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How will Climategate affect Earth Hour?

Posted by Joanne on 8 March 2010, 11:05 am

H/T to Bruce for reminding us that Earth Hour will be rearing its ugly little head once again on March 27, in spite of the Climategate revelations and all the other scandals that followed it.

I see the WWF is still demanding action on climate change.

How about if we push back and demand some honesty?

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The New York Times Fights Back Against the Climate-gate Scandal – Myron Ebell, Fox News:

…“Climate scientists are paid to do climate science,” said Gavin A. Schmidt…. “Their job is not persuading the public.”

If only that were so, even in the case of Dr. Schmidt. True, his salary is paid by American taxpayers, but it is almost certainly the case that over the past few years he has been spending a good part of his time during office hours and using government equipment to produce political propaganda for RealClimate.org, a web site run by Schmidt and Michael E. Mann. RealClimate.org has received help from Fenton Communications, the key P.R. firm for the Soros-funded left.
Thus Broder portrays Schmidt as just a scientist trying to be left alone to do his job, but in fact Schmidt is primarily a moderately-skilled political operative working to promote global warming alarmism. Here is Broder quoting Schmidt again:

“What is new is this paranoia combined with a spell of cold weather in the U. S. and the ‘climategate’ release. It’s a perfect storm that has allowed the nutters to control the agenda.”

“Nutters” is English (and Schmidt is English) slang equivalent to “nut” in the sense of crazy person. Well, Schmidt should know—his boss is the director of GISS, Dr. James E. Hansen. Hansen is widely considered to be the leading scientific promoter of global warming alarmism and as such is a highly political animal. He is also increasingly kooky and extreme…

Global Warming: Gore Vs. Gunter – NP:

…Honey bees aren’t dying off because of global warming; they’re dying off because of a tiny mite that has plagued hives for decades. Polar bears aren’t dying off for lack of food to eat or ice to cling to. They aren’t dying off, period.

And the devastating melt of Arctic ice in 2007? Turns out the ice did not melt “in place.” According to a recent study by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, wind pushed more Arctic ice than usual out into the Atlantic that year where it melted simply because that ocean is warmer than its Arctic counterpart. Not because the Arctic is warming rapidly.

Could this wind shunting have been caused by global warming? Sure. But it just as easily could have other, natural causes.

The point is, there is no consensus on climate science. There never has been. By flinging names like “deniers” at skeptical scientists, barring them from IPCC deliberations, preventing them from seeing the warmers’ raw climate data and keeping them from having their papers peer reviewed, activists like Mr. Gore and the scientists who agree with them have created an artificial consensus.

While that may be good politics, it is very bad science.

Filed under AGW, Al Gore, Big Environment, Big Green, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Your tax-dollars, climate change, environmentalists.

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But can we wish away Al Gore?

Posted by Joanne on 2 March 2010, 7:54 am

There is no shortage of point-by-point criticisms of Al Gore’s New York Times Op-ed, We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change.

My first thought after reading his steaming pile of rhetoric was why did he set himself up for the inevitable drudging? Or does he actually believe that we’re that stupid?

And how is it that the alarmists can continue to hold him up as some kind of prophet and still keep a straight face while they warn us all of impending doom?

Anyway, here are some of the better fisks that I’ve come across. If you find more please let share them in comments. Thanks.

Al’s latest global-warming whopper – Alan Reynolds, New York Post

Al Gore’s weird, disconnected op-ed on climate change – Rick Moran, American Thinker

Al Gore Comes Out of Hiding and Gets a Fisking – Bluegrass Pundit

EXCLUSIVE: Inhofe Blasts Gore Over Climategate – Connie Hair, Human Events

But in response to Gore’s statement that “what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption”, Bill Kristol said it most succinctly:

“Redemption comes from God, not Gore.”

