Speaker backs protesters' climate change message
In the wake of Moviment Graffiti's symbolic protest on Monday, Speaker Louis Galea said people should "rejoice" at the idea that there were young people concerned about climate change.
Addressing a conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean ahead of next month's Copenhagen climate change summit, Dr Galea said young people wanted real action to prevent climate change, rather than a reaction to it.
The movement staged its Less Talk, More Action protest outside the Corinthia San Ġorġ Hotel in St Julians where the conference was held over two days. The demonstrators urged political leaders to take action rather than just discuss climate change issues.
Dr Galea lamented the poor progress made in 10 years since the Kyoto Treaty was initially adopted by most of the world and highlighted the movement's fears that the forthcoming Copenhagen conference would amount to just more hot air unless appropriate action was taken.
He said: "A group of Maltese youths seconded the initiative of this conference by holding a demonstration outside the venue calling to replace words with real action to counter climate change. Less talk, more action, they are insisting. Let us heed their appeal. It is our obligation to bequeath future generations a planet earth that would still be the most beautiful planet in the Universe."
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John Spiteri
Nov 25th 2009, 21:31
"eight of the 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred since 2001"
Where do you get your information from? The Times? The BBC? since 1998 there has been no warming - to the contrary the earth has cooled for the past SEVEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS.
The leaked emails are damning enough but the real fraud is in the computer code in the climate modelling software. The leaked file called "HARRY README.txt" has thousands of lines of computer code and the programmer's comments such as:
"THIS WORKS WITH REMTS BEING A 2D ARRAY (nseries,ntime) OF MULTIPLE TIMESERIES
; WHOSE INFLUENCE IS TO BE REMOVED. UNFORTUNATELY THE IDL5.4 p_correlate
; FAILS WITH >1 SERIES TO HOLD CONSTANT, SO I HAVE TO REMOVE THEIR INFLUENCE
; FROM BOTH INDTS AND DEPTS USING MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION AND THEN USE THE
; USUAL correlate FUNCTION ON THE RESIDUALS.
;
pro maps12,yrstart,doinfill=doinfill
;
; Plots 24 yearly maps of calibrated (PCR-infilled or not) MXD reconstructions
; of growing season temperatures. Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually
; plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to
; the real temperatures."
speak for themselves!
r millam
Nov 25th 2009, 19:23
I don't see why
"people should "rejoice" at the idea that there were young people concerned about climate change."
our climate has always been changing even from the time of Christ, due to the sun's activity and our unique type of orbit. the amount of CO2 we humans put into the atmosphere as opposed to natural curses.
it is just an excuse to tax you and control you.
I am certain when the younger generation find out they have been used, there will be real trouble.
Jesmond Micallef
Nov 25th 2009, 18:32
Indeed. You have my respect Speaker Dr. Louis Galea. More prominent Maltese people should support this issue. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta, Dr. Lawrence Gonzi spoke about Malta's vocation very recently, well, I do think that this should also form part of that. Malta is a very small island nation. It allways had to follow, somehow or another whatever the BIG and MIGHTY did, whatever it is , you name it...............
I do strongly believe that human intervention has had an influence on the Earths balance, I have no doubt about this. Furthermore, do I dare to mention "Human Progress" here ?? What comes to mind when I mention the Arctic Bunker recently built in Norway in order to store the seeds of the world ???
Well done Speaker Dr. Louis Galea, may other dignitaries like yourself follow suite.
r millam
Nov 25th 2009, 16:03
carmelo Aquilina
"The overwhelming majority of scientists"
do NOT believe climate change is caused by man.
the ice caps have disappeared before without the world coming to an end.
"the physics of the greenhouse effect of C02" CO2 levels always FOLLOWED temperature in the past. so there is no precedent for this theory.
""Are you saying these are "fraudulent data" that all governments including even George Bush have accepted as real?"" If they have why are they not rushing to build Nuclear power stations to replace the Coal / Gas power stations, so that our carbon footprint will be reduced.
If there is so much provable science about climate change, why are the Climate change scientists with-holding the evidence? deleting correspondence, circumnavigating Freedom of Information requests. it would substantiate what they are saying.
only one answer to all the above. THERE IS NO SUCH EVIDENCE.
carmelo Aquilina
Nov 25th 2009, 11:37
@ John Spiteri
The overwhleming majority of scientists and the evidence suggests that the earth is warming up , the pattern is rising in line with the quantity of carbon dioxide in thge atmosphere and is largely repsonsible and most of this gas is released by human activity.
Consider:
the physics of thegreenhouse effect of C02 are unchallnenged
eight of the 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred since 2001
thinning of the Arctic ice cap and the shrinkage of the glaciers
the observed changed migratory and reproductive patterns of the world's wildlife and plants
Arte you saying these are "fraudulent data" that all giovernmentsinclkudign even George Bush have accepted as real?
the modelling is complex that it is not yet an exact science but even leaked e-mails of scientists bitching against the skeptics doers not invalidate all these facts. If you want to give credence to that then why ignore the more obvious funding of climate change sceptics by the coal and oil industry ? You sneer against "junk science" and "primitive belief systems" but then ignore the vast majority of scientiists who are arguing for man-made climate change. Eppure sui muove !
John Spiteri
Nov 25th 2009, 10:35
Truly a case of only fools and horses.. What a plonker!
Far from rejoicing, the country should be shocked that education has been replaced by ideology, critical thinking by herd mentality and science by primitive belief systems.
it should be even more shocked that the speaker of the highest institution in the land - is as gullible as these misguided youths.
Increasingly the taxes, tariffs and subsidies passed in this country are entirely based on a FRAUD. this is now unequivocal, the leaked documents,data,code and correspondence from the Climate Research Unit involving the world's 'top climatologists' leave no room for doubt about the level of manipulation and corruption.
Our Speaker can believe what he wants - but he and every politician should be held to account. Make no mistake, it has started elsewhere with a number of institutions preparing to file lawsuits against their governments for basing policy on fraudulent data and junk science.
We should do likewise here. It is time for a Taxpayers' Alliance. I for one am tempted to file a request to hold the government responsible for any damages derived from taxes,duties,treaties etc based on this fraud.
c.caruana
Nov 25th 2009, 10:07
Good job Dr.Galea.....We, as world citizens deserve immediate ACTION!!