Ah, the irony, Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming, or do they mean, struggle to stay warm?
World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
“Temperatures will stay low at least the next three days,” Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. “There’s a good chance of a white Christmas.”
Apparently they haven’t had a white Christmas in 14 years. Nice.
Not so nice, the reaction to Chavez’s speech: The Copenhagen, Chavista Consensus: Free Markets Kill Polar Bears
As Ron Bailey pointed out in his latest dispatch from the Copenhagen climate change conference, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave a predictably insane speech blaming capitalism for the melting if the polar ice caps and all sorts of other environmental degradation. Of course, he likely remembers that the Soviet Union and its slave states were all terrific stewards of the earth, using green technology to eliminate the kulaks and giving Andrei Sakharov fair trade chicory coffee in prison.
I am not a scientist, don’t pretend to be a scientist, and defer to Bailey on all things science related, but am I allowed to be more than slightly troubled that those formulating policy on such matters appear to be barking mad?
Oh yes, indeed. So many despots, so little time!
Be that as it may — and even though there is still a lot of bickering over the hand-outs … er, budget — this city is about to be descended upon by some 115 world leaders. One of them, Hugo Chavez, is already here, evidently to great acclaim. I missed his speech yesterday (somehow I’m not on the invite list), but I will take one for the team today and go hear Chavez speak off campus at a place called Valby Hallen. He won’t be alone. Accompanying him on the program are Raul Castro, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Eva Morales of Bolivia, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador and the recently deposed president of Honduras Manuel Zelaya. (Wasn’t he supposed to be in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa?) Anyway, it’s a veritable rogue’s gallery of the Latin American left.
I really want to know how Zelaya managed to get out of the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, but I digress.
European Carbon Credit Trading System Plagued by Fraud, which may explain the appeal from the tyrants: it is yet more root-cause corruption.
Meanwhile, the Russians are piping in, with yet another inconvenient truth,
Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming
What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.
But fret not, The Obama administration is making a last-gasp effort to put together a deal in Copenhagen, with Hillary promising $100 million billion right off the bat. As if it wasn’t a big enough zoo, Nancy Pelosi is leading a large delegation on at least two Air Force jets to Copenhagen.
Can’t wait to find out what Lady M will be wearing to the blizzard…
UPDATE
Lord Monckton reports on Pachauri’s eye opening Copenhagen presentation, and manages to slice, dice, chop and fillet Pachauri’s list of errors. More on Pachauri at EU Referendum.
And,
Chavez-hagen!
Post re-edited to include an omission.
What never ceases to amaze me about the perennial Marxist complaints concerning capitalism is that many people who sypathize with the position do not realize that Marxism does not abolish capitalism.
Does Hugo Chavez give away his oil? — no he invests in it and SELLS IT on the world market. Does Fidel give away his sugar cane and cement? — no he invests in these industries and SELLS the products on the free market. Marxism only abolishes individual capitalism and personal free market exchange — the Communist State is perfectly free to engage in capitalist style activity and in fact requires it in order to survive.
Marxism simply places all the capital and economic power in the hands of the State, and relegates its citizens to the status of an involuntary (slave) labour force to the economic benefit of its dictatorial Communist elites.
There’s an old saying: “Communists hate capitalism, but they love capital.
Global Warming-IS- Human / Industrial Pollution
As you know, scientist and science itself has been slandered with misinformation and ridiculed in advance of the talks. (A favored, repeated, and effective, right wing tactic).
Is Global Warming related to human/ industrial pollution? The atmosphere seems to be an arbitrary subject right now because of the propaganda effort to confuse the linkage between burning of fossil fuels and its effect on the atmosphere.
The real question is- are we going to put pandering ahead of science in addressing and acting upon human/industrial pollution now and in the future?
