I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
-Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004)
…not surprisingly, the United Nations’ 2010 Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, is failing, with Mother Nature helping to dampen warming fears as an early winter sets in across the Northern Hemisphere.
Some commentators tell us that this is the beginning of the end of the climate scare. More likely, it is just the end of the beginning. If this were a hockey game, the first period would have just ended with a couple of quick goals by climate realists.
But alarmists built up a 5-0 lead while realists were still learning to play. The score is now 5-2, with most of the game yet to go. While it is appropriate for realists to revel in their late-period success, it is vastly premature to celebrate.
Through the tireless work of hundreds of thousands of mostly unpaid activists, aided by unquestioning journalists, grant-seeking scientists, pandering politicians, opportunistic or naive industries and well-meaning but misinformed citizens, climate campaigners made “stopping global warming” a cause celebre. The warmists’ message was pounded out, free of charge, daily for years: “We in the West are causing a planetary emergency and the poor of the world are the primary victims.” Celebrities, leading scientists and charismatic mega-fauna such as the polar bear were recruited as the faces of responsible environmental stewardship.
As a result, massive donations from left-wing foundations poured in to groups focused on promoting alarm. With unprecedented resources at their disposal, climate campaigners hired communications and legal exerts to help craft long-term, often ruthless strategies to sway public opinion and frighten industry away from effectively defending itself. Meanwhile, throughout the 1980s and ’90s, nature cooperated. Global warming, later to become “climate change,” was ready for prime time.
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The entire essay from “Harris and Leyland” gives a great historical perspective. Read it in the Washington Times here
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Per Richard Black’s blog here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/
“However, if the agreement here acknowledges the need for deeper and faster emission curbs, it doesn’t provide a visible way to achieve them – merely “urging” rich countries to do more.
The Kyoto Protocol text itself is still full of square brackets and options – on many, many issues.
And some of the important, tough details have been kicked into the long grass – notably, the issue of “legal form” – whether the next climate agreement should seek to be legally-binding or not.
So in terms of the most vital question for any climate accord – how much will it contribute to restricting man-made climate change? – you would have to answer, not as far as to meet the needs that it identifies.” At least he is more balanced now than in Copenhagen last year.
There is still a long way to go before anything “legal” is agreed. Maybe if we get a cool 2011 the weather may put a spanner in the works.
This is the only reason why the AGW scare has survived for so long and why they were 5-0 up. IF in 1989 we entered a 20 year cooling period then this elephant would never have got off the ground.
Thank God for the climate realists:
[SNIP. Since Mr Roddy’s vile blog is now soliciting donations, I’ve deleted the link. A cash donation from Mr Roddy to WUWT will keep me from snipping his future comments. ~dbs.]
REPLY: Congratulations Mike, it seems you did not do any actual research, but just let your hate flow naturally. – Anthony
In the rest of the article I read:
Like the ex-prime minister Tony Blair when pushed about the lack of WMDs said it invastion was still the right thing to do because Sadam was a tyrant. Alas, if a long cooling period sets in, the warmists will switch tack and say that wind turbines and solar were needed anyway due to the danger of peak oil. :o)
Correction:
….WMDs said
itinvastion…Nice analogy. Down 5 to 2, but with confidence, re-enforced by grim resolve.
Today of all days is a grim day. Not because of the insubstantial agreement reached in Cancun. But because of the utter mendacity in how it is being hailed in the mainstream media (all of the links you need will be in Tips & Notes to WUWT).
The MSM reporting of this is difficult to stomach. If I may provide my own analogy, it’s like watching a drug addict rob an old lady. If you want to destroy yourself that is one thing, but to harm others in the process….
The game is far from over.
The poor are the victims? In absolute terms, the poor have never had it so good as this video proves:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo&fs=1&hl=en_GB]
where it really fell apart was when they got to the point of trying to make real people actually pay for this nonsense.
That games over now – in the US for sure – and with it, the rest of the edifice will come crashing down.
When there is no more rent to be had, the rent-seekers will fold up their circus tents and go find some other game to play.
