from the UN’s science body.Look, I'll spare you the rest, which is all fairly predictable fare anyway. But the important bit is this: '2015 or 2016'. Now having had one or two things on my plate I've been a bit busy for much blogging, let alone having time to cast around the interwebs for more dates for my warble gloaming diary of disaster, so I'll have to put up with it being a whole month old.
World leaders will not agree on the emissions cuts recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and are likely instead to commit to reviewing them in 2015 or 2016.
The delay will anger developing countries who, scientists say, will face the worst effects of climate change despite zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- Probably should have happened by now - New York's West Side Highway impassable due to being underwater - Dr. James Hansen (1988/89 interview)
- "Imminently" - loss of world's coral reefs - David Attenborough ('world’s tropical reefs face ‘imminent destruction’ unless CO2 levels are slashed')
- Late 2013 - ice free Arctic - Al Gore (North Pole will be ice free in five years')
- 2014 - the whole world and everything fucked up beyond repair - WWF.
- Dec 2016 - the whole world and everything all fucked up beyond repair - the Prince of Wails and the 100 months mob
- Late 2019 - ice free Arctic - Pen Hadow (ten years to Arctic ice loss)
- Late 2019 - the whole world and everything fucked up beyond repair - UK Met Office.
- Late 2029 - loss of Great Barrier Reef - marine scientist Charlie Veron ('global warming will destroy the World Heritage site within just 20 years')
Which of these fucknuts can we sue if we get to 2016 and none of it's happened?
H/T to the Moggie Audit Department.
* Apologies. I realise it's a bit insensitive to use the word 'succession' in the same sentence as mentioning Prince Charles.
"Which of these fucknuts can we sue if we get to 2016 and none of it's happened?"
ReplyDeleteNone, because they'll have moved on to some new terrible threat that we must appease with taxpay money by then.
My money's on asteroid defence.
My money's on asteroid defence.
ReplyDeleteI have a tube of Anusol for that whenever I find sitting down uncomfortab....
.....oh. My bad.
You're probably right that the bastards will have moved on to something else though. If they wanted dosh for infectious disease or asteroids I might be inclined to put my hand in my pocket. Unless of course they started wittering about swine 'flu again and the asteroid they were worried about turned out to be grit on the end of the telescope.