The best indisputable SCIENCE example that should be a test model and the #1 item on the Copenhagen Agenda would be the toxic plastic waste dump, the size of Texas, 900 miles off of the United States and Canadian West Coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatPacificGarbatchageP
That is a Big SCIENCE problem with no dedicated U.S SCIENCE and INNOVATION DEPARTMENT to address the issue. The U.S (or Canada) has not even sent out a SCIENCE research vessel to evaluate this ecological disaster; neither country wants to take the responsibility for the industrial/human pollution or even acknowledge its existence.
No Profit-No Action!-No SCIENCE! Will the World Trade Organization and the New Industrial World Order address the issue? Where is their World SCIENCE Department? Advancement in SCIENCE would outmode the use of fossil fuels but the U.S has not funded innovative SCIENCE since 2001.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/inventions
Can the problem be solved with SCIENCE? Probably so, Americans are very ingenious primarily because we were raised with the compliments of Freedom and Democracy and are free thinking individuals. We could probably figure a way to clean up the mess and possibly make a profit doing so.
We can do nothing until we have a funded DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE that is free to address SCIENCE and to develop the advancement of SCIENCE. (Yes, for the sake of humanity; SCIENCE FIRST-PANDERING SECOND.)
Well said, Ricardo.
I always love these little, thanks Lawrence, attempts at humor. Especially humor that has one link going nowhwere and the other stating that there are no current projects to apply for funding from the DOE for 2007 not 2001. But at the same time noting the continuing research projects into all sorts of alternative energy sources.
I think The Gov in Blazing Saddles said it best at around 2:20.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cje17OGnQ
Link didn’t post correctly.
Global warming (or climate change) is a contrived global problem requiring a contrived global solution — an unelected global governing body to respond to the “emergency”. Czech writer and former dissident Vaclav Klaus wrote a few years back that he thought the new environmentalism was the “New Communism” in disguise.
I think Klaus is correct to the degree that Global warming ideology conforms to Marxism. For example, actvists are speaking in terms of “climate rights” and have construed a whole new “victim class” based on the idea. Activists have stated that failing to respect “climate rights” kills innocent people in places such as Africa due to global warming. In this respect, it is clearly tending to Marxian permanent “victim-group” supremacist ideology — which would require a “dictatorship of the proletariat” to effect justice on the alleged “criminals”. Except, it is a “crime” so big that it has global implications.
In reality, what Global warming activism does not address is pollution or environmental contamination. Pollution is a local problem and cannot possibly be solved by a mega-bureacracy of globally warmed-over heaps of White Elephant dung organized in Copenhagen, or its screaming spoiled cry-baby protestors in the street. None of the people involved in Copenhagen would survive two days integrated into the natural environment of untamed mother earth. I honestly hope that the efforts of environmentalists — of all stripes — fail miserably. I hope nature fights back with a vengeneace and demonstrates her majesty and power over the pretentious and puny efforts of humankind to control and dominate the globe on her presumed behalf. I hope she crushes the global megalomania.
The fact is Co2 emissions are the least of our worries where environmental contamination is concerned. Carbon dioxide occurs naturally in vast quantities and ironically it is necessary to sustain life everywhere — especially “green” or plant life. Unnatural ideology is what we should be wary of. And depending on the methods that these “plastic green” elites decide to use in order to impose their ideology, if it is not Communist it will at least be Fascist.
ricardo
Proof God has a sense of humor
I’m with you Ricardo. Any “scientific” endeavor that is not hotly debated and examined and also deeply manipulated by the likes of Al Gore, Hugo Chavez, and the EU, certainly reeks of corruption. Anyone who even thinks about climate change from an angle different from the “accepted view” is deemed a “flat earther”. Why? Because challenging the postulation is costly for those vested in the idea of human-influenced climate change. Who are those people? Well, let’s start with the scientists who have BILLIONS of dollars pouring their way to “study” the problem. Next in line are the politicians who have an excuse to expand their power and ability to tax in order to “solve” the problem. Finally, socialists-Marxists (whatever, they are all the same control-freaks) who need a vehicle to get and expand their power.
We chumps better wise-up and get control over our politicians.
Greetings:
Four inches of snow didn’t make a blizzard where I grew up. Probably wouldn’t have even been a snow holiday.