Posted on 11/28/2011 10:14:45 AM PST by CedarDave
Things don't look promising for the perennial climate confab which convenes in Durban, South Africa today. There is little chance of extending the expiring 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Kyoto has turned into a giant international scam that has already wasted hundreds of billions, with little to show for it; in fact, the increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases has been accelerating.
What brings nearly 200 delegations together is a dream -- the forlorn hope that developed nations who have ratified the Protocol will come up with a $100-billion-per-year aid program. This is supposed to allow developing nations to adapt to the putative climate disasters that the IPCC, the U.N.'s climate-science panel, has been predicting for more than 20 years. The U.S., which never ratified Kyoto, is expected to supply the lion's share of this subsidy. Fat chance; just look at the polls and listen to the statements from leading Republican presidential candidates who denounce these disaster predictions as "hoax" and "poppycock."
But the 10,000 or so Durban attendees -- official delegates, U.N. and government officials, journalists, NGO types, and other hangers-on -- will have a grand old time: two weeks of feasting, partying, living it up in luxury hotels, and greeting old friends at this 17th reunion -- all at someone else's expense. Statesmen will arrive on the last day to sign important-sounding communiqués and quickly depart before having to explain just how they will "save the climate" and humanity.
Developed nations are on a guilt trip, convinced that their industrial development has resulted in most of the past rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Just the kind of program libs love! Zero should make it a plank in his reelection slate.
See the priority list at the below link:
(Whoops - had to remove first comment due to figure from USA Today; links only are allowed)
Chuckle, chuckle.
Ping.
Nothing but a glorified “Occupy” Durban. Air quality means nothing. Global warming means nothing. This is a mob looking to STEAL $100,000,000,000.00 from the US(99%)and give it to corrupt governments(1%) all over the planet.
Ping.
Dr. Singer points out there is NO evidence that climate change, if it exists, is driven mainly by human activity. Environmentalists and liberals propose very expensive and ineffective solutions to address what appears to be a non-problem. And then there is the fact as the late Michael Critchton so presciently warned us a few years ago, of science being misused and perverted to the service of political ends. The debate about climate change is far from settled and isn’t the most pressing problem - not even a pressing environmental problem the planet faces today. We need to be sure the theory is supported by the science and the most charitable thing that can be said is the jury is still out on whether there is a climate change problem facing the world today.
PING
If everyone is so sure that AWG is not happening, then go buy ocean beach property and see what happens.....
“Done! Give me $500,000 dollars and I'll go off myself for you by purchasing and living in one of them ramshackle beach houses in the Outer Banks. When the oceans rise and I drown to death, I'll know, ‘You were right and I was wrong’.”
Good article by Mark Steyn's Canadian friend.
All is not lost. I am sure they still find time to issue a statement or two condemning Israel for something or other.
I watch Ezra Levant every night at 5 on Sun News. He’s smart and funny—I loved his segments on Occupy Toronto. :)
And it’s great when Mark Steyn is on.
well whaddya know....there IS an enterprise out there which is even more futile than trying to maintain the Euro...
Back in the 70’s they proposed covering the arctic with black soot to melt the ice, and prevent the oncoming ice age, LOL. Some of the same “scientists”. They’ve conveniently forgotten that scam. Give em 20 years, they’ll be back on the ice age crap. The more things change the more they stay the same.
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