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More inconvenient news for the global warming alarmists:

UN’s climate link to hurricanes in doubt – Times Online

Cyclone climate link rejected – The Australian

El Nino killed Costa Rican toad, not global warming – Oneindia

British scientist in climate row admits ‘awful’ emails – Sydney Morning Herald

‘The Acceleration of Disbelief,’ Starring ‘Floor Mat’ Al Gore - Big Journalism (this is a must-read)

So is this one: Climategate: ‘a lot of common data’ – Phil Jones exposes AGW dominoes to Commons committee – Gerald Warner, Telegraph:

...And oh, yes – one further interesting fact emerged from yesterday’s Select Committee grilling. Professor Edward Acton, the Vice-Chancellor of the “University” of East Anglia, now thinks more money should be devoted to researching the Mediaeval Warm Period. So apparently it exists after all.

Who knew?

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Local ‘Green Energy’ issues:

Wind farm faces opposition – Guelph Mercury article via Windaction

Ontario power risk – Parker Gallant, Full Comment

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Wednesday Update

Welcome Jack’s Newswatch readers! And please check out Crux of the Matter – Trust Conservative gov’t timetable to refute AGW.

Peter Foster: Climate snow jobs – FP Comment

Wind power the worst kind of mirage – Henk Tennekes, FP

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Friday – Saturday Update

Waiting to hear ‘we’re sorry’ – John Robson, Ottawa Citizen

Blowing away taxpayers – Michael Trebilcock, Financial Post

Filed under AGW, Al Gore, Arrogance, Big Environment, Big Green, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Copenhagen, Dalton McGuinty, Follow the money, Global Warming, Ontario economy, Propaganda, Science/tech, UN, Wind farms, Your tax-dollars, climate change, economy, environment, environmentalists, scandals.

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Bernier rather than Charest? Mais oui!

Posted by Joanne on 26 February 2010, 8:16 am

Both Chantel Hebert and Susan Riley ponder the possibilities of a Maxime Bernier leadership bid after his awesome opinion letter in La Presse. But Riley lost me at “oil patch foot-draggers”, so we will shift our focus to Hebert’s more objective column.

Chantel’s theory is that Bernier is indeed setting the stage for a future leadership bid, and that Conservative party members would prefer Bernier to Jean Charest as the Quebec candidate. Well I can tell you that based on the readership of this blog, Charest doesn’t stand a chance in h-e-double hockeysticks.

Furthermore, Hebert suggests that the Progressive Conservative MPs may be out of touch with the larger grassroot movement, and therefore Jim Prentice may be vulnerable against a potential leader who appeals more to the base. That certainly is a possibility. Prentice is a gifted politician but I’m not sure how much the base can identify with him:

...On Wednesday, Environment Minister Jim Prentice scrambled to distance himself from Bernier’s double-edged praise of his climate-change approach.
And the zero-growth policy the ex-minister advocated in his Calgary speech is unlikely to find its way into Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s upcoming budget.

But then auditioning for a return to the cabinet table is not what this is really about.

Bernier’s long game has always been to go after the top job.

These days, he is making the most of his unsolicited freedom from cabinet solidarity to stake out ideological ground that could stand him in good stead with the rank-and-file Conservatives who will select the next party leader…

Previously I haven’t wanted to indulge in these kinds of discussions because I’ve felt it was more the opposition and media trying to stir the pot and insert some divisions into the party. However I can tell you that the patience of the grassroots loyalty has been sorely tested in recent months and there are a few issues that will be deal-breakers if our concerns aren’t acknowledged. Less government interference, more fiscal restraint and a commonsense environmental approach are all dear to the hearts of my most of my readers and by extension a large segment of the party supporters.

And what are the alternatives if the CPC veers much further to the left?

I suppose we would have to sit home during the next election. Pity.

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“It’s not debatable.”

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, CPC, Canadian Government, Canadian economy, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Global Warming, Jean Charest, Quebec, Voter cynicism, climate change, environment, grassroots power.

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The rats are jumping ship

Posted by Joanne on 18 February 2010, 8:04 am

Yvo de Boer has just announced his intentions to resign as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Can you spell f-a-i-l-u-r-e?

Meanwhile we learn via Terence Corcoran and Lawrence Solomon that ‘at least five major U.S. corporations have pulled out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership‘. Yet several of our Canadian provinces are still hanging onto the cap-trade scheme.

Why is it taking our Canadian political leaders so long to catch up on the latest news? Why are they not at least acknowledging the mistakes?

