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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The money troves have been reloaded for another decade of unprecedented Global Warming BS.
They will use their time well and speed up the process to create Global Government.
In order to reach their objective the West has to fall.
Just look at what happens to Julian Assange who is put in prison on bogus charges to know that Big Brother no longer is limited to watching you.
Illegal detainment, suppression and intimidation has been added to the control apparatus and from now on there will be an ever growing pressure on the expression free speech.
That’s why I expect the next crush down will hit the Internet and the blog sphere.
And for those of you who were expecting a crack down on Obama’s climate policies, don’t expect much because the GOP is in on the scheme.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46101.html
Anthony this Hockey clip from the 1976 Flyers vs. Soviet game might be more like it:
Dena says:
December 11, 2010 at 9:47 am
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.
Gareth responds:
And there was me thinking that this was a classic right wing capitalist plot via such scams as carbon trading and masquerading as environmentalists. However, maybe it’s just about scientists and vested interests keeping their heads in the pig trough and ideas of plots by world government belong in the same file as George Bush planning 9/11 with jets piloted by Princess Diana.
“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.”
Worse, governments have bought off industries by creating new regulatory markets. GE, IBM, CISCO, and the list goes on, are preparing to reap profits from smart grid (only needed to allow unreliable renwable energy to be fed directly into the grid). For example, large companies are preparing to sell us new “smart” appliances we will be required to buy. Utilities are planning to use power lines as a new broadband delivery system. Millions of dollars are going into developing systems to transmit more information over power lines. A hidden goal is to replace the existing internet with one completely controlled by the government. EMC is developing distributed database with unstructured search capabilities that will permit deep mining of information. CISCO is on board. The internet kill switch is being prepared.
Let’s be honest: How much longer will blogs like this be allowed to scare people and make them not trust the government?
Millions of dollars are being given in subsidies to promote the construction of green energy systems. These dollars are buying the support of thousands of small agencies and companies that naively believe they will turn a profit from their green energy systems in a few years.
A Swedish industrial group compared nuclear, hydro, and wind power (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Nuclear_is_competitive_in_Sweden_says_report-0710104.html). “Wind power, the study suggests, is some 65% more expensive than hydro and about 50% more expensive than nuclear.” Apparently, there is some sanity even in the frozen socialist paradise.
The fight is far from over. The good news is, California will head over the green cliff with AB32 and an out-of-control Energy Commission, while the rest of the country has rejected Obama, Waxman-Markey (Cap-and-Trade) and the socialist agenda. California still thinks it is leading the way, but its leadership is delusional, believing their own lies. The collapse of California in a few years under Governor Brown may finally bring the end of the green movement in the United States.
Unfortunately, fabian socialists never give up. They will only repackage their seductive trap for a new naive generation. One answer is to provide real information to counter the lies of the Left. We need to promote real science and expose the frauds, and the sellouts.
I don’t believe it is crazy to say a possible outcome is a complete economic and social collapse. The path we are on is completely unsustainable. Perhaps when California falls into the economic abyss, the rest of the country will learn from it. We need to end regulatory markets and shrink government. We need reliable and inexpensive domestic energy (nuclear for electricity and to produce LH2). Going forward, fighting over petroleum will put us in the same position as Japan in WWII.
The climate battle is the focus now, but we need to be ready to shift to the next areas where we can press an advantage. Clearly, there is no political leadership taking us in the right direction. Developing a plan is a key step needed to give people a realistic positive view of the future, and to gather support for a good alternative that preserves freedom.
How do you know those rape charges are bogus?
Mike Roddy: Thank you for posting with your real name, or at least the name you use to pen your anti-consumerism drivel. I now have a new name to add to the list of people I will completely ignore. Have you been paid to have that much hateness, or has it developed from a lifetime of having your lunch money stolen?
REPLY: There’s no point in posting rebuttals, and Mr. Roddy has a history of ignoring them. He doesn’t play fair, but rather chooses the “hit and run” approach. – Anthony
Maybe OT, but is it possible to get a list of the signatories to the anti-water petition at Cancun?
Gore invented the web on a whim
Then next a false paradigm
On which with serial stealth
He promoted his wealth
Now truth and web haunt and mock him.
>>REPLY: Congratulations Mike, it seems you did not do any actual
>>research, but just let your hate flow naturally. – Anthony
Anthony, you should have complained that you were not on the list !! … 😉
REPLY: Actually I am on the list, you have to click through the other pages. And, Mr. Roddy makes some serious factual errors, simply because he goes with what he “feels” rather than what he researches. He didn’t ask me a single question. He’s simply a hatemonger. Feelings, nothing more than feelings… – Anthony
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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 (not to mention the Fascist Corporatists/Reactionaries/Conservatives/New World Order) 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.
If we must be paranoid, at least let us seek balance in our paranoia, Dena.
R de Haan said above “And for those of you who were expecting a crack down on Obama’s climate policies, don’t expect much because the GOP is in on the scheme.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46101.html”
Here is what Ralph Hall said (amongst other things)
“Hall told POLITICO in a recent interview he’s not a climate skeptic. “If they quote me correctly, I’ve never said it’s outrageous to even think about global warming. I want some proof,” he said. “If I get the chair and have the gavel, I’m going to subpoena people from both sides and try to put them under oath and try to find out what the real facts are.”
