I bet that everyone reading this post is mightily relieved that both the group of eight industrialised countries plus China, Brazil, Egypt, India and Mexico have all agreed that average global temperatures should not be allowed to rise by more than two degrees. Phew, it is comforting to know that every major large nation in the world agrees that.
Of course there is no agreement on how these nations should achieve this stabilisation of future global temperatures. The Group of eight said that they would work towards emission cuts of 50% by 2050. The next six nations refused to work towards emissions cuts of 50% by 2050. Worse than the fact that the targets in emission cuts have not been agreed, is the fact that there is no plan. There is not even a route map to follow. No one has even managed to scrawl some notes on the back of a fag packet that we can use as a basis of a plan. Yet these politicians who are producing these statements of the blindingly obvious (and in the course of doing so are producing very large carbon emissions as they and their retinues go to and from L’Aquila in Italy instead of getting on the video conference phone) are lauding themselves for having done so.
Mr Obama says that countries have made “important strides”; I rather disagree. I think that they have simply been walking on the spot, in the case of the G8 and in the case of the G5 walking backwards.
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: G5, G8, L'aquila, stabilisng global emissions
Carbon dioxide has grown immensely since the worlds governments brought forward a law which made all car manufactrers fit the CAT or catalyctic converter to all new vehicles since 1992, this clever little device converts carbon monoxide which is highly poisonous to us and converts this gas into Co2 or the main greenhouse gas
The more cars we strive to own the more Co2 will be emitted, it is also known that ground based Co2 is the one which now does the most damage, so next time you take that unecessary trip taking your children to school when you could walk there, you are ading to the problem every time you turn the key.
It is estimated that in the next ten years that the indian continent and main land China is going to need another 100 million new cars, as their economy rises.
Yet we are now telling them that they should not pollute like we did, kettle calling the pot black don’t you think, there is no way they are going to listen to us, we have had a pretty good 50years of growth depending on oil, now they are wanting to be with us Joneses, and why shouldn’t they.
Did you know that a single barrel of crude oil, that’s 42 gallons, holds the same energy as does 12 people working for a whole year.