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'Nuts' To Copenhagen
IBD Editorials ^ | September 29, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 09/29/2009 5:33:55 PM PDT by Kaslin

Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is?

King Canute, the Viking king of England, Norway and Denmark, was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and wisdom. As the story goes, he once stood on the shore and commanded the waves to halt. Rather than exercising his ego, he in fact was giving his followers a lesson in reality — the power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential.

In December, the world's kings and princes will journey to Copenhagen, Denmark, for climate change talks in hopes of replacing the failed Kyoto Protocol. Kyoto didn't change Earth's climate a wit, but it did burden the economy of any nation that embraced it.

Professor John Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, an adviser to the German government, thinks Copenhagen may also be a failure, largely because the U.S. refuses to line up behind the rest of the climate lemmings and follow them over an economic cliff.

Speaking at an Oxford University climate science conference on Monday, Schellnhuber blamed the U.S. for a decade of inaction caused by President George W. Bush. Ironically, it was a decade where the sun grew quiet and the Earth cooled as result.

Yet, ignoring the empirical evidence, he says it's we American cowboys who are "climate illiterates" for actually looking at the Earth's thermometer and daring to notice the snow in Malibu.

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1 posted on 09/29/2009 5:33:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 09/29/2009 5:34:59 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
There's a running TV ad here in MT for (CO2isgreen), presumably in opposition to the Crap and Malarky bill.

Took a quick look at it, seems worthy to spread around. (I have absolutely no association with it)

4 posted on 09/29/2009 5:49:36 PM PDT by This_far (Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
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To: Kaslin

I think they are going to have a tough time explaining why the ice extent has been growing over the past few years at both poles and the Antarctica is near an all time high.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html


5 posted on 09/29/2009 5:52:21 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: Aussiebabe

Yeah. Check out

www.surfacestations.org

Bad data = bad policy.


6 posted on 09/29/2009 6:09:23 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Pimp my mortgage)
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To: Kaslin

“The power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential…”

This is the most coherent statement on the subject to date!

If the eco-freaks, environmental fascists and masters of smart can prove different then have them do so first and get back to us with objective peer reviewed scientific proof…


7 posted on 09/29/2009 6:11:54 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: 4Liberty

Thanks for the site.


8 posted on 09/29/2009 6:31:41 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: 4Liberty

Spain has an unemployment rate of 18.5%? Sounds good. The socialists are geniuses!


9 posted on 09/29/2009 7:05:28 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: Kaslin
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9

700 climate illiterates submit report to the Senate

10 posted on 09/29/2009 7:11:31 PM PDT by 20 years too late
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“The power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential…”

Interestingly, Palin made just this point in her last speech as Governor.


11 posted on 09/29/2009 8:54:55 PM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

12 posted on 09/30/2009 4:11:09 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
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As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is? ...Professor John Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, an adviser to the German government, thinks Copenhagen may also be a failure, largely because the U.S. refuses to line up behind the rest of the climate lemmings and follow them over an economic cliff. Speaking at an Oxford University climate science conference on Monday, Schellnhuber blamed the U.S. for a decade of inaction caused by President George W. Bush. Ironically, it was a decade where the sun grew quiet and the Earth cooled as result. Yet, ignoring the empirical evidence, he says it's we American cowboys who are "climate illiterates" for actually looking at the Earth's thermometer and daring to notice the snow in Malibu.

13 posted on 09/30/2009 4:13:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Kaslin

These people won’t go away until they are scraping snow off their windshields in July.

A solar minimum is here. It hasn’t bit them in their fingers and toes yet.

Maybe they will give George Bush the great credit for cross country skiing on the D.C. Grounds between the Washington Monument and the Capital.

They are the Chicken Littles of our day and unfortunately,... We are paying them a lot of tax dollars to be in charge.


14 posted on 09/30/2009 5:39:09 PM PDT by Paul Pierett (Paul Pierett)
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