Homepage. This is the master page for all GCI links. All pages linked here are cued back to this master page. There is also a Search function also covering the orginal site. 'Conraction & Convergence' - the C&C Principle & Practice Climate Truth & Reconciliation - Global Commons Institute (GCI) home page Contraction & Convergence (C&C) first 20 years (1989-2008) Assumptions; the 'Well Tempered Climate Accord' (WTCA) The C&C principle is 'Well Tempering' Climate Justice Without Vengeance Speech at RCJ (2018); C&C "The Well Tempered Climate Accord" "Anyone who thinks C&C is Utopian simply hasn't looked honestly at the alternatives." Martin Luther King 'The arc of the curves towards justice' Origin of the Arc of the Universe C&C Archive UNFCCC-Compliance & Support for the C&C Principle UNFCCC-Compliance "inevitably requires" C&C UNFCCC Executive Massive Support for C&C principle remains completely unrivalled 12 UN Bodies support C&C Principle Support from High Ranking Eminent Persons (ADB) Extensive Political Support from Eminent Persons for C&C principle Religious consensus supporting C&C principle Extensive expert support Support for C&C Principle from many Blue Planet Award winners & others All UK Political Parties strongly endorsed C&C C&C supporting Early Day Motions (EDMs) in the UK Parliament C&C becomes the UK Climate Act in 2008 "The C&C principle is unchallenged" Herman Daly Huge support for C&C Principle accompanies this submission to UNFCCC 2012 An ALLIANCE FOR UNFCCC-COMPLIANCE Submission to the Talanoa Dialogue 2016 More eminent persons support (some overlap here) 1994 a huge outcry over the climate 'Economics of Genocide' from Pearce & Nordhaus GCI's comment on UNFCCC - "return to sender" 1992 Expansion and Divergence the economics of genocide The Value of Life GCI's critique of the economics argued in the IPCC Second Assessment Report Upheld in IPCC_SAR Globally the poor are more 'carbon-efficient' than the rich The 3 in 1 Trefoil Economists Usury Uneconomic Growth Disorder - Growth-Rates compared Circular Economy The economics of genocide Genocide by any other name (then) Genocide by any other name (now) Big wake-up call from paleo climate change records for the PERMIAN Extinction The changing rate of the temperature rise & fall over 100s of millions of years The changing rate of the rise & fall of CO2 concentrations over 100s of millions of years The rise & fall of T° CH4 CO2 ocean pH and sea-level over the last 600,000 years The 'Milankovitch wobbles' & 230 PPMV, the average over the last 600,000 years Climate emergency accelerating & carbon sinks relatively shrinking Global Warming is accelerating now (positive-feedback) Sinks are shrinking now (positive-feedback) Major Source-Sink questions in scenario from Rockstrom et al C&C Rates needed now Rational Analysis - urgency and immediate convergence CBAT the 'Carbon Budget Analysis Tool' presented in GCI evidence to EAC Feedback & C&C arrays Embedded in CBAT (Carbon Budget Analysis Tool) CBAT Appreciation EAC Carbon Budget Enquiries - were the models valid? Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) 'Carbon Budget Enquiries' (2009 - 2013) On its website UKMO admits the omission of major feedbacks from its climate modelling Under Oath UKMO then denies these omissions in evidence to the EAC Enquiry in 2013 The Cretan Paradox DECC admits feedback omissions in 2016 UKMO/IPCC Background to Feedback Omissions in 5th Assessment (AR5) The 'RCP' scenarios; sink failure rates modelled in RCP 8.5 (the path we're on) IPCC RCP 8.5 & the feedback fiasco Emissions-Creep since UKCA (2008) Widely varying estimates of Emissions from Land Use Changes IPCC Feedback Howler of all time Table 2.2 in IPCC SR 1.5° showing Budget-Inflation vs Feedback-Diminution. After International Peer Review, IPCC got all Governments of the world to sign it. 18 months later it was admitted that it was a mistake Climate Litigation - the Carbon-Debt issue Institutions & Considerations Collaboration with litigation agenda from 'Plan-B' All Country CREDIT DEBIT detail (1750-2050) Interntational Emissions 1990 -2020 Return to CREDIT:DEBIT Analysis Go to All Countries listing Alphabetical Go to All Countries in Regional Groupings Go to an easy Visualization of how CREDIT:DEBIT is calculated Go to All Countries in Overal CREDIT:DEBIT Groupings Go to All Countries detailed CREDIT:DEBIT Breakdown as %s Animation - All Country per capita emissions 1750 to zero between 2020 & 2040 Go to UK Emissions compared with several Regions Go to a short explanation of each element of the global analysis done for each country Globally the poor are more 'carbon-efficient' than the rich The enormity of the climate crisis & 'carbon-debt' inequity, puts us in double-jeopardy All Country CREDIT DEBIT detail (1750-2050) Growth rates CO2 pollution (1750-2017) Growth rates CO2 Pollution (1750-2013) by fuel Damages Liabilities Judicial Review Our Children's Trust IEA demand-growth (Oil/Coal/Gas) to 2040, vs contraction-rates for UNFCCC-Compliance Animation Scientists got it so wrong? 