Josh, of Cartoons by Josh has a take on the attendance of COP16 at Cancun, said to be down more than 50% over last year’s COP15 shindig in Copenhagen.
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Josh, of Cartoons by Josh has a take on the attendance of COP16 at Cancun, said to be down more than 50% over last year’s COP15 shindig in Copenhagen.
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Hey, I wrote that last night, Can’tCon–great minds, great minds!
There is too much complacency here abouts, governments are still pushing AGW.
Talk to the hand. 🙂
Let’s reduce it to zero by 2020!
“Josh, of Cartoons by Josh has a take on the attendance of COP16 at Cacun, said to be down more than 50% over last year’s COP15 shindig in Copenhagen.”
Cacun? How about can’t spell… 😉
REPLY: Fixed, thanks, A
Greetings from Ireland. We are currently enjoying our coldest November temperatures on record! Temperatures set to drop yet further on Wednesday and Thursday. Yes, yes I know its only weather and not climate but it does piss of the warmists, so I like it!
Is that the Grauniad that the sole remaining delegate is reading, or the New York Times?
This conference will be successful as it was in Copenhagen 😛
Reduced attendance at Cancun is entirely consistent with AGW theory and the desire to reduce CO2 emissions. Fewer delegates means fewer aircraft emissions. And if BO doesn’t show up on Air Force One – with associated medium sized national aviation defence force – then a zillion tonnes of CO2 will not be generated and the Earth will be saved.
For the conference following Cancun – it is planned to have no delegates whatsoever. This will ensure that the planet is saved a second time (built-in procedural redundancy is a Good Thing), and that no high expectations are dashed. Win -Win!
Slight misunderstanding here. It’s not Can’t Con, its Cant Con. I like Josh’s wording better.
Wiktionary:
cant (plural cants)
1.An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger.
2.A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
3.Shelta.
4.Empty, hypocritical talk.
People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant.
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1749 — Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV ch iv He is too well grounded for all your philosophical cant to hurt.1759-1770 — w:Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
5.Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
6.(heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name of the bearer.
I think I’ll go with 2, 4 and especially #5!
Its a funeral procession. “It’s dead, Jim.”
Attendance down by 50%?
That leaves around 7500 people suddenly invading Cancun to stretch the city’s already limited sewerage system to… ?
Could be interesting.
There might be a tad more methane (amongst other gasses & hot air) blown around.
One could continue down this interesting path, but in the interests of health & safety, I will desist. There might be children watching.
There’s talk of a staggering $85 per tonne carbon trading in Australia, the home of green lunatics. It’s being backed by large corporates. They can obviously see how they can make $$$ by shutting down plants and sending manufacturing offshore … and of course losing jobs here. Ironically it’s our labour government that’s pushing for it. Even though Australia is a tiny drop in the global bucket, there’s no “can’t” down here.
Be wary of a smaller, lower profile less distracted conference whose attendees know that if they fail thistime, it will likely be the last.
With less atttention and circus, they may actually agree to somethign that could hurt us all- make a binding agreement to cram down carbon use and create more poverty starvation and suffering worldwide.
I frankly find the use of the title about the little train a bad omen, because the little train, if you recall, did.
I would rather see this go the way of the tortoise and the hare, where the speedy hare- AGW true belief, gets beat by the slow and steady skeptics- the tortoise.
Consider a counter-confab called the Can’t Continue to Con Us Conference.
The CantConConUCon.
C?
Latimer Alder says:
November 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm
For the conference following Cancun – it is planned to have no delegates
It would be nice to have it here at WUWT, a virtual conference!
Cancun?…better Paris’s Can Can
The problem I see is that they’ll be using “100% of attending members voted to levy worldwide carbon taxes” in their future literature….
I have to wonder if in the light of Climategate and the near complete meltdown of governmental budgets some of the proposed attendees requests for more government largess to finance a little time on the Mexican Beaches was seen as just a tiny bit too blatant a waste of money…
With any luck they will realize that destruction of the base economy on which their junkets depends is a self limiting behaviour…
Can anyone give me some advice to where I can get unbiased local temperature data for the UK & Ireland for the past 20 years?
Basically I’m writing a simple program that will correlate local temperatures with certain solar activity, I want to study the pattern relationship between the two and see if I can come up with a baseline that can be interchangeable with other local temperatures from around the world.
Oh.. and I’ve read that the UN has banned anyone who is sceptical about AGW at this conference, which I think is probably why the “CON” is down more than 50% over last year’s COP15, they’ve Banned the opposition. That’s very convenient!
I’d like to reduce emissions from this conference to zero next year.
E.M.Smith says:
November 29, 2010 at 1:28 pm
“With any luck they will realize that destruction of the base economy on which their junkets depends is a self limiting behaviour…”
The delegates don’t work in the economy and have no knowledge about it; so they will not notice it.
Can we get a link about the depressed attendance?
….. COP16 at Cancun, said to be down more than 50% over last year’s COP15 shindig in Copenhagen.
Actually, this is a bit worrisome. According to Schadow’s Law, larger attendance of people in the COP Towers of Babel produces fewer chances of some insane pronouncement being issued by relatively few attendees possessing increased power.
Actually, UN FCCC activities can not strictly be called a “conference” where there are opposing views entertained and heard. Rather, they are just “meeting” where participants, climate bureaucrats of member-governments and international bureaucrats (UN, WB, EU, ADB, etc.) discuss among each other who will cut carbon emission by how much and when, and how many billion $ will be rationed off.