In December of last year I posted about the efforts at the Poznan Conference (here) to prepare the way for a successor to the Kyoto Treaty. This was scheduled to be agreed at Copenhagen this December. I suggested that at a time of economic crisis, politicians and activists would find it very difficult to carry public opinion with them on this issue. But in an address to the 11,000 delegates at Poznan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said:
The economic crisis is serious, yet when it comes to climate change, the stakes are even far [sic] higher. The climate crisis affects our potential prosperity and our people’s lives both now and in the future.
Un Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Poznan Conference, Dec 2008
At that time, the developing nations main objection to signing up at Copenhagen was that they wanted to see the US committed to reducing greenhouse gases, through legally binding regulation, before they would do the same. The inauguration of President Obama in the following month unleashed a wave of optimism in the climate alarmism camp, but this was short lived. Continue reading »
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