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.
This is great news. Of course, the most important thing is that it gets picked up by mainstream media. May there be more such rallies in Poland to expose the UN.
omnologos says:
November 12, 2013 at 4:35 pm Perhaps the title of the post should change to “50,000-strong rally hear speech about the UN’s dangerous and oppressive climate agenda”
That would be an improvement. The video clearly says, “CFACT warns against UN climate agenda. Polish National Independence Day Rally.”
CFACT does great work and have informative email updates on their work.
Anthony, please edit the headline for accuracy. That sort of misleading spin is a significant reason why the alarmists are losing credibility- lets not do the same thing to climate realism!
The story says the facts are that 50,000 Poles who gathered in downtown Warsaw on Monday to celebrate National Independence Day were addressed about Climate. That’s a very different thing from the headline.
REPLY: Sure no problem…was a quick posting -A
The crowd waved flags & there was scattered applause. Poland has unusual customs for showing approval, as anyone who ever heard Pope John Paul II make a humming sound in appreciation will know.
But even if the crowd could have been more demonstrative, how many US Independence Day celebrations include addresses by CACA skeptics? In a rally organized by Solidarity, it’s even more impressive, IMO.
eo says: I’d like to see Obama trying to pass that crap through the Republican controlled house. Not gonna happen in your Obama lifetime after he messed up their health care so badly. And only congress can ratify treaties, period!
“The Poles see right through warming propaganda. Enduring generations of socialism has left them with a deep distaste for propaganda and bureaucratic control. ” — OP
And it gets terribly cold. Hard sell to state “You must freeze by law, or women might wear swimsuits.”
omnologos says:
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?
Poland has a massive coal industry, so there is great resentment against EU and UN attempts to impose job destroying costs on carbon.
I’m sure there were many other grievances being aired that day, but just as the NAZIs had Eugenics crisis, so the EU justifies its anti-democratic excesses in the name of saving the world from the carbon crisis – so it would have been a real issue, for many in that square.
As recent emigrants from occupied Europe, you have to live there to experience the rise of totalitarianism. Bit by bit, sliver by sliver, people’s freedoms are being eroded. A little press control in the UK, excessively powerful EU police powers, child “protection” procedures which are beyond public scrutiny or review – bit by bit, the vice is tightening.
It is natural that the Poles, who endured decades of Soviet oppression, are among the first to recognise the new direction as an ugly rerun of the old.
CFACT is the only website I know of that provided the draft text of the document agreement from Rio +20. And we learn from CFACT that they were not allowed access to the final draft.
You all will remember Rio+20, the international meeting attended by Hilary Clinton and Lisa Jackson, the unelected, unaccountable ex-head of the unelected, unaccountable EPA. What was she doing at an international meeting? She has no authority to agree with international leaders on domestic energy generation and use issues.
Poland and independent spirit can often be used as synonyms!
Though the CFACT speaker does not seem particularly Polish ethnically or culturally, many of his statements are prima fascia consistent with Polish news and history.
Full Disclosure: I am 50% Polish. My mother was bred, born and raised in Poland. She was taken in her teens from her farm home in Poland to a work camp near Heidelberg Germany by WWII era Germans after their invasion of Poland. My father’s American Army unit liberated the workcamp near Heidelburg . . . romance and marriage ensued.
John
When the Berlin Wall fell, America and the West thought we had won. What we forgot is the wall which kept us out, also kept them in.
Do you know what Secretary Gorbachev, the last absolute ruler of the Soviet Union, did when he lost his job? He helped set up the UN Environmental Agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev
Angela Merkel’s family were senior figures in the old East European Communist family. She would like you to think she was a warrior for freedom against Soviet oppression, but the truth is her family under the Communists enjoyed privileges – foreign travel, wealth – which few of their fellows had access to.
There are an awful lot of former Soviets in positions of global authority these days, using their Soviet era skills to climb the bureaucratic ladder to senior management.
I’m sure though, they’ve all learned the lessons of the past, and now embrace freedom and democracy, right?
“Polish police used rubber bullets against masked youths who had attended an ultranationalist march that attracted an estimated 50,000 supporters.”
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/25165359.html
“Far-right Rioters Leave Trail of Destruction in Polish Capital.”
http://m.voanews.com/a/1788222.htm
But never mind – someone from CFACT addressed a rally and that can be spun into a story claiming “…one of the largest audiences to ever hear a speech denouncing UN global warming policies…” and stating unsubstantiated “…Polish feelings about the UN climate treaty…”.
Desperate stuff.
JMurphy, when people can no longer vote their politicians out of office, they turn to violence.
The real power in the European Union is the European Commission, headed by Jose Manuel Barrosso, former president of Portugal, former leading figure in the Portugese Communist Party.
Only the Commission has the power to source legislation – the parliament only has the power to approve or deny legislation presented by the Commission. The Commission has many means at its disposal to secure the votes they need, for example, the commission controls enormously lucrative special committee allowances, which they can award to senior members of parliament who vote the “right” way.
Democracy in Europe is a sham – the EU has enormous powers to override the laws of member states, but citizens of the member states have no real power to change the membership of the European commission, and the Commission gets what it wants from the parliament.
So what do citizens who are trapped in this nightmare do, when they want change?
There are two choices – protest, or leave. We chose to leave. The people you see rioting on TV, are some of the people who chose to stay.
Imagine that… The Poles don’t like the idea of being pushed around by communists.
/snark
The most vulnerable part about life on Earth is human dependence on energy provided by others.
Think about it.
What is the goal of the UN in the end with respect to CO2?
I am happy, even if those at tthe rally didn’t really fully understand what was said, they were at least exposed to the truth.
Truth is a very powerful weapon.
It is about greed, control, and history in the end.
OssQss says:
November 12, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Good one – hadn’t seen that Milton Friedman clip .
Energy underpins our entire civilization, and thus the consequences of misguided energy policy are dire. When starry-eyed activists cripple energy infrastructure by replacing cheap and dependable power sources with expensive and intermittent ones, people suffer and sometimes die.
It’s good to see that point being made in a loud and obvious way.
That’s A LOT of people in the pay of Big Oil. Poland must be swimming in money.
Jmurphy, France is next in 2015 and if one can judge from the climate over there, their government has made a deal with the EU, introducing a CCE Climate Contribution Environment, otherwise known as carbon tax while the EU won’t be too harsh on France’s deficits. Check what’s happening to ecotax cameras… This is the start and the EU bureaucracy and its enablers from the left or the right will see what social explosion means.
John Whitman says:
November 12, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Maybe you’d like to comment on Polish customs for applause & otherwise showing public approval. Do you find the crowd of your mom’s countrymen receptive or not to the sometimes awkwardly translated speech?
BTW, what a great wartime love story. Out of terrible events came great goodness.
Love the Polish people !!! Kick these eco-freak “green” whack-a-doos of the CAGW agenda driven cult religion off the planet.
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(yours, too, OssQss — Go, Milton Friedman!)
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J. Fujita says:
My ancestry is Polish and Russian, and I can say that in the communist system, you were not allowed to show much emotion–fear and the law. I worked there and also visit my family there from time to time. I am always asked for my passport in the former Soviet block because we (Americans) smile in our passports and by law, they were not allowed to smile. I was told, when I worked there, to stand straight and look ahead and don’t look anyone in the eye. Be serious. Don’t show enthusiasm except at home in the apartments. All emotion is for family only and that is only behind closed doors. So the fact that they are not showing much emotion is perfectly in keeping with how the Soviets forced them to be for so many years.
All Polish jokes should now be rewritten to be U.N. jokes!