From Nopenhagen to Yes We Cancun
by Christopher Monckton
Thanks to Wikileaks, everyone here in the Mañana Republic of Mexico now knows just how much bullying and arm-twisting the administration of Barack Obama in the United States applied to various countries around the world so that they would (and did) sign up to the Copenhagen climate accord.
Without that pressure, nothing at all would have happened at Copenhagen this time last year, and “the Process” – the interminable round of flatulent annual climate conferences in exotic locations at taxpayers’ expense – would have tipped into the gulch forever.
The hard Left has learned the hard way that democracies do not welcome it and, in the end, will reject it. So the climate extremists have abandoned last year’s attempt, in the now-defunct September 15 Copenhagen Treaty draft, to install overnight an unelected world government consisting only of themselves, with unlimited powers of taxation, economic and environmental regulation without representation, as well as control of all formerly free markets worldwide, all in the name of Saving The Planet (which, of course, was triumphantly Saved 2000 years ago and does not need to be Saved again).
Instead, the Martini Marxists dancing the night away doing the Cancun Can-Can with the 25 pneumatic bunny girls in the newly-opened Playboy Casino on the ocean-front strip in Cancun have decided to copy the bureaucrats of the European Union, whose crafty, crabwise coup d’etat over the last three or four decades has transferred all real political power, little by little, treaty by treaty, to the dismal dictatorship of Brussels.
Though there is a toothless democratic fig-leaf in the shape of the European “Parliament”, all decisions in the EU are in fact taken by a couple of dozen faceless, overpaid Kommissars (that is the official German mot juste for them) – faceless because they meet behind closed doors and then emerge to promulgate their “Directives”: on average, one every three hours, day and night, Sundays and holidays included, 365 days a year, 366 days on leap-years.
In Europe, democracy has gone. Perma-Socialism has quietly supplanted it. If demolishing democracy worked there, the enviro-zombs’ reasoning goes, it will work on a worldwide scale, if only the crumbling pretext for global tyranny – the supposed need to prevent catastrophic “global warming” – can be kept going for long enough even though most ordinary voters (in those nations lucky enough to have them) have seen through the scam long since.
The Process works like this. A multitude of long, inspissate, obfuscatory, obnubilating, obscurantist draft agreements are circulated, always a day or two late for delegates to find out what they have actually agreed to. The daily timetables for the various “working” sessions of the conference are never available until breakfast-time on the day, allowing no scope for planning the day. By these means, most delegates are kept permanently and completely in the dark.
Here is a typical paragraph from one of these leaden documents:
“The SBSTA welcomed the report (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/INF.10) on the second workshop of the work programme on revising the “Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention Part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories” (hereinafter referred to as the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines), held in Bonn, Germany, from 3 to 4 November 2010, which was organized by the secretariat as requested by the SBSTA at its thirtieth session.”
Try to read several hundred pages of this stuff. It simply isn’t possible. And that, of course, is the idea. This is the Mushroom-Growers’ Management Method writ large: keep them in the dark and feed them plenty of sh*t.
What these ramblings conceal is the remarkably rapid rate at which dozens – no, hundreds – of new bureaucracies are being created as The Process grinds on. As anyone at the Playboy Casino will tell you, “somebody gotta pay for all those lights.” And that somebody is you, gentle taxpayer. No one has yet managed to discover just how much these hundreds of new supranational climate-change bureaucracies are costing us. That is an international state secret – until Wikileaks gets hold of the figures, of course.
h/t to the Science and Public Policy Institute.
Carpe Mañana!
Moncton has a very dry wit which I love. Making the point that the world does not need to be saved twice was gently and brilliantly put, but I suspect one has to have spent a lot time in an Anglican church (or Episcopalian) to get the full flavour of Moncton’s English, which reaches right back to its roots in the poetry of the King James Bible. I don’t think Moncton was claiming any special religious kudos or karma for himself or us sceptics, just making a point quietly. Thank the great Punkin, or whatever, that he is on the sceptic side!
