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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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The debate is NOT over

Posted by Joanne on 15 February 2010, 10:06 am

Yesterday saw two huge news stories but you’ll only hear one from most of Canadian MSM. And make no mistake. Alexandre Bilodeau’s historic Olympic achievement is certainly worth celebrating.

But another major event may be in danger of slipping under the radar unless we force it to the forefront - Professor Phil Jones is now backtracking on previously-held dogma about global warming and climate change. One wonders what fellow High Priest Al Gore is thinking right now. In fact, where is he? Hiding in a snow drift somewhere on the east coast?

In any case, Tim Ball was on the Roy Green show yesterday for a brief chat on the significance of all this [click on Sunday Feb. 14 at 2 pm and fastforward to the last 10 minutes]. Roy asked Tim if ‘this thing is totally unraveling right now?’ and Tim answered ‘completely’ and the question is now ‘how long is it going to take for the politicians to realize it?’ They both agreed that the pols would be ‘breaking their ankles jumping off the bandwagon’, but they have a problem having already committed so much money to it.

Tim Ball reiterated that opinion in his column in CFP – IPCC Corruption Included Ignoring Facts and Science:

Watch the Richter Scale as Politicians Jump Off the IPCC Wagon

Jones only concedes some points but they are enough from the high priest of the CRU and IPCC to completely destroy its credibility. What will the sycophants and exploiters like Gore and the Mainstream Media do now? What about politicians who based positions and policy on environment and energy on the IPCC? What about the massive scams of Cap And Trade? What about the extreme environmental groups who have bullied and preached from the moral high ground? What about the scientists who took vehement positions without understanding? It is a very sad day for science, the people and the world.

Well I hope that politicians wake up but I fear they’ll only do the right thing once the public is made aware of the inconsistencies and contradictions. And that will only happen once the media decides to cover the stories or if ordinary citizens start taking up the fight for truth.

As Adrian MacNair brilliantly pointed out, the pols are only going to do what’s popular:

…Don’t expect our politicians to drop everything either. “Conservative” Environment Minister Jim Prentice is still sending Canada’s industry on a suicide pact with the United States’ own Obamachange legislation, and the province of British Columbia still has a carbon tax on fuel that isn’t making the unemployment rate any better right now. They don’t care. They still believe utterly that the public believes utterly in the science behind boiling pots of frogs and hockey stick graphs.

You can’t really blame them. They’re politicians. If Canadians believed that the world faced the grave danger of alien abduction and medical probing, you can bet the government would install some kind of alien-abduction and probing prophylaxis system that would make us feel better. Just like we do when we strip for the peek-a-boo cameras at the airport…

Meanwhile, expect to see some media outlets continue to stick tenaciously to the old party line until media consumers and ordinary citizens start demanding the truth.

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Update:

Al Gore sticks his nose out of the ground – Al Gore sticks to his guns, says ‘climate crisis is unfolding before our eyes’ – Washington Times

Is Global Warming Dead? – Blake D. Dvorak at Chicago Now:

…All of which leads the Post’s Dana Milbank, no friend of conservatives or Republicans, to write in his column that all that talk about more frequent and worse hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts because of global warming was about as scientifically valid as the recent babble that record-breaking snow storms in DC disprove global warming. “Argument-by-anecdote isn’t working,” he says. Only too true and it’s about time someone not on the right had the courage to say it.

But Milbank takes his column further. Noting recent revelations and contradictions in the science, he writes: “The science is overwhelming — but not definitive.” There was a time when such blasphemy would earn Milbank the title of “denier.” But that time is swiftly passing and there’s beginning to be a general retreat from the global warming crowd on all the doomsday scenarios and “we have X number of years to save Earth” talk. Milbank notes that even Al Gore’s outfit is switching from TV ads about climate change to the importance of green energy…

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Tuesday Update

Lots of great links out there. Too many to keep up with really.

Follow the money: BBC exposed in biggest climate racket on planet – Climategate

IPCC scaremongering is destroying its credibility – Bjorn Lomborg

Less horror and Gore, more honest debate – Paul Schneidereit, Chronicle Herald

And this is a blockbuster of a column – Climate: Politics of fear by Chris Vander Doelen of the Windsor Star:

…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.

