We met to talk about CO2, and got a forest agreement –
Eric Worrall writes:
Now that its all over, the climate spinners are already hard at work, desperately trying to reframe the New York climate shambles as a win for the environment.
According to “The Australian”, a major Aussie daily newspaper;
“Yet this year’s summit seemed different. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon brought together heads of state, NGOs and business leaders from major global companies such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and Asia Pulp & Paper to sign a declaration to safeguard the world’s forests. … The declaration is a commitment to act, not just to speak. Action on this scale will, though, require collaboration on an unprecedented level. A crucial phrase in the New York Declaration is: “We commit to doing our part to achieve the following outcomes in partnership.”
However, a declaration to save forests is truly an empty, painless piece of spin. Forests are already recovering worldwide, thanks to globalisation, cheap energy and economic development. In a mirror of our own economic history, large scale urbanisation of countries such as Brazil and Panama, driven by the creation of new jobs in the cities, is luring the younger generation to abandon subsistence farms hacked out of the jungle.
The abandoned farms, contrary to green propaganda, very quickly revert back to a state almost indistinguishable from the original virgin forest.
In fact, the only places where forests are not recovering, are places where perverse incentives are encouraging an increase in agriculture.
One of the biggest of these perverse incentives is biofuel subsidies, which are motivating global corporations to clear fell large plots of tropical forest, to make way for palm oil plantations.
http://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/illegal-palm-oil-plantations-threaten-protected-forests
Stepping back from the forest non issue, there is another aspect of the NY climate conference spin which I find disturbing – the continuous emphasis on the need for “widespread collaboration” and “unprecedented cooperation”. Every time I see a reference to how everyone has to allegedly strive to sacrifice their own interests, and work together for a common eco-goal, to save the world, I remember something the famous author Terry Pratchett once said;
“Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
Thankfully, for now at least, people appear to be following Pratchett’s sage advice.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/what-was-actually-agreed-at-the-ny-climate-conference-of-2014/
Pointman
In other words, it was another bang the drum event where the weirdos are carefully kept out of the brave march photos and summary. We now return you to your daily PR spin.
On the subject of the hypocrisy of some of the Climate marchers….
The Northwest Passage 2014 blog has this post yesterday:
Build a new $500K yacht then motorsail 8,000 miles in 4 months to the Arctic – CAUGHT MARCHING FOR CLEAN ENERGY – PRICELESS DOUBLE SPEAK BS
Londoners (Jimmy Cornell) Turn Out In Force For the Climate [London March]
It looks like a deal is not necessary at the Paris conference afterall. Could it be that they know there will be no binding deal?
John Kerry will do anything to sign something. It is to be his legacy.
It will be shadows and charades. But it will be something he can sign, throw over the wall to EPA and then resign for it won’t have a prayer in Congress.
I can site a case here in Oz where vegetation regrowth was cleared under a major transmission line to prevent the likelihood of bushfires caused by regrowth trees coming in to contact with 330kV overhead lines. The opposition with the help of the Greens turned this into an absolute bun fight and a tragic waste of tax payers money in laying down straw compost and planting non local tree species for several kilometers. Experience has always shown that mother nature is very good at restoring vegetation very quickly to it’s former state.
“New York climate shambles ” . . . Ya gotta love it. (You know, New York, that climate capitol of the world, as everybody knows…)
Next headline:
More non-perfect weather blamed on CO2!” Read all about it!
Collaboration and cooperation don’t concern me nearly as much as their new narrative. We have a film from 10 10 that shows climate skeptics and children being blown up for expressing doubts, a play in Australia which advocates the killing of deniers, a cartoon in the New York Times showing how to use an icicle to kill a denier without leaving evidence behind and a well known politician calling for “rational thinkers” to imprison deniers with “the other war criminals!” Don’t forget the two professors at SJSU who were shown preparing to burn climate books.
These people have serious psychological issues. There’s nothing amusing about showing children being blown up for refusing to conform. The very idea of burning books should appall any “rational thinker”
Zealots are notorious for doing extreme things when their core beliefs are challenged. The more desperate their situation becomes, the greater the threat to their beliefs, the more likely they are to lash out.
My boundless gratitude to all the contributors on this most admirable site. Could I encourage you to post on the Guardian site now and again. I post as Antagonista on the Australian version and much amusement is to had poking fun at imbeciles. Come on now, let’s have some fun with this before it fizzles out.