Portage Glacier 2004
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The Pasterze, Austria’s longest glacier
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The Pasterze, Austria’s longest glacier
(2004-Gary Braasch photo made Aug 14, 2004)

After all the hoopla and hundreds of millions of dollars spent wastefully on security measures alone George W. Bush opens the summit meeting by mistakenly thanking the Prime Minister for hosting the “OPEC” summit meeting…..

see the video Bush Bloopers in Australia – OPEC or APEC?

This was reminiscent of George W. Bush thanking Queen Elizabeth for visiting the U.S.A. in 1776 to celebrate the bi-centennial…

see the video “A Royal Blunder – Bush Blooper With Queen”

see the video “David Letterman top 10 George W. Bush moments”

Almost as bizzare as Bush’s opec foohpah was Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s announcement of the “milestone” signing of the “Sydney Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security, and Clean Development”

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The “Sydney APEC Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development” has been released and is available for download.

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Reuters reported on The “Sydney APEC Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development” by first stating that :

Asia-Pacific leaders agreed at a weekend summit to adopt a “long-term aspirational goal” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Considering the APEC leaders oversee approximately 60% of Planet Earth’s economic wealth their unwillingness or inability to do anything about Global Warming with the wealth they oversee is rather alarming….”Long-term aspirational goals” is a very eloquent literary term but unfortunately immediate action is required to physically address Global Warming…

Workers try to clean up a massive algal bloom spreading over Taihu Lake at Wuxi, in China’s Jiangsu province.
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China, like India who is a signatory of the so-called Kyoto Protocol is not required to reduce carbon emissions under the bizzare present Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at combatting global warming agreement.

Wuhan, Hebei province: A man collects dead fish in Donghu lake, where officials say an estimated 30,000kg of fish have been killed by a combination of pollution and hot weather…
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China was quick to sign the Seinfeldish accord about nothing The “Sydney APEC Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development”….

see the video “China’s Grime Belt Air Pollution Extreme” that shows the suffering of the Chinese people who live in that area..

see the video “The River Huai, like many rivers in China, can no longer supply local agriculture with its lifeblood – water.”

Benxi: Pollution from steel mills blows over residential buildings
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see the video “Nasty pollution in China“

see the video”The Bear Bile Business“

see video evidence of China throwing its medical waste into the ocean..

see the video”China Umweltkollaps Environmental Pollution“

see the BBC News video – China among worst polluters 28.01.07

LANZHOU,-CHINA-
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see the video China’s”Monstrous Animal Skinning“

see the video “DO NOT bring your pets to this country!!!!“(China)

see the video “Animal cruelty: cows and chickens devoured by tigers” at a China zoo..

see the video “China Dam Explosion“

see the video “Organ Harvesting in China“

see the video “BBC News – June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre“

see the video “The Geological Effect Of Chinese Invasion Of Tibet“

see the video “Deng XiaoPing Comment on Tiananmen Protests“

see the video “Chinese Pollution Reaches U.S. (CBS News)“

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see video of Australian Police courageously protecting the Apec leaders from the threat of a female armed with a camera

The government of Australia unwilling to ratify the Kyoto Protocol quickly ratified a 37 billion u.s. dollars deal to export liquefied natural gas to China at the Apec meeting in Sydney…(source)

Reuters further expanded on the Apec Leaders aspiration goals to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emmissions…

Here is a list of the main points:

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY SECURITY AND CLEAN DEVELOPMENT

– APEC nations, including China and the United States, agree to work to achieve a common understanding on a long-term aspirational global emissions reduction goal to pave the way for an effective post-2012 international arrangement.

– Reaffirm commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Post-Kyoto arrangement needs to reflect differences in economic and social conditions among economies.

ACTION AGENDA

– Work towards achieving an APEC-wide regional aspirational goal of a reduction in energy intensity of at least 25 percent by 2030, with 2005 as the base year.

– Work to achieve an APEC-wide aspirational goal of increasing forest cover in the region by at least 20 million hectares of all types of forests by 2020. If achieved, this would store about 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon, equal to 11 percent of annual global emissions in 2004.

– Set up Asia-Pacific networks to strengthen research on clean fossil fuels, renewable energy sources and forestry.

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For those of you wondering what “Energy Intensity” could possibly mean….

Energy intensity refers to the amount of energy used to produce a unit of one dollar of gross domestic product (GDP).

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Regarding the APEC leaders’ “Action Agenda” and their ” Work towards achieving an APEC-wide regional aspirational goal of a reduction in energy intensity of at least 25 percent by 2030, with 2005 as the base year” that is truly a statement about nothing…

Below are two images of the Northern Polar Ice Cap. The top image was taken in 1979, the bottom image was taken in 2003. What do you think it will look like in 2030?

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Regarding the APEC (non)leaders “Work to achieve an APEC-wide aspirational goal of increasing forest cover in the region by at least 20 million hectares of all types of forests by 2020.”

Clear cutting in Indonesia
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Maine U.S.A(source of image)

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see the video “Kleenex: Flushing Ancient Forests Down the Toilet“

see the video “Deforestation“

see the video “The devastating effects of deforestation in South East Asia“

( Deforestation for agriculture in Benambra, Australia
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About half of the mature tropical forests, between 750 to 800 million hectares of the original 1.5 to 1.6 billion hectares that once covered the planet have been felled.(source)

If the APEC leaders actually plant 20 million hectares of trees it somewhat pales in comparison to what has been chopped down but nonetheless would be a start. However this reforestation plan is merely an empty “aspiration”.

More importantly they should be putting and immediate stop to clear-cutting logging practices….At the very least in their own countries….Perhaps they could influence Brazil to stop chopping down the Amazon Rainforest….

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see the video “Deforestation of the Amazon River basin“

Cutting down old growth forests and replacing them with trees that will more than likely manufactured in China is silly….

Proposed site for the upcoming Beijing Olympics Bicycle Events ?
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Although not mentioned in any of the APEC leaders aspirational solutions to solve Global Warming rumor has it many Apec countries are contemplating building Nuclear Power Plants….

Russia is apparently building “Floating nuclear power stations”

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Below are a few examples of the Russians expertise in building and maintaining Nuclear Power Plants….

The reactor disaster in Chernobyl took place on April 26, 1986. The reactor was encased as a temporary solution to secure the site for only 20-30 years.
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Children in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine have been suffering from the effect of the radiation released in April 1986.
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In closing. this post will end with a prayer….

see video of religious leaders gathering in melting Greenland and praying for a stop to Global Warming…..

“And, let me be clear, Canada’s long-term target of a 60 to 70% reduction of 2006 emissions by 2050 is consistent with cutting global greenhouse gas emissions by half over 1990 levels – a goal sought by the European Union.”

SOURCE: EcoAction

Is it just me or ….

Is it just me or .. does it seem odd to you that a politician in a minority Canadian Government who could be gone quicker than you could say “Kim Campbell” is making plans for the year 2050?

Can we really afford to ignore global warming and reducing greenhouse gas emissions until the year 2050?

Below are two images of the Northern Polar Ice Cap. The top image was taken in 1979, the bottom image was taken in 2003. What do you think it will look like in 2050?
source of image: greenviews.org