Failure to reach climate deal is unacceptable

The failure to reach new climate deal is unacceptable, and world leaders should be well aware of that, and do everything what it takes to speed up the negotiation process. The entire world has a holy obligation to leave the world as we know it now to our future generations because without the immediate action against the climate change our way of life, and especially way of life of our future generations, will change forever. And when I say change, I certainly don't mean change for better.

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What to expect from new climate deal?

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has described the UN climate summit in Copenhagen as an "opportunity the world cannot afford to miss". And he's absolutely right because this new climate deal is our last chance to do something about climate change. Is there a reason for us to hope that world is finally ready for much stronger climate deal than it was the case with Kyoto protocol? Well if UN is right then it looks like an unprecedented number of countries have promised emissions cuts so we could actually see a strong climate deal. But there are also some problems that need to be solved before we can talk about the success of the new climate deal.

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Is huge sea level rise likely to happen?

Most climate change predictions have concluded that sea levels will globally rise around 1 meter by the end of this century. Such sea level rise is already huge, but a major review of climate change in Antarctica conducted by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)come up with even bigger numbers, namely that sea levels could rise 1,4m by the end of this century.

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Is our planet still warming?

It may not seem that way to us but scientists continue to claim that our planet is still warming, and that climate change is very much a reality we live in. This was the conclusion of the newest review of climate data that included 26 climate scientists from eight countries, and all these scientists agreed how Earth is really warming, and how the global warming could reach as high as 7 degrees temperature increase by the end of the century if greenhouse gases growth continues its current trend.

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How important is climate change issue to United States?

Many of you probably still remember how Obama during elections promised that climate change issue will be top priority for United States if he was to be elected as the new president of United States. He is now the president, and despite his visible efforts to give climate change issue more political importance lately it seems like climate change issue is more and more slipping on U.S. political agenda, and the worst part is that crucial international climate talks are only couple of weeks away. Some reports are even suggesting that climate deal has slipped so far down on U.S. political agenda that serious climate talks will have to wait until after the 2010 elections.

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