As Lorrie Goldstein says today, We’re drowning in climate stupidity.

Demand answers, Canada!

Do not go placidly into that carbon trade cesspool.

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Cap-and-Trade Cracks Up – Myron Ebell, Fox News:

…So cap-and-trade is dead. But other piecemeal energy-rationing policies are still very much alive. The Environmental Protection Agency is going ahead with regulating greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is working with Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) on a “compromise” package that can gain bipartisan support. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has passed a renewable electricity requirement and new building energy efficiency standards out of his committee.

And big corporations are still circling the trough. By my count, U.S. CAP still has twenty-three corporate members plus eight environmental pressure groups that front for big business. And of course, BP America, Conoco Phillips, Caterpillar, and many other companies that don’t belong to U.S. CAP still hope to make money off the “right” sort of policies to raise energy prices.

The good news is that public opinion has turned decisively against global warming alarmism and energy-rationing. People have figured out that they, not big business special interests, will end up paying the bills when energy prices, in President Obama’s elegant formulation, “necessarily skyrocket.” And, guess what? In the November elections, the American people will have a lot more votes than James Rogers of Duke Energy or Jim Mulva of Conoco Phillips.

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In case you missed it:

Many thanks to Frmgrl and Bec for the tip about Dave Rutherford’s interview with Jim Prentice yesterday. Definitely worth a listen. [Click on Wednesday Feb. 17 at 11 am]

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Friday Update

Denial not just for the deniers – Peter Foster, Financial Post

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Canadian economy, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Copenhagen, Flicking politicians, Follow the money, Goldstein, Lemmings love taxes, Science/tech, UN, Your tax-dollars, climate change, environment, environmentalists, grassroots power.

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Paying a big price for guilt

Posted by Joanne on 17 February 2010, 7:33 am

Lorne Gunter weighs in on Phil Jones’ recent revelations – They’re finally admitting the science isn’t settled. (National Post)

…Haven’t we had it drummed into us ceaselessly that the past decade has been the warmest ever recorded? Prof. Jones’s admission to the BBC then is very significant.

If, instead of bleating for the past 15 years that the sky was about to burst into flame, major climate scientists had been saying the Earth was warming, but not to a statistically significant level, would you have been as worried as you were? Would there have been a Kyoto accord? A Copenhagen summit? Carbon trading schemes? Green taxes? Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth? David Suzuki’s call to throw politicians into jail if they fail to try to stop climate change?

In his BBC interview, Prof. Jones also said that the Middle Ages may have been warmer than now, another key concession given that the CRU has for years denied the existence of the Medieval Warm Period. If the MWP can be made to disappear, then the warming that has occurred since 1900 would be abnormal and something to fear. But if there was an even greater warming 1,000 years ago — before SUVs, coal-fired plants and industrial carbon emissions — then the current warming might be part of a nature cycle and therefore unremarkable…

And yet we see that our Canadian politicians are apparently still clinging to the ’settled science’ beliefs – at our expense.

Chris Vander Doelen said it so well in the Windsor Star:

…It may have been the most brilliant business plan ever conceived: Identify an element emitted by nearly every human activity there is.

Convince the easily fooled they are committing a sin against the environment by emitting said element, carbon; offer to provide absolution through taxation.

Curiously, only the citizens of developed nations are guilty of this new original sin. Citizens of India, most communist countries and most “developing” dictatorships were to be exempt from seeking absolution for their carbon crimes.

To me, the most important lesson to be learned from climate change and its believers isn’t about the environment at all. It’s about mob behaviour and the politics of fear…

So what’s it going to take to get the news out to Canadian taxpayers that the absolution we seek may not have a measurable impact on a perceived calamity that even the fear-mongerers can’t agree on?

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Dalton McGuinty’s back and spending – Christina Blizzard (Sun):

…McGuinty says he wants to make sure the federal government supports green energy initiatives.

“As it (the feds) decides to lend support, for example, to carbon capture in Western Canada, we are asking that it provide comparable levels of support to the green energy revolution taking place here in our province.”

