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China protests Danish chair's draft climate texts
www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-16 19:50:19
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COPENHAGEN, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday protested the draft
outcome texts of the Copenhagen climate change conference that the Danish
presidency put forward without consulting the parties to the conference.
"This is a party-driven process. You can't just put forward some texts
from the sky," China's chief negotiator Su Wei said at the morning session of
the conference after an announcement by the Danish presidency on the draft
texts.
It has been agreed that the only legitimate basis for discussion on the
outcome of the Copenhagen talks will be the outcome of the work by the two
major
working groups of the conference, Su said.
The move by the conference presidency "would very much endanger the
successful outcome in Copenhagen."
India, Brazil and some other developing nations also protested the move
by the presidency.
Many countries are demanding a legally binding climate treaty to be
reached in Copenhagen, but divisions between developed and developing nations,
mainly over emissions reduction and financing, were eroding chances of such a
deal.
World leaders are arriving in Copenhagen to endorse efforts to reach a
deal as the conference moved into the final segment.
As of today,Cambodia is still
occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the call from the US
president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since 1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
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Subject: AL GORE'S NORTH POLE COOKING SCIENCE
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:06:39 -0800
>From The Times
December 15, 2009
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up.
Al Gore's office admitted that the percentage he quoted in his speech was from
an old, ballpark figure Hannah Devlin, Ben Webster, Philippe Naughton in
There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one
yesterday.
The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green
movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth,
became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.
President Reagan,where are you?
Only you , Mr President , you can save our
lives.
FOR CAMBODIA
Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
10 UN RESOLUTIONS,(1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO
CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY, ARE
NOT RESPECTED AS OF TODAY.
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
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FURTHER READING:
Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest
research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of
the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance
that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be
completely ice-free within five to seven years
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the
former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I
would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr
Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr
Gore.
The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the
controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s
Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had
manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were
causing global warming.
Mr Gore is not the only titan of the world stage finding Copenhagen to be a
tricky deal.
World leaders — with Gordon Brown arriving tonight in the vanguard — are facing
the humiliating prospect of having little of substance to sign on Friday, when
they are supposed to be clinching an historic deal.
Meanwhile, five hours of negotiating time were lost yesterday when developing
countries walked out in protest over the lack of progress on their demand for
legally binding emissions targets from rich nations. The move underlined the
distrust between rich and poor countries over the proposed legal framework for
the deal.
Last night key elements of the proposed deal were unravelling. British
officials said they were no longer confident that it would contain specific
commitments from individual countries on payments to a global fund to help poor
nations to adapt to climate change while the draft text on protecting
rainforests has also been weakened.
Even the long-term target of ending net deforestation by 2030 has been placed
in square brackets, meaning that the date could be deferred. An international
monitoring system to identify illegal logging is now described in the text as
optional, where before it was compulsory. Negotiators are also unable to agree
on a date for a global peak in greenhouse emissions.
Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his
speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community.
“This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics,”
Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration said.
“You really don’t need to exaggerate the changes in the Arctic.”
Others said that, even if quoted correctly, Dr Maslowski’s six-year projection
for near-ice-free conditions is at the extreme end of the scale. Most climate
scientists agree that a 20 to 30-year timescale is more likely for the
near-disappearance of sea ice.
“Maslowski’s work is very well respected, but he’s a bit out on a limb,” said
Professor Peter Wadhams, a specialist in ocean physics at the University of
Cambridge.
Dr Maslowki, who works at the US Naval Postgraduate School in California, said
that his latest results give a six-year projection for the melting of 80 per
cent of the ice, but he said he expects some ice to remain beyond 2020.
He added: “I was very explicit that we were talking about near-ice-free
conditions and not completely ice-free conditions in the northern ocean. I
would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this,” he said.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at, based on the information I
provided to Al Gore’s office.”
Richard Lindzen, a climate scientist at the Massachusets Institute of
Technology who does not believe that global warming is largely caused by man,
said: “He’s just extrapolated from 2007, when there was a big retreat, and got
zero.”
HARRY CAN'T FIND 60
Thousand Held During Climate Change Protest...
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