Just after midnight, Copenhagen time, Gordon Brown appeared in front of the Sky News camera. “I feel I’ve played a part in bringing countries together,” said the Prime Minister, in a line clearly prepared long before the disaster unfolding around him.
Mr Brown had, in fact, played little part in the final deal that emerged in the early hours of Saturday, and would be well advised to make that abundantly clear.
For even as he spoke, international unity was falling apart – and the emotional temperature inside the conference centre was already rising to levels beyond even the most doom-laden forecasts of the global-warming lobby.
The deal cobbled together by five of the 192 nations at the summit was “the worst development in climate change negotiations in history,” stormed Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, representative of the G77 group of 130 developing countries. “It has the lowest level of ambition you can imagine.”
Tim Jones, of the World Development Movement, called it a “shameful and monumental failure, devoid of real content. The leaders of rich countries have refused to lead and history will judge them harshly.” Greenpeace’s John Sauven said Copenhagen was a “crime scene, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport”.
Such was the anger that one developing-country representative, Venezuela’s Claudio Salerno Caldera, even appeared to deliberately hurt herself, drawing blood, in the final conference plenary session early yesterday. “You are going to endorse this coup d’etat against the United Nations,” she told Denmark’s sullen-faced prime minister, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, chair of the meeting.
“Those of us who wish to speak have to make a point of order by cutting our hands,” she said, holding up her palm bearing a red stain.
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Updates:
3:14 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — Obama faces new global warming skeptic: Joe Sixpack
3:18 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — What Copenhagen Exposed
3:19 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — The green dictatorship
3:20 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — Copenhagen as UN Politics, Not Climate Change Substance
3:28 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — Palin blasts ‘arrogance of man’ in Copenhagen
4:33 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — There’ll be nowhere to run from the new world government
4:35 pm EST, December 20th, 2009 — Copenhagen was the MPs’ expenses scandal writ large
From the Times On Line: “…sets a target of limiting global warming to a maximum of 2C above pre-industrial times.
Above this temperature, scientists say, the world would start to experience dangerous changes, including floods, droughts and rising seas. ”
Yeah, when it get’s too hot, here in Canada, I’ll just call up the Mayor’s office about it, who’ll call up the Premier, who will call up Mr Prentice – to shut down industry or the buses for a couple of days “to cool things off’”.
Now, if it get’s too cool, like the 6 months of the year when we run our furnaces, I’ll call up the mayor, who will……. – “to turn the heat up”. Yeah, right! They can do that?
You know, anyone believing in that simplistic idea of “limiting the warming to 2C” and/or the BUNK that Globull Warming/Climate change is – I’ve got some swamp land in Forida for you to buy. Hell, I’ll even sell Lizzie May a waterfront property on Salt Spring Island, six feet above high tide.
Why bust your ass working to pay taxes for this kind of moronic thinking, or leadership? Where’s Cnut when you need him? Our politicians need a swift kick and a refresher course on science, general geology to be specific. These clowns have swallowed the CRU hoax, hook line and sinker.
It was warmer during the Roman occupation of Britiain, and it was warmer when Leif Eriksson landed in Canada. The warmth didn’t hurt a soul. The planet has been warming for the last 12,000 years. We humans adapted without anyone touching the dial.
It was warmer when the Vikings discovered Greenland and named it “Greenland”.
I’m about to give up on this situation.
We can’t give up, Jack. That’s just what the man made global warming prostitutes are counting on us to do.
How could there be a “coup d’etat” against the United Nations? The UN isn’t a world government and should never pretend to be. Whenever it does, people get hurt and billions of dollars get wasted/stolen/diverted/disappear. Fire. Them. All.
Some good people are getting piss-y! And just won’t be threatened by The Climate Syndicators. [sic] Yup, it’s a word – I looked it up.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-all-lies.html
On whether he intends to take legal action against us, Pachauri says he hadn’t made up his mind. “Action against these people only gives dignity to these guys,” he adds.
But he dare not. If he chose to sue, we could demand full disclosure of his financial affairs, through the courts. And then the millionaire businessman would have some explaining to do – not least how he is booking his business expenses to the IPCC. And yes, I do have the evidence.
Up yours, Pachauri, you are a thief as well as a liar.
Can you imagine the kind of fanaticism which would lead a supposedly rational representative of a government to injure themselves for a photo-op? The Climate Change Cult should be outlawed.
The Climate Change Cult? – Nope, I still like The Climate Syndicates – Come on Mac, work with me here. Insults just makes the Believers feel-good’r about themselves, as if they’re Rebels. They’re Believers. Let’s use accurate words for who’s driving them. The Climate Syndicates’ Cultists (?), The Enviro Syndicates (?) – still needs work.
vs The Climate Sceptics, The Climate Fact-ists (no, too close to Fascist), The Climate Realists.
The Climate Syndicates’ Maybe-ists (?) I like this one – it’s accurate, but longish. Comments?
The element of blind unquestioning faith is why I describe them as a cult. The fact Climate Change Cult end up being the CCC which is a kind of riff off of the KKK is just a bonus.
I know Mac – I want to get past any they’re-picking-on-me-cause-I’m-a-rebel feel-goodness. I was also thinking of Climate Syndicate Doomsayers or Climate Syndicate Prophets Profits.
Good point. How about the Climate Change Chicken-Little Prophets?
There was supposed to be a cross-thru thru Prophets – WordPress hates my Firefox!
Climate Syndicate Chicken-Littles – I think we’ve nailed it?
Pretty much… Maybe re-order the words? Climate Chicken-Little Syndicate!
No – I’m trying to emphasise SyndicateS – with Rajendra Pachauri as the Godfather. Gore is his Oracle. http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/
The Chicken-LittleS are useful idiots; not too dangerous, noisy. There’s much fewer Chicken-Little-LiteS today than 3 weeks ago, based on reading the CBC’s comments whenever a Global Warming, Opps, Climate Change item appears. Yes, I keep commenting – but there’s something wrong with my PC because most of my comments disappear, especially the ones that contain real facts. Part of my last disappeared comment was …
The Arctic Ice Is Melting … meanwhile I’m viewing the satellite pictures showing that Canada’s North West Passage is plugged at http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
I don’t see why … I did NOT just say “Are you shittn’ me?” Ah well, today’s SCOC decision may loosen things up a bit.
BUT, if we can come up with something that includes Climate Prophet / Profit
Unfortunately I’m not a psychologist with IBM connections like DR. SARAH http://ecoactionplan.wordpress.com/
Imagine that… Ice in the north!! I’m sure algoreacle will change his tune soon…