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.
I’m with omnologos on the impression that this article gives. As much as I’d love there to be a popular uprising against the COP’s and their agenda, this wasn’t it.
A Washington Protocol or name any US city is big candidate for the protocol replacing the Kyoto Protocol.
How about the Detroit Protocol?
Noaaprogrammer says…..how did the ipcc member break his leg raking leaves?
He fell out of the tree. ……..Go cfact
Anthony says:
“””The UN made a big mistake choosing Poland to host its global warming treaty summit.”
……..but I cannot see a big mistake: This time for a change: The UN did a good choice! Nothing wrong with this excellent UN choice for event hosting in Poland. I hope the UN hosts more
events there, a better place then say: California …..
Day By Day: ” 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 don’t know about passports, but every State driver’s license I’ve held is the same thing. Smiles are absolutely verboten.
Jquip says:
November 12, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Not in Oregon.
BTW, has anyone audited the translator on that video?
Just sayin, I am having trouble with his dialect, hence my inquiry…..
How does an ipcc member convert 200 kph to mph?
Just add 2 to the ascii value of ‘k’ !
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…Tonight on the pbs Newshour, the tearful (understandably) plea of the Philippine rep at the COP for doing more to stop these storms was followed by a two-guest panel, Kevin Trenberth and Jeff Masters (Wx underground) for a diversity of opinion.
More of us need to be writing to the pbs newshour ombudsman about their slanted reporting. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/climate-change/july-dec13/storms2_11-12.html
As Rothbard noted, Christiana Figueres is undertaking nothing less than the “complete economic transformation of the world.” Pretty modest undertaking I’d say. So, anyway, I was modestly curious in undertaking a complete understanding of the life experiences and motivations that would compel somebody to think that it would be a cake walk to completely transform the economies of the world. Surely such an individual must be quite old and wise to countenance such a thing. But to dispel any doubt I figured I’d check her out on Wikipedia. Here goes:
‘Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the (UNFCC), gave the opening statement before delegates from 193 countries gathered in Cancun, Mexico on November 29, 2010 by invoking the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also “the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you – because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools.” She went on to say to the delegates, “Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads,” said Figueres, who hails from Costa Rica and started her greetings in Spanish before switching to English. “I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel.”‘
Got that? The “complete economic transformation of the world” is apparently being guided by an ancient jaguar goddess called Ixchel. Or, at least inspired by Ixchel, a mighty astronomical goddess of the moon, and creativity, and reason, and … weaving? Well, you gotta have some hobbies I guess.
Now, before anybody thinks that somebody who refers to bureaucrats as “Excellencies”, and calls upon an ancient mythological jaguar she-god called Ixchel for inspiration for a “complete economic transformation of the world”, could not possibly be somebody other than a 13 year old girl who twerks, let me advise you that Christiana Figueres is getting fairly close to sixty.
But I’ll bet she does twerk.
There’s more hype here than in the 10.,000 philippine typhoon deaths. Sorry. I don’t buy it.
The global warming agenda is about as dangerous as a kitten with a purple lollipop. EVERY effort at implementing anything related to it, that could hurt the economy and job creation, is shelved faster than a dieting book with a personal trainer on the cover.
Day By Day says:
November 12, 2013 at 7:20 pm
…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.
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Thank you Day By Day, I was wondering about that, too. I hope more here understand your message. I hope the world follows and marches, too. I hope the UN is disbanded or – better still – is torn down. They have gone a long way too far and people everywhere are beginning to see that what they are offering is by no means the worst of it (as bad as it is), but the start of something far more terrifying.
How anyone can figure that a world without freedom is a better world is beyond me. And then they dare object to activists losing their freedom! The activist circles are full of fools and the unthinking. They either don’t realize that they will suffer along with everyone else, or they don’t care and hate humanity enough to want the carnage, to want everybody to suffer and die off.
They have to go. From everywhere, they have to go. They are worse than just dangerous to our lifestyle and the economy. The stupid thing is, they haven’t even helped the environment – they are destroying it!
Thanks Day By Day – it’s good to know the context before jumping to conclusions. I have had the good fortune to have befriended escapees from Communist regimes (i.e., South Vietnamese) and I find it short-sighted of any one who may admire the tenants of communism in theory but fail to recognize the horrors of it in practice. It goes beyond economical impacts but reaches deep into intellectual independence and family structure – just ask anyone who was lucky enough to escape those regimes. Of course you will have the hard lefty view that capitalism and democracy have carried out injustices throughout our short history; however, from my vantage point, the line to enter America looks a lot longer than the one trying to get out.
The people at the rally were mostly likely stoic not due to lack of enthusiasm, but due to their culture (I have a Polish friend who looks grim in nearly every posed photo she is in) — they knew that they were being filmed. They were there because they love Poland. They need coal for economic prosperity — and they are determined to keep it; and, whether they are or not — their government is.
