Visitor essay by Eric Worrall
Not an auspicious begin to the occasion which Prince Charles informs us is our last chance to save the world from 1.5C international warming.
COP disaster as lots of of delegates are stranded in London after ‘excessive climate’ led to rail chaos on the road to Glasgow with Community Rail telling folks to go dwelling and take a look at once more within the morning
- Winds as much as 80mph are inflicting journey chaos and flooding throughout components of the UK with additional rain to return
- Tons of of passengers are caught at London Euston with all trains cancelled after tree fell on overhead wires
- Passengers, many making an attempt to achieve Glasgow for Cop26, mentioned it was ‘ironic’ journeys have been disrupted by storms
- Met Workplace unable to rule out whether or not any tornadoes have taken place following studies of wind harm
By JAMIE PHILLIPS and KATIE FEEHAN and BHVISHYA PATEL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:05 AEDT, 31 October 2021 | UPDATED: 09:40 AEDT, 1 November 2021
Tons of of delegates hoping to journey to Glasgow for the COP26 local weather summit by practice have been left stranded inside London’s Euston station tonight after torrential rain and 80mph gale-force winds noticed bushes fall on the railway strains and halt providers.
Community Rail tonight urged passengers to go dwelling and ‘journey tomorrow as an alternative’ after the acute climate brought about harm to overhead electrical strains.
The railway firm mentioned they have been ‘actually sorry’ for the disruption to passengers and admitted ‘right this moment’s excessive climate acquired the higher of us.’
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Learn extra: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10149477/Britain-battered-50mph-winds-heavy-rain-weather-goes-downhill.html
James Delingpole reports a church was struck by a tornado throughout the center of prayers for local weather motion.
The simply accomplished G20 assembly, which was meant to hammer out remaining variations, provides to local weather lovers woes, with information that delegates on the G20 couldn’t agree on something concrete.
‘Hopes unfulfilled’: G20 fails to agree on local weather change objectives
By David Crowe and Bevan Shields
November 1, 2021 — 4.43am
Rome: Leaders from the world’s largest economies have fractured in a tense negotiation over local weather change that has stalled hopes for a world pact to make deeper cuts to carbon emissions and part out using coal.
The G20 leaders scaled again plans by a few of the group’s strongest members, together with america and European Union, for an formidable settlement that will set a collective purpose to cut back emissions to web zero by 2050.
Whereas the group backed the purpose of limiting the rise in world temperatures, it made no agency commitments on methods to keep the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius after warnings from scientists two months in the past on the necessity to attain that purpose.
Leaders together with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the result didn’t do sufficient to restrict the rise to 1.5 levels.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison opposed the deadline to part out coal in addition to a name to hurry up cuts to methane emissions by 2030, a proposal the federal government believed would impose excessive prices on dairy and cattle farmers.
United Nations Secretary Normal Antonio Guterres admitted the failure to agree on extra formidable motion on local weather change on the summit in Rome, however held out hope of a dedication from a wider group of leaders once they meet on the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Monday.
“I go away Rome with my hopes unfulfilled – however at the least they don’t seem to be buried,” he mentioned.
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Learn extra: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/g20-fails-to-agree-on-climate-change-goals-20211101-p594sv.html
I’m guessing COP26 isn’t going to be the wonderful success activists are hoping for, or in some circumstances praying for.
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