Well It Is Thursday.

So in my little bit of the world there have been the usual series of small irritations. However these were minor and not really worth reporting on.

At the COP15 summit the Danish hosts released a document totaling up an estimate of the limit on global temperature rise that will be produced by the voluntary emissions cuts that have been pledged. They decided to do this around ten minutes before the start of the Heads of States dinner that was hosted by the Queen of Denmark. While the document is unavailable to me and I haven't trusted the Danish hosts since they appointed the Prime Minister of the worlds largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases* as the summit's chief enforcer I believe that it puts the estimated total cap at 3C. I consider this to be as accurate an estimate as you will get when you ask scientists to predict the future based on fluid data. To put it another way it might not be 100% accurate but I don't like anyone is purposefully lying. The question for the COP15 delegates then is do want to limit the temperature rise to 3C or do they want to see it rise to 4C, 5C or even 6C?


*Yes that would be Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia. A man who so un-enforcer like he is unable to get environmental legislation through his own Parliament.