IPCC
20.01.2001: Three scientists and the year 2035 [1]
The hype around the Intergovernamental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) prognosis that the glaciers of the Himalaya will be gone by 2035 is a great campaign to discredit the IPCC. It is quite difficult to cite an exact year when some changes will happen caused by climatologic factors, however it is impossible to say it will not happen. Who has proofs that it will not happen?

All the very lauded scientists which rise there voices to discredit the IPCC are those who are responsible for the failure of the Conference of Copenhagen.

Georg Kaser
Georg Kaser was a leading author of the IPCC report he now criticizes. Kaser is a glacier researcher at the University of Insbruck/Austria. While he denies the melting of the Himalaya his Alp glaciers, where he is sitting on, are dripping away. He will publish in the next issue of “Science” how the IPCC report was made public. Once again he may attract the attention on his person.

Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Schellnhuber, German climate researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is eager to join the accusations against the IPCC calling for more quality control of the studies.

Kaser and Schellnhuber do not make public their own failure to provide solutions to the climate change. They were advisers of the politicians which met in Copenhagen. They failed to present a consistent global plan of renewable energies with could be realised by the community of all nations. The politicians were willing to come to a consensus, but they came with empty hands. These scientist are now polishing up their merits by defaming the IPCC.

Steve Chu [2]
Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning experimental physicist, is secretary of energy in the Obama administration. His job was to wean America from dependence on fossil fuels, rebuild the nation's electrical grid and address the challenges of climate change. Chu has little experience inside the Beltway, the Energy Department, the manufacture maintenance of nuclear weapons and how to create a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, near Las Vegas. For the time being storage of US nuclear waste is being done at open air. Chu has to manage 114,000 employees and contractors of the Department and a budget that has more than doubled this year. President Obama went to Copenhagen without any global solution from his secretary Steven Chu.

These three scientists are the culprits of a disorganized future of the global climate. The outcomes of their work are very meagre.

[1] Panne der Uno-Experten. Falsche Gletscherprognose empört Klimaforscher. Spiegel Online 19.January 2010.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,672852,00.html

[2] Steven Chu. The New York Times. March 23, 2009.
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/c/steven_chu/index.html

27.09.2009 Plan B for the UN Climate Conference in Kopenhagen December 2009.

The UN Climate Conference in December at Copenhagen will face the lack of stringent plans how to achieve an immediate reduction of greenhouse gases emission. All presented suggestions impose restriction and reduced energy consume. This will hamper economic recovery and impose serious problems for developing countries.

The Global Hydrogen Initiative may open a new market of renewable energy. The Arabian countries have the deserts which may produce electricity and hydrogen at very low costs. This may add to the energy export portfolio of Arabian countries, disputing with coal and nuclear energy. Hydrogen from water electrolysis will be a future diversification of energy carrier for transportation in crowded regions.

The Initiative was presented to all relevant governments, car manufacturers and the head of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen. However, it looms that Western economy has run out of sail. An effective strategy to cope with climate change is nearly impossible to be achieved at Copenhagen. Powerless governments, primary the USA, are not capable to lead to a new global economy which is not based on fossil energy. The Arabian states, on the contrary,  are situated in the best geographical and political position to make the financial decision to start the hydrogen economy and use the advantage to lead this new energy sector.

The hydrogen initiative presents a solution for the climate change without imposing restrictions or reductions on welfare. The desert States like Kuwait may start the hydrogen economy using the solar energy which is the wealth of their countries. The Global Hydrogen Initiative was developed to enable a small start with the option to evolve the system to global dimensions. Electricity and hydrogen are best suited for a wide energy export portfolio.

The alternative

07.07.2009: The coming up desaster of Copenhagen and how to avoid it [1]
According to Spiegel Online, the work of US oil, and coal lobbyists is successful so that a member of the House of Representatives referred to climate change as a "hoax," earning applause.

Energy Secretary Chu hides behind energy-saving building codes and pointing out the environmental benefits that could be achieved if the roofs of all buildings in the United States were painted white in the future. Chu demonstrates how powerless scientists are when they meet the lobby of the industry.

Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel, visiting Washington, was told not to unveil Obama's lack of commitment on climate protection. Otherwise it would further weaken the support of the House of Representatives for the US climate protection bill. However, it is a watered bill which does not provide any significant reductions in CO2 emissions until 2050.

Climatologists demand emissions to be reduced by 60 to 80 percent immediately. However, the negotiators for the UN member states will never meet such a target. At preliminary negotiations for the Copenhagen conference at Bonn, no agreements were on the agenda. The delegates knew that their governments will not approve real concessions. It gets clear that the main polluters such as USA assign the responsibility for CO2 emissions to developing countries hiding their own failures.

According to the World Resources Institute, almost one-third of CO2 emissions originate in the US.
The United States wants to play down the importance of this climate debt and force emerging countries in particular to do their part. Obama himself will see his hands tied in Copenhagen by lawmakers at home. The US climate protection bill, calls for only a 4 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, while 40 percent reduction are necessary.

Japan has offered to reduce its emissions by 8 percent by 2020 relative to 1990 levels.

US deputy climate change envoy Jonathan Pershing is cied by Spiegel Online saying “ If the US would reduce its emissions to zero, we would only see a delay in global warming of a few years because emissions from developing nations grow so fast. “ Pershing hides behind platitudes saying that the US has a very aggressive target both near term and long term, and blames the EU target of minus 20 percent to diverts half of it to aids to developing countries. [2]

Providing feasible solutions for Copenhagen
The European industry starts on the 13. of July 2009 the DESERTEC Industrial cooperation which will explore solar energy from the desert of North Africa. This cooperation provides tools to decarbonise the energy economy. It will boost the European technology and expand its knoiwledge to the dveloping countries. It leaves behind the platitudes of politics. [3]

An additional goal is to decarbonise fuel for transportation, which accounts for 23% of CO2 emission. The Global Energy Initiative delineates the production of hydrogen and a global power grid, according to Fuller. [4]    pdf Download

[1] Treading Water: How the US Is Blocking Progress on Climate Change. Spiegel Online. 07.07.2009.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,634738,00.html

[2 ] America and Global Warming: US Wants a 'Legally Binding Climate Agreement' Spiegel Onliune. 12.06.2009.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,630073,00.html

[3] DESERTEC concept taken up: industry engages in unique project for clean power from deserts. DESERTEC Press Release. Berlin, June 16, 2009
http://www.desertec.org/fileadmin/downloads/press/press-release_090616_en.pdf

[4]Desert Energy Project: Gobal Energy Initiative presentation.
http://www.desertenergyproject.net/Global_initiative.pdf