German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up

German scientists Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning ridicule the New York climate conference nobody is going to. Enjoy!
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Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes

By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated, edited by P Gosselin)

Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes. Already months ago South Korean UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon busily sent out invitations to world leaders, kindly requesting them to appear at the Climate Change Special Conference in New York on 23 September 2014. The aim of the conference is to agree on concrete actions for a CO2 reduced world in order to curb a menacing climate catastrophe. At the German Huffington Post Ban Ki-moon set forth his underlying motivation for September 2014 conference(translated from the German):

I have travelled the world in order to see the impacts with my own eyes. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, from low-lying islands of the Pacuífic, which are threatened by rising sea levels, to the melting glaciers of Greenland, the Andes and the Alps. I have seen expanding deserts in Mongolia and in the Sahel Zone, and threatened rainforests in Brazil. Everywhere I have spoken with the affected people who are deeply worried about the threat to their way of life and their future because of climate change.”

Dear Mr General Secretary: If you really wish to cut back on CO2 emissions, then you should NOT jet around the globe in your UN jet to supposedly see climate change with your own eyes. Perhaps you have heard that the Pacific Atolls are living corals that are growing along with sea level rise. The glaciers already melted before, 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period when it was as warm as today. Currently the Sahel desert regions are not expanding as you claim, rather they are becoming greener. Moreover the rainforests of Brazil are threatened foremost by deforestation thanks to palm oil and biofuels. That is something to be really worried about, and not about climate change.

As opposed to the UN General Secretary, many world leaders have obviously realized that the science is overheated. An increasing number of scientists are distancing themselves explicitly from the catastrophe mindset. After 16 years of no global warming, the basis for trust between policymaking and the IPCC scientists is sustainably disturbed. We believed you and you’ve disappointed us, the scathed politicians bemoan behind closed doors.

So it is little surprise that hardly anyone has the desire to attend the Climate Summit Circus. Already in May, 2014, German Chancellor Angela Merkel respectfully declined -she had other more important appointments. What could they possibly be about? Even today there is still no entry in Merkel’s Online  appointment book for the 23rd of September. Perhaps an appointment with the hairdresser that can no longer be put off? Crochet evening with good friends? Let’s keep it a surprise for now.

In the middle of August 2014 India Prime Minister Narendra Modi also declined the invitation to attend. India today is the world’s third largest CO2 emitter. Perhaps someone in New Delhi got cold feet over the requested “concrete measures”. Or perhaps they simply looked at the latest global temperature charts.

Also in Peking they were not amused. Suddenly the world’s largest CO2 emitter, China, no longer has much desire to show up in New York. Chinese Prrsident Xi Jinping wasted little time in canceling his flight ticket. Nothing will result from all the negotiations anyway, the UN needs to know.

No German Chancellor, no Indian Prime Minister and no Chinese President. Consequently the UN General Secretary became visibly nervous and had to make late nominations. He was able to find a person -in the political little leagues: Bonn’s Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch cordially expressed his willingness to travel to the Conference. Ban Ki-moon was most pleased, and the conference was saved. Now if all citizens of Bonn made massive efforts, then they would be able to offset the Indian and Chinese CO2 surpluses of the next few years in about an estimated 2 billion years.

And things don’t look all that rosy when it comes to a climate agreement. The famous Kyoto-Protocol expired at the end of 2012. At that climate conference in Doha, 144 countries promised to vote to extend the treaty by 2020. So far today 11 countries have signed the extension document. In the meantime, have the other 133 countries reconsidered? So far not a single one of the 28 EU countries have signed on, also not Germany. But already Mauritius and Micronesia are on board (they would be beneficiaries of climate protection payments).

The climate alarmism-driven US-President Barack Obama also has realized that it no longer makes sense to strive for a large, new international climate treaty. Realistically it would never work anyway. In Paris at the end of 2015 there preferably will be a non-binding treaty. World leaders would more likely sign that. After all, they would not have to fulfill it…especially when they lose desire to do so…

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Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning are the authors of CO2-skeptical book The Neglected Sun, which correcty downgraded CO2 climate sensitivity and forecast the the modest cooling that is now taking place.

 

23 responses to “German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up”

  1. BobW in NC

    …and of course, in any new climate treaty, China and India will be leaders in trumpeting their signing of it…

    Of course…

    1. Kurt in Switzerland

      @BobW in NC:

      China and India will only agree to wording which uses per capita emissions as a benchmark. This will cause head-explosions for some, but many NGOs will agree (see arguments on Climate Justice).

