Maybe it was just a bad dream.
Just a year ago, 15,000 of the world’s leaders, diplomats, and UN officials were gearing up to descend on Copenhagen to forge a global treaty that would save the planet. The world’s media delivered massive coverage. Important newspapers printed urgent front-page calls for action, and a popular new U.S. President waded in to put his reputation on the line. The climate talks opened with a video showing a little girl’s nightmare encounter with drought, storms, eruptions, floods and other man-made climate disasters. “Please help the world,” she pleads.
After two weeks of chaos, the talks collapsed in a smouldering heap of wreckage. The only surprise was that this outcome should have come as a surprise to so many intelligent people. These people actually seemed to believe that experts and politicians have supernatural powers to predict the future and control the climate. They believed that experts know how fast temperatures will rise by when, and what the consequences will be, and that we know what to do about it. They believed that despite the recent abject failure of Kyoto (to say nothing of other well-intentioned international treaties), the nations of the world would willingly join hands and sacrifice their sovereignty in order to sign on to a vast scheme of unimaginable scope, untold cost and certain damage to their own interests.
Copenhagen was not a political breakdown. It was an intellectual breakdown so astonishing that future generations will marvel at our blind credulity. Copenhagen was a classic case of the emperor with no clothes.
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Wente is the number one post today on realclearpoltics.
One thing about the Globe is that although it supports Liberals and has a hate on PMSH because his eyes are too close together and he goes to Church, that's very uncool for the secular extremists in Toronto; however the Globe has always been sane about the climate, they even thought Dion was risky.
What I dont like in any of the skeptical articles written by MSM journos, is that they frame it all as if it was somehow a mistake, that people were taken in, or that it was well intentioned.
This was pure knowing fraud on a massive scale whos endgame was to control the worlds lifeblood and as such the populace.
No one seems to have the balls to call it an outright fraud.
Love the polar bears having a "green" wiennie roast. How very delicious. lol Cheers.
There are 5 times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/11/job-killer-obama-sets-aside-187000-miles-for-overpopulated-polar-bears/
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Good intentions?
"One of the reasons I made that mistake [ethanol] is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president." … Al Gore
Naturally these good intentions will continue. Too many media and political talking heads are getting wealthy from the "green industry" for these ponzi schemes to fail; and being sanctimonius about it.
Besides, they have added incentive having paid-for staff parties at an exotic watering-hole every 6 months (the only result wanted is to decide they "must have" another conference). Copenhagen failed because it was cold and snowing and the participants just wanted to put it all off until they were in their next place – the warmer Cancun.