(via CFACT) The latest round of climate talks began this week in Doha, Qatar in the usual fashion – namely, with alarmist claims that the world is being imperiled by manmade global warming and it’s time for “action.”
Naturally, the U.S. is being chided to join the crowd, especially since it failed to do so last time by refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. To pressure Uncle Sam into getting-with-the-program, some nations, like Gambia, have shamelessly stooped to using Hurricane Sandy and the outcome of our presidential election as a prod.
On Tuesday, the representative from Gambia said:
“We hope that the year with a monster storm . . . as well as the re-elected leadership will lead the U.S. to be more active and will no longer be a disinterested bystander in this process.”
To address this matter, CFACT’s Marc Morano recently appeared on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto show and said that using storms as a poster child for global warming is devoid of science.
Watch the complete interview below.
Stated Morano:
“We have gone the longest period since the Civil War without a major landfalling category 3 or larger hurricane to hit the United States. If anything, global warming would prevent — at least Atlantic hurricanes — from making landfall.”
These facts have not deterred the Green activists and negotiators in Doha, however. Over the next few days, I and my CFACT team will be arriving in Doha to hold the UN’s feet to the fire.
As we proved in Durban last year, when the UN scuttled plans for an International Climate Court after we broke the story, CFACT knows how to be effective at UN conferences.
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The Gambia, a place where their President Jammeh claimed to have discovered a cure for AIDS – a herbal mixture. I am sure given the small size of Gambia and how the country surrounds the river Gambia, they would consider themselves potetnial victims of AGW and expect a lot of Western money to compensate them.
I am glad CFACT will be there.
I just love this from the Guardian correspondent Fiona Harvey reporting on the Qatar Doha conference (see related articles )
“ Even pouring a glass of water involves hurting a Polar Bear”!!
Dear Oh Dear she does have a bad case of climatephobia.
Quick!
1. Name a famous scientist from The Gambia
2. Name a top University in The Gambia
3. Name anything or anyone from The Gambia that has contributed to improving the world
Warmists don’t have a lot to go with this time, do they? Still, you have fight the battles and the war. Go get ’em.
And let’s not forget, one of those at Doha, claims Greenland melted away entirely, in 4 days last July:
http://tribune.com.pk/story/472301/defining-success-at-doha-climate-talks/
The USA is deep in debt and continues to spend. Actions are taking place, but as Holman Jenkins (WSJ 11/23/2012) writes “none dare call it default.” Entitlements will be cut. Taxes are going up. Cities and states using bankruptcy to solve there pension obligations. Medicare paying less to doctors and hospitals. Payouts from savings (dividends and capital gains) by those now retired to be taxed more. Its only fair! Then there is inflationary financing – “printing money” – now just a key-click, no paper or ink required.
The future looks like this:
http://images.clipartof.com/small/41121-Sad-And-Gloomy-Uncle-Sam-Wearing-Baggy-Pants-Poster-Art-Print.jpg
“We hope that the year with a monster storm . . . ”
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In other words, we can’t let a crisis go to waste even if we have to confuse the public into thinking that “weather” is the same as “climate.” But if skeptics ever try to use a similar tactic, they are to be burned at the stake for blasphemy against the Church of Gaia. Are there still thinking people out there who can’t see through such obvious hypocrisy?
Anthony,
You might want to add a byline — other than “(via CFACT)” — to this post. Otherwise, it looks like you will be traveling to Qatar, per the line “I and my CFACT team will be arriving in Doha…”
The amount of warming just keeps going up and up and up. I noted 4 degrees, 6 degrees. What happened to 3 degrees is catastrophic? Actually, the real problem appears to be people’s memories (can’t remember a warmer year) and their inability to deal with real life (“frankenstorm”–really?). Now 3 inches of snow is a winter storm. It seems the climate doesn’t have to change if we can make people think everything is just sooooo hard and if we only quit burning fossil fuels it would be so much better. Since people cannot remember blizzards from last winter, it seems safe to say they will never remember history and what life was like before oil and electricity entered the picture.
Gambia was a flea pit when I was there 25 years ago. Friends in Senegal tell me its gone downhill since. Shame because the people are real tough and really charming.
Damn the canadian delegation must have dropped their talking points, to the learned brethren of the united nations, gathered here today to sign this historic document making the use of the deadly compound, Di-hydrogen Monoxide a criminal offence through out the civilized world, all right thinking educated people agree…..
Stupid is not self perpetuating. Is it going to end with a whimper or bang?