ArndB
6. Dezember 2010 at 18:21 | Permalink | Reply
A new Kyoto Protocol may be doomed but there is more reports the DW-World-DE (06Dec2010):
“Yet two significant victories are within reach – provided an impasse over Kyoto can be resolved.” http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6297888,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
FIRST: to secure the pledge made by the 2009 Copenhagen Accord’s , with a promise to raise $100 billion (75 billion euros) a year for developing countries as of 2020.
SECOND: The other area of the talks which could yet prove successful involves securing a deal to compensate forest-rich developing countries in return for foregoing logging.
I do wish some one would get some pictures of the “out of hours high jinks” that are going on at our expense.These B£$£$£$s need to shown up for what they are hypocrites of the biggest order…and bad scientists too boot.Living it up around the world,whilst preaching to the rest of us to reduce our carbon footprint.Revolution is around the corner.
Enjoyed this article very much.
WRT:
“…………all in the name of Saving The Planet (which, of course, was triumphantly Saved 2000 years ago and does not need to be Saved again).”
FAR too much being made of this phrase. OldOne’s got it right. It’s intended to illuminate….. and does so very well.
Climate Summit speaker Health problems Obesity caused by fossil fuels!
Maybe someone should tell him what mortality rates will do if fossil fuels are banned.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/climate-summit-speaker-health-problems-obesity-caused-by-fossil-fuels/
“A multitude of long, inspissate, obfuscatory, obnubilating, obscurantist draft agreements are circulated”
That should be inspissating not inspissate.
I admit I had to look up both inspissate and obnubilate.
I thought it more funny than serious. I must have missed something, based on the serious responses here. Seemed the author was trying to out-pompous the pompous, out-droll the droll, and out-sarcasm the sarcastic. I laughed at the religious slam…wasn’t offended at all. I’ll probably forget all about this piece in about 2 hours.
Lord Monkton usually makes some excellent points with reference to Climate change, but in this case if feel the honourable gentleman has rather strayed for the issue with his comments on everything from Mexican culture to religion and politics. I wonder if he re-reads this in the cold light of day he will think
“I could have made the point much more efficiently if I had reviewed this before posting”
Cheer up though though my Lord, your heart is in the right place, even if your verbosity sometimes gets the better of you.
Declare CO2 a non pollutant.
Mark
December 6, 2010 at 11:32 am
[snip – probably enough is enough ~ac]
Dave Springer:
Many people miss the “dry sarcasm” and should look those words up.
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@ur momisugly R. de Haan
Probably not. In this case the global recession ( Nice theme for a next hoax ) has world leaders occupied with something of a real threat. Like last year the Climategate emails came at the right time the same can be said about the recession this year.
Priorities lay elseware if politicians want to save there seats.
Guessing your are a dutchman like me we should be glad this gouverment is seeing the right priorities.
Get the economy up first and deal with green issues later.
R. de Wind
I suspect Lord Monktons posting relates more to his hate of the European community and left wing politics, than writing a contribution to the skeptical philosophers of this site. This extreme hate of the European community is binding feature with the hard right in the UK of which the honourable Gentleman is a dedicated member. ( I suspect they are still angry over the American colonies doing the same thing) While in itself, that’s politics for good or ill, it really does us no good to have the hard right or left using this site to promote their politics and I fear that Lord Monktons diatribe will have done us a great disservice in our efforts to demonstrate that the science is wrong and that we are not a bunch of right wing fanatics funded by shadowy energy corporations.
It may then be useful if we could encourage a similar posting from a left wing perspective to even things up, or even from an environmental perspective. Until then or such time as we stop this political idiocy we are sleepwalking into the very situation our critics accuse us being submerged in. Every right wing essay undermines us that bit more, it is the politics of despair. Come Anthony, we can do better than this. In the meantime, take it easy and look after yourself.
Forgive me Lord (M).
