This WUWT story from two days ago: Obama’s Lonely Climate Summit – world leaders are staying home went viral after being linked to by the Drudge report, earning WUWT its best performing day ever with 345,393 views.
It seems to have evoked a response.
Eric Worrall writes:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon today responded, to reports that a number of key world leaders would not be attending the upcoming climate summit in New York.
According to Ban,
“…even though the leaders from India, China and Russia will not be able to participate in the meeting, there are “other means of communications, ways and means of having their leadership demonstrated in the United Nations.”
I suggest, Mr Moon, that you and President Obama are currently experiencing a sample of that “other means of communication” you mentioned.
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Memo to the little “o” and the UN sycophant, “It is called voting with your feet”.
What a fools corner they have painted themselves into.
What about Poland? Does he have Poland in his coalition for the War on Climate?
Hysterical. That final comment is priceless.
Exactly what I was about to say. 🙂
Yes, they’ve agreed to provide black prison sites for interogation of “carbon terrorists”.
So, if there are other means of communication …. how about using them instead of being hypocritical and flying there.
Abbott seems like the type who would fax in a traced outline of an appropriate finger gesture to the UN Climate Change summit.
Ban blinks, Abbott winks.
I have used my middle finger as another means of communication, especially while driving.
This truck driver tends to take that gesture as the other driver is telling me I’m #1! More often than not I get that gesture when I have managed to get in the left lane to pass before the aggressive four wheeler driver that punched it to try and cut me off when he saw my signal to change lanes. I just smile.
According to the Beverly Hillbillies movie that’s a California howdy.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw…
Warning, horn broken, watch for finger
In TX the bumper sticker says:
“Keep honking. I’m reloading.”
Amen!! I had the same thought. these folks fly around aimlessly often to exotic places burning up enormous amounts of carbon based fuel while telling us we must walk.
B. Moon does not seem to be able to recall that another leader will not be there………..guy called Harper from a small country larger then China and larger then India: place called Canada. On nobody’s radar except for the “fossil fuel” award and quit proud of it.
than/quite.
Thx
And little NZ down here aren’t sending anybody.
What we have here is a communication problem !
“What we have here is a failure……to communicate!”
From “Cool Hand Luke”
+1
“Some men you just can’t reach…”
What we have here is failure to accurately quote! 😉
Not really.
As per the final paragraph … they’re voting with their feet.
Anthony, congrats on the view stats.
The UN needs to be dissolved. The Security Council was the only part that mattered. Now that Russia and China are so adversarial to the West and their neighbors, nothing of merit will come out of it.
I would tend to agree with you in that it needs to be dissolved, but not because of the Russian and Chinese positions. The Western nations have made the UN their private “policy enforcer” for too many years. You think Russia and China blocking actions against Iran or Syria are “bad mojo,” but have no problem with the US constantly blocking action against Israel, no matter what it does apparently. I tend to disagree. There is no excuse for allowing what is happening in Gaza, there is no excuse for allowing Israel to indiscriminately bomb its neighbors, there is no excuse for allowing the boarding of vessels in international waters and killing people, and the list continues. Fact is, there is no excuse for half of what the US – such as the destruction of Libya as an example – and Israel are allowed to do, IF the UN mattered, but it only matters when it is in the best interests of the Western powers.
Again, I agree, it deserves to be dissolved as the useless organ that it became.
Terrorists fire rockets into Israel, and send suicide bombers to kill innocent people. There would be no reprisals if there were no aggression. It is unfortunate that the countries where terrorists base their activities are largely victims themselves. There is not an easy answer, but it is not to demonize Israel.
Wow – even Hamas is sick of the UN. Fascinating.
It’s not Israel that is indiscriminately bombing Gaza, it’s Hamas that is indiscriminately bombing Israel.
Yea – how DARE Jews actually defend themselves. They should just sit there and just take what the world dishes out.
Oh, wait a minute, they already tried that once…
Ok. Let me get this straight. Russian position is: let’s invade the Crimea, rest of Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnia? You think they could give back the Japanese islands they have occupied since 1945? Perhaps the Chinese could stay out of the South China Sea? Perhaps they can stop interfering in the African continent, buy up all the farm land and throw the sharecroppers off? Want me to continue?
Whom is indiscriminately bombing whom there?
Perhaps you should get your facts straight about this.
Any organization that attempts to force a dictatorial, unelected government on the world (see the Copenhagen Draft Agreement) should be dissolved and its officers placed under arrest.
“its officers placed under arrest”
More efficient to just shoot them.
The UN needs to be de-funded by, and evicted from, The West.
Why did he mention Canada and Germany? Afraid to admit to western countries?
Why didn’t he mention . . . . [typo]
Don’t forget Australia.
The old pyschic method of communication how else would climate alarmism be discussed among world leaders. Just perfect for the pseudo-science of climate!
More like pyscho IMHO 😉
The missing countries will send the Second Under Secretary for Secretarying Under to the Conferences. So no one need feel neglected.
The climate obsession reaches self-parody.
I saw the link on Drudge. Good one, Anthony.
Perhaps like Mr Obama, Mr Ban has ‘got a pen’ and has ‘got a phone.’
