German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to address the gathering later on Sunday. In her weekly video podcast broadcast, she called for the Durban meeting to hammer out a global, legally-binding agreement to ensure that global warming, due to carbon emissions, be limited to 2 degrees Celsius.
She also said that voluntary emission reduction won’t cut it.
If all the eco-ninnies want to jam a giant cork where the sun don’t shine, that would surely stop unwanted emissions, and the planet would be saved.
They also sell wind turbines and photovoltaic panels by the truckload — at least until the Chinese started selling them cheaper, and the Greens beat her in recent elections.
You would think that the European nations would be more concerned about more important matters, like keeping the economies solvent.
Merkel fails to convince the USA and China!
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,772328,00.html