Climate Change March today
Despite the pretend outrage caused by 'climategate', protests continue to demand protection of the environment against man made pollution, see you there today.
Oh and here is one of the best articles outlining some of the problems before us written in the NZ Herald to date...
In search of low-carbon nirvana
By Chris Barton
National's policy on climate change is to follow, rather than lead the world. Hence our modest 10 to 20 per cent emissions reduction proposal at the Copenhagen negotiations table. And a watered down emissions trading scheme that makes users pay but lets our worst emitters off the hook.
We follow because in global terms we think we're insignificant - accounting for just 0.2 per cent of world emissions - not because we don't believe in climate change, we do. It's just that we're not going to do anything on our own.
Cabinet has signed up to a long-term goal - a global temperature rise of not more than 2C by keeping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at no higher than 450 parts per million. Treasury agrees New Zealand should do "its fair share as part of a global effort". But the agreement is conditional - we'll do it as long as everyone else does, too.
The counter argument to this way of thinking is to seize the day, lead from the front and charge towards the future. Risky, if one heads in the wrong direction, but hugely beneficial if one gets the jump on the rest of the world.
In business speak, it's first mover advantage. Historically, economies leading a revolution - whether industrial or computer - achieve massive growth.
posted by Bomber @ 8:34 am
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6 Comments:
Will they be using coal fired or hydro electricity to run the amps at that gig Bomber? Better check first before committing to go.
but hugely beneficial if one gets the jump on the rest of the world.
In business speak, it's first mover advantage. Historically, economies leading a revolution
hahahahahaha! seriously, do we think the world even gives the remotest fuck what we do? like theyre all going to wake up one day and go 'hey, new zealands doing it, wed better start to!'
Are you a moron brave anonymous poster? If NZ makes a leap ahead in environmental technology, we can sell that overseas AND build on our clean green image. Listening to you laugh at something you don't understand really sums up the lack of intellect on the climate skeptic side.
"Despite the pretend outrage caused by 'climategate'"
Yes bomber, scientists faking data is nothing to be worried about. So much for the science being settled when your side relies on duplicity to 'settle' the argument. It says volumes about the length climate activists are prepared to go to i.e. lie to the public and defend those lies in order to forward their agenda. Unfortunatly for them this will open up the debate they were hoping to stifle.
With the collapse of teh Australian ETS and the belated rush by the PM's and Presidents of ANZUS to Copenhagen suggests the best we will get is medocrity. Absence of a framework (yet not only mooted by this fellow and teh global commons institute, ignored to the point of administration complicity in politically orchestrated ignorance)we cannot measure, compare and adjust policy against ANY claims of progress beyond the media defined dialog or soundbite rhetoric of our leaders.
So why bother going at all, Rudd, Key and Obama?
What do you bring to the debate other than a continuing impediment to legitimate public discourse.
Meanwhile (and all the while), Gt Britain has been steadily progressing towards 'Contraction and Convergence".
Key and Rudd have, but late entry, declared the obvious, everything we were doing uptodate was at teh behest of the imperial interests of the USA. So much for (the protection of) having the Queen on our currency!.
Our (NZ's) Climate policy renders us all stupid and we should be very very angry.
Oh dear. What a fizzler!
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