Chaos consumes Copenhagen climate change conference
All is not well at the meeting of environmental hypocrites.
The Copenhagen climate change conference appeared to be imploding from within and exploding from without on Wednesday.Those unruly protesters are environmentalists, by the way. And don't worry, PM Rasmussen. There are probably just as many people around the world who are hoping that the conference won't produce a job-, wealth- and economy-killing agreement.
Police fired tear gas, brandished batons and detained more than 200 protesters who tried to push through the security cordon around the Bella Center, as negotiations inside bogged down, for the second time this week, over differences between China and the West over emissions, funding issues and transparency.
"People around the world [are] actually expecting something to be done from us," red-faced Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen lectured delegates from nearly 200 nations.
Also of note, here are 100 reasons why climate change is natural. I'll share a few of my favorites:
3) Warmer periods of the Earth's history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.Read the whole thing.
4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
5) Throughout the Earth's history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher - more than ten times as high.
10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.
22) There is strong evidence from solar studies which suggests that the Earth's current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades
23) It is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for many centuries.
96) Canada plans to reduce emissions by 20 percent compared with 2006 levels by 2020, representing approximately a 3 percent cut from 1990 levels but it simultaneously defends its Alberta tar sands emissions and its record as one of the world's highest per-capita emissions setters.
