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Published Date: 06 November 2009
WEALTHY nations need to "put their money where their mouth is" and promise finance for a global climate change deal, Ed Miliband said yesterday.
The Climate Change Secretary said he expected negotiations at next month's crucial summit in Copenhagen to go "right down to the wire", with funding for developing countries set to be a potential stumbling block.

He also said the aviation and maritime industries would be expected to help fund a deal.

EU leaders have agreed to a 100 billion annual package to help poorer nations adapt to climate change.

Mr Miliband said: "One of the cruellest things about climate change is that the people who have done least to cause the problem face the worst consequences of it, including in Africa and elsewhere."





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  • Last Updated: 05 November 2009 9:48 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

truthsleuth,

06/11/2009 00:56:41
Most of these developing countries already recieve enormous sums of aid from us already. Funding them 'to take one step ahead of us' is ecomic madness.

Far better we use the money to fund our own Climate Change policies.
2

Handsome Scotsman,

06/11/2009 00:56:46
Did we not establish this week that sometimes scientists can be wrong?

For example , climate fluctuations could be caused by something other than man-made emissions. Earth doesnt orbit the sun in a perfect circle. We wobble about in varying elliptical patterns. If I was a scientist , I would think this is worth investigating.
3

Unimpressed one,

06/11/2009 08:06:46
No, one of the cruelest things about the 'climate change' circus is that if the world is forced to adopt to using 80% less energy, millions of poor will suffer. That is the only real fact about this tripe. However the suffering of humanity is something the greens are quite comfortable with given their past record of treating the world's poor with complete contempt. Only striving for continuously high growth will secure a standard of living that will raise people up from squalor and ignorance. The greens are anti-humanity and anti-progress and thus represent a cancer on our species.
4

Alan B,

06/11/2009 08:55:07
More rubbish from labour. They are more interested in using this to tax more and more rather than solving the problem.

The best way to deal with the issue is to move away from the petrol car and as a first stage to much more efficient cars. Imposing a min 50 mile per gallon on all new cars should be a good start. Reduce vat on hybrid cars and removing it altogether for electric vehicles.

If the west moved away from the petrol engine then cars globally would not be petrol, and it would also solve alot of the oil politics putting tonnes of money into bampot regimes.

Then deal with emmissions from producing electricity and you do not have to do much else.
5

TomPullings,

Clydebank 06/11/2009 14:01:47
Totally agree with the posters above. The Powers That Be are only interested in taking as much from us as humanly possible and will tax us until the pips squeak. Claiming that we can affect climate change by taxing everything that uses energy is disingenious at best and downright fraud at worst. They can stick their carbon taxes and carbon funds where the sun don't shine.
6

nabodican,

Newton Stewart 06/11/2009 14:12:05
Miliband is a raving idiot, just like his brother.
UK plc is flat broke because of the likes of him and his cronies and he is asking us to dig deep for what is now officially a religion, viz "The church of Global warming"
It is people like him and the great greenwashed who actually cause problems with the world poor. This is what they did with DDT which could have saved millions of people from dying from malaria.
7

Unimpressed one,

06/11/2009 14:59:30
the latest from Minibrain:

"Mr Miliband warned of water and food shortages, mass migration and conflict. A map unveiled at the exhibition showed temperatures increasing by up to 15C in the Arctic, storm surges hitting the East Coast of Britain and forest fires and droughts in Europe."

Note the 15 degrees centigrade rise being quoted. The man is totally mental. Mind you he also fantasised about alligators inundating the coast of Sweden in the next few years. I've heard nutters on LSD give more rational views of reality.
8

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 06/11/2009 16:07:22
The only thing we're going to dig deep for if we have any sense is the grave for Labour and the Church of Global Warming. Only a lunatic from a country which is mired deep in debt would suggest what he has done. Oh sorry he is a lunatic. Also this 15 centigrade rise - thought it was Celsius now? Apart from being utterly preposterous that is. The sooner these charlatans and their WWF, SNH and RSPB etc hangers-on are rooted out and given real jobs the better. This stuff is essentially the means to increase tax take as if we needed that at this juncture.

 

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