Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Warmist Tim Flannery: The Most Important Issue of All Time ranks THIRD on my list of top issues to campaign for

Tim Flannery: corporate chiefs should be jailed for bribery and wrongdoing overseas - The Ecologist
Australia's climate change commissioner and author of new book Here on Earth talks to Matilda Lee about Gaia's true principles, the power of the internet and why legally binding climate treaties are pointless
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TF: OK. Canada has exceeded its Kyoto - which is a proper formal binding treaty - emissions target by a very large amount. It will owe in excess of $1billion (CAN) under Kyoto within the next 12 months or so. Stephen Harper is clearly just not going to pay. Now, will Ban Ki-moon send in the Blue Berets? Do you think that will happen? So what's the use of a globally binding treaty? I think that an agreement like the Copenhagen Accord actually has every bit as much power as a globally binding treaty could. The Copenhagen Accord is a very firm basis for action - it gets us about two-thirds of the way we need to go to avoid dangerous climate change on the balance of probabilities.
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ML: Similarly, top issues to campaign for?

TF: First, the education and social standing of women, globally. The population issue depends almost entirely on making that work. Secondly, the promotion of democracy globally and, in our own democracy, the eradication of the last special deals and preferences that still plagues our civilisation. Third, climate change. Fourth, re-wilding your local environment. Fifth, the civilising of our market - meaning corporations that behave in socially acceptable ways.
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TF: The key is just to explain what the scientists say. Scientists are themselves the biggest sceptics. When a ‘climate change sceptic' says "I don't believe that, we'll say that we don't believe anything either". What we are telling you is that what our studies reveal is that there is a greater probability. Tell us why what you say is more highly probable than what we say. Of course, they have no argument. There is no certainty in science; it's a question of probability.

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