Oh, great. Green energy is the next bright bauble the Liberals are holding up to divert our attention from their out-of-control spending and the 8% tax hike we’ll see on everything when the HST kicks in.

The Green Energy Act will push up the price of electricity. It isn’t just consumers who’ll pay through the nose. Our beleaguered industrial sector that relies on cheap juice to be competitive will take another hit. But the more it costs to turn on the lights, the more money the goverment will rake in to its coffers through the HST. It’s all win-win for them…

Where is the outrage, Ontario?

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[Very important point around the two minute mark.]

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Update:

Olympic carbon offsets for dummies – Sun editorial

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Dalton McGuinty, David Suzuki, Flicking politicians, Global Warming, Global governance, HST, Kyoto, Michael Ignatieff, Propaganda, Stephen Harper, Your tax-dollars, climate change, economy, environment, environmentalists, grassroots power.

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Where exactly does the PM stand on AGW?

Posted by Joanne on 29 January 2010, 3:41 pm

I think Springer’s really nailed the conundrum that PM Stephen Harper finds himself in right now concerning Anthropogenic (man made) global warming.

If we are perfectly honest here, many of us at BLY are finding the Prime Minister’s stance on climate change and global warming somewhat disconcerting – especially in light of recent events that are increasingly calling the scientific credibility into question.

Neil D made an interesting observation in the previous post and I think it reflects the opinion of many Conservative supporters:

This is the problem I’m having… we all know he doesn’t believe the planet is warming, he’s called it a wealth-transfer scam in the past, yet he continues on like he does believe although not whole-heartedly leaving himself open to all kinds of criticisms from so many different people. I know he’s not being totally honest and you know he’s not being totally honest and he knows he’s not being totally honest but what I’m personally looking for in a leader, and especially in the Prime Minister of Canada,is someone who IS honest! Someone willing to call a spade a spade and then deal with the fallout.

Do you really think the Libs, Dippers and Greens (or the Bloc) will think any less of him?
He doesn’t have to come out and say that global warming is a scam but the very least he could do is question the science and ask for a full debate. That’s not too much to ask for.

But as Springer and Hunter point out, trying to find a middle, rational ground is difficult for PM Harper in a media environment where even the faintest suspicion of skepticism is cause for a tarring and feathering by CTV, CBC and the opposition leaders.

But wouldn’t we respect a leader more who follows the actual science and responds accordingly, rather than trying to appease the propagandists simply because the majority of Canadians seem to have swallowed the Green Koolaid without an ounce of healthy skepticism?

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Update:

The federal environment policy is made in Canada, not Washington – Jim Prentice

Swiss jets form wingtip ‘honour guard’ to escort Harper plane out of airspace – Canadian Press (H/T Sammy):

…Security and media on board the PM’s plane were initially shocked by the sudden appearance of fighter jets, but were eventually assured that there was no threat to anyone’s safety.

Rather, it was an “honour guard” sent to escort the prime minister out of Swiss air space, a Harper spokesman explained.

The honour guard escort is rarely deployed, and is considered a heartfelt sign of close ties between Switzerland and Canada, the spokesman said...

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Saturday Update:

The folks predicting climate change apocalypse seem to have fallen curiously mute – Rex Murphy, National Post:

...No one’s really talking about the failure of Copenhagen now because the ostensible threat to humanity was shown to be shrouded in hype. Al Gore and his crew simply don’t have now what we used to call “the face” to deliver another grand and imperiously moralizing lecture to the world and its carbon-consuming innocents after the travesty revealed in Climategate and the clutter of revelations that followed it.

Keeping Canadian students in the dark on climate – Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post:

…At our high schools, climate change is taught as dogma, with Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, a staple (in the U.K., after a high-profile case before the High Court found that An Inconvenient Truth is an error-filled work of propaganda, Gore’s film can no longer be presented as scientifically valid). At our universities, no school dares encourage debate on global warming among its faculty, for fear of repercussions in research funding. By the time students have gone through high school and experienced a year or two of Canadian university, as would have been the case with many in the Munk audience, they almost surely would never have been exposed to the scientific controversy over climate change by their schools, except dismissively. One recent graduate of an Ontario university whom I know, who only discovered the controversy over climate change after receiving her master’s in environmental engineering, feels outrage at being kept in the dark by her school in the area she chose for her career…

And the following are really good links that I don’t have time to follow up on at the moment. Perhaps another blogger or columnist will and then leave a note to that effect? Thanks.

