The apathy shown towards Climate Change mitigation and Global Warming for self interest is starting to become shocking.China and USA have already shown contempt towards a Global Deal on Climate Change with other nations also apparently giving up. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Nations like Kuwait blocked the efforts by poor island nations like Barbados to get a study conducted by the United Nations.This study conducted by the IPCC was to study the effects of Global Warming on Sea Level Rise.This study would just have provided information but apparently even this was deemed “dangerous” by the Oil producing nations like Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations.Though Australia and EU supported this motion,Saudi Arabia managed to block it through technical reasons.The Middle Eastern nations have tried to block the Climate Change deal with their Oil interests being threatened.Their arguments have frequently bordered on the ridiculous with Saudi Arabia demanding a Bailout as part of a climate change deal.The argument goes like this since a climate change deal will necessarily involve a reduction in  fossil fuel use ( Oil) , this will have a negative impact on Saudi Arabia which is completely dependent on Oil Exports.For this reason Super Rich Saudi Arabia wants a Bailout.I can’t waste words to even give reasons against this ridiculous argument .

Saudi Arabia Blocks Islands’ Climate Study Request at UN Talks – Bloomberg

Saudi Arabia blocked a request by island nations led by Barbados for the United Nations to produce a study outlining the potential effects of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) of warming on their countries and people.The request was rejected after talks overran late yesterday and resumed today at a UN meeting in Bonn. The islands’ request was backed by Australia and the European Union’s 27 members before Saudi Arabia said it couldn’t accept the demand. It received backing from Kuwait and other oil producers.

The rejection of the request “is on the border of alarming,” Grenada’s envoy, Dessima Williams, told delegates today, speaking on behalf of the bloc of 43 island and low-lying nations. She said the group will table the request again at year-end talks in Cancun, Mexico.The islands pleaded for the study to be carried out to give them access to information they can’t easily get hold of. The island bloc has pushed for climate envoys to adopt a target of limiting warming to below 1.5 degrees, saying rising sea levels may swamp their nations if no action is taken.

Saudi Position

The Saudi Arabian delegation yesterday said it could accept the proposal so long as language was inserted to examine the socio-economic effects of different temperature gains and an analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to achieve them.

When that language was inserted, the delegation continued to object, saying the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change doesn’t have the resources to carry out such an extensive study, according to Greenpeace, which followed the discussions.

“The Saudi Arabian delegation was coming up with the arguments and excuses as the debate went along,” Greenpeace campaigner Tove Ryding said today in a press conference. “This is an attempt to derail this process by the big oil industries and interests.”