From CFACT:
Not Welcome: UN climate summit in Poland greeted by 50,000 angry Poles rallying against UN
As more than 50,000 enthusiastic Poles gathered in downtown Warsaw on Monday to celebrate National Independence Day, with millions more watching on live television, CFACT president David Rothbard was invited to the stage to deliver an impassioned address celebrating freedom and warning against the dangerous and oppressive climate agenda of the UN.
See video, CFACT warns 50,000+ against UN climate agenda:
Before what was one of the largest audiences to ever hear a speech denouncing UN global warming policies, Rothbard said he was honored to stand with the Poles in a “new battle for freedom against those who would use environmental and climate alarmism to steal away our liberties and give international bureaucrats control over our energy sources, our daily lives, our prosperity, and our national sovereignty.”
The address was carried live on national television and covered by a large number of international media outlets. It took place just as the UN was kicking off its COP19 climate conference a few kilometers away.
Rothbard noted that at last year’s COP meeting, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said that what the UN was undertaking is “a complete economic transformation of the world.”
“This is not good news for those who love freedom, and it is not good news for Poland,” Rothbard asserted.
“Standing next to a CFACT banner that read “No to UN Climate Hype” in Polish and surrounded by throngs who wore CFACT stickers bearing the same message in Poland’s distinctive red and white, the crowd gave hearty consent to Rothbard’s message.
He also quoted from the Book of Proverbs that “the wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion,” noting that “the environmentalists and the bureaucrats don’t want to debate these issues because they know they are deceiving the world.”
“There hasn’t been any global warming in more than 15 years,” he noted, “and this is simply an excuse for more government oppression.”
“We stand for freedom. We stand for opportunity. We stand for our families. And we stand for a strong and prosperous future. Together let us be bold as a lion,” he concluded.
The rally took place one day after CFACT keynoted a climate policy conference in Warsaw co-sponsored by Solidarity, the Institute for Globalization, and other Polish and European NGOs. There, members of the European Parliament, along with representatives from the U.S., Italy, Sweden, Hungary, and Poland formally signed the “Warsaw Declaration” calling on the UN to discontinue work on a new treaty until a genuine “scientific consensus is reached on the phenomenon of so-called global warming.”
The UN made a big mistake choosing Poland to host its global warming treaty summit. The Poles see right through warming propaganda. Enduring generations of socialism has left them with a deep distaste for propaganda and bureaucratic control. Polish prosperity was blocked first by war and then by ideology. Poland deserves freedom and prosperity and knows it can’t move forward without energy. The brave Poles are not about to cede their sovereignty to UN control.
Polish feelings about the UN climate treaty echo what Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told the Soviet Union. “Let Poland be Poland!”
CFACT, which has been an officially recognized NGO at UN conferences for nearly two decades, will be in Warsaw throughout the two weeks of COP 19. Its delegation will be headlined by Apollo VII astronaut Col. Walter Cunningham who is highly critical of UN climate science.
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Excellent work CFACT.
Slowly but surely the tide of public opinion is turning against the fear mongery of the CAGW movement, and particularly against the panic-stricken carbon strangulation economic policies that are hurting so many.
Do we have independent verification for this? Where the people out there for something else, to which somebody attached climate skepticism, a topic maybe of minimal interest to the mass of people in the square?
I am afraid we need to be more skeptical about this kind of claims than any of Gore’s or Romm’s.
Were not Where…oops
I lookm forward to the coverage of the rally on the BBC and other ‘unbiased’ media outlets.
“Later in the afternoon, nationalists and right wing groups held an ‘Independence March’. Organisers expected 50,000 to attend, and the demonstration was heavily policed after violence erupted for the last two years in Warsaw”
. – See more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/152550,Poland-celebrates-Independence-Day#sthash.0Q6pWul5.dpuf
Cheer them on. Cheer again.
“Violence and hooliganism marred Poland’s celebrations of Independence Day on Monday. Right-wing and nationalist activists held what they called the “Independence March,” which started in the center of Warsaw in the afternoon. Over the next two hours the participants were involved in several violent incidents took place.
Fire was set to cars and other objects in the city, including a police booth in front of the Russian Embassy and an artwork installation (a large rainbow) at Plac Zbawiciela.
Warsaw authorities withdrew their approval of the march, but the gathering continued. Some 19 people are said to have been injured in the incidents, including 12 police officers. Seventy-two people were arrested in connection with the disturbances.”
http://www.wbj.pl/article-64270-violence-overshadows-independence-day-celebrations.html
Long live Poland, freedom and solidarity! This time there will be no Molotov-Ribbentrop pact – the Russians see sense on this issue also. Sadly the UK are playing for the other side this time.
GO POLAND! YAH!
This is great! This is what I’ve wanted to see for a long time! Now these are real protesters, not rent-a-mob spaced out to look like more and cameras taking angled pictures so as not to show the gaps.
I am so thrilled this was seen live on television and that its been picked up by the international media. It should be an interesting two weeks for those in the thrall of CAGW and doing it for the UN Cause.
I pray this idea spreads across Europe and the globe. Sitting back and waiting for the alarmists to tire and go away peacefully isn’t going to do a thing – people have to get out there and get their message heard.
NO to the UN.
Great news! Having had to stomach 40 years of socialist propaganda, they can easily spot something similar coming down the track. Green is the new red!
