I am sure the Stop.Oil movement have more than one in their ranks that debate wise, would have tied Mark Austin up in knots… but obviously, as their headline had already indicated which bias the news channel was already siding with… that wouldn’t do for them to have their anchor man looking ill-informed
I see two twitter profiles in that name one is protected…
It must have pictures of all her holidays and her V8 muscle car.
The PCC’s comment is very illuminating. How dare the media report on this, they must be squashed!
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Isn’t super glue derived from oil?
Must download and re-read Ben Eltons Stark
Yet more of the nonsense that really needs to see one of these COPs end with a catastrophic failure, so that everyone has to acknowledge the preceding 25 years of failure. A fund created…except no one has a hard obligation to contribute to it, that gets resolved ‘later’.
Meanwhile, no real progress has actually been made on agreeing on how to reduce emissions.
" Yeah but we did something" 
I’m off to read Stark(for the umpteenth time)again at least that’ll make me laugh whilst we all burn 
Edited to add
@ISMF needs to add a “I totally agree mate but we’re all gonna die unless we friend Elon on FaceTwitter and he takes us with him when he fucks off to Mars button”
We could call it the OhFuck button
That has an ominous feeling of giving up to it.
What angers me is how the media are now going out of their way to present this as if it was a success, when it obviously is the contrary. Nothing has been agreed, apart from agreeing that nothing will be done until next year. And who hosts the next COP in 2023? Dubai, one of the highest CO2 emitter per capita in the world, and one of the countries who have least interest to see us phase out of fossil fuels… 
Honestly, you couldn’t make this up, who decided to attribute the hosting to this country? It’s really FIFA-like proportions of corruption.
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My guess is that this deal will collapse. The politics of it are worse than the Kyoto Accord, and set up the populist right criticism just too easily. As a citizen of one of the countries expected to contribute to the fund, I have no idea why I would want to do this. What is the point of making financial contributions toward some notion of justice, except as an element of a broader deal that achieves climate targets? Here in Canada, the Conservatives have just been handed a stick to beat Trudeau with, and that is likely to be even truer in the United States.
and yeah, Dubai…aircon will be roaring away for those sessions.
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Thought-provoking article from WSJ on global financing for climate change. Hits the crux of the problem. Somehow the World Bank and the IMF seen as the facilitators funding change in the “developing world.” The solution for them is always more loans.
I genuinely don’t know what the answer is. We can all make changes on an individual level, but things won’t really improve unless there is a joined up global initiative that everyone buys into.
At that point? No chance. For lots of reasons.
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Hard to fathom how far behind we were even 50yrs ago…!
so let me get this straight…
Big business makes a fuck-ton of profits off the industrial age, and with our goverment has produced a society that’s driven by fossil fuels… then they create a fund which will be paid by the citizens tax dollars to give money to poor countries whilst BIG Business continues to pay nearly ZERO taxes to help fund the problem THEY have created with government’s best wishes (and TAX breaks)?
Fuck me. I’m so done with this shit.
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want to stop global warming? quit cutting down trees. plant more trees.
Allow nature to do its thing. the more area we clear of vegetation, the hotter the earth will get.
Don’t believe me? go stand in the sun on a hot pavement then walk 100ft into a forest and watch the temperature drop 5’C instantly.
water retention
shade
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Give? Not even. Lend. See my WSJ article three posts above yours.
I cant access the piece so dont know if it was addressed, but what I read recently is that mush of the newer lending is so called Blue Bonds, which is geared towards addressing issues of climate change, but also isnt new debt but a refinancing of the country’s existing debts