      Ban Ki-moon is trying his best to give “Climate Financing” (through the UNFCCC) a jump start. After all, his home country has provided infrastructure and funding for the project(s).

      http://unfccc.int/cooperation_and_support/financial_mechanism/items/2807.php
      Follow – the – Green(backs).

  2. Stephen Richards

    I have travelled the world in order to see the impacts with my own eyes. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, from low-lying islands of the Pacuífic, which are threatened by rising sea levels, to the melting glaciers of Greenland, the Andes and the Alps. I have seen expanding deserts in Mongolia and in the Sahel Zone, and threatened rainforests in Brazil. Everywhere I have spoken with the affected people who are deeply worried about the threat to their way of life and their future because of climate change.” – See more at: https://notrickszone.com/#sthash.6av6Lz6N.dpuf

    I suggest he sees an optician very soon or stop taking those mind bending drugs.

    Sahel is expanding (NOAA). Greenland ice is not melting

  3. Stephen Richards

    Sahel is NOT expanding it’s greening (sorry!)

  4. Svend Ferdinandsen

    Of course Merkel has no time for the meeting. The hairdriers are thanks to EU so low in power that it takes the whole meeting to dry the hair.

    1. Henning Nielsen

      “Wetter and wilder” local (hair) climate 🙂
      Or just a bad hair day.

  5. Ed Ferreira

    As far as I know, Brazilian rainforests are not threatened, federal government surveys their use very closely, severely punishing abuses.

    1. DirkH

      That’s very nice to hear!

  6. alex

    If Ban ki Moon realky needs to see the devaztation then he should travel to the Islamic State (parts of Iraq and Syria)

    As the UN’s General Secretary he should stop wasting the UN’s resources in climate stupidities and instead try to save innicent livds from the barbaric armies of IS (ISIS)
    Ban ki Moon is a traitor.

  7. Coral

    Actually, the evidence says the Sahel is indeed greening again. Please enjoy the provided link.

    “In Figure 4, the observed greenness trends have been compared with spatially continuous rainfall estimates from satellite measurements. The rainfall estimates were derived from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP). These data are spatially coarse (2.5 degrees) and may therefore not be able to resolve local deviations from the overall pattern of high correlation between greenness and rainfall. The same applies to yet another approach based on comparing the observed greenness values with the results from a process-based ecosystem model driven by climatic and atmospheric CO2 data. Such a comparison identified rainfall as the primary driver of the increasing vegetation greenness, but is also hampered by the coarse resolution of the model data.

    The greening trend cannot be explained solely by rainfall. While extensive, the greening is not uniform, suggesting that factors other than rainfall may be contributing to greening of some areas and not others. In addition, the resolution of the satellite data set is coarse (8 km). So, the pattern of greening that might help explain its causes may be partly obscured by the resolution of the data.”

    http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/153150/

  8. DirkH

    Hey, but the world’s supreme thinker, Noam Chomsky, says
    “The likely end of the era of civilization is foreshadowed in a new draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the generally conservative monitor of what is happening to the physical world. ”
    http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-obsession-destroys-earths-climate
    He also believes Earth is still warming. I think I’ll bookmark alternet; seems to be fun.

  9. Graeme No.3

    I very much doubt that Australia, Canada, NZ, Japan or Sth. Korea will be there either.

    1. John Of Cloverdale WA, Australia

      Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is not attending. But, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop would represent Australia. A waste of her time really.

  10. Herve D

    All these UN guys are paying theatre, interrested only in protecting their nicely paid positions with all advantages, no tax and so on. They are nothing else than movie actors, anyway very dangerous as they lead the World to spend 1B$ a day with a cumulative 1500B$ wasted money, now usually in a few individuals’ Bahams bank accounts.

    1. DirkH

      “The world” == “The West”.

      Was all the Climate Science theatre Russian and Chinese subterfuge?
      The later German Greens used to be members of USSR-controlled small c-o-m-unist parties or groups in West Germany in the 1970ies.

      With the emergence of the BRICS and the death of the Petrodollar dies the Global Warming scare.

  11. Pointman

    There’s a certain common denominator about the remaining “countries” who’re bothered to attend such conferences – money. That’s it, that’s all folks …

    http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/cop19-the-grubby-truth-behind-it-all/

    Pointman

    1. Kurt in Switzerland

      @Pointman:

      Great to read your post a second time.
      Perfect analogy, too.

    2. Kurt in Switzerland

      @Pointman –

      Wonderful to re-read your choice story; the simile hits the nail on the head.

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  13. Henning Nielsen

    Now I wonder how big the Green Climate Fund is? How far from the 100 billion dollars PER YEAR are we?

  14. Billy NZ

    FWIW,I have just received an email from our climate minister in New Zealand. He will not be attending this meeting.

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