The Ludicrous Hypocrisy of Climate Conferences Continues
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One time during this event, I found myself waiting endlessly for one of the panel discussions to start, wondering what in the Sam Hill this was really all about and what I was doing there, when, out of boredom, I struck up a conversation with the man next to me.
It turned out he was the representative from the Maldives.
I had struck gold! The Maldives were the very center of controversy then because the rising sea level from warming was said to be about to put their Pacific islands permanently underwater.
Trying to be sympathetic, I told the man I had heard about their plight, but his response was to start laughing.
He explained to my puzzled look there was no threat to his island whatsoever. They had had periodic high tides forever, but nothing that a few sandbags couldn’t handle.
So why was he here? This time he looked at me strangely. How could I possibly not know?
For the money, he said.
Diogenes had found his honest man.
some years back (2009), I attended the Copenhagen version of this conference (COP15), reporting then for PJ Media, and had a helluva time staying awake during the extraordinarily tedious speeches.
I had an equally difficult time staying warm, especially when outside, because that conference on “global warming” took place in a record-breaking blizzard, the likes of which I had never seen, although I was a graduate of Dartmouth College and had spent four years in the snows of New Hampshire.
Of course, we were immediately informed by our hosts that such weather was—you will be shocked to hear—just further proof of imminent climate change. Freezing weather meant climate change. Sweltering weather meant climate change. And perfect weather for months on end with not a cloud in the sky meant the most serious climate change of all.
Or something like that.
Yeah, the Maldives aren’t a bare mountain peak poking out of the ocean, but rather sand pushed up to form an island. If water rises, so will the Maldives. The problem in the Maldives is that water is being pumped out of the ground inland and the sand subsides.