Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/04/2010 10:42:14 AM PST by Signalman
Scams die hard, but eventually they die, and when they do, nobody wants to get close to the corpse. You can get all the hotel rooms you want this week in Cancun.
The global-warming caravan has moved on, bound for a destination in oblivion. The United Nations is hanging the usual lamb chop in the window this week in Mexico for the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, but the Washington guests are staying home. Nobody wants to get the smell of the corpse on their clothes.
Everybody who imagined himself anybody raced to Copenhagen last year for the global-warming summit, renamed “climate change” when the globe began to cool, as it does from time to time. Some 45,000 delegates, “activists,” business representatives and the usual retinue of journalists registered for the party in Copenhagen. This year, only 1,234 journalists registered for the Cancun beach party. The only story there is that there’s no story there. The U.N. organizers glumly concede that Cancun won’t amount to anything, even by U.N. standards.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, who wrote and sponsored the cap-and-trade legislation last year, says he’ll be too busy with congressional business (buying stamps for the Christmas cards and getting a haircut and a shoeshine) even to think about going to Cancun. Last year, he joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi and dozens of other congressmen in taking staffers and spouses to the party in Copenhagen. The junket cost taxpayers $400,000, but Copenhagen is a friendly town and a good time was had by all. This year, they’re all staying home, learning to live like lame ducks.
The Senate’s California ladies, cheerleaders for the global-warming scam only yesterday, can’t get far enough away from Cancun this year. Dianne Feinstein says she’s not even thinking about the weather. “I haven’t really thought about [Cancun], to be honest with you,” she tells Politico, the Capitol Hill daily. She still loves the scam, but “no - no, no, no, it’s just that I’m not on a committee related to it.” She’s grateful for small blessings.
Barbara Boxer, who was proud to make global warming her “signature” issue only last year, obviously regards that signature now to be a forgery. She would like to be in Cancun, but she has to stay home to wash her hair. She’s not even sending anyone from her staff, willing as congressional staffers always are to party on the taxpayer dime. “I’m sending a statement to Cancun.” (Stop the press for that.)
This is another lesson that Washington’s swamp fevers inevitably subside. Who now remembers Smoot-Hawley, Quemoy and Matsu, and the Teapot Dome? But these were once issues on which the survival of the known world rested. The only global-warming news of this week was the announcement that the House Select Committee on Global Warming would die with the 111th Congress. Mrs. Pelosi established the committee three years ago to beat the eardrums of one and all, a platform for endless argle-bargle about the causes and effects of climate change. The result was the proposed job-killing national energy tax, but with the Republican sweep, there’s no longer an appetite for killing jobs.
Rep. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, the chairman of the doomed committee, organized one final event this week, a splashy daylong exercise in gasbaggery starring the usual suspects assigned to drone on for most of the day about the coming global-warming disasters, the melting of the North Pole and the rising of the seas that would make Denver, Omaha and Kansas City seaside resorts. Wesley Clark was the only former presidential candidate to accept an invitation, and he was a no-show. The star witness of the afternoon session was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an “environmental attorney” who talked about how “clean energy” is nicer than the other kind. Mr. Markey himself, as bored as everyone else, didn’t bother to return after lunch.
The members of the committee can now retire with their scrapbooks of clippings to recall the happy days of hearings about global warming (some of them before “global warming” became “climate change” and “liberals” became “progressives"), about how clean energy could replace smelly oil wells and provide Democrats with the means to enact sweeping climate-change legislation. Who could have foreseen that the only “sweeping” would be the sweeping out of so many Democrats?
When the thrill is gone, the thrill is gone, as star-crossed lovers have learned through the ages, and when a scam collapses, it stays collapsed. The thought is enough to warm hearts all across the globe.
Global warming was a bubble. Once a bubble deflates, people move on to the next bubble.
Sorry, I’m not going to pop the champagne yet. Too many scientists and politicians have too much invested in the global warming/climate change fraud to give up this easily.
They’ll be back...
For the new year, the EPA , is going to impose crippling global warming regulations that will shut down the economy:
All this for a hoax.TSA,EPA, need any more proof government/socialism doesn't work?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2605230/posts
If Democrats take a drubbing in November, the Obama Administration is likely to turn to regulation to achieve its “transformational” agenda. Which is all the more reason to cheer on Texas as it pushes back against the EPA’s illegal attempt to rewrite the nation's clean air laws.
To wit, the Lone Star State is resisting the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to regulate carbon under the clean air laws of the 1970s. These regulations will be damaging enough on their own. But the EPA and chief Lisa Jackson are also threatening to punish Texas and other green dissenters with a de facto moratorium on any major energy or construction projects. Just what the economy needs.
I hope the person who gave us the Hadley-CRU treasure trove is sleeping well.
Thank you, wherever you are.
Thank you Lord!
I have a feeling the EPA is about to be castrated come Feb or March.
Read this the other day, and still chuckle over his attitude. Just what those pompous asshats deserve...ridicule.
I’ve been around long enough to remember the “global cooling” scam in the ‘70s. Those “Earth Day” parties at Penn State were excellent places to meet chicks! The Africanized killer bee scam fizzled quickly, but the “radon” and “black mold” scams made some people a pile of money, nearly as much as the “lead-based paint” and DDT scams.
What the lawyers are looking for now is the next trillion-dollar tobacco payday. They thought they had it with “global warming” (DC law firms hired scores of “climate litigators” just a few years ago) but now that “global warming” is dead it looks like all they have left is to figure out some kind of a fast-food/obesity scam. I’m sure they’ll think of something...
Water will probably be the next one.
Looking at Pictures from Cancun creeps me out. I could not stand to be around this phoniness for so many days while they play out the charade. I mean... opening the conference with a prayer to an Inca Moon God - give me a break.
How do they do it?
Hope so. It’s the economy’s only chance.
I hope the next Repoublican president does 3 things:
Allows for exploration amd gathering of our own sources of energy. Drill here, drill now, pay less.
Gets us out of the U.N. and serves them with an eviction notice to evacuate the building and our country.
Works diligently to break up the unions and devolve power and control to the local and state levels where it belongs.
Seems whatever Obama touches turns to um, un-gold.
Defund the EPA anti growth agenda!
>>All this for a hoax.TSA,EPA, need any more proof government/socialism doesn’t work?<<
Speaking of the TSA, the airlines have been impacted. It may be due to the economy as well, but the number of empty seats on planes, as of just before Thanksgiving and continuing into the near future has skyrocketed. It might be a good idea to short airline stocks right now.
OMG ,you are right
Those government idiots at the TSA have crippled travel by plane, hurting my business as well as others.
Well, it may be the economy too. I dunno. People have been saying for over a year that if the economy is so bad, why are so many people flying?
And suddenly, they’re not.
Well, I have actually noticed a decline in tourism since the TSA “molestating” procedures got attention , a few weeks ago.
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