The global warming cult came so close to taking over the free world because it mixed the fear-mongering and moral superiority of old-time religion with the central control of classic Marxism.

The brilliant mix of do-gooderism and totalitarianism explains why those huddling under the climate umbrella are an unlikely coalition of church ladies, the well-meaning, union hardliners and college-age anarchists.

The people who pushed global warming didn’t want to save the planet — they wanted to enslave it through taxation.

The money — trillions of dollars — would have been redistributed by shadowy forces at the United Nations to those with favoured political systems. Capitalism, of course, would have been dead in a matter of decades. Liberty would have disappeared along with free markets…

Filed under AGW, Big Environment, Big Green, Climategate, Copenhagen, Global governance, MSM bias, Media Watch, Science/tech, UN, Your tax-dollars, climate change, grassroots power.

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Why is the TRUTH so Inconvenient?

Posted by Joanne on 31 January 2010, 10:13 am

The global warming debate has really been heating up lately with the two opposing sides becoming increasingly fractious and combative.

Credibility in the Warming side is steadily breaking down and yet the proponents cling to their belief that the overall science is still sound. Most politicians are afraid to confront the new reality and seek refuge in the propaganda without giving more than a passing thought to the remote possibility that we may not be hearing the truth. In some cases they are even declaring war on the ‘skeptics’.

Our Conservative Government seems to be seeking the mushy middle on this subject but still succeeds in getting reamed from both extremes of the AGW divide.

Frankly, I believe it is up to columnists like Lorrie Goldstein, Rex Murphy, Lawrence Solomon and Terence Corcoran to try to get the truth out there (with the assistance of bloggers and other social media, letters to the editor, etc.). We need to communicate to the public that the science is at the very least somewhat questionable – that it is not settled - and maybe we shouldn’t even be calling it ‘science’ but rather intensive lobbying by various self-interested groups. But the Warmists are hurting their own cause with the coverups and screwups.

Let’s just hope that the public starts tuning into the controversy as well.

I’ve heard the Warmist argument that we can’t afford not to act and so forth. Well if the science is indeed unsettled then we are in for a needless assault on our economy which is just starting to recover. At the very least why not try to get more information and plan to take action when the economy is stronger? And what about the unforeseen side-effects of the mindless accelerated push for green energy?

Let’s pressure our politicians, scientists and the media for all the facts – not just the ones that conveniently support their arguments and personal agenda.

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Update from the Department of Irony:

Now climate-change scientists say ozone hole stops global warming – M4GW

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More fallout from in-your-face political know-it-alls and lobbyists:

Lawn companies seek charges against minister, activists – CTV (H/T Musings of the Techical Bard):

…The activists worked with the Ontario government to ban pesticides using alleged false and misleading information to undermine the industry, Lowes said.

The documents filed on Tuesday allege the activists knowingly presented false and misleading information about the health and environmental risks associated with pesticide products, knowingly misled the public, lawn care industry and government officials, and impeded access to Health Canada approved pesticide products through fraudulent means.

The legal manoeuvre, if endorsed by the court, could result in federal charges being filed against Gerretsen and others by police or by a private individual, and there may be sufficient grounds for a criminal charge of fraud, Lowes said…

Will Dalton use our tax dollars to try and buy his way out of this one too? It worked in Caledonia after all.

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Update

How Many Climategates Are Needed? – CFP

Climategate: Is the British government conspiring not to prosecute? – James Delingpole, Telegraph

Climategate: Al Gore and the politicization of science – Roger L. Simon, Pajamas media

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Tuesday Update

The UN’s enviro-activist in-chief – National Post

Real deal on Canada’s environmental ranking: Goldstein – Lorrie Goldstein

Filed under AGW, Big Environment, Big Green, CPC majority solution, Canadian economy, Climategate, Copenhagen, Dalton McGuinty, David Suzuki, Follow the money, Global Warming, Global governance, Goldstein, Socialism, UN, Wind farms, environmentalists.

