Environmental Law

"Leaders told battle to stem global warming slowing"-AP story

By STEPHEN HOLZER

     AP, on Yahoo!, reports today, in a dispatch entitled "Leaders told battle to stem global warming slowing":

"KOBE, Japan - The world is losing momentum in the battle against global warming, the U.N. climate chief warned on Saturday, urging environmental ministers from wealthy nations to revive the effort by setting clear targets for reducing greenhouse gases.

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"The officials from the Group of Eight countries, joined by representatives from other countries including China and other organizations, were to lay the foundations for the upcoming G8 summit in northern Japan in July.

U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer told the Associated Press on the sidelines that he was concerned about stalling momentum behind international talks to forge a global warming pact by December 2009 to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Its first phase ends in 2012."

     Stalling momentum?  What a surprise.  Perhaps people don't want to plan themselves into abject poverty by diminishing their lifestyles to appease an unproven science.

     By the way, look at the title of the article and compare the title to the URL-http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_as/climate_change.  Detect any incoherence?  The story about "global warming" appears at an URL entitled "climate change".  "Global warming", of course, means warming; "climate change" could mean either warming or cooling.  Can the eco-alarmists at least get their fear-phrases straight?

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).