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.
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;
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=BTV&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0&highlight=off
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.
JFW. Bank-on-it-I’m-a-Moonie is a self deluding, low born cleric of the church of global warming lies. Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest? Apologies to Schama History of Britain p. 142. “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”
The UN was founded after the fall of the axis powers to fight the axis powers.
Then it followed the blueprint of the Fabians “Shape Of Things To Come” (H G Wells spilled the beans in that one, he was a Fabian himself and thought, hey I can make a dime by just publishing the secret plans of my fellas) – trying to achieve military domination of the globe.
JFK in a speech 1961 or so still proposed handing over all nuclear weapons worldwide to the UN.
The military power plan fell apart due to the genocide the UN inflicted upon Katanga in 1961 though. Western supporters were appalled.
The UN agonized for a decade, (completely shriveling in the run up to the 6 day war), then, finally, in 1971, rolled out their new strategy of scaring the world into obedience by means of enviro-pseudoscientific scares, inspired by Silent Spring and the CoR’s Limits To Growth, and had Maurice Strong cart NGO’s to the Stockholm summit and use them as controlled opposition to wip souvereigns into obedience.
Ban Ki-Moon is only the latest executor of that strategy.
“I will link arms with those marching for climate action,” Ban told a press conference. (Grauniad)
I wonder if he’ll link arms with celebrity Leonardo di Caprio, Al Gore, oe perhaps the mild-mannered Quincy Saul, columnist for Truthout, who shared his rallying cries for the mob mustering up for the march in an op ed “Like a Dull Knife” on September 16.
The links I previously posted to this article, as well as to the People’s Climate March were pulled from my previous comment on this gathering. Again, I suggest review of the 1000+ participating organizations in the People’s Climate March, but you’ll have to use your search engine to get to their website, or to 350 org.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/16/obamas-lonely-climate-summit-world-leaders-are-staying-home/
Ah, we wouldn’t censor a link to The People’s Climate March or would we?
Other forms of communication? Australia may have to look into that. We’ve been applying hints with a sledge hammer but it doesn’t seem to be getting through Ban Ki Moonbeam’s thick skull…
Prior to election the Australian PM said “global warming is crap”
After the election he said there would be no more tolerance for “socialism masquerading as environmentalism”
The last Globalist Warbler talk-fest we were forced to attend the Australian delegates lounged around in T-shirts and thongs, gorging on snacks and did nothing other than snigger at the believers.
The new government then sacked the climate council and repealed the carbon tax.
The “renewable” energy target is now being targeted and all new subsidy farming scams are now in doubt.
But the UN kleptocrats still can’t take the hint. The world is no longer their stage and it is time for some sorry players to have their ignoble exits. The rubenesque diva is practising her scales and the buses are warming up.
For every Globalist Warbler the outer darkness now awaits. Given their proven skills at wailing and gnashing of teeth the adjustment should not prove too difficult…
Well done Anthony. Thank you for providing an opportunity for so many to provide their express their frustration with the lack of moral courage shown by so many in Politics, the Academia and the MSM who have supported this unsubstantiated, failed hypothesis of CAGW.
Just a bit disappointed though that Australia wasn’t mentioned with the other countries rejecting this rubbish.
Also, well done to Mark Steyn. Lets hope he has the full measure of success to which he is entitled.
there are “other means of communications, ways and means of having their leadership demonstrated in the United Nations.”
Is this a threat?
While his words imply a threat the UN is only as powerful as those that make it seem powerful. Ban Ki-Moon may have just stepped in his own milk!
So it’s true when they say, “We have ways of making you talk.”
“there are “other means of communications, ways and means of having their leadership demonstrated in the United Nations.”
He must be referring to ’email’. That ban Ki-Moon, he`s so hip.
Twitter – they’ll tweet their leadersip in…
oops – “leadership”, although what I wrote may be more on point..
better latte than never.
