www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19448759
Climate protesters target Tower Bridge Paralympics logo
Tower Bridge was closed after an environmental group dropped a banner over the Paralympic Games logo.
The sign reading Climate change, our next challenge was placed over the Agitos at 14:00 BST, by the group Climate Siren.
Two people accessed the high-level gantry to unfurl the banner and three people have been arrested, City of London police said.
The group said it wanted global co-operation over climate change.
Transport for London said the bridge was re-opened by 15:50 BST.
Police said they arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of causing criminal damage and a public nuisance and another man for assisting them.
You can see their pathetic website here:
www.climate-siren.com/Rio.html
However, the simple bitter truth is that the Rio summit of 1992 failed to bring about action at the global level in any way commensurate with the scale of the environmental, and especially climate, crises that we faced.
You can see the status of the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol here:
unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/status_of_ratification/items/2613.php
Currently, there are 192 Parties (191 States and 1 regional economic integration organization) to the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC.
The Kyoto Protocol came into force on 16th February, 2005:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/feb/16/sciencenews.environment
Kyoto protocol comes into force
This commits the UK to the following:
www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreen...matechange/DG_072978
The government also has long-term plans to lower CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions even further. The Climate Change Act includes legally binding targets, including an 80 per cent cut in greenhouse gases by 2050.
(There's that year 2050 again, btw).
What do you want protesters? Absolutely no carbon dioxide to be emitted whatsoever? Why don't you stop breathing then for starters...
