Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/27/2010 11:22:35 AM PST by jazusamo
Today, U.N. negotiators will begin two weeks of meetings in Cancun, Mexico, looking for a way to move the climate action agenda forward, impose global carbon emissions caps and compel countries to pay a series of new international taxes to underwrite environmental programs. Maybe they'll get what they want when hell freezes over.
The mood of climate alarmists going into Cancun is decidedly downbeat. The sense of impending doom they had cultivated over the last decade or so has largely evaporated. The Climategate scandal took a severe toll on the credibility of some of the climate theology's leading high priests, and subsequent investigations into some of the more outlandish claims on which their doomsaying was based found them to be either exaggerated or fabricated. The November demise of the Chicago Climate Exchange - which sought to transfer billions of dollars to political insiders trading in government-rigged carbon markets - signaled that there was no money in the game anymore. Last week, even Al Gore admitted his fallibility when he retracted his earlier support for ethanol fuels. The god bleeds.
Last year's Copenhagen confab was intended to seal a comprehensive global climate deal but turned into an exercise in humiliation. The imagined 2009 treaty - originally billed as "the single most important piece of paper in the world today" - would have instituted global governance of carbon emissions enforced by an international body with the power to levy taxes to force countries to impose its will. But the final, hastily written three-page agreement contained none of those controversial proposals and was simply a nonbinding statement regarding voluntary emissions caps.
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Ping!
Are we there yet!?
I admire how these do-nothing, no-good-doers go to Cancun to soak up the sun and enjoy a paid
vacation while they rub their greedy hands together.
The worst the Cancun conferees will have to deal with is the threat of being kidnapped by heavily armed gangs of drug dealers.
Anyone is nuts that goes to Mexico! :-)
This is how they end up inventing cockamamie schemes; they get bored with the partying and realize they need to DO something before they go home. So, they go into a fenzy of trying to sound smart and concerned until someone with a personal interest like carbon trading or EV charging stations comes up to "help" with some ideas.
---Much like Congress.
So happy to read that the mood is gloomy. Another goal achieved, more to go.
Absolutely! They’re starting to realize there just may not be enough money in this world to finance every hair-brained thing they come up with.
Shouldn't these enviro nuts being meeting at the trading post on Hudson Bay?
Intelligent consumers are more worried about rising heating bills than “globull warming” if these climate scammers pass Cap and Tax. The vultures at the UN lust for the authority to tax US citizens for this hoax. That tax would be eternal and would certainly make us a vassal state to the internationalists who see us as hosts for their parasitism.
Much more to go. We are about to have all of that garbage imposed on us anyway by executive orders and regulatory edicts.
Same thing as when several countries (via national referendum) in Europe rejected joining the EU/Euro. Their corrupt rulers simply said oops, now it's a treaty and we don't need the people's approval to sign that.
Obama and the left would prefer using legislation to do these things since it allows them to claim popular support. But they will go right ahead and use the EPA and executive orders to impose their will on us anyway.
Obama right now is signing these things and saying "So, just what are you going to do about?"
And just what are we going to do?
When are some of these watermelons going to be held accountable for all their lies and deceits. I’m glad the bubble has been popped but what about accountability for their prior statements and actions ?
By using the EPA to push this stuff down our throats, like it or not, Obama is declaring war on the American people.
I pray that a republican congress can play his game, but nastier and more viscous. As Obama recently stated “this means hand to hand combat”
Here is one interpretation (mine) of that particular statement. I think he is saying he can ram all of this down our throats one way or the other and that short of actual rebellion (hand to hand combat) we are SOL. He is daring us to capitulate or revolt.
You’re correct, these idiots definitely should be held accountable but it’s doubtful they ever will be.
One can only hope.
You got that right. :)
Hah! They are implicitly agreeing that warmer is better!
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