When the UN climate talks opened in Bonn last week, Russia, joined by
Ukraine and Belarus, blocked adoption of the agenda of the “Subsidiary
Body for Implementation” (SBI). The SBI is the key negotiating track
towards signing a UN climate treaty in Paris in 2015. The SBI has been
unable to conduct any business in Bonn and has announced that it has
suspended its business. This has prevented the UN from considering,
among other items, advancing the loss and damage mechanism (see CFACT’s report) that was perhaps the most significant outcome agreed to in Doha.
This links to a video of an address in Hamburg by Australian scientist, Professor Murry Saltby, decsribed as "demolishing the dubious CO2 AGW science. As well as showing explanatory text, it also links to a video of Prof Salty's hour-long address (which begins with a short introduction in German but then reverts to English.Most of the presentation is very mathematical and technical, but the last 10 minutes sums everything up very nicely for laypersons.(The comments that follow the text are very illuminating).
"If the notion of global warming has gotten you all hot and bothered, here's something to really worry about. What if the opposite is occurring and global tempoeratures not only continue to remain flat, but getr much colder fo9r a very lonmg time? In fact, that's exactly what some highly-credentialed and well-informed scientists are predicting." Larry Bell writes in Forbes magazine.
In his latest NZ ClimateTruth (312), Dr Vincent Gray writes:
"...there is no
correlation whatsoever between carbon dioxide concentration and the temperature
at the earth’s surface....The theory that carbon dioxide
concentration is related to the temperature of the earth’s surface is therefore
wrong."
Canadian Professor Ross McKitrick has called for "radical reform" of the UN IPCC. In his latest newsletter (No.311), New Zealand expert reviewer, Dr Vincent Gray writes:
"McKitrick's recommendations for reform are a set of proposals for the leopard to change his spots. His belief that the IPCC could become 'fair' and operate a genuine scientific debate is futile because most of them know that this would lead to their departure. Recommendation 12 seems to envisage this but there is no need for an international body to impose one point of view on any branch of science. The IPCC should be abolished."
In this video extract, one if America's top physicists, Dr William Happer, of Princeton University, tells the CNBC TV audience that Planet Earth would benefit from 1000 ppm of carbon dioxide, well over twice today's current level.