Will the French mind if we infringe on the patented use of the Guillotine?
Are the folks in Qatar promoting “alternative” energy nuts? Oil and gas account for more than 50% of their GDP, roughly 85% of export earnings, and 70% of government revenues.
Looking at the many stories manufactured at Doha for the press this year, there is a lot of very loud and strident assertion of distorted truths and outright untruths going on right now. At the risk of invoking Godwin’s law I think this is called the “big lie” technique.
That’s the second Marc Morano interview I’ve seen today (one on MSM, one on alternative). He puts his points very well (well he did today anyway). We all know it’s a scam devoid of science, but the vast majority of the public do not.
Marc mentioned the Mayan calender in that interview, saying that’s the level of ‘science’ these alarmists have descended to. In the other interview he compared it to the burning of witches in the middle ages.
Yesterday I read somewhere that the Mayan calendar hangs in the entrance foyer to some UN building somewhere. I’ll need to check that out, but seriously, the UN is totally out of control. I don’t remember anyone electing these guys to run the planet. The latest I’ve heard is that they now want to control the internet. God save us from these wretched control freaks who know – so well – how to control the ‘mind’ of the public.
FrankK says: “I just love this from the Guardian correspondent Fiona Harvey reporting on the Qatar Doha conference (see related articles ) “ Even pouring a glass of water involves hurting a Polar Bear”!!
Is it a strange attractor? Is it chaos theory? Is it a fractal equation calculation? Is it quantum entanglement? No, it’s a “Tipping Point” in the Anthropocene Age:
Sustainable Climate Risk Management Strategies
“Human beings live in a new age, many scientists believe, one called the Anthropocene, in which human effects on Earth’s systems are powerful regulators of how those systems function. Or how they are beginning to break down.” ~National Science Foundation
“The Economist totally accepts that climate change is happening much faster than expected, the geological association of America last year entitled its conference as being about the Anthropocene. We have created a new geological era through human activities.”” ~Natalie Bennett: Green Party Leader and American Geological Association
$300 a day plus food and refreshments plus transport and travel for how many people plus junket support staff? The attendees to this conference could have done a lot of good in the world by staying home and donating the money to the charity of their choice. Whatever happened to video conferencing? Course you can’t lobby and have secret side meetings out of the public eye, or have publicity stunts in a video conference. Lots of people on the gravy train.
Sorry, going off tangent here about Doha( my mum always said I had no discipline), but just been reading about civalizations that have collapsed due to climate change in the past,
the Xia Dynasty collapsed while the Yi and Luo Rivers
dried up, and the Shang Dynasty collapsed while the Yellow River dried up.
Yellow River dried up!!!, it supplies water to over a hundred million people, how can a river
this size dry up.
Makes me laugh when they talk about climate change today when i read of the mega droughts and storms over the past 1000 years.
This is proof that US hurricanes are obviously on the take from big oil.
richard says:
November 29, 2012 at 11:58 am
Sorry, going off tangent here about Doha( my mum always said I had no discipline), but just been reading about civilizations that have collapsed due to climate change in the past…
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You might want to look at the articles E. M. Smith wrote links are here
He did a lot of digging on the subject.
Hello Gail, Was having a snout through this one today,
http://www.climategeology.ethz.ch/publications/2010_Cheng_et_al.pdf
I once met a guy who said his ambition was to buy the Gambia – and widen the river! (Atlas required for those who are geographically challenged.)
I would imagine gambia is like any other flea pit in Africa. Shocking that the UK still insists on throwing away 1% of GDP on a bunch of tryrants and war criminals. Still I guess Tony Blair kicked it all off and he should know one when he sees one.
I’ve lately been watching the Qatar owned al Jazeera news station. It’s completely disheartening to see it also sending green propaganda films and talking of raising awareness. It’s no surprise that CNN and BBC are airing them but al Jazeera has so far been a more reliable and balanced news channel in almost any news.
I know that a lot of people in western countries do associate al Jazeera with terrorists, but it is actually a high quality news channel. A lot less biased than their western colleagues.
I hope that this is only temporary as Qatar is hosting the conference and that common sense wins in the end. But Qatar should understand that there is nothing whatsoever that they can do to get the environmentalists to accept them. No matter how nice or respectfully you treat them, the environmentalists just hate all that the oil countries stand for. So it’s completely pointless to even try to play nice with them.
Gail says:
…. civilizations in the past ….
Right up there with Willis’ article on extinctions – “Where Are The Skeletons?”