More environmentally friendly than attending a word bingo conference too.
no way to email…they’re sexting
vee have ways of making you listen
Well, the message is clear: the fad of wringing your hands and peeing a puddle over climate change is now passe’. Also, our poor hand-puppet of a president is not going to revive the fad and reap benefits in the fall elections. Obama’s humiliation is the price he pays for not being able to see what all of the other chiefs can see: global warming is history.
ah, “hand-wringing puddle-peeing.
I have a new favorite phrase. thanks for the inspiration.
I would be very surprised if Putin turns up. He would not want to give Obama a leg up.
In an opinion piece called “Let’s Reject the ‘Inevitable’” (yeah right inevitable), Mark Bittman in the NY Times mentions this Sunday’s “People’s Climate March” in New York City as being more important than the World Leaders Climate Summit. Since the Climate summit is a dud, this piece seems like an attempt to downplay it.
This is the first I have heard of the “People’s Climate March”, is there any other news on the it?
LOL
Sorry just the term “People’s Climate March”, people marching for the climate sounds absurd. I can see protesting dumping of nucleur waste near your community, or a factory polluting a river in your state, or lack of jobs, but protesting government not changing the climate is only possible in the reality of the insane.
Apparently it will be a good sized march, a friend of mine and Mass Sierra Club officer or whatever is going and said the buses are sold out. A lot of organizations are involved. Of course, there may be a number of people looking for a cheap one-day shopping trip in NYC.
Sadly, the day of the march will be fairly warm, at least it’s being held between cool stretches of weather. There will be some freeze warnings up the next couple of nights in New Hampshire. We may wind up with a good foliage season this year. That’s worth staying home for!
Now it all falls into place: Obama goes to NYC and leads the parade in the vain hope of mobilizing public sentiment for the elections this fall. One problem- no other world leader will be there. Wonder how this will play in the media.
Perhaps it is as simple as nobody really wants to spend time in New York. If the summit were to be held in Las Vegas they probably would have a full house of participants.
In Business, it is called “Don’t call us, we’ll call you”. And I bet they are both waiting by their phones.
Congratulations Mr. Watt! Your work has value.
No question.. And a few more good men, like Steve M, are saving the worlds climate science and climate history from destruction.
Can anyone tell me who or how the UN is financed? I suspect it is the poor bloody taxpayers in the democr
acies, the U. S. A. in particular. David.
iirc, the USA pays 25% (33%?) of its budget. There is no incentive to be frugal.
We borrow the money from China to give to the UN.
“WUWT story from two days ago….went viral” “Visitors:179,742”
Well, as someone once said, ‘Everything is relative’
“Everyone has a different opinion on what classifies as “viral.” Marketers tend to use it in a different way that regular folks do. While regular Internet users might describe a viral piece of content to be something like the Gangnam Style music video, businessmen and marketers might call a simple infographic or discount a viral sensation if it gets shared automatically just a few times.”
http://webtrends.about.com/od/howtoguides/a/Viral-Online.htm
What does it have to say about trolls?
I’d call that mucho viral for the snorefest that is climate change.
Perhaps you can inquire about the number of visitors to SkS or RealClimate (remember them)? or Greg Laden’s site (what’s that URL, I’ve forgotten). Then we can apply “everything is relative.”
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I agree: relative to blogs, the WUWT story went viral.
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Because it matters.
Are the missing countries in the ocean?
The simultaneous “inability” to attend of so many world leaders…. On a matter of such dire world import?
I love the Moon-spin. Rather than admit the leaders have better things to do, he turns it into a “it’s not their fault” moment.
part of the scarcity is likely to be the lame-duck status of O. His rapidly declining popularity all by itself is a huge factor: No one wants to be seen with him.
I’d go but my brother-in-law is in town for the week.
I’ve set up tee times, hair appointments and a manicure.
I hate to miss the meeting but I’m just unable to tear myself away.
Oops, for a minute I thought that post was from President Obama.
Mrs. “Climate Chancelor” Angela Merkel has no time, too. She must save the Euro.
