(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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@kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
November 30, 2012 at 2:04 am
Re: the hookers
I forgot about the Copenhagen fiasco where there was a shortage of hookers and limos and they had to import quite a bit of both to make up for the shortfall. Remind me; weren’t the hookers offering discount coupons or something like that?
The Gambia is a country that does have a potential to develop resources and to lift itself out of poverty. The problem is that radical environmentalists force agreements on these poor countries to restrict growth and follow sustainable practices.
So they are reduced to dependency and eco-tourism. But here is the statement on the official Republic of the Gambia website:
Message from the President
“We want to transform the Gambia into a trading, export-oriented agricultural and manufacturing nation, thriving on free market policies and a vibrant private sector, sustained by a well-educated , trained , skilled healthy, self-reliant and enterprising population and in so doing bring to fruition this fundamental aim and aspiration of Vision 2020.”
http://www.gambia.gm/
I truly wish them success in this.
I am sure it has been said before, but I will say it here again – if again it is. I might take these “climate concern confabs” a bit more seriously if they were video conferences instead of “fly-ins” and party times for the conference goers. Really, if I am suppose to take their conference seriously, then they should not be contributing to the problem by staging fly-ins all over the world when they can sit in a conference room in their home town and do a video conference just as well, and accomplish more. Lead by example, which of course they do, when they don’t take their own purpose seriously.
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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 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.
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Something on TV just the other night documenting the concurrent collapse of the Egyptian “Pyramid” and Mesopotamian cultures. A sudden N Atlantic cooldown some 4200 yrs ago caused a large pattern change that pretty much dried up the Nile & Euphrates.
That’s what cooling does.
Yeah, meanwhile, forget about arctic ice, the Rideau River in Ottawa, Ontario has begun its freeze and today’s high is -11C. I flew to Quebec City the other day and from the air, all the small lakes are covered with ice. I’m looking for a new record arctic ice extent this coming March.
Why is there not an active “propaganda” counter effort to hand out history notes on PRIOR actual hurricanes to hit New England? Why isn’t there someone laughing out loud at each and every use of the phrase “Superstorm” with Sandy?
Yes, it was a big storm, and yes, a lot of folks got hurt. Mostly due to building too close to shore, or worse, on barrier sand bars (humorously called ‘islands’) that drift in storms. Thank you Government Subsidy for ‘flood insurance’ (that is really “go ahead and be stupid, build in flood zones – get everyone else to pay for your stipidity” government guaranteed slush fund.)
Don’t mean to give offense, but I find it ironic to read Mike Smith complain about people building where they shouldn’t, when he lives in California, land of frequent mudslides and runaway forest fires.
But as opposed to cheap subsidized federal flood insurance that recipients are nominally directly paying for, they have to wait for official disaster declarations when everyone else pays for what the recipients will only peripherally contribute to after the fact.
Or at least you were still in Kalifornia last I heard. Did you enact your financial evacuation plan yet?
I’ve read that there are two al Jazeera channels, one for the West, one not. The two are completely different in content and attitude.
RE: “E.M.Smith says:
November 30, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Why is there not an active “propaganda” counter effort to hand out history notes on PRIOR actual hurricanes to hit New England? Why isn’t there someone laughing out loud at each and every use of the phrase “Superstorm” with Sandy?…”
I am doing my best, and will continue to do so:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/01/september-panics-and-smurphys-law/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/02/a-reply-to-hurricane-sandy-alarmists/