Frankly I don’t see a thing wrong with that statement. That is what most socalled sceptics want. Get the facts out on the table under oath.
Some news from Scotland …
“Scotland’s transport minister, Stewart Stevenson, has resigned following criticism of his handling of the travel chaos caused by recent heavy snowfalls.
Salmond will announce on Sunday who will take over from Stevenson as transport, infrastructure and climate change secretary. Finance secretary John Swinney has taken charge until a replacement is announced.”
The reason for Stevenson’s fall in weather (not climate)!
R. de Haan ,
I really don’t think that’s what the article said . Admittedly , the GOP steering committee has made some disappointing choices for chairmanships , but they’re not on the same team . I expect that they will give more credence to skeptical scientists than we have seen in several years and that they will put a lot of heat on the EPA .
Looking out my office today at a Christmas card scene, and just had a conversation
this week with a warmist who I have some dealings with: ” Hi Bob, how is it going!”
“I am concerned, the warm is cold. ” “The belief in the old ways are fading!” “Yet they who know better are gathered in Cancan,er Cancun.” I said:”It’s cold in Cancan, too.”
“Douglas, you know the Profit has mentioned that there would be unstableness
with the aether! due to the CO2 of sinners!” “Ah, Bob, if you look out the window, we are getting a little of the that instability..”
“Ah Gaia’s dandruff! such a beautiful sight!” “Too bad by 2100 it will all be gone.
Thus speaks the Profit.”
I think we are looking at a dying cult here. Trouble was, this conversation actually
happened with only slight modification….
This is exactly what Fenton Communications does. They coordinate “grass roots” organizations, sometimes even facilitating the creation of the organizations, keeps them on message, organizes media exposure, etc. They were, for example, the public relations machine behind Cindy Sheehan, Larry Johnson, Veterans for Peace, Win Without Wars, Code Pink, etc.
Fenton coordinates the media and Tides Foundation coordinates the money. What Tides does is this: Say you want to donate $10,000 to some “progressive” or “green” cause but don’t want your name showing on the books of that cause as a donor. You give your donation to Tides and tell them to “earmark” it for your cause. Tides then takes your donation, bundles it with everyone else’s who also earmarked that cause and then makes one lump donation. The cause books a donation from Tides, Tides books a donation from you, but Tides is not required to show how your donation was allocated. They provide a degree of separation so that one can not discover who is actually funding an activist group.
Fenton started that back during the Alar apple scare when they created “grass roots” organizations that suddenly sprang up all across the nation to protest the use of Alar on apples. They are the masters of “astroturf” or fake grass roots organizations. The Alar scare destroyed many family orchards and turned out to be not the least bit harmful, but the damage was done. Tides directs the money, Fenton directs the message.
And yet a legally binding deal was struck.
“The deal falls far short of what some scientists and environmentalist claim is needed to stop catastrophic global warming. But it represents a significant step towards the eventual goal of many, which is a legally binding treaty aimed at preventing temperatures rising more than 2C (3.6F) this century.
For the first time all countries are committed to cutting carbon emissions under an official UN agreement. Rich nations also have to pay a total of £60 billion annually from 2020 into a “green fund” to help poor countries adapt to floods and droughts. The money will also help developing countries, including China and India, switch to renewable energy sources including wind and solar power.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8196634/Cancun-Climate-Change-Conference-agrees-plan-to-cut-carbon-emissions.html
John M Reynolds
Have they disbanded yet? Headed home and all that? Or are they still lapping up the localized warming?
The turning point will come when the powers that be, who have been “kicking the can down the road” in the current financial crisis, run out of road, and the financial roof falls in. Then the many closet skeptics and luke-warmers in Congress will have the cover they need to jettison carbon control measures “for the duration.” That will be a decade, if we’re lucky, by which time the planet’s failure to warm as predicted will be starkly self-evident.
Mike Roddy says:
December 11, 2010 at 8:34 am
5 Awards For the World’s Most Heinous Climate Villains
Congratulations Mike, that’s one of the funniest rants I have ever read, you should send it to John Cleese.
If they can implement the net neutrality, and they are trying to do that, the government will control what is on the internet. In short, sites such as this will be silenced as the government deems it not in the public interest. With that silence goes a lot more.
The prospect of that happening must be quite encouraging to global warming advocates and liberals at large.
Alar-Classic scare story….
Know more than a few apple farmers who were put under by that disinformation….
You don’t seem to have a clue what net neutrality is about. It is about ISP’s controlling different types of traffic on their networks. Can cable block streaming video or not is the question. If the FCC makes net neutrality the law, then they can’t. If not, they can.
To clarify my first comment on this thread for those who are not deep in politics, there are Republican Progressives and not all Democrats are Progressive. Far more Democrats are progressive than Republicans, but judge each Politician by their actions and not by their party.
I think the biggest emitters should demand payment whenever something is grown or harvested. Everything alive pretty much gets its carbon from primary producers (green plants) and green plants get their carbon from CO2 in the air and water. Why should they get it for free when it is costing the U.S., China, and India so much to put it there? I’m sick of giving them a free carbon ride.
If, only if, them hippies would’ve, like they did in reality, lost ages ago.
Have anyone ever seen any kind of a hippie play hockey and be successful?