The UN climate agenda is a giant, freedom-killing, economy-trashing machine waging war against all of humanity. We must rage, rage against the machine.
The people of Poland know what totalitarianism and the rule of bureaucracy mean. Will Poland help to save Europe from itself even though Europe has always failed Poland?
I hope this is accurate. It’s so welcome, I’m almost afraid to believe it.
I hate to be a wet rag, but I didn’t see many people in the audience clapping, let alone cheering…Great that the message is getting out, but I don’t know how much of it actually soaked in….
“hate to be a wet rag, but I didn’t see many people in the audience clapping, let alone cheering
Yes, they barely seemed to know what was being said. Most of them looked puzzled.
omnologos says:
November 12, 2013 at 3:39 pm “Do we have independent verification for this? Where the people out there for something else, to which somebody attached climate skepticism…”
The first sentence says, “As more than 50,000 enthusiastic Poles gathered in downtown Warsaw on Monday to celebrate National Independence Day, with millions more watching on live television, CFACT president David Rothbard was invited to the stage to deliver an impassioned address celebrating freedom and warning against the dangerous and oppressive climate agenda of the UN.”
I think it is not more skepticism needed, but a little reading comprehension. On the subject of independence, CFACT was able to present one of the greatest threats to independence – rule by unaccountable, unelected globalist bureaucracies and unscrupulous scientists under the guise of environmentalism.
Yesterday Australia! Today Poland! Tomorrow the world!
¡Ojalá!
I am truly in line with the aim of CFACT but I have to agree with omnologos in his earlier post – I, too, am puzzled by the seemingly unenthusiastic response to Rothbard’s speech. Is that typical of the Poles, or were they restrained by the presence of police due to previous acts of random violence at gatherings? Or were they there primarily to celebrate their National Independence Day? I’m just looking for accuracy here. The exaggerations often put out by warmists only hurt their claims of support of the masses; I wouldn’t want to be found to be in the same boat as they.
Perhaps the title of the post should change to “50,000-strong rally hear speech about the UN’s dangerous and oppressive climate agenda”
It was not a mistake for the UN in selecting Poland to host the COP and MOP of the UNFCCC and the expired Kyoto Protocol. Human social instinct calls for the host to be gracious and accommodating. A high ranking official of the host country chairs the meeting and often the highest official of the country attends one of the session. It is the duty then of the chair ( which is a high ranking official ) to resolve and try to reach a compromise to successfully attain the objective of the agenda. In return the grateful participants will name the agreement reached during the meeting after the country or the place. So we have Kyoto Protocol, Dubai agreement, etc. As the party responsible for reaching the agreement and being constantly reminded of the agreement named after one of the cities of the country it is now incumbent on the leadership of the host country not just to live up to the agreement but to lead to its successful implementation. Japan is now reluctant to go on board a new Kyoto Protocol and if the protocol was not agreed, signed and named after Kyoto, Japan it is doubtful if Japan would have ratified the protocol, lead and supported the subsequent accord, compromise, etc on the implementation of the Kyoto protocol. Like Dubai, expect Poland to be on the front line of the post Kyoto agreement. I will not be surprise if the post Kyoto Protocol will be called Montreal Protocol, Washington Protocol, Canberra Protocol as Canada, USA and Australia are now wavering on its support of the UNFCCC and would be most likely be called to host future meetings. A Washington Protocol or name any US city is big candidate for the protocol replacing the Kyoto Protocol. It would be a big Obama legacy as his successors will be forced to support and lead its implementation irregardless of the successor’s current position on climate change.
Bravely done by CFACT president David Rothbard. I say this because he’s speaking to a crowd clearly not very receptive. The chilly response doesn’t jibe with the headline and sub-head for this post. Scattered applause is covered by the overdubbed Polish national anthem.
Was looking up the relation of Poland to the fall of the Soviet (socialist) Empire and found this from this reference:
http://www.history.com/topics/fall-of-soviet-union
“The first revolution of 1989 took place in Poland, where the non-Communist trade unionists in the Solidarity movement bargained with the Communist government for freer elections in which they enjoyed great success. This, in turn, sparked peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall fell in November; that same month, the “velvet revolution” in Czechoslovakia overthrew that country’s Communist government. (In December, however, violence reigned: A firing squad executed Romania’s Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceaucescu, and his wife.)
This atmosphere of possibility soon enveloped the Soviet Union itself. Frustration with the bad economy combined with Gorbachev’s hands-off approach to Soviet satellites to inspire a series of independence movements in the republics on the USSR’s fringes. One by one, the Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) declared their independence from Moscow. Then, in early December, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine broke away from the USSR and created the Commonwealth of Independent States. Weeks later, they were followed by eight of the nine remaining republics. (Georgia joined two years later.) At last, the mighty Soviet Union had fallen”
Maybe the fall of the CAGW Wall will start in Poland (already in Australia).
Hey it’s a stretch, but Poland and Czechoslovakia don’t seem to like this UN catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW).
Poland can get a little nippy sometimes and it’s understandable why they like to keep warm – especially in winter.
Warmists only truly wake up when there is a threat of no gas in winter. It almost happened in the UK last winter when their reserves were down to a few days. Have cake and eat it is my motto. Politicians in the UK feel they must act on climate change then refuse gas shipments. It’s easy.
I agree that the title is misleading. A better title might be “50,000 Poles rally for independence, hear impassioned CFACT speech against UN climate agenda”