“Ain’t nobody got time for ‘dat!” – Vladimir Putin
I think we should encourage Dumbo and the Far East version of Moonbeam to go play together in their little clubhouse. At least they are out of our hair for a short while being idiots doing idiot things to those of us gassing up our cars to get to work in order to support their little habits and obsessions.
Since there are other means of communication, why not cancel these summits altogether? Has anyone done a formal calculation of the carbon footprint of the thousands of people who arrive at such summits.
More views on WUWT means more people coming out of the fog of propaganda
Perhaps the Australian government could persuade Barry Humphries to send Sir Les Patterson, the charming, diplomatic and abstemious High Representative to the Court of St James…
(For those of an American persuasion who may not have seen this character – I’m sure he’s on Youtube somewhere – just make sure there are no children or elderly relatives of a nervous disposition in the room…)
oh 🙂 ROFLMAO! excellent suggestion.
and on “other means of comms”
well TA made it very clear NO climate crud up for discussion at the G20 in qlkd later this year either
reckon thats crystal clear!
[“qlkd” is Queensland? .mod]
While Sir Les Patterson was designed to appeal to rough house humour types, I recommend the character Sandy Stone for a much more subtle representation of thoughts and emotions from the creative brain of Barry Humphries. Sandy Stone is a can of worms portrayed with brilliance.
“Let them use Teleconferencing.”
Let ’em call the whole thing off.
That’d be better.
Better yet, “Teleconnections”…
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Yeah, in England it involved two finger. In USA I think it is the middle finger only.
According to Ban “…there are “other means of communications, ways and means of having their leadership demonstrated in the United Nations.”
Yeah…not showing up should tell ol’ Ban and the world something.
I’d say the Moon Man might be better advised to tend his housekeeping chores. According to reviews, the U.N.’s monstrous financial management software system is lying in a pile of digital ashes that threatens current peacekeeping operations. What went wrong? Well, they got off to a bad start by naming the system Umoja (that means “unity” in Swahili). Now we have a new definition of “Umoja”: A self-eating melon.
Critical mass meets reality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)
At the Paris Conference, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations all the nations of the world will be bound by a universal ‘binding and irreversible’ agreement on climate change.
OK, so when do we all get to vote?
I nominate Anthony Watts for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council…
First order of business: dissolution of the UN…
Yo, Ban.
When you’ve fixed Africa give me a call. We’ll have lunch in NY and chat.
End the wars, get the people electricity and roads, ensure clean safe potable water and plenty of food and medicines… that shouldn’t take more than 20 years or so.
Don’t forget to call me when you’ve got that done.
Stop bothering me with your lies.
This, of course is the gist of the problem with the UN and the alarmist movement in genera: they spend all this cabbage and energy (jet fuel in particular) on a problem that is not yet understood or even reliably quantified while real problems that cause suffering, disease and human misery are shoved to the side.
Today, Australian Prime Minister Abbott was meeting with aircrew and troops heading for middle east war zones, to assist people threatened by beheading filth of Islamic origins. He interrupted a stay in tents in the bush, coming personally to grips over several days re our aborigine problems.
During the day, unprecedented news broke of a large police roundup of persons of interest in the matter of terrorism. There was intercepted telephone evidence of a plan to take one or more members of the ordinary public – like you or me – and to behead them for onlookers to view.
We in Australia, I suspect a majority of us, are more pleased with our National leader actively participating in events of significance to each of us, rather than carpetbagging at a UN climate change talkfest. There are indications that our PM considers that no important value remains in obediently following the global warming caravan of unproven belief in the Apocalypse.
Thanks for the update, Geoff. We don’t often hear such things in the States. By contrast, we heard a lot when your lady prime minister was actively pursuing green goals, but lately not so much.
Mr. Moon’s “other means of communications, ways and means” probably resemble the Gestapo’s “we have our ways” of getting what they wanted.
