Posted on 09/24/2014 7:25:27 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Tuesday's climate summit at the U.N. may well mark a turning point in the long-running talks as the reality sinks in that they are heading nowhere. For sure, the rhetoric is unchanged. Recently appointed U.N. peace messenger Leonardo DiCaprio is the show’s newest star, telling the meeting that it was "humankind’s greatest challenge." But the older acts sounded stale. Former Vice President Al Gore demonstrated his green credentials when he said that political will was "a renewable resource," recycling a line he’d first used at the 2007 Bali climate conference.
For small countries, the U.N. climate change talks provide an opportunity to show the world what virtuous global citizens they are. The Baltic republics boasted of the costly steps they are taking to rid themselves of fossil fuels as if decarbonizing their economies will help protect them against the Russian bear. Finland’s leader boasted how his country was going to decarbonize completely, but didn’t say that Finland will rely on Russian nuclear technology – surely a dangerous dependency. For countries like Denmark and Ireland, vanity and preening come easily. Italy’s new leader , Matteo Renzi, came up with a genuinely novel slant, arguing that the "concept of beauty" needed to be injected into the climate change debate, but did not say how this might help Italy’s debt-laden economy.
The most surreal moment of all came from the Iraq’s president Fuad Masum. The day after the U.S. launched air strikes against ISIS, Mr. Masum spoke of the threat of ecological catastrophe to his country. To speak thus is to belittle the brutality engulfing his Iraq.
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The rhetoric has changed, it has gotten more shrill, and with totalitarian overtones overtly in the open instead of just in the white papers.
OMG - you should hear his UN speech.....he is meandering from war to ebola to “cllimate change”. When I hear him say we’re going to work together to eradicate world poverty all I can think is we need to hang on to our wallets!
See #3.
Yup!
To reduce their carbon footprint, are the participants all walking home after the summit?
I have in on now, in the background, because I can’t reach the remote! He is insufferable. He has sent more soldiers to “fight Ebola” than to fight ISIS.
How does a soldier “fight Ebola”? I could see sending doctors, or researchers, but soldiers?
Would be nice!
Some might have a long trip.
Odysseus long.
Shoot the virus!
Their rickshaw drivers hold their breath!
So the question is - will they continue to “push through” with global warming as their excuse for totalitarianism,
or will they “pivot” to another route?
Oh yeah. And Barry has to do this because "climate change" is "Bush's fault".
And his “Islam is the religion of peace” meme.
Ebola.
Hence why our illustrious leader is trying to bring it here.
I miss Arch...
Brilliant!!
>> The rhetoric has changed, it has gotten more shrill
I, for one, had NO idea that it was such a serious problem until Jean Kerree told me I could expect four — FOUR! — degrees of warming in my probably lifetime!
And he’s in a position of authority that can’t be denied.
(Plus he went to Viet Nam.)
And we can expect hotter summers and milder winters except when it causes colder summer and arctic winters, except when it doesn’t, and then it does.
>> To reduce their carbon footprint, are the participants all walking home after the summit?
You know, if they walked everywhere they went in hemp gowns wearing sandals made of palm leaves, I might actually listen to what they had to say. Just for fun.
Except for the smell. Man, would they smell! So, nevermind.
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