U.N.’s Global Warming Report Under Fresh Attack for Rainforest Claims – Fox News

(Related: The corruption of science – EU Referendum)

Lots more at NewsWatchCanada.

Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen – Times Online

Uh Oh – Pachauri caught out in IPCC 2035 glacier melt issue – Watts up With That

Harper must go! – CJunk. Well I think that’s a tad harsh!

Filed under AGW, Big Environment, Big Green, Canadian economy, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Copenhagen, Global Warming, Kyoto, MSM bias, Media Watch, Propaganda, Science/tech, Stephen Harper, UN.

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Vindication!

Posted by Joanne on 28 January 2010, 9:33 am

Lorrrie Goldstein explains how the global warming skeptics have taken the reasonable approach after all by refusing to swallow the Green Koolaid without serious investigation (Global warmists leaking hot air):

…Warning … warning — the debate over global warming isn’t over and a scientific consensus has not been achieved!

Emergency … emergency — it is no longer possible to smear anyone who questions the politically correct orthodoxy on anthropogenic climate change as a lackey of Big Oil!

( . . . )

…From Tuesday’s National Post:

Headline: “Overhaul UN climate panel, scientist urges”:

“A senior Canadian climate scientist says the United Nations’ panel on global warming has become tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled.

“Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria, says the leadership of the IPCC has allowed it to advocate for action on global warming, rather than serve simply as a neutral science advisory body.

“‘There’s been some dangerous crossing of that line,’ said Weaver … echoing the published sentiments of other top climate scientists in the U.S. and Europe this week.”

BTW where has David Suzuki been hiding out lately anyway?

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Climate sceptics bask in the light as science steers clear of debate – FT.com

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Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, David Suzuki, Global Warming, Goldstein, UN, climate change, environmentalists.

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MSM Mission Statement: Thou shalt not have balance

Posted by Joanne on 10 January 2010, 8:53 am

In some Canadian media it would seem that dissenting opinion is not welcome.

Rumour has it that Rex Murphy’s jump from the Globe to the National Post was precipitated by his very unwelcome musings about Global Warming and Climategate. The Globe editor must have had a lot of complaints from left-wing readers because he apparently wanted to bury Murphy’s column in the less prominent Monday edition.

(And why doesn’t that work when we complain about James Travers to the Star?)

Anyway I’ve been going over Rex Murphy’s opinions on the subject and can’t find anything even remotely dishonest or ‘flat-out wrong’ and yet he is pilloried for “attacking the science of climate change”.

If the Globe rumour turns out to be true, then it is damaging proof of how some media chains try to control and manipulate the message. Objectivity is an illusion.

The attempt to hide the voices of the ‘deniers’ (aka truth-seekers) seems to parallel the efforts at East Anglia to do the same.

As Kate quipped, it’s not a profession – it’s a tribe.

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Update:

Here’s another rare MSM columnist whose opinion I greatly respect – Lorrie Goldstein – Cap & trade ‘corporate welfare’:

…The U.S. is going down the same disastrous road the European Union did five years ago when it created its cap-and-trade market, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It, too, gave away the permits for free. That doomed the ETS’ effectiveness in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, along with another huge blunder EU bureaucrats made by handing out more permits than emissions. (The point of cap-and-trade is to lower the “cap” over time, not raise it.)

I’m no fan of cap-and-trade. The European model is a carnival of corruption, profiteering, speculation and multi-billion-dollar fraud. It’s done nothing to improve the environment while handing undeserved profits to big business and driving up the cost of energy to consumers.

That said, if the U.S. is stupid enough to implement cap-and-trade, and if we’re stupid enough to follow, let’s at least do it in the least stupid way.

The only way cap-and-trade can be effective in reducing emissions, which is the point, is if (a) all carbon permits are auctioned (b) no industry is exempt (also the opposite of what happened in Europe) and (c) the government develops an effective, enforceable mechanism for lowering the cap on emissions.