I understand Mr Moon is going to be at the 21st September Climate Believer demonstration. His leadership will increase the groups profile, and it should make them behave a little better as they call for a world wide revolution to save us from CO2.
The UN started as a way for the two superpowers to round up gangs of small country supporters in a plausibly deniable way; then it morphed into an extortion scheme by 3rd world countries aiming at 1st world wealth; then it turned into a counter extortion scheme where the 1st world pays off a pack of 3rd world grandees and thugs and pays lip service to populist ideas while doing nothing of any kind at all in practice.
And now the game is just about up, and pretty much everyone is sick of the UN. (except for the gang of apparatchiks in each country who are dedicated to riding that financial gravy train, but just like hobos of an earlier era, they will never get off that train until they’re thrown off.)
Interesting.
At least the hobos didn’t demand a first class ticket for the ride.
\\Ban was asked to comment on the leaders of India, Russia and China not attending his summit on climate change, which said is a “defining issue of our times.”//
He got that right. Those who believe passionately in catastrophic global warming can be defined as big-government, authoritarian fear-mongers who rely on shoddy science and are gluttonous for more power.
Can’t they get Matt Damon or Leonardo di Caprio to show up and dump water all over themselves or something? That would at least get some attention, but I think its been done, and media saturation has taken over.
I dunno, dancing bears or something? Then at least PETA would show up.
With his newly annointed climate title of “UN Messenger of Peace” Leo is bound to bring something Hollywood to Broadway…its the only way this show is going to gain any public attention….can’t help but chuckle about the “un-messenger” monicker.
All very good, but not so fast my friends…
The EPA has a rulemaking in progress whose goal is to cut fossil fuel powered electric generating plants by 30%. The rule is 1,600 pages long and patently unworkable without major impact on cost and reliability. Go to “tellEPA.com” to learn more.
Kudos, Anthony.
Oops, “cut carbon dioxide emissions from…”
Oreskes should be picketing the UN climate meeting in NYC, after all, she stood up at a recent AGU Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco to say the UN’s IPCC is not alarmist enough because it is being influenced to play down real alarming AGW by fossil fuel advocates.
John
I for one consider it a huge deal when you make the head of the UN stop and address you. Congrats Anthony. You know you have made a difference when the bloated leaders can no longer ignore you. I feel that you are on the edge of some major breakthroughs when it comes to the populace understanding reality and it has been you and people like you that have brought them to this point. Keep up the great work.
Cheers
That’s a +1 from me.
Wouldn’t it be good if the climategate 3 password came out to coincide with the UN summit?
~”See how they distance themselves, Kohai?” – Sean Connery, Rising Sun….
I think the Moon Ban (bat?) needs to go to the movies and find out about Asian American culture…
India wil use China Russia”Other forms of communication”? Other than alarmist arm waving?
Thunderous silence is more likely? I sure don’t hear them playing the UN tune.
But all of the USAID, IMF, and World Bank recipient countries are expected to be there on time and saying all the right carbon tax words (as instructed).
The jig will soon be over.
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. They used to fool me until I looked closer.
I’m embarrassed that I used to door-knock for the green party over the issue including assist at election days at the polling station.
Boy did I cop it when I began to question……and at that stage it was just innocently question…
Didn’t see the totalitarian streak until I was subject to it.
I’m far from alone I suspect.
Me too.
I first was just asking “Gee, this looks serious. Can you explain?” questions. Then I started asking “But what about….” and got told in no uncertain terms that I was not to do that… and they said “Are you getting that from WUWT?” (in less polite terms). That was what sent me to WUWT.
I’ve been happy ever since 😉
But many of us have made the journey from the dark side to the light…
That’s the hook.
Appeal to people’s nobler motives (and/or emotions) while hiding their own.
What ever happened to the wonderful underhand diplomatic delights of United Nation leaders such as the likes of Kurt Waldheim.
