Oxfam reaction to Copenhagen deal

Barry Coates, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand, gives Oxfam's reaction to the verdict coming out of the Copenhagen climate talks.

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[tnormandie1]

True, but why fight the flat earth.

[spamy97]

>Your

[comrade9999]

Your all blatantly Americans.

Explains alot!

[hashymotothiroiditis]

Yeah actually this is pretty damn serious. 4 degrees is enough to screw us over. The world would be beyond devastated.

Thanks for posting this and telling us where it's really at! Keep up the good work!

[S201676]

@thisislesh:

The example I gave was the largest volcano eruption ever observed. Many volcanoes do erupt annually, but an event as large as 1815 Tambora is something that happens only every few centuries.

It would be good if both the public and their governments were to reduce their environmental impact. There are some actions a government can take that ordinary people cannot.

[thisislesh]

But how many volcano eruptions are there in a year, compared to the human CO2 emission. I don't believe its ok to compare these two.

100% agree that people should make there efforts to be environmentally friendly, even if politicians think otherwise.

[S201676]

@comrade9999:

I would say that wouldn't happen. Volcanic eruptions decrease temperatures, because although there is some heat released, dust and ash are the main outputs and these are spread by the wind and reduce the amount of ambient sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface.

The largest eruption yet observed was 1815 Mt. Tambora, which REDUCED worldwide temperatures by about .5 C over the next year.

Nature isn't temperature stable, but people should still act environmentally responsible.

[FanZelda123]

i feel so sorry for them...i wish there was something i can do something...but look at this if 2012 happens ppl that die wont have to put up with it....god bless all:(

[LAEXCITOSAAPARECIDA]

Jim Hansen was for failure. "This is analogous to the indulgences that the Catholic church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what's happening... We've got the developed countries who want to continue more or less business as usual and then these developing countries who want money and that is what they can get through offsets."

[1958debs]

I heard a guy that used to be the Secretary General of the UN and wanted a world government has been taking statements from scientists and changing facts and statements that they were making about how that people weren't changing the environment and twisting it until it said that we were.