According to this authoritative science site (recall that science is a matter of opinion and conspiracy by the Jolly Green Giant Climate Fund's "international revolution"): http://www.stop21texas.com/2012/unfccc-i... almost as much money is at stake as this entrepreneurial pro-environmental service blesses us with: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=XOM+Key+...
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Preventing dangerous interference with climate systems?
I don't know how much that is worth in money but I guess it is a lot more than the UNFCCC is costing us currently.
To Zippie62:
It doesn't make sense to you because you have no clue what you are talking about.
As with so many deniers here, you only manage to grasp 5% of the whole problem and automatically assume that 'that is all there is to it' and in your denial you are totally unable to learn anything more about the issue.
The greenhouse effect is essential for all live on earth. Without it it would be freezing cold. That doesn't mean however that increasing C02 dramatically in a very short period of time can be considered natural or harmless. It is primarily the rate of increase which is alarming as it leaves little (if any) room for natural adaption to the changes.
The UNFCC stopped global warming! http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/off...
Or not. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/off...
It depends on which data set you believe, http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/off...
and whether or not you would give the UNFCC credit for the "reduced" increase in global CO2 emissions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...
and whether or not you would give the "reduced" increase in global CO2 emissions credit for any "decreased acceleration" in atmospheric CO2 concentration, http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/mea...
and whether or not you would give the "decreased acceleration" in atmospheric CO2 concentration credit for any of the deceleration in global warming. [1] I note that when a derivative (velocity of change) plot of global temperatures (red) is super imposed over derivative plots of global ocean temperatures (blue) and atmospheric CO2 concentrations (green), global temperatures lag behind ocean temperatures, and CO2 concentrations lag behind both. [2] This clearly contradicts that atmospheric CO2 concentrations drive temperatures, and shows that ocean temperatures drive atmospheric CO2 concentrations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solubi...
If there is any benefit at all to the UNFCCC, it has nothing to do with the ostensive goal of mitigating global warming.
Hey Dook makes it seem like "Doom and Gloom Science" pays off. I posted a question earlier about how beneficial CO2 is to plant life and how the biomass has increased by up to 11%. I wonder if he knows how beneficial CO2 is to all life here on the planet? He seems to think that CO2 (carbon credits) should be beneficial to people who think CO2 is bad for the planet. Here's my question : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
In answer to your question, I would say that the benefit is to help people feel good about themselves in that they are doing something against the warming effects of CO2 which makes CO2 warming look like an oxy-moron in our atmosphere. It's the basis of all life, but is considered dangerous at its current levels. Doesn't make sense to this Y/A answerer because the sustained warming of the planet is based mostly on CO2.
Several tons of bullsh!t and a lot of hot air.
Today the 38th Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 38) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 38) under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) is starting in Bonn, Germany.
The 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) for the UNFCCC will be held 11 Nov - 22 Nov 2013, Warsaw, Poland.
That's 57 very large gatherings in the past 20 years or so and who really knows how many smaller ones under the flag of the UNFCCC. I will give them that the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997.
What has been accomplished since 1997? Do you have any idea how many of your tax dollars go towards the UNFCCC?
Reference: http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/6240.php