But…there taint nuth’n like a Cancun bathing beauty all bundled up against global warming, or at least desperately searching for cloths. Let’s hope some enterprising realist took some pictures of that.
It is certainly only the end of the beginning. Some politicians still believe that co2 emissions are an urgent problem. David Cameron today: “”The Cancun agreement is a very significant step forward in renewing the determination of the international community to tackle climate change through multilateral action.”
Copenhagen 2009: lessons learnt on how to suppress dissent.
Cancun 2010: agreement qualitatively.
Durban 2011: quantitative agreement on action plans.
Rio 2012: irrestistable pressure on governments to commit by treaty.
Then, world government by bureaucrats.
It’s all happened before, orchestrated by Beurocrats.
Enjoy!
Oh too funny. I made a spelling error that turns out to be a good one. It’s Cancun. Clothes aren’t even made down there, let alone sold (other than some string and tiny pieces of triangular cloth of course). Our bathing beauty will be searching for cloth to MAKE some! I suppose you could make a crazy quilt out of bikini “cloths”.
The link given “here” leads to a version in small print and a hard-to-read format — and it doesn’t contain the concluding paragraphs. Here’s a link to a nicely formatted, complete version: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/8/global-warming-ideology-still-on-top-the-science-h/print/
Cancun Agreement
…”The agreement includes plans to create a $100 billion fund to help developing nations deal with global warming and increase efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon hailed the deal — the culmination of an overnight marathon session at the end of two weeks of talks.
“It begins a new era of cooperation in climate change. They are the first steps in this long and renewed campaign,” he said. …”
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/12/11/mexico.climate.summit/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29
From the article: “There simply is too much money and political capital, and too many reputations are at stake for alarmists to back down. After their late first-period letdown, environmental activists have stepped up their campaign to keep governments and media from falling off the climate-change bandwagon. Literally hundreds of millions of dollars are still being funneled into promoting alarm and futile solutions.” (bold mine)
And that, boys and girls, is the ‘science’ in a nutshell. Let’s do something, anything with other people’s money. Time to double down.
What? You say that looked more like money, politics, and vested interests than science? You are very observant, Grasshopper.
#___ “The score is now 5-2”
By far to optimistic. It would be great if it would already be: 5 to 0,5.
The DT is reporting that Viscount Monckton has agreed that humans cause global warming.
I wonder what he actually said??
There is an interesting discussion going on over at the BBCs “Have your say” site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/12/will_un_deal_to_curb_climate_c.html
About 95% of contributors so far are highly critical of the Cancun deal, and skeptical of the global warming industry. It’s all a bit embarrassing for the BBC, which is why I assume they removed the link to the “Have your say” debate which was inserted at the end of the report on the Cancun agreement. However you can still read the contributions by clicking on the above link
Score for the last five British winter forecasts: Weather Action 5, Met Office 0. The populist view will eventually come around siding with scientific fact instead of pure faith.
Sadly, when the ice is 5,000 feet thick heading for Central Park, there will still be some that believe it is due solely to global warming.
More taxpayers money will be handed out, good news for Swiss banks and Mercedes
dealers though!
Given the financial and economic circumstances of We the People, of the USofA, transferring 1% of our national debt to the UN seems, to me, a fair redistribution.
So what is the net net? A fight or 100 billion/ year down the drain. Is the money real or imaginary?
Let us not forget that the warming issue is only a battle in the war. The war is with the Fabian Socialist/Progressives/Liberals/World Government who wish to control every aspect of your life. They use fear and greed and lies to win converts and our tools are knowledge and self reliance.
I may be wrong, but I suspect this 100 Billion will be a big issue for the 112th Congress. US apparently committed to this last year but the 111th Congress was pretty looney/lopsided. I ran across a story this morning indicating that Hilary is to freeze all climate related pay-outs.
Mike Roddy says:
December 11, 2010 at 8:34 am
ROFL
Thanks for that link. I needed a good belly laugh! What a hoot!
“as jellyfish begin to rule the sea“
I’m stocking up on tuna & gonna make a trip to see the whales and sharks before the jellyfish drive them all into extinction.
Could you step it up a bit, though, so even more fans will change jerseys!