Posted on 12/03/2009 8:32:24 AM PST by JLS
These leaked documents reveal the greatest scientific scandal of our timesand a tragedy
The gravest challenge that we face is climate change . . . Every one of our compatriots must feel concernedNicolas Sarkozy, president of the French Republic;
The climate crisis threatens our very survivalHerman Van Rompuy, president of Europe;
We cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate changeGordon Brown, prime minister of the United Kingdom;
Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children . . . this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to healBarack Obama, president of the United States.
The science is so settled its now perfectly routine for leaders of the developed world to go around sounding like apocalyptic madmen of the kind that used to wander the streets wearing sandwich boards and handing out homemade pamphlets. Governments that are incapable ofto pluck at randomenforcing their southern border, reducing waiting times for routine operations to below two years, or doing something about the nightly ritual of car-torching youths, are nevertheless taken seriously when they claim to be able to change the very heavensif only they can tax and regulate us enough. As they will if they reach consensus at Copenhagen. And most probably even if they dont.
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I think so.
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Only Mark Steyn could make that seem like a clever statement.
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