Will all this hike energy prices for consumers? Absolutely. Big time…

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Tuesday Update:

Great post by Craig Smith at Canadian Conservatives – CBC’s Take on Liberal Prorogation. You won’t want to miss this one!

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Canadian economy, Carbon Shaft, Climategate, Follow the money, Goldstein, MSM bias, Media Watch, U.S. politics, environmentalists.

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Will you continue to be a global warming patsy?

Posted by Joanne on 17 December 2009, 8:52 am

It’s funny how some folks think that being green is ‘the right thing to do’ until they have to pony up for the costs.

A local radio talk show host prides himself on being green. But yesterday when Kevin Gaudet explained that his family would have to pay $3,000 a year under the agreement that is being considered in Copenhagen right now, well let’s just say he seemed to be a bit more circumspect about the whole idea. Gaudet is working hard to educate Canadians on exactly how this scheme will impact our wallets.

And of course all that assumes that the Copenhagen agreement might be about lowering man-made carbon emissions – which is not actually the ultimate goal here.

It’s about money and control.

The more research I do on this subject, the more frightened I become. This is a huge scam and those behind it are pretending to have such altruistic motives. But here is the reality – It’s a massive con game. The public is being manipulated by social pressure and propaganda.

The National Post explains much of this in today’s editorial – The Copenhagen PR Scam:

…Not that there aren’t any Canadians who wouldn’t pay this amount — if what they were buying truly was a cooler, more thermodynaically stable atmosphere. But that isn’t what’s on offer in Copenhagen. Instead, the conference has become a sort of PR exercise, in which cynical Third Worlders try to extract the highest price possible from guilty First Worlders for a symbolic agreement that both sides secretly know will do little except bloat the budgets of poor nations –including dictatorships such as the one that employs Lumumba Stanislaus Dia-Ping…

Read the whole thing. Then check out Lorrie Goldstein’s Cap-and-trade fiasco where Lorrie talks about European carbon trading links to organized crime.

Finally please read the chilling story in Peter Foster’s James Hanson and Mob Rule.

Have you been wondering about all those demonstrations in Copenhagen? Did you think they just happened spontaneously by a bunch of concerned citizens? Then you have been duped.

They’re orchestrated by this guy and designed to embarrass and coerce politicians:

Countdown top COP15 – Global Observatory from Global Observatory on Vimeo.

Foster gives us the background:

…GO was set up by Jose Maria Figueres, a former President of Costa Rica. Exactly what Mr. Figueres has in mind when he talks about “bringing the public into negotiations” is clear from a clip available on YouTube, in which he frankly admits that the key to getting the “right” decisions is using NGOs to assemble mobs to pressure politicians. Mr. Figueres says that he’s not willing to leave the future of his children in the hands of the 1,500 negotiators at Copenhagen, so his plan was to set up a “tent” at the meeting in which there would be scientific experts (He mentions Mr. Hansen). If such scientists declared that, say, Costa Rica was “backtracking,” then GO would get on the phone to select NGOs, who could have a mob outside the presidential palace in 45 minutes. This would result in a call to the country’s environment minister in Copenhagen to change their position.

And lest you think that GO is some fringe group, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, recently said: “The Global Observatory is a useful, timely initiative that can make a difference. We have to back up our words with action. The GO can help create the political space that will inspire, engage and enable leaders from all around the world to take action.”

By mob intimidation…

If Copenhagen fails, breathe a sigh of relief for the moment. But don’t be fooled into thinking they’ve given up.

That will never happen with so many interests involved and so much money at stake.

Stay vigilant. Become informed. Share your knowledge.

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Update:

Springer’s really staying on top of the latest from the Warming industry. Please check out his blog – especially As the old adage says: Follow the money…

White House: ‘Empty’ climate deal worse than no deal at all – National Post

3:45 Update: Roy Green is talking about this editorial right now —-> Cap and Trade in Practice: Wall Street Journal.

How Cap and Trade Plans to Cripple Our Economy – Red State

‘The warm front has passed’ on climate change – Jane Taber.