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Chin Up, George Monbiot !
Posted on September 23rd, 2010 No commentsGeorge Monbiot looks back in regret at Copenhagen :-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/20/climate-change-negotiations-failure
“…The closer it comes, the worse it looks. The best outcome anyone now expects from December’s climate summit in Mexico is that some delegates might stay awake during the meetings. When talks fail once, as they did in Copenhagen, governments lose interest. They don’t want to be associated with failure, they don’t want to pour time and energy into a broken process. Nine years after the world trade negotiations moved to Mexico after failing in Qatar, they remain in diplomatic limbo. Nothing in the preparations for the climate talks suggests any other outcome…”
Copenhagen was never seriously going to deliver, and I don’t think most of the protesters on the streets in Copenhagen thought so. Activist demands, including from activist nations, were always going to be ignored, The solutions really didn’t come to the conference, and the problems really lay elsewhere.
But there’s no need to utterly despair, George !
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Quit Funding Radical Clearthinkers
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 No commentsSo, now we know what part of the United Kingdom public spending cuts will consist of : quit funding the Sustainable Development Commission.
The SDC guys and gals have been such vocal, radical thinkers. They have contributed so much to public discourse and the politics of Climate Change. The country needs their services.
Ironically, their take-no-prisoners approach to the facts could have made them a natural target for the chop. Perhaps the political establishment can see no need for a hotbed of academic “dissent” (otherwise known as “truthtelling”).
In a sense, the SDC have been so convincing and effective, they’ve worked themselves out of a job :-
Let this not be an end to transparent research and strong demands for de-carbonisation in public life !
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