Congratulating India!

Kyoto Protocol Scratch Your ****

India Now Third Highest GHG Emitter

India has beaten Russia to become the world’s third largest GHG emitter.

The Pollution Horses of Apocalypse

Though the bronze medalist lags behind the top two worse emitters by a furlong.

1. The Gold Medalist: CHINA [with more than 23% of global emissions]
2. The Silver Medalist: USA [more than 22%]
3. The Bronze Medalist: INDIA [more than 5%]
4. Fourth Place: Russia [about 5%]

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• May Global Temperature Warmest on Record
• Ocean Accumulated Significant Heat Content Since 1993
• Verifiable Impacts of Climate Change (Part II)
• Verifiable Impacts of Climate Change Despite Dinosaurs

• Ocean Deserts Source of GHG
• North Atlantic Ocean Garbage Patch
• Back from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
• WILD FACTS SERIES: Our Oceans Are Dying!

• Southern Ocean already losing ability to absorb CO₂
• Ocean Accumulated Significant Heat Content Since 1993
• How Big is Your CO2 Dome?
• 133,000,000 Wise Monkeys

• Carbon Footprint of Your Dollar

• Tourism: A Major Destructive Force Killing Oceans:Thousands of marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds and others, are choked or poisoned each year by eating trash discarded in the ocean…

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part V : Hundreds of thousands of tons of surplus chemical weapons including large quantities of arsenic, cyanide, mustard gas, sarin gas and VX nerve gas are dumped off the US Atlantic coast as well as off other countries. [And a number of nuclear weapons are lying down there, too!]

• Terrible Ocean Headlines : About one third of the world’s annual emissions of CO2 is absorbed by the surface of the oceans forming carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid), H₂CO_3, which is increasing the acidity of the oceans to as much as 7.7 pH in some areas off the California coast. [Pre-industrial (1700s) ocean pH: 8.179]

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part IV : Researchers found evidence of corrosive water about 20 miles off the west coast of North America from Canada to Mexico.

• Human carbon emissions make oceans corrosive : ‘Carbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures …’

• The Eight Steps that Help Kill More of Our Fish : How Your Car’s Exhaust Emissions Helps Create Dead Zones and Kill Our Fish.

• Global warming could starve oceans of oxygen: study : Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures.

• The Floating Toxic Garbage Island : A patch of garbage twice as large as the continental United States and dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in North Pacific Gyre.

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part III : Tourism: The Most Destructive Human Activity After Warfare

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part II : Major Problems: Fertilizer Runoff; Tourism; Coastal Developments [and Ocean Warming due to climate change]

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part I : Our Oceans Are Now Dying!

• Dead Zones : Eutrophication—the overenrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—has emerged as a leading water quality problem. This report identifies over 415 areas worldwide that are experiencing eutrophication symptoms, and there are significant information gaps in many regions. (Source: WRI)

British Scientists Are Politicians First

Thought For the Day:

The Main Stream British Scientists Are Brainwashed by Big Brother!

The prospects of prestigious, lucrative government positions with four-letter titles after their names would often persuade them to swear the earth was flat.

Related Links:

• Head of British climate institute, Phil Jones, steps down over hacked global warming e-mail flap

• These con artists are expressing surprise at the extent of the Antarctica and Greenland coastal ice thinning to get more cash and condoms.

Small Country, Big ‘Dirty Little Secret’

Thanks to Blogger TEAA for the News Alert, and Kudos to Fred Pearce for a very readable report.

New Zealand: More cows than people!

“It looks like the rest of the world is catching on to New Zealand’s dirty little secret.”

—NZ Green Party co-leader Russel Norman

“But my prize for the most shameless two fingers to the global community to New Zealand, a country that sells itself round the world as `clean and green’, but had increased greenhouse gas emissions by a whopping 22 percent since signing up to reduce them at Kyoto.” —Fred Pearce, The Guardian Newspaper, UK.

New Zealand emissions have risen by 22% since the country signed up to Kyoto protocol, Pearce says.

“As the world prepares for the Copenhagen climate negotiations next month, it is worth checking out the greenwash that has followed the promises made 12 years ago when the Kyoto protocol was signed.”

