Posted on 11/27/2010 5:18:42 PM PST by neverdem
Maybe it was just a bad dream.
Just a year ago, 15,000 of the world’s leaders, diplomats, and UN officials were gearing up to descend on Copenhagen to forge a global treaty that would save the planet. The world’s media delivered massive coverage. Important newspapers printed urgent front-page calls for action, and a popular new U.S. President waded in to put his reputation on the line. The climate talks opened with a video showing a little girl’s nightmare encounter with drought, storms, eruptions, floods and other man-made climate disasters. “Please help the world,” she pleads.
After two weeks of chaos, the talks collapsed in a smouldering heap of wreckage. The only surprise was that this outcome should have come as a surprise to so many intelligent people. These people actually seemed to believe that experts and politicians have supernatural powers to predict the future and control the climate. They believed that experts know how fast temperatures will rise by when, and what the consequences will be, and that we know what to do about it. They believed that despite the recent abject failure of Kyoto (to say nothing of other well-intentioned international treaties), the nations of the world would willingly join hands and sacrifice their sovereignty in order to sign on to a vast scheme of unimaginable scope, untold cost and certain damage to their own interests.
Copenhagen was not a political breakdown. It was an intellectual breakdown so astonishing that future generations will marvel at our blind credulity. Copenhagen was a classic case of the emperor with no clothes.
Mercifully, nobody will pay attention to the climate conference at Cancun next week, where a much-reduced group of delegates will go through the motions. The delusional dream of global action to combat climate change is dead. Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme...
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No. The environment can and will be saved, history teaches, but you have to take "environmentalist" extremists out of the picture.
It will survive unless the communists pushing it find something else to act as a cover for their communist ideas!
The environment can be saved if environmentalist go extinct.
Remember last year the Copenhagen summit was happening just a couple weeks after the Climate-gate e-mail scandal. The juxtaposition was stunning and made for very bad PR for the global warming movement.
Even Obama’s appearance at Copenhagen towards the end didn’t save the day.
I wonder what the carbon footprint of all the enviros going to these conferences are.
Environmentalism is a religion and must in the end demonstrate its Truth or perish into the dust bin of history.
It cannot and will die a well deserved death.
Sane environmentalism will return when the enviro nazis only tend to their own backyard gardens and chickens and shut up.
The overdubbed music is just calling a spade a spade.
Really? Just try and get that green boot off your neck and you'll see how dead it is. It may be ideologically bankrupt, but as to power, the bureaucrats and courts still rule the day.
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Greenies have buckets of money. They are funded by the largest corporate tax-exempt foundations in the world.
Controlling access to resources has always been a way to profit.
“...the German’s and Japanese tried to defeat us in WW II using bombs and bullets but they had it wrong. All they had to do was to hire PEW”.
Read into the record by me during Public Comment at SAFMC meeting, Orlando 6/08
Exactly! How many things have the environmentalists cried wolf over the past 40 years? I don’t know anyone who is for pollution, but the greens could care less. For them it’s all about communism and destroying the only system of government that improves people’s lives, capitalism.
There is responsible environmentalism and there is nutty environmentalism. Conservatives too, want to preserve nature. The difference is we don’t believe in making life harder and more expensive for people to secure it.
Not this one. It takes hard work to maintain productive habitat.
Why? We have to leave something for our children. We are God’s stewards and yes - its a lot of work involved. Where I disagree with the Greens is we should give our civilized existence to make that end possible.
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