http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5BA13420091211

Forgive me if I come across as a grumpy so-and-so on this one but I would rather we gave away our tax money for a good cause without this agenda

(edit - sorry what I meant to say was I would rather give away that portion of my money that wouldn't be taxed on account of this nonsense to a good cause of my personal choice)

Where exactly is this Climate Crisis happening that requires the giving away of Billions of pounds to developing countries and to what end?

This week in the UK we had our budget statement in which the UK Gov was going to borrow over 100 Billion Pounds this year to cover their spending rescuing of the Banks and over 100 Billion pounds next.

Now tell me if you are 100 Billion in debt to the "World" how can you promise to give away Billions to the World?

It is an anathema - much like Man Made Global Warming


Dave

We are doing the same thing here in the US, giving away money to less developed Countries. The 'theory' is that if us more developed Countries give the other guys more money they will do it the right way from the beginning, instead of building dirty, pollution dispensing power plants. Whether that works out in the long run is anyones guess. I guess the money could be earmarked for certain types of expenditures but telling some Countries how to spend more than what their annual budget is, may be an impossible thing to accomplish.

http://climateprogress.org/2009/12/08/world-m...hottest-decade-on-record/

a little more from the WMO page talking about the last decade:

And, for the record, WMO does not just rely on the Hadley/CRU data:

This press release was issued in collaboration with the Hadley Centre of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office; the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; the National Climatic Data Center, National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service, and the National Weather Service under NOAA; and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States. Other contributors are the NMHSs of Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, Morocco, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and Uruguay. The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD, Niamey), the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño (CIIFEN, Guayaquil, Ecuador), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC, Nairobi, Kenya), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Drought Monitoring Centre (SADC DMC, Gabarone, Botswana) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) also contributed.

Global Surface Temperature Trend : Result from three Global datasets: NOAA (NCDC Dataset) , NASA (GISS dataset) and combined Hadley Center and Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia (UK) (HadCRUT3 dataset)

The link also gives a more realistic number but even this was sooner than thought a few years ago.



Did you read the explanation closely in your link? It contradicts your ideas.

Unfortunately Al Gore is just trying to keep his name 'in the news' and in the process has made a mockery of the whole conference. Even the guy who's stats Al used said he didn't say that! Back when Al was from Tennessee he was a guy who was seen as 'environmentally friendly'. Now he is seen as a 'pain in the butt' and just plain wrong on as many things as he can talk about! He has kernels of truth but always seems to find a way to go beyond them and into the realm of what he thinks people want to hear him say. If he could find a way to keep to the facts and not embellish them, he could be an imposing force in environmental conferences and speeches. He has supporters, he just seems to find a way to keep losing more and more of them everytime he opens his mouth!