Whereas Britain and Germany have succeeded to cut emissions since 1990, Spain, Portugal, Ireland  and Greece have increased their emissions by more than 25% and New Zealand by 22%, Pearce reports.

The US, Australia and Canada are the other major culprits, however, the other signatories to the Kyoto Protocol have not called them to account for reneging the agreement.

“New Zealand secured a generous Kyoto target, which simply required it not to increase its emissions between 1990 and 2010. But the latest UN statistics show its emissions of greenhouse gases up by 22%, or a whopping 39% if you look at emissions from fuel burning alone.”

Per capita emissions in New Zealand are  60% higher than in Britain, Pearce reported. In fact the emissions are so large that only Canada, the US, Australia and Luxembourg exceed them.

“In recent years a lot of Brits have headed for Christchurch and Wellington in the hope of a green life in a country where they filmed the Lord of the Rings. But it’s a green mirage.” Pearce says.

To rub our noses in it, last year New Zealand signed up to the UN’s Climate Neutral Network, a list of nations that are “laying out strategies to become carbon neutral.”

The small print, if you read them, tell a different story. “New Zealand has actually promised, it is a measly 50% in emissions by 2050 – something even the US can trump.”

Where do all these emissions come from?

“New Zealand turns out to be mining ever more filthy brown coal to burn in its power stations. It has the world’s third highest rate of car ownership. And, with more cows than people, the country’s increasingly intensive agricultural sector is responsible for approaching half the greenhouse gas emissions.” Pearce reports.

What is the UNEP ding about it?

Sadly, instead of the UN Environment Program removing New Zealand from its list of countries that have promised to opt for climate neutrality, the “steely guardians of the environment meekly say that the network ‘will not be policed… nor will UNEP verify claims.'” Pearce says.

Further exposing the UNEP scams and their climate chicanery, Pearce says:

“Indeed, it seems to go to great lengths to deny reality. Check the UNEP website and you will find an excruciating hagiography about a “climate neutral journey to Middle Earth”, in which everything from the local wines to air conditioning and Air New Zealand get the greenwash treatment.”

And here come the blatantly shameless advertising for which more than one person in UNEP must have been heavily bribed:

After extolling the country’s green credentials, it asks: “Have you landed in a dreamland?” Well, UNEP’s reporter certainly has. He cheers New Zealand’s “global leadership in tackling climate change”, when the country’s minister in charge of climate negotiations, Tim Groser, has been busy reassuring his compatriots that “we would not try to be ‘leaders’ in climate change.”

“This is not just political spin. It is also commercial greenwash.”

“New Zealand trades on its greenness to promote its two big industries: tourism and dairy exports. Groser says his country’s access to American markets for its produce is based on its positive environmental image. The government’s national marketing strategy is underpinned by a survey showing that tourism would be reduced by 68% if the country lost its prized ‘clean, green image,’ and even international purchases of its dairy products could halve.” Pearce reports.

Defying Reality

Pearce says New Zealand policies go against the  reality of  climate change: “The trouble is,” he asserts, “on the climate change front at least, that green image increasingly defies reality.” Read full report here.

The following links provide additional information on New Zealand’s false claims to a ‘clean, green image.’

Your remoteness means 17.4 metric tons of CO2 pollution produced per UK visitor.

Saatchi and Saatchi, the vampires of commercialism, with their corny slogans and downright dishonest tricks on “selling” New Zealand, are back, again, on the government payroll: “Our remoteness is our strength.” [Recall George Orwell’s famous slogan perpetuated by The Party:”War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.” ]

[Note: Driving an average passenger car in the US over a year, traveling 12,500 miles (20,112 km), which burns about 581 gallons (2,200 liters) of gasoline, produces about 11,450 pounds (5.2 metric tons) of carbon dioxide. A couple on a return flight from the US to NZ produce as much CO2 as driving their car for about THREE years! A European/UK couple on a return flight to NZ produce more CO2 than in EIGHT years of driving.]

On a return flight from the United States to New Zealand, each visitor produces about 7.4 metric tons of CO2e pollution [11.1 metric tons of CO2e if flying from the US Atlantic coast]; a UK visitor produces about 17.64 metric tons of CO2.

