UN attempts to re-brand climate change
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January 24 2012
Earth Summit to be held in Rio (surprised?)Following abject failures at its previous climate change summits, which always seem to take place in beautiful, faraway locales, the UN is now giving climate change a new name: sustainable development:
Representatives from around the world gather in Rio in June to try to hammer out goals for sustainable development at a U.N. conference designed to avoid being tripped up by the intractable issue of climate change.
But there is concern in the lead-up to the conference, known as Rio+20 or the Earth Summit, that it risks ending up as all talk and little action.
In an attempt to avoid too much confrontation, the conference will focus not on climate change but on sustainable development - making sure economies can grow now without endangering resources and the environment for future generations.
U.N. conferences over the past decade have begun with high hopes for agreements to compel nations to cut climate-warming emissions and help adapt to a hotter world, but they often ended with disappointingly modest results. That was the case last year in the global climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. Participants at that meeting agreed to forge a new deal by 2015 that would go into force by 2020.
The “sustainable” branding for this year’s summit, rather than climate, is by design, said Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago, who headed Brazil’s delegation to the U.N. climate talks in Durban and will be a chief negotiator for Brazil in Rio.
Sustainable development is an easier sell globally than climate change, even though sustainable development is a way of tackling global warming and other environmental issues, he said.
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these lying pigs squirm
it used to be
the greenhouse effect
they were never able
to prove it existed and
thermal infrared spectrography
proved there is no such thing
then they adopted
global warming and even the
arrogant claim of
anthropogenic global warming
being empirically proven
dead wrong once again
did not stop them from
a new euphemism
climate change
whatever that's supposed
to signify because
it has been used to predict
everything which therefor means
it predicts nothing
now we're going to get another round
of lies and collectivist political
agenda left wing and un style
we can sit back and laugh
for their lies will thwarted
once again
a lot of time and money
will be wasted
but the truth will out
want the truth to arrive faster
remove o'bama
resign from the un
stop patronizing
the leftist msm
Rio
Boozing on the public dime can they create a paradise
Cherry picking tortured data is not so very nice
With a goose step to the left and disdain for the right
Things aren't heating up as you'd guessed
You know there's nothing special and create more crap like BEST
They meet in Rio and pretend that its Greenland
Ignoring science and employing sleight of hand
And though the Sun shines any talk of it is banned
Oh Rio Rio UN powers will expand
I've seen you when you preach and I've seen you on t.v.
Four point five billion years it means so much to me
Then on Earthday dogma you will spew
Nonsense penned by those that work at CRU
They meet in Rio and pretend that its Greenland
Ignoring science and employing sleight of hand
And though the Sun shines any talk of it is banned
Oh Rio Rio UN powers will expand
Hey look (wow) no sea rise and I doubt that we will drown
At Guanabara Bay the folks are OK and you still squeal
Deprive, deprive, deprive
I'll take my chance 'cause facts are on my side
I tell you something I know that you're linking
Carbon climate correlation is sinking
They'll meet in Rio, 'cause it's warmer than Greenland
Like despots of old they'll craft a master plan
Oh Rio Rio hear them shout across the land
Extolling 'science' that's as good as Piltdown man
Great version of a great song.
Don't think Duran Duran would mind.
Ho Ho Ho
It is all about sustainable development.
It is all about sustainable development.
Google it.
should be called
subsistence living
anyway
sounds like the
georgia guidestones
why should have free will
when there are an elite
who are better decision makers
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