UN climate talks to create 13,000 tonnes of carbon

[Chris_]

UN climate talks to create 13,000 tonnes of carbon

Staging a global forum on climate change is a dilemma, as it adds to the very problem it is trying to solve.
 
Around 13,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) will be added to the Earth's greenhouse effect from the December 1-12 meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UNFCCC said.

That estimate is based on a turnout of 8,000 people, but as of Sunday 10,657 people had registered for the talks.

Poland, which is hosting the meeting, "plans to offset the total emissions resulting from the conference once a final calculation has been made," the UNFCCC said.

Under offsets, anyone emitting carbon can invest in a scheme that mitigates the pollution by the same amount.

Typical projects involve reforestation or transferring cleaner technology to developing countries in order to ease their own emissions of greenhouse gases.

I guess algore will be setting up his concession stand to sell his carboncredits.  Fools and their money, etc., etc.....

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How does one measure a ton of carbon dioxide anyway?

[thundley4]

Climate change juggernaut on the horizon, UN talks told
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POZNAN, Poland (AFP) — War, hunger, poverty and sickness will stalk humanity if the world fails to tackle climate change, a 12-day UN conference on global warming heard on Monday.
A volley of grim warnings sounded out at the start of the marathon talks, a step to a new worldwide treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and help countries exposed to the wrath of an altered climate.
"Humankind in its activity just reached the limits of the closed system of our planet Earth," said Polish Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki, elected to chair the December 1-12 meeting in the city of Poznan.
"Further expansion in the same style will generate global threats of really great intensity -- huge droughts and floods, cyclones with increasingly more destructive power, pandemics of tropical disease, dramatic decline of biodiversity, increasing ocean levels," said Nowicki.
"All these can cause social and even armed conflict and migration of people at an unprecedented scale."

More Fear Mongering

[Wineslob]

Considering that the atmosphere weighs approx 5000 trillion metric tons, 13000 tons, ain't much.

I'm still waiting for the Glow Balls DUmmies to explain how CO2 in such small numbers is going to doom us all.