A bit more than a year ago you were trying to convince us that Obama would sign at Copenhagen, a treaty surrendering US sovereignty to a newly created agency which would by fiat monitor and control our various emissions. Instead we got a meaningless agreement.
Obama, a constitutional scholar, would never sign such a treaty nor would our senate approve it.
Is it so hard to appreciate the meaninglessness of meaningless agreements?
Here we have another one. Be glad.
For the rest of you, be most wary of the people you think are your allies. Surfing the waves of an astonishing vocabulary is not an effective mode of communication. Is it?
and in the mean time, CO2 demonisation becomes compulsory:
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/12/05/2743s608619.htm
My emphasis, as it implies this will be automatically approved – not sure if true.
To a few po-faced commenters here, it’s called satire.
Get it?
j ferguson says:
December 6, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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Obama may be a “constitutional scholar” but that doesn’t mean he’d recognize or follow it–he’s pretty much shown his disdain for the document central to our republic with the appointment of czars, going around congress, passing health care in a most dubious fashion, and Wikileaks revelations regarding Copenhagen.
And how do you know whether our senate would approve such a treaty? Many said the same thing about health care and now we’re stuck with it, at least for the time being.
j ferguson says:
December 6, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Obama, a constitutional scholar, would never sign such a treaty nor would our senate approve it.
Not to get too political here, but Obama also kept most of Bush Jr’s executive power privileges that he told his supporters he would abolish. He’s a politician, which means he does what’s politically good for himself regardless of what his intellect tells him is right. If he felt there were something to be gained politically by creating what Monckton described last year, I have no doubt he would have been on board with signing it. Remember that Clinton signed Kyoto. It is not unprecedented. As it happened, however, the situation turned into a scramble to save face, which before Copenhagen and the release of CRU e-mails, was actually difficult to imagine.
R. de Haan says:
December 6, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Obama made “Big Mistake” on Climate Bill
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-05/obama-made-big-mistake-on-climate-bill-turner-says-update1-.html
From your link:
“The climate bill is much more important than health care because the climate situation is about life and death whereas the health-care bill was much more limited,” Turner, 72, said.
Has Ted Turner completely lost it?
I like this part, “the Martini Marxists dancing the night away doing the Cancun Can-Can… copy the bureaucrats of the European Union, whose crafty, crabwise coup d’etat over the last three or four decades has transferred all real political power, little by little, treaty by treaty, to the dismal dictatorship of Brussels.”
Go-go-go Lord Moncton.
I have some concerns Lord Monckton is essentially correct in the change in strategic approach the whole climate change talks at Cancun are taking. It is looking very EU like, in the sense that the information coming out of the talks this year from the media is basically zero, so we don’t really know what is going on. Unlike at Copenhagen when they thought something massive was about to happen – but was scuppered by Climategate. Now we don’t know what dodgy agreement our leaders are making, giving away £$€ millions without our knowing it, even when we need those £$€ at the moment badly. This is what happened with the EU and we ended up with the EU Constitution (Lisbon Treaty by another name) which the people of Europe would never have agreed to (and in fact the French and Dutch both said no to the Constitution, and the British were never asked as we would’ve said NO NO NO).
Gareth Phillips (December 6, 2010 at 2:07 pm)
I totally agree with you.
The German press and politicians are writing off this conference, already. It’s over, and nobody sings “Time to say goodbye” better than Europe does. Sit back and enjoy this lovely tribute to Cancun (pre-recorded).
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5P_nHSuI8g&hl=de_DE&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
Lovely! Isn’t this supposed to be a sad song? For me it’s a happy one.
(By P Gosselin from http://notrickszone.com/2010/12/06/germany-forget-breakthrough-in-cancun-chancellor-merkel-not-even-attending/ )
These are the days we are living for 🙂
Great post, Sir Monkton.
To bad they didn’t pick Disney World/Orlando to Martini-up at. Maybe a couple of over marinated attendees might have froze their asses off.
Gota go get the tropical plants in for the night.