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Remarkable People Patanjali Lao Tse Pythagoras H P Blavatsky B K S Iyengar Nyoichi Sakurazawa (George Ohsawa) Lynda McDonald - textile artist and former programme manager NHS Tom Spencer Herman Daly Don Brown Andrew Dlugolecki Sir John Houghton John Archibald Wheeler & Richard Feynman Richard Douthwaite Laurie Barlow - Architect campaigner and educator Ginny Batson Esmeralda De Belgique John Vidal Julian Salt Chris Rose Greta Thunberg BMJ article on Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion & the science of climate change Links supporting BMJ Article Colin Challen MP, the greatest climate campaigner ever in the UK Parliament Lord Adair Turner Sir David King Harley Wright Ross Garnaut James Hansen Mike Hutchinson, the most Focused Climate Change Film Maker Mayer Hillman - since the '60's a veteran campaigner for C&C & personal carbon allowances Dave Hampton - broadcaster educator and activist Jelle Hielkema - former Director at FAO, author and visionary Bill McGuire Dr Robin Stott Rabbi Jeffrey Newman John Gummer Peter Critchley David Hembrow Adam Poole - Engineer at Buro Happold John Caddy - artist & visionary Michael A Sherbon The Unifying Principle George Ohsawa Universal Constants The derivation of Phi Stringularity & the Phi'd-back loop UK Climate Act based on C&C The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution advocates C&C (2000) The UK Climate Act (Contraction & Convergence) (UKCA 2006) Contraction and concentrations as in UKCA All UK Political Parties strongly endorsed C&C C&C supporting Early Day Motions (EDMs) The Unifying Principle "The morally and intellectually coherent principle of Contraction & Convergence" John Gummer CCC Chairman Turner confirms that C&C is the principle upon which the UK Climate Act is based Adair Turner and Mr Ed Miliband of DECC HMG's UK Climate Act (UKCA 2008) is C&C (Right Principle, Wrong Rates) UK CO2 emissions & carbon debit since 1750 (CDIAC) UK CO2 emissions oil coal & gas since 1750 (CDIAC) UK per capita CO2 emissions since 1750 compared with the rest UK Emissions & the Paris Agreement The irrationality of delay; the case in a Nutshell The irrationality of delay; 2 Canaries & Canards - Global & UK National - UKMO/HMG dodgy statistics 'Five Wise Monkeys' - a ludicrous idea from the UK CCC Sane Safe Fair? UK 'leadership' is >3 times its global share! Embedded Emissions - more false accounting from the British Government? Annual Emissions now equal >12,000,000,000 tonnes carbon, or 2,000 Khufus by weight BBC - Climate Facts "its all happening much faster than anyone thought possible." What the film seeks to reveal or perhaps conceal on the rates of global temperature rise Acceleration ARTICLES C&C Articles over the years UNFCCC & Climate Emergency GCI declares climate emergency at COP-2 in 1996 Consumer Polluter Sovereignty UKMO warns of 'temporarily' exceeding 1.5°C by 2023 Climate emergency, UNFCCC COP-24 & the the 'Katowice Rulebook' Submission to the UNFCCC's 'Talanoa Dialogue' (2017) IPCC 'Miracle' for AR6 - more carbon equals less temperature! Airline Emissions make a critical situation even worse Huge injustice against islands of the South Pacific Region The Marshall Islands Extinction Rebellion; Climate Emergency Now - the CARBON CLOCK is TICKING GCI called for declaring a climate emergency at COP-2 in 1966 Schellnhuber & others revise their emissions projections in line with GCI/Plan B It is the trend or the 'shape of the curve' that matters Carbon Budgets Countdown, apropos Extinction Rebellion & the CCC Global Framework for future carbon-rationing Carbon Countdown Clock Extinction Rebellion Climate Siege 'Peer-reviewed' facts behind Hallam interview on BBC 'hard-talk' BBC - "Climate Facts" What the film seeks to reveal regarding 'the rate of temperature rise' Acceleration Acceleration in the rise of temperature and atmospheric CO2 Criminal Activity Roger Hallam & XR actors are being jailed for UKMO crimes Music, BACH & the Well Tempered Principle JS BACH was a Pythagorean PYTHAGORAS Music Pythagoras String Demonstration LAO TSE The Tao Te Ching The Order of the Universe Well Tempering & the musical derivation of the wonderous 'Phi' (0.618) Phi Derivation Model from the Pythagorean Comma - 'The Stringularity Hypothesis' Hawking drew short of recognizing the real significance of Pythagoras String Experiment Music & the derivation of 'Phi' in Nature The symmetry-binding-derivation of 'Phi' from the Pythagorean Comma Symmetry-binding at the Phi-Point between steps 12 & 13 of the Pythagorean Comma Precise close-up of 'Phi' at the 'Phi-Point' between steps 12 & 13 of the Pythgorean Comma Symmetry-binding derivation of Phi rescues Standard-Model when Higgs Particle is added The Feminine Principle Organic Growth - the circular economy Phi-rich Pentagons Phi created the integers Awe-inspiring Phi Happy Phi:Pi Day Phi at Green in visble Colour Spectrum & beautiful 'Fluminescence' from Ginny Battson Phi All Life Phi:Pi Pentagrams - governs orbits of Earth Venus and Sun Phi:Pi:Alpha - universal source-code Phi is at the structural core of DNA Equivalence Certainty in the derivation of Phi, the structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin & Choose Life Phi:Pi - Khufu Phi:Pi - Squaring the Circle Phi:Pi - Schwarzchild Radius Hemiola Deep Simplicity Eternity & golden spiralling electrons/'excitons' A Beautiful Model (Limits to Growth) Awesome Sunrise Inside Out outside In for fun . . . . . 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