{and I’m sure they intended it to be}
{Source (pro-Envirostalinist): http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/08/un-climate-talks-poland-coal}
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From Bloomberg yesterday, 11/11/13 (emphasis mine)
{let’s hope they are right for once!}
{Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/black-treasure-in-poland-clouds-un-warming-negotiations.html}
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Whether the crowd was full of those brainwashed by the Envirostalinists or whether they were only characteristically stoic, the Polish Government and trade unions back the CFACT anti-UN climate agenda position. Thus, THERE IS GREAT CAUSE TO CELEBRATE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN POLAND.
GO, POLAND!
I see that the Fossil Fuel Industry sponsors the climate conference: http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/18/poland-partners-coal-and-oil-corporate-sponsors-cop19-climate-conference
Australian government has gone even further, according to the newspaper Australian,
their federal government has decided that it “will not sign up to any new contributions, taxes or charges at this week’s global summit on climate change, in a significant toughening of its stance as it plans to move within days to repeal the carbon tax”
However, the real blow against the UN CAGW-movement comes from the fact that the Australian government seems have called out the watermelons of the UN CAGW-crowd by having decided to reject any measures of “socialism masquerading as environmentalism”. That expression seems to have been actually used in a government document, imagine that!
Read more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/climate-tax-aid-and-fees-off-table-as-cabinet-toughens-stance/story-e6frg6xf-1226756955449#sthash.JFAcJrMV.dpuf
and
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/11/australia-says-no-to-un-wish-list-of-billions-will-not-support-socialism-masquerading-as-environmentalism/
Thanks for reminding us, Pethefin (at 10:07pm today)
HURRAH FOR AUSTRALIA!
That calls for a rousing rendition of …. #(:))
Janice Moore says:
November 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm
The people at the rally were mostly likely stoic not due to lack of enthusiasm, but due to their culture (I have a Polish friend who looks grim in nearly every posed photo she is in) — they knew that they were being filmed. They were there because they love Poland. They need coal for economic prosperity — and they are determined to keep it; and, whether they are or not — their government is… (etc.)
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Thanks, Janice for all the extra info. This is just getting better and better! 🙂
albertalad says:
November 12, 2013 at 4:53 pm
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!
I thought it is only the US senate that ratifies treaties and it is democrat controlled. With Sec of State, president and vice president who are ex-senators it is not far fetched for US to ratify to a post Kyoto Protocol.
Excellent news! May such meetings spread widely. Australia has turned to point forwards again, Poland is becoming aware of the problem, who’s next?
Meanwhile here in the UK the BBC is proudly informing us all that water and energy prices will continue to increase well above inflation FOR THE NEXT SEVENTEEN YEARS. Bring on the revolution. We can’t get rid of these arrogant, greedy parasites too soon.
Janice Moore says:
November 12, 2013 at 10:15 pm
No not that one Janice, this one:
Yes, as well as Honour, Honesty, Courage, Integrity and Loyalty.
The reverberation of THUNDER from Tony Abbott, Anthony Watts and all their global followers whenever Bullshit flows.
I am Pole living in UK and would like to inform you a bit better than official BBC relation.
First – 11 November is Polish Independence Day. It is celebrated in many ways, one of them is Independence March in Warsaw. This is the biggest gathering in this day and, in few past years, is organized by NGOs extremely opposed to government politics.
Due to specific way of polish political fight on this day we have many provocations and riots on Warsaw streets. Last year riots were mostly inspired by covert police officers. This year, due to better organizations, March was much quieter with only few provocations. But riots are very medial and this small bits are shown in TV (interesting is that cameras were placed ONLY in places where riots took place).
Another thing is that these NGOs and opposition parties which organize Independence March are also extremely against Global Warming hype and EU Climate Pact, which lay big strain on Polish electricity generation system.
A few days before Independence Day a big opposition conference took place in Warsaw and a big part of it was about threats to Poland caused by AGW hype and EU Climate Pact.
A lot of Poles are aware of problem and try to fight against all this AGW. propaganda.
Oh dear. Barely a reaction from the crowd at all, except a look that says “meh.”
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milodonharlani,
Thanks for your comment.
To assess the crowd behavior at the subject meeting where CFACT spoke I think I would need to have been there and have had some prior in country period to get in empathy with the situation.
As to Polish culture, the members of my mother’s side of the family, those proud Poles, were a very exuberant bunch; even the ones who remained in Poland after the Soviet control started. But they openly expressed to me very profound sadness and anger about the communist control of their country. I know little of their behavior in public life outside the family under the Soviets.
As to my parent’s wartime romance, they sure did live a classic romantic story. : )
John