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We interrupt this Christmas break with a quick post

Posted by Joanne on 21 December 2009, 7:42 am

I’m sorry but I just had to point out Lorrie Goldstein’s column published in yesterday’s Sun – Copenhagen sure was a gas. Goldstein at his best, IMHO.

He’s packaged all the Copenhagen hypocrisy into one zinger of carbon-spewing roast:

Now that the enviro nuts have finished handing out their “Fossil of the Day” and “Colossal Fossil” awards, unfairly smearing Canada at the just-completed Copenhagen climate summit, let’s return the favour with some well-deserved honours of our own.

Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, we present the Copenhagen Flatulence Awards, honouring those who raised the art of generating hot air and gassy emissions to new intensity levels during the UN-sponsored festival of indignation.

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The “I’m Not Really A Climatologist, I Just Play One on TV” Flatulence Award:

To Al Gore, who, having made a career out of mocking opponents for “getting the science wrong” on global warming, gets the science wrong on the melting of the polar ice cap, according to the scientist he says he got the science from.

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The “That Old Man River, He Just Keeps Rolling Along” Flatulence Award:

To David Suzuki, for suggesting during a CBC interview — twice — that anyone worried about lost jobs if Canada’s oil sands are shut down, would also have endorsed slavery in the American south….

Please read the whole thing. Bonus chuckle near the end. I don’t want to spoil it for you.

The comments in response to Lorrie’s column are worth checking out too and include kudos for some of those who were actually looking out for our best interests in Copenhagen:

Patsplace
December 20th 2009, 10:19pm
Don’t forget to send the PM a note telling him that he did a good job. Nice that he was so polite in waiting until the Empty Suit repeated what he’s been saying for years. Nice of him not to make the big O look more frantic than he was.
HarpeS@parl.gc.ca

Jim Prentice deserves a pat on the back too.
Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca

Two men that Stood Up for Canada.

This is probably as good a time as any to thank Lorrie for all his dedication and effort in putting forward the truth regarding the true motives of the carbon-credit industry and environmentalists in general. Goldstein has done a terrific amount of research in this field and is extremely knowledgeable as well as objective. He is always ready to discuss the issues with readers, bloggers and colleagues.

Canada needs more in the media like Lorrie Goldstein.

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Related:

Then They Came for the Toilet Paper and I Did Not Speak Out – John Stossel (another one of the good guys) (H/T Moose & Squirrel).

Oh what a tangled web we weave – Falling carbon price could result in higher bills, energy firms warn - Guardian

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Now back to your regularly scheduled shopping, wrapping and baking.

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Tuesday Update:

Lorrie Goldstein gives well-deserved kudos to PM Harper and Jim Prentice – Enviro nuts blow smoke (H/T Liz J):

Congratulations to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Jim Prentice for receiving both the “Colossal Fossil” award and the most “Fossil of the Day” awards from the enviro nuts at the now-concluded Copenhagen climate summit.

This means Harper and Prentice remembered their duty in Copenhagen was to represent Canadian taxpayers, not radicals who would happily destroy our economy, primarily for ideological reasons...

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Canadian economy, Climategate, Copenhagen, David Suzuki, Global governance, Goldstein, Hypocrisy, Kyoto, Science/tech, Stephen Harper, UN, Your tax-dollars, climate change, environment.

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Who won in Copenhagen?

Posted by Joanne on 19 December 2009, 7:08 am

When sifting through the aftermath of the so-called deal in Copenhagen, it’s hard to decide who won.

Environmental groups are calling it a ‘failure’, which logically means that they lost right? But Brian Lilley says that those on the other side of the equation are equally dismayed if not more so.

Lilley explains that Lord Christopher Monckton’s greatest fear has been realized – namely that the framework has been set in place for an ‘unelected international bureaucracy‘ which is the code word for ‘world government’.

Of course UN didn’t get everything it wanted but the pressure will be on for a legally binding agreement in the near future. Many nations are wary of the implied loss of sovereignty including China.

Lilley explains:

…It’s not just the monitoring that would violate the sovereignty of China, or any other country that believes in such antiquated concepts, but also the idea put forward by Suzuki and others that there will be an international body that can impose sanctions upon countries that do not meet emissions reductions targets. There would also be a loss of national sovereignty if the proposal to have an international tax established to pay for this fund were agreed to.

