How to Speed Up Climate Change – Have a Summit!

From 7 to 18 December 2009 a new summit is being held at Copenhagen to discuss how to tackle climate change. How much is this one going to cost the environment?

Hundreds of politicians from all over the world will meet and be put up in first class accommodation and they will all have to travel to the venue of the summit.

Have they not heard of video conferencing?

Copenhagen - Capital of Denmark

When Britain hosted the summit in Gleneagles three years ago, it spent only £12.7 million on the event itself – little more than a tenth the cost of the Japanese summit. The bill for policing the event in Scotland was £72 million. Think about it. This is the cost of one summit. If they stopped having summits they could end world poverty and reduce their carbon footprint by cutting down on air travel at the same time!

The one concensus  in the scientific world is that worldwide emissions will have to fall by 2020 if the world is to have any chance of averting catastrophic warming. After that date we will have runaway climate change with no possibility of reversing the damage. Well that is what the politicians say so it must be correct, right?

The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen

No one can predict with certainty where temperatures will be in 100 years time, But the one thing that is indisputable is that, as CO2 levels continue to rise, the trend in global temperatures has not recently been rising as the computer models predicted, but has been flattening out and even dropping.

The whole concept of Global Warming was based on the projections of the computer models relied on by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) in 2007. But these are simply models of possibilities not statements of fact. Since 2007 many scientific facts have emerged to disprove the predictions of the IPCC’s computer models.

Think about it. If computer models could accurately predict the weather for the next hundred years perhaps a computer model could be produced to end world poverty!

Whether you believe mankind is causing a drastic change in climate or not the only course of action is to plan for the worst case scenario and we can only trust the politicians to do just that.

Too  much reliance has been put on the accuracy of these computer models and yet it is on their projections that the politicians in Copenhagen will make decisions which will by far be the most expensive set of measures ever proposed by politicians in the entire history of our planet. Or not. Seems the politicians cannot even stay in the same room together….