Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet. Recent years show increasing temperatures in various regions, and/or increasing extremities in weather patterns. Research has shown that air pollutants from fossil fuel use make clouds reflect more of the sun's rays back into space. This leads to an effect known as global dimming whereby less heat and energy reaches the earth. At first, it sounds like an ironic savior to climate change problems. However, it is believed that global dimming caused the droughts in Ethiopia in the 1970s and 80s where millions died, because the northern hemisphere oceans were not warm enough to allow rain formation. Global dimming is also hiding the true power of global warming. By cleaning up global dimming-causing pollutants without tackling greenhouse gas emissions, rapid warming has been observed, and various human health and ecological disasters have resulted, as witnessed during the European heat wave in 2003, which saw thousands of people die. The world mostly agrees that something needs to be done about global warming and climate change. The first stumbling block, however, has been trying to get an agreement on a framework. In 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to assess the scientific knowledge on global warming. The IPCC concluded in 1990 that there was broad international consensus that climate change was human-induced. That report led way to an international convention for climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed by over 150 countries at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This section looks at this Convention and some of the main principles in it. The United States plus a few other countries, and many large corporations, have been against climate change treaties due to the fear of the threat to their economy and profits if they have to make substantial changes. However, as more climate change science has emerged over the years, many businesses are accepting this and even asking their governments for more action so that there is quick clarification on the new rules of the game so they can get on with their businesses. For many years, large, influential businesses and governments have been against the idea of global warming. Many have poured a lot of resources into discrediting what has generally been accepted for a long time as real. Now, the mainstream is generally worried about climate change impacts and the discourse seems to have shifted accordingly. Even some businesses that once engaged in disinformation campaigns have changed their opinions, some even requesting governments for regulation and direction on this issue. However, a few influential companies and organizations are still attempting to undermine climate change action and concerns. Will all this mean a different type of spin and propaganda with attempts at "green washing" and misleading information becoming the norm, or will there now be major shift in attitudes to see concrete solutions being proposed and implemented? December 7 * December 18, 2009, Copenhagen, was the venue for the 15th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the 15th Conference of the Parties * or COP 15.  As with previous conferences, thousands of politicians (including head of states), diplomats, journalists, lobbyists and NGOs attended hoping the summit would finalize a post-Kyoto international agreement on climate change to take effect in 2013. The build-up to the meeting was full of optimism and hope, as the US was, for the first time in a long time, going to be seen as a positive contributor, and their involvement is always recognized as key. There was also increasing focus on emerging economies such as China and India. Instead of a positive outcome, most commentators saw it as a failure, though for different reasons. The above article about global warming was taken from a random web site about this subject. It had been recently updated suggesting that the idea of global warming being caused by mankind is still alive and well. As you view the video you will find a direct contrast with this belief. It has always been accepted by me that mankind could never have this much effect on the planet. This globe has been here for millions of years according to scientific view and humans only a very small fraction of that. How is it that we could have such an effect, in such a short time comparatively, on a world that has seen enormous change over its existence? The answer is simple we just do not have that much importance. It is our arrogance that leads us to believe the climate is changing therefore it must be our fault but as you view the video you will find that this is just not true as I have always argued. How could humans have this much effect on a planet that has been finding balance with space, other planets, solar flares, solar winds, meteors, asteroids and many other variables for millions of years? The answer is we simple just do not have that much consequence to the planet as a whole! This does not, however, leave out other issues humans have been responsible for in global affairs such as hunting animals to extinction, pollution of our oceans, wiping out rain forests, or the consumption of all natural resources. It puzzles me why it was global warming that these global governance aficionados clung to when there are so many real problems they could have subverted. Global warming will continue to be debated far into the future however the issue uncovered in this report show that global warming has very little to do with the heating of the earth. It is obvious to this scientist a select world aristocracy is only using global warming as a catalyst to bring about a new world order. However our fears of world governance are not altogether founded. One day, perhaps far into the future, the world will govern itself as a whole. There will be a single world authority that every land mass will accept governing from as well as control over the economy, environment and many other aspects of our lives. This is an inevitability of a planet that is allowed to evolve to perfect balance between life and consumption. The real question to ask is what kind of world do we wish to live in? Do you want a globe that has everything dictated to you by an enormous global corporation or a world united by social evolution and personal freedoms? Our current path will lead us to being chained to our homes by a gigantic corporation and have everything dictated to us by the extreme wealthy. We must act now to abate this fundalmental drive to global corporate governance and set forth a peoples drive to social evolution which will lead to the right form of global governance. If we do not evolve socially our planet will go down a path of world wars and global governance by just an elite few. It will not be govern by the majority of the people within it. If we, the people of the earth, act now we can stop this march to global governance by corporation and lead the world to a global unity that everyone on the planet will benefit from. Please see my new dot org web site, "World Alliance For Social Evolution": http://www.wasfe.org ! |