Ficus insipida
Ban Ki Moon has a fantastic job. He gets paid a ton of money, jets around the world all expenses paid, and his only responsibility seems to be getting in front of cameras to explain that he isn’t as ineffective as he seems. He’ll retire at some point. I understand some guy named Barak is being groomed to replace him.
The leadership demonstrated by silence.
Maybe he’ll just go with whatever computer attendance model furthers his aims?
there have always been other means of communicating – i suspect the physical gathering was as much for publicity as for discussion – if so – the lack of a gathering seems pretty significant
Will there be a selfy at this funeral?
Yes, and it will be covered on CNN every 8 minutes, 24/7 for a month of indignation.
The B.R.I.C.S hint?
Is Brazil the black sheep to Russia, India and China. Followed by South Africa?
After all, Brazil has cut down half the rain forests and South Africa has culled half the farmers.
I expect that in a few years the revised attendance list will clearly show that all of the world leaders were there.
From the Article,
is Pachauri the same kind of Nobel laureate as Michael Mann by any chance,
Yes he is.
4 or 5 years ago Anthony Watts and WUWT was/were a name not to be spoken per the advocates of the “cause”.
Times have changed.
There certainly are more pressing problems. Although climate activists will argue, as I heard on the BBC yesterday, what good is finding a cure for ebola if climate change will surely kill you sooner.
Hey, U.N.: Climate change and population are related
http://grist.org/climate-energy/hey-u-n-climate-change-and-population-are-related/
Here’s their official list of Speakers for the Grand Opening of the latest Ki-MoonFest:
What is it they do not understand about the Goracle’s total lack of credibility, eh?! But, I digress … Apparently there will be three concurrent sessions of “National Action and Ambition Announcements” as well as other stuff throughout the day and the Closing Ceremony speakers will be:
[Source: http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/list-speakers/%5D
And in case you were wondering (considering that this is a “by invitation only” confab) how you might “participate”:
[Source: http://www.un.org/climatechange/take-action/%5D
So, in answer to those who were wondering about KI-Moon’s claim that absent leaders could still “participate”, perhaps they’ll do so via twitter 😉
Amazing, eh?!
P.S. If you’re not totally convinced about “why you should care about climate change” then don’t miss the 1-2 minute videos from their 18 designated hitters:
[Source: http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/2014/06/why-should-you-care-about-climate-change-2/%5D
** one of whom is WMO head honcho, Michel <There. Is. No. Pause> Jarraud
Sigh … drat there’s those mysterious “%5D”‘s again messing up my links. Memo to self: when pasting links within “[square brackets]” try leaving a space between end of link and “]” … In the meantime, let me try to get rid of ’em. Three links above should be:
http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/list-speakers/
http://www.un.org/climatechange/take-action/
http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/2014/06/why-should-you-care-about-climate-change-2/
Just for correctness,
“I suggest, Mr Moon, that you and President Obama are currently experiencing a sample of that “other means of communication” you mentioned.”
It would be Mr. Ban.
Korean’s often list their family name first.
Moonban it is then. Close enough to Moonbeam, Korean style.
Seychelles President James Michel WILL be joining the party. I am sure there are those here who could help bring him up to speed on the current climate science. hERE IS the contact form: http://www.statehouse.gov.sc/static.php?content_id=24
Just asked him why he’s building so many airports…….
It might be a very rational and far-sighted plan to be able to evacuate the islands when they become inundated…..but I have a question mark in my head about that…
If we cut all power, carbon based gas fuels, oils from all UN facilities and refuse to sell carbon-based products to any UN or diplomatic licensed vehicles, planes, etc., including refusing to let them ride in any public conveyance without paying a “carbon tax” of $US500 to the driver, all this will stop, overnight….
The UN is telling the undeveloped world that it cannot industrialize and consume. That amounts to skewering the UNs powerbase.
Arguments that the developed world will pay for mitigation and cut emissions further are implausable and untennable.
The show is over and it is going to start getting ugly. … Fueled by green hysteria