Related Links:

• Fonterra File
• New Zealand Lamb Week [Is New Zealand Food Safe?]
• New Zealand: Toxic Country – Diseased Food [Food Safety Report Summary]
• Why We Need A Food Revolution [A Report on Food Safety in NZ by a NZ MP]

• Truth About ‘100% Pure NZ Ad Campaign and its ‘Clean and Green’ image
• More Eco-Terrorism in Antarctica
• Stop New Zealand Committing Eco-Terrorism!
• Eco-Tourism Is an Oxymoron!

• Eco tourism harming New Zealand’s marine wildlife
• Torturing and Killing Defenseless Animals
• Every time you fly someone will die!

• If You Are Flying to or Importing Food From New Zealand
• On a return flight from the United States to New Zealand
• To & From New Zealand: Double Act of Eco-Terrorism

• Eco-Terrorism and Dead Rare Sunfish
• STOP Killing Our Oceans!
• Eco-Terrorists on Thin Ice

• Tourist boats destroying dolphin community in New Zealand
• Sick kiwis harm generous dolphin

Doctors Talk Climate, Finally

Alas, they couldn’t break out of the ‘matrix’ that is structured around the U.N.

What did the doctors say?

The world will face a “global health catastrophe” unless governments agree deep cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as part of  a new U.N. treaty in Copenhagen in December, say 18 of the world’s medical organizations.

“What’s good for the climate is good for health,” said their editorial in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet today.

Florida’s Seminole coal-fired power plant is one of about 400 power generating plants  across the United States that emit GHG. (Photo courtesy of Seminole Electric Co-op)

“There is a real danger that politicians will be indecisive, especially in such turbulent economic times as these,” said a letter signed by leading doctors from 18 medical colleges and medical organizations globally.

They warned: “Should their response be weak, the results for international health could be catastrophic.”

Unless  a solid agreement is reached in Copenhagen by the 190 participating nations to curb GHG emissions, “heatwaves, floods and desertification that would disrupt water supplies and cause malnutrition and disease, especially in poor nations.” A report said.

“Failure to agree radical reductions in emissions spells a global health catastrophe,” said the editorial authors Michael Jay, chair of the Merlin medical relief charity, and Michael Marmot, director of the International Institute for Society and Health, media reported.

“The measures needed to combat climate change coincide with those needed to ensure a healthier population and reduce the burden on health services. A low carbon economy will mean less pollution,” the editorial said.

“A low-carbon diet (especially eating less meat) and more exercise will mean less cancer, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Opportunity, surely, not cost.”

[How about grounding world’s fleets of military and passenger jets, too?]

“While the poorest in the world will be the first affected, none will be spared,” the editorial said. ” As leaders of physicians across many countries, we call on doctors to demand that their politicians listen to the clear facts that have been identified in relation to climate change and act now,” they wrote.

“Even without climate change, the case for clean power, electric cars, saving forests, energy efficiency, and new agriculture technology is strong.

“Climate change makes it unanswerable.” They wrote.

“A low-carbon economy will mean less pollution. A low carbon-diet (especially eating less meat) and more exercise will mean less cancer, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.”

Copenhagen will host representatives from about 190 nation, December 7-18,  who plan to draw up a comprehensive treaty as a follow-on to the Kyoto Protocol, which was designed to obligate developed nations to cut GHG emissions.

FEWW has no estimate concerning the carbon footprint of the UN Copenhagen extravaganza.

Copenhagen Climate Conference 2009 would probably be as successful as the Kyoto Protocol, possibly worse!

Related Links:

• UN Hypocrisy: Kick the CO2 Habit!
• UNEP Issues Some CO2 Reduction Snakeoil!

• The Deadly Dozen, the Dirty Dozen, the Dozen Dozen
• Stick the Policies, Stop the Climate Change!
• Climate Change Spreads “Deadly Dozen” Diseases

• Stop Unnecessary Air Travel!
• Stop Flying in the Face of the Poor!
• Ich bin eine Coal Girl!

• UN planning to feed the world?
• GEO-4: Another ‘Optimistic’ Report
• Reality Check: Is a Future Possible?
• Only Zero Emissions Would Avert Dangerous Warming

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• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Nuking Earth for Lifestyle
• ‘C’ for the Economy’s Carbon Cycle [Boosted by Bailouts and Stimulus Plan]
  
• Carbon Footprint of Your Dollar