The Rio earth summit ended with warm words but nothing to address the intense pressure on the planet
A month’s rain fell in a day last week in parts of Britain. There were 140 flood warnings in the north of England, rain forcing the evacuation of Croston and Darwen in Lancashire; elsewhere, it washed out the Isle of Wight festival. Indeed, rainfall over the last three months has broken new records – following two years in which less rain had fallen than at any time since the 1920s.
This is part of a wider pattern. It is not just that world temperatures are on average steadily rising, the weather everywhere is becoming more extreme. Eleven of the last 12 years have been the hottest on record, and the growing volatility in our weather is linked to global warming. As the earth warms, the relationships between ocean currents, the ice caps, atmospheric pressure and the jet stream become more turbulent, and the weather turns more unpredictable.
Twenty years ago these trends, already visible but less marked, prompted the first earth summit in Rio. The second one closed on Friday night with a political declaration as long as it was vapid. There were plenty of warm words and reaffirmations of intent – but nothing that might address the intense pressure on the natural environment.
There was, for example, no deterrent to the burning of fossil fuels or incentive to make renewable ones more economically attractive. Targets for sustainable development? Forget them. And so it went on — a non-event that hardly got reported.
Response from Tim Worstall
Both of them are full of it. Carbon constraint can not and will not “address” climate change – it can only make more people more vulnerable.
The international agenda revealed by Climategate emails and documents in Nov 2009 and responses by leaders of nations, the news media, and scientific organizations won’t be abandoned !
It is a much greater danger than global warming – a tyrannical, one-world government that evolved after 1945 by repeatedly distorting information on energy (E) stored as mass (m) in the cores of atoms, stars, galaxies, and perhaps some planets.
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/#comment-142
A one-world government, like that described in the UN’s Agenda 21 [1], might be acceptable, if that government were controlled by the people.
Perhaps that was the original intent, . . . to protect world leaders and society from possible destruction by “nuclear fires.”
But society has advanced since 1945 toward a government that distorts information to control people, like the one George Orwell described in a novel written in 1948 and entitled “1984″ [2].
The battle to restore contact with “reality” in modern science will be as formidable as historic battles against the forces of darkness, described in the
a.) Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 1) on the field of Kurukshetra
b.) Bible (1 Samuel, Chapter 17) in the Kingdom of Judah
Thanks Steve, for your efforts.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
http://www.omatumr.com
References:
1. Earth Summit Agenda 21: United Nations core publication on action plans adopted in 1992 to be taken globally, nationally, and locally on the environmental impact of humans): http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
2. George Orwell, “1984″ (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1949, First Signet Classic Printing, 1950, 328 pages): http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
It is beyond scary. The UN want complete world governance.
We had anthropogenic global warming, climate change, climate disruptions and now the new catch-word, biodiversity.
Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, cow-towed to the UN at Rio, licked everybody’s behind and promised to help the UN to achieve world dominance.
These are indeed scary times.