One of the proposals discussed widely at the conference, and supported by European countries, was for a tax on aviation fuel and bunker fuel, the energy source for international shipping. The levy upon these two carbon-emitting fuels would be passed onto the International Maritime Organisation, a division of the United Nations, which would then oversee the distribution of funds. What do we generally call bodies that impose and collect taxes, that can impose penalties and monitor what you do? Government…

So while we may have won this battle, we must remain vigilant.

Thankfully we have a Prime Minister with our best interests at heart. He is politically savvy enough to know how to safeguard our trading interests without potentially losing massive economic ground by giving into political posturing such as that done by Chretien at Kyoto, and possibly even losing our sovereignty.

It’s a delicate balance, but I am ever the more thankful that Canada is blessed with Stephen Harper as our Prime Minister. And I see every one of those Fossil Awards as testimony to his excellent leadership of our country.

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Also please check out: Rex Murphy – Through Copenhagen’s looking glass.

Harper smiling, Charest the big loser – Norman Spector (H/T Wilson)

Copenhagen fizzles out – National Post. Great comments too.

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Sunday Update:

Lord Monckton on Copenhagen via Dr. Roy.

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Canada-U.S. Relations, Canadian economy, China, Copenhagen, Follow the money, Global Warming, Global governance, Harper smartest PM ever, Kyoto, UN, Your tax-dollars, environmentalists.

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Climate police knock out Lord Monckton

Posted by Joanne on 18 December 2009, 8:03 am

Danish police, who are ‘under orders from the U.N.’, pushed Lord Christopher Monckton to the ground and knocked him out.

In his own words:

More from Hunter, Kate, and many others.

Get ready for Global Governance and the New World Order.

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Related:

Harper keeps his head down – John Ivison, Post:

…Copenhagen may yield an improved agreement, if non-Kyoto signatories like China, India, Brazil and the United States are included. But it remains a giant wealth transfer mechanism.

Anyone who doubts this should read yesterday’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal, which details how Corus, Europe’s second-largest steel-maker, has shut a giant plant at Redcar in England, cutting 1,700 jobs. (For the editorial, see Page A16.)

Corus, owned by Tata of India, will now be able to sell its excess of carbon allowances, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, because it will produce six million fewer tons of CO2.

Tata could emerge a two-time winner from the cap-and-trade game. It is keen to increase its production in India, so it may shift Corus’s production to the sub-continent, where the carbon tariff is less punitive, and receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the UN’s Clean Development Fund. Of course, no emissions would be reduced in this process…

Save the planet: Kill your pets – Terry O’Neill, Post:

…For the vast majority of Canadians, pet ownership is a luxury. Therefore, it seems hypocritical for activists to caterwaul about “saving the planet” from the evils of carbon-spewing capitalism and overpopulation when there are so many non-essential animals taking up space, using up resources and exhaling carbon emissions out of their little snouts.

Consider, for example, a Canadian group called Moms Against Climate Change, which recently produced a disturbing video showing a mob of angry children clashing with riot police. The group warns of “starving bears, droughts, floods … and even more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and tornados” should drastic action not be taken.

Angela Morgan of Dundas, Ont., states on the Moms website that she has a husband, two children, two cats and a dog. It sounds like a lovely household but, in light of the carbon-spewing potential of those three pets, it also stinks of hypocrisy…

And the following Financial Post column is a GEM!!! This is no way to run a planet by William Watson:

…The average reporter had better wake up and understand that for a certain demographic out here, when this-or-that environmental group gives the Government of Canada its daily satiric award for inadequate greenhouse-gas policies, that actually persuades us that the Government’s refreshing refusal to play the hypocritical promise-anything-deliver-nothing game is really what the world needs more of…

Yeah, well Lorrie Goldstein certainly gets that.

Terence Corcoran: A 2,000-page epic of science and skepticism — Part 1 - National Post

Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure – Guardian:

Obama hinted that China was to blame for the lack of a substantial deal.

What??? And Canada got all those fossil awards???

Filed under Barack Obama, Big Environment, Big Green, Climategate, Copenhagen, Follow the money, Global governance, UN.

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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.