Rachmat Witoelar, Indonesia's Environment Minister, closed the United Nation's Climate Change Conference in Bali yesterday with comment that,
"We have a Roadmap!
I am delighted to say that we have finally achieved the breakthrough the world has been waiting for: the Bali Roadmap!
Distinguished delegates,
The decisions we have taken in Bali together create the world’s road map to a secure climate future. The governments assembled here have responded decisively in the face of new scientific evidence and significant advances in our thinking to collectively envision, and chart, a new climate-secure course for humanity.
The Bali Roadmap consists of a number of forward-looking decisions adopted today. These decisions represent various tracks that are essential to reaching a secure climate future.
At this meeting we have launched a new negotiation process, designed to tackle climate change, with the aim of completing this by 2009.
We have also addressed the AWG negotiations, setting a 2009 deadline, firmly launched the Adaptation Fund, and defined the scope and content of the Art. 9 review of the Kyoto Protocol - all of these on the Kyoto track. Similarly we have charted a course forward on reducing emissions from deforestation and on technology transfer, including an exciting new strategic programme."
For information on these initiatives and the rest of the speech by Mr Witoelar, please click here: http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php
Is that your idea of a specific response, Anthony?
We both know that the official temp record is a seriously distorted proxy for the past 25 years. And if the climate muddles have been tested against the NASA/GISS or UKMET series then they will have an overstated sensitivity to CO2 due to the distortions from volcanic aerosols.
Minimal temperature change for 25 years can only mean substantially reduced CO2 sensitivity.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_en___AU207&q=climate+sensitivity
get reading Mottsa
Funny how Luke and Ender can have a discussion about aerosols and climate sensitivity whilst avoiding the implications of the El Chichon and Pinatubo eruptions (of aerosols) and their masking of the fact that there has been zero sensitivity to CO2 increases for the past 25 years.
So what, exactly, are the climate muddlers using as their proxy for determining CO2 sensitivity?
As they say in the sinking Carteret Islands, must be bullshithimbillongwanka.
Luke reckons if the "temperature goes up".
In the climate models or the measured temperature, of a global type, of the earth's atmosphere.
Better get a little more specific, Luke, or don't you know and compensate by