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[Fintan]

[Fintan]

[Rumpl4skn]

I did that run in February of '94, playing on the Silja Line, between Helsinki and Stockholm. Back then, there would be sections of the Baltic that were iced over, but then you'd feel the ship break free and it was clear water for many miles. When you're crunching ice, it's more like being on a train - no rocking, and a steady chug-chug-chug as it breaks through. I can only imagine how thick that ice must be now.

My ship was the Europa, one of the several cruise liners that assisted picking up survivors a few years later when that Estonian liner sank on the way to Stockholm.



The Europa held 2,000 passengers itself, and also had a massive car deck that could hold about 18 tractor trailers (drivers would defer to the ferry, rather than drive all the way around the huge bay.

As cold as it was that winter up there, I can't imagine how cold it must be now.

[duane]

just when you thought it was safe to outside

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/climate-change-funds-the-_n_489680.ht





Climate Change Funds: The IMF Has Ideas For Combating Climate Change

TOM MALITI | 03/ 8/10 03:43 PM | AP



NAIROBI, Kenya — The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies.

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned about the huge amount of funding needed and the effect that will have on the global economy. He added that the proposal may help efforts to reach a binding agreement on climate change later this year.

Strauss-Kahn proposed that countries adopt a quota system similar to the one the Fund uses to raise its own money, which could bring in money faster than proposals to increase carbon taxes or other fundraising methods. He only provided a broad outline of the plan, as the organization will release a paper within 10 days with full details. It is unclear how the proposal will be received.

The IMF raises funds from its 185 members mainly through a quota system that is based broadly on each country's economic size. The United States is currently the largest shareholder.

"We all know that (carbon taxes and other fundraising methods) will take time and we don't have this time. So we need something which looks like an interim solution, which will bridge the gap between now and the time when those carbon taxes will be big enough to solve the problem," Strauss-Kahn said. "And that is exactly what the IMF proposal is dealing with."

He said a climate change accord reached last December estimated $100 billion a year will be needed by 2020 to fund programs, including those to help poor nations deal with droughts, flooding and food shortages expected to be caused by climate change.

A Kenyan anti-poverty campaigner said the IMF should not get involved in climate change because in Africa it has promoted policies that saw an increase in the exploitation of fossil fuels, which have contributed to the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change.

"IMF is responsible for the consumption patterns that has generated the current climate crisis that we face. And they have neither the expertise nor the moral authority to discuss the issue of climate change," said Vitalice Meja, the coordinator of Reality of Aid Africa, an anti-poverty advocacy group.

Nations failed to reach a binding deal in Copenhagen in December, but agreed on a voluntary plan to control greenhouse gas emissions which are blamed for the gradual heating of the Earth that scientists predict will worsen weather-related disasters. The accord, however, included collective commitments by rich countries to provide billions of dollars to help poor countries adapt to climate change, a major demand the poor nations had made.
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The more than 190 nations will reconvene in Cancun, Mexico, later this year for another attempt to reach a binding agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which sets emissions targets for industrial countries and expires in 2012.

(This version CORRECTS paper to be released within 10 days, sted this week.)

[Fintan]

Gallup has completed another poll of American's attitude
to global warming hysteria.

The results are ominous for climate change advocates:

[Fintan]

Piers Corbyn does it again!

At the end of Feb (see end of video above) he predicted that
March would start cold in the UK, and would then warm up.

And he cautioned that the sting in the tail was a return to
a cold snap again at the end of March.

That's how it worked out, and here comes that cold snap:

[MichaelC]

Pick up a copy of this weekend's Financial Times(although basically a waste of money) and you will be amazed at how these fuckers are beating the dead horse: "Royals against climate change"!

They just will NOT give it up.

Relentless page after page of the same rot.

[skinters]

I am just reading through the articles on Piers Weatheraction site,and in particular on the met office.

[skinters]

[kathy]

[Peter]

Somehow (a little bird(brain) told me....) I am sure that they use the CO2 forcings from our friends at Hadley and the CRU, GISS etc. in the "global climate models".

Garbage in, garbage out.

[skinters]

Cheers Kathy,i found that earlier as well.

I was trying to confirm for myself if the Met had a staunch support of AGW and with this could never support or agree to use piers corbyn's work. It would show admittance to solar activity being a strong indicator of climate,of which if i am right in saying the likes of the IPCC have never pointed to it being a factor.

If the Met wants to make better long term weather predictions,it looks like they are going to need Piers model.

[Fintan]

[Rumpl4skn]

Great audio. Now I wanna see that video of him, and "an error occurred."

[skinters]

Yeah great stuff.

Was grinning at Fintans attempts to get Piers to give us the secret.