Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:32:01 AM
The
expectations of the IPCC are finally connecting with reality. The arebacking away from the expectation of having a climate treaty in this year to replace the 97' Kyoto treaty this year.
Janos Pasztor, director of the secretary-general's Climate Change Support Team, said Monday "it's hard to say how far the conference will be able to go" because the U.S. Congress has not agreed on a climate bill, and industrialized nations have not agreed on targets to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions or funding to help developing countries limit their discharges.
The more immediate reason is probably the economy. Nobody is willing to cough up a bunch of money on something they simply can't afford at this point; forgetting the fact that
public opinion has turned on the whole global warming debate, at least here anyway.