Eighteen months ago it would have been attended by Emperor Rudd of Australia with hundreds of environmental lickspittles in tow.
Tim Flannery would have left his seaside villa and attended with the Rudd Govt paying.
Maybe the UN will pay for his first class ticket.
Poor old Timbo is having to rattle the tin now-a-days to make ends meet. Still banging on about sea level rise.
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/
yeah, and now, the sheeple who still follow flim flam will foot the bill i’d be betting.
oh woe. woe Aus must have a representative there give give save the planet sob sob.
hes a nobody and doesnt like it one bit:-)
One way would be useful; especially if you keep his passport.
Lickspittles? It’s a bit strong. Consider toning it down to people who consider boot polish to be a food group.
Heh – apparently in the crush of comments my first comment on that page was mistaken for serious. It’s the first time I think I ever would have benefited from the use of the “/sarc” tag…
For the record, any time I say “Maybe it’s worse than we thought”, I’m definitely mocking warmists. It’s not possible for anything to be “worse” than they say… short of the Earth’s core becoming 2 million degrees…
I got it, CT
🙂
WUWT is were I learned that my prime minister ( of Canada ) was not attending. WUWT is Awesome.
Wow 🙂
“resilience” will be on show…
18 Sept: Guardian: Fiona Harvey: Ban Ki-moon to join climate change march
“I will link arms with those marching for climate action,” Ban told a press conference. “We stand with them on the right side of this key issue for our common future.”…
His unusual step – high-ranking officials do not normally attend mass public protests – is a measure of how high the stakes are at a summit next week of world leaders, called by the secretary-general, to discuss climate change…
Ban said: “Action on climate change is urgent. The more we delay, the more we will pay in lives and in money. The climate summit that I am convening one week from today has two goals: to mobilise political will for a universal and meaningful climate agreement next year in Paris; and second to generate ambitious steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/17/ban-ki-moon-climate-change-march
18 Sept: National Journal: Podesta: Obama to Tout Global Warming ‘Resilience’ at U.N. Climate Summit
“He’ll be making a number of announcements that put America squarely on the side of building global resilience, trying to provide public goods to countries around the world, some of whom can’t afford to build the kind of resilient tools they need to anticipate the effects of climate change,” John Podesta said Wednesday…
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/podesta-obama-to-tout-global-warming-resilience-at-un-climate-summit-20140917
Next 7 days for Manhattan:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.75916894129472&lon=-73.97833858515679&site=all&smap=1#.VBunImd0zIU
But, this could make it interesting;
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It would be true poetic justice.
“I suggest, Mr Moon, that you and President Obama are currently experiencing a sample of that “other means of communication” you mentioned.”
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Priceless!
Quote of the week!
+1
Ban Ki Moon is the ultimate hand puppet. He never expresses an original thought; he is simply a parrot for those who installed him. When his UN term is up, watch the behind-the-scenes jockeying to put a successor puppet in his place.
Come 2017, there will be an unemployed Puppet, looking for someone to subsidize his golf game. . .
/Mr Lynn
I’ve always thought that from the start, and egged on by the premature Nobel Peace Prize, Mr Obama had his eyes on the position of UN Gen Secry. It fits his ideology of “no nation is more important than any other”, anti-colonialism, global “social justice”, “one world” government actions (e.g. Agenda 21). It is also consistent with his domestic and foreign policy actions (Climate Change and requiring coalitions before acting, and don’t forget “Leading From Behind”).
As noted above, it is a position where you don’t have to be “responsible” for anything of substance; no consequences. Rhetoric is king in that job. Unlimited travel, adulation …..
What else could he do, with no experience running anything (capably). He can’t just play golf (Oh, wait…).
If he succeeds, watch out. Un-elected bureaucracy on steroids!
No problem, Im sure he has a few friends who can model what would have happened if the relevant countries were actually going to attend.
So the reverend Moon and his religious zealots are starting to sense the laughter and disdain for their religion.
Wonderfully descriptive phrase “environmental lickspittles”. Hark, is that the rain that was never to fall? Nay me Lord, just the dribbling of climate lickspittles!
I believe “lick-spittle” was a favourite of “Pravda”, as in “lick-spittle lackeys of the capitalist running dogs”
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The UN is the vehicle that many hope will lead to world government. It is already much stronger than most liberty loving people would like to see. The CO2 scaremongering is part of the drive to stampeded people into allowing loony bureaucrats to rule them and force them into poverty. Any setback (no matter how small) to the agenda of the control freaks is welcome.
I do notice that I read less and less about the magic molecule CO2. Seems that mankind’s activities in general is more the target now — just as we now hear “climate change” so much rather than “global warming”. The scare tactics continue to morph into other scenarios much like a virus will mutate.
Its a coalition of the willing, except that not many are actually willing any more. But whose bright idea was it to install someone like Moon who can barely be understood when he speaks, he is like one of those old caricatures you used to see on comedy shows before PC fascism came along. The UN needed a clear and believable communicator who could deliver the ugly and evil new world order propaganda to the masses, what they got was an incoherent mumbler with all the gravitas of a Waiter in a one star hotel.