The powerful will advocate the protection of the techno tree, the tree of the future.

The powerful will water the techno tree, talk to it, play music to it, cry to it, laugh to it, smile, whistle, sing to it, massage it, hug it and looove it very much until it grows and becomes more tree like, below. Then their children can play below and around it.

Undeniably, this and other similar events cannot but be factored into the deterioration of the ozone since sulfur compounds become hazardous to the ozone. NASA scientists say that the sulfuric acid clouds formed therefrom, make the nitric acid and water stratospheric clouds possess more destructive power.

Science had never been far from warning about the effects of future volcanic eruptions. While it is easily obtainable knowledge, nothing was done after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in June 1991 for instance that at the very least estimate:

ejected 10 billion metric tons (10 cubic kilometers) of magma, 20 million tons of SO2, bringing vast quantities of minerals and metals to the surface environment. It injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere—more than any eruption since that of Krakatoa in 1883. Over the following months, the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acidhaze. Global temperatures dropped by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), and ozone depletion temporarily increased substantially.

Too many free radical catalysts endanger the ozone by the operation of catalysis of chain reactions. Carbon emissions, although they consist one of the broadest threats to the ozone, are by far only among many of the ways to by which bigger and bigger holes are punched in the ozone layer.

Suffice it to say, there is no more need to encourage separate standing conferences for other ozone depleting materials. Only that, the UNFCCC can do the brotherhood of nations a favor by including these in the Agenda.

In the Philippines, outside of the pernicious effects to the ozone, the destructive effects of natural emissions have been pointed out and appropriate solutions were proposed. However, as the world now knows, very little was done to re-arrange the massively changed landscape in the immediate and even relatively distant surroundings of Mt. Pinatubo that were severely affected by the eruption in 1991. Some scientists even go as far as to claim that there is no danger to areas south of the volcano as the natural tendency of the magma, lahar and future surface run off water flows to the north instead.

If the government in Manila as well as the United Nations itself are becoming more proactive as a result of great losses and the many teetering on survival during the wake of Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy), Parma (Pepeng) and other typhoons, it should be possible for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the entire United Nations not to be remiss in factoring in the significant role of natural emissions to ozone depletion and re-arranging of entire landscapes into destructive habitats or highly unsuitable sites for agriculture, aquaculture or forestry, other similar activities.

The Copenhagen Conference will have its hands full this December 2009, but then there is still the 2010 Geo Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit as well as other important conventions that can take up some of the Agenda that cannot be taken up in Denmark.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE LAW – SECRETARY LITO ATIENZA
October 26, 2009

The Climate Change Act of 2009, which President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed into law, puts local government units into the center stage of governance, given the important roles city, town, and barangay leaders play in the implementation of whatever plans and programs on climate change adaptation and mitigation measures that will be crafted by a body tasked under the new law.

 

The substance and efficacy of Republic Act (RA) 9729 will only be as good as those executing climate change measures. The new law may even be a potent tool in bringing about a stronger green-minded electorate because of the centrality to local elected officials in mainstreaming the climate change agenda into their platforms of governance at the provincial and down to the barangay level.

See more about Sec. Atienza’s post here…

In the Philippines, the government signed into law, Republic Act 9729 called Climate Change Act of 2009 that will create an autonomous policy making body under the Office of the President — the Climate Change Commission. It shall coordinate programs of the government and represent the country in international climate change conferences according to the  article also posted in this site in full.

According to article from GMANews.TV, the signing of said law comes before the Denmark conference in December “when global leaders are expected to approve a new climate change treaty that will chart the world’s carbon emissions future after the first commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.”

Before this, from the UNFCCC website, it reads:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a high-level Summit on Climate Change, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. The summit brought together political leaders, including 100 Heads of State and Government. This was the biggest ever gathering of political leaders to discuss climate change.

Addressing the assembled leaders, Mr. Ban said:

“Failure to reach broad agreement in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted and politically unwise.”

Related links from UNFCCC are found below.

Summary by the Secretary-General
Summit website
Webcast of the day’s events
Pre-recorded video statements of Heads of State and Government