Everyone everywhere is totally stoked for the Copenhagen climate change summit. This bad boy is gonna draw 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders — a pretty impressive testament to the size and scope of the problem and the future of the planet. Plus, against the backdrop of the so-called “Climategate” (or as we like to call it, Climategheyt), we figured the crazies would be out in droves. In other words, everyone would be happy! Some people get to talk about real issues, while others get to rant and rave that science is for pussies, Poindexter!
Today we were not let down as the “debate” officially began.
What will almost certainly be a treasure trove of nonsense by the end of the summit began today, the opening shot fired by the UK’s Telegraph, which ran this Drudge-ready headline:
“Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges”
We struggled for a few minutes to come up with an adequate response to the infantile insinuation that because the leaders are using cars and planes to get to Copenhagen (instead of walking?) they actually don’t care about climate change, but someone at Fark summed it up better than we could:
The Telegraph’s argument is retarded, and the fact that something like that is even used as an attack shows how flimsy the doubters’ argument is. What do summit attendees’ means of transportation and what they eat have to do with anything? Anything at all?
From the article:
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.
“We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
First of all, what does the fact that someone needs a car in a foreign city have to do with that person’s views on the environment? Believing in the scientific fact of climate change doesn’t allow one to walk faster or farther or across the ocean. Secondly, according to their own quote — one from someone at a limo company — it seems the cars weren’t even that in demand until the weather forecast became treacherous.
Not surprisingly, Drudge ran with the story, too, putting his own twist on the headline:
“Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes…”
Just kidding; he used the same headline. The thing, though, is that this whole denying-climate-change silliness has become a bit of a crusade for Drudge — along with boning a bunch of dudes, of course. Almost every day, his sites boasts a link like:
“Major winter storm to wallop central USA”
or
“Houston earliest snowfall — ever”
What bozos like Matt Drudge — or any other person who hears the words “global warming” and thinks that any instance of colder-than-usual temperatures debunks the years of science — have trouble understanding is that the issue is CLIMATE CHANGE. It means stronger than usual storms, changing tides, rising sea levels and other wild things.
It’s climate change, everyone; not global warming. It’s the reason it was 60 degrees in December in New York City, and it’s the reason for — wait for it — the earliest snowfall on record in Houston.
Oh, it’s also the reason the Maldives will probably end up completely underwater in the not-too-distant future, and why their president is looking for another place to relocate the island country’s entire population.
Is that real enough, or does it still matter that one scientist at one point used the word “trick” instead of something like “that thing that makes crunching complicated numbers easier”?
Fucking Christ.
http://www.infowars.com/globalist-hypocrites-arrive-in-copenhagen-for-summit/
While readying speeches about how the middle class will be forced to lower their living standards, pay higher taxes on all forms of travel, and make personal sacrifices in order to save the planet from the alleged menace of CO2 Copenhagen globalists will be relaxing on the 140 extra private jets that are being forced to drop off attendees in Copenhagen and then fly back to other airports and even other countries just to park due to the lack of spaces.
Elitists will scoff scallops foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges while lecturing the general public about how eating meat is harming the earth.
And while the climate crooks wag their finger at you for having the audacity to own an SUV, they will be running up a bill of over $200 million dollars, and guess who is going to be picking up the tab?
“According to an analysis by the Taxpayer’s Alliance a conservative cost of Copenhagen is £130million.
It includes £6.3million on flights, £20million on hotels and £3.3million on food,reports the Daily Mail.
“The figure also includes the salaries for delegates and the contribution from the Danish government of £37 million. Most of the money will come from taxpayers.” Summits of this size are routinely accompanied by a huge spike in the sex trade in whatever city they happen to be taking place. While servants of the global elite and their masters lecture us about our moral imperatives half of them are out committing adultery on a nightly basis during the same global conferences at which they habitually pose with righteous indignation. Make sure you have plenty of vomit bags on standby the thugs couldn’t care less about the environment they want to tax you out of existence for breathing! http://www.infowars.com/globalist-hypocrites-arrive-in-copenhagen-for-summit/
Check out what Government is doing behind your back at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
Email Prime Minister Harper of Canada and request he not sign the Copenhagen Treaty causing Canadians to lose our Sovereignty at: pm@pm.gc.ca
Protest he inaccurate Climate Change measurements that are being used to Proclaim the Copenhagen
Treaty: http://www.gopetition.com/online/32485.html
OMG, they’re polluting! Therefore they’re wrong that polluting is bad!
What the eff kind of nonsense argument is this?
The issue is not is there climate change, but is it man-made? Faking and making up data is not science. Consesus is not science (even if there was agreement). After all, at one time there was consensus that the Earth was flat and the center of the Universe.
Temperatures change. Sea levels rise and fall. Icebergs and ice caps melt and grow. Some hurricane seasons are more violent than others. Once Greenland was green. The weather changes. That does not mean man causes it. That does not mean we can do anything about it.
The real issue is that there are people who want to change our standard of living to match a certain worldview. When someone can explain to me why the polar ice caps were melting on Mars at the same time they were on Earth. How the cause on Earth was my SUV and too much carbon, yet have no answer for the Mars melts? I suspect the SUN might have something to do with it.
35 years ago these same scientist warned were were heading to a new ice age. Then it was global warming. Now they just cry about climate change.
If you want answers, the riddle of what is driving the hype about the weather can be traced back to funding. Follow the money.
“Climategate” started out when there appeared on the Internet a collection of e-mails of a group of climatologists who work in the University of East Anglia in England. These documents reveal that some climatologists of international preeminence have manipulated the data of their investigations and have strongly tried to discredit climatologists who are not convinced that the increasing quantities of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere are the cause of global warming.
It is true that a majority of the scientists who study climatic tendencies in our atmosphere have arrived at the conclusion that the world’s climate is changing, and they have convinced a group of politicians, some of whom are politically powerful, of the truth of their conclusions.
A minority, however, is skeptical. Some believe that recent data that suggest that the average temperature of the atmosphere is going up can be explained by natural variations in solar radiation and that global warming is a temporary phenomenon. Others believe that the historical evidence indicating that the temperature of the atmosphere is going up at a dangerous rate is simply not reliable.
Such lacks of agreement are common in the sciences. They are reduced and eventually eliminated with the accumulation of new evidence and of more refined theories or even by completely new ones. Such debates can persist for a period of decades. Academics often throw invective at one another in these debates. But typically this does not mean much.
But the case of climate change is different. If the evidence indicates that global warming is progressive, is caused principally by our industrial processes, and will probably cause disastrous changes in our atmosphere before the end of the twenty-first century, then we do not have the time to verify precisely if this evidence is reliable. Such a process would be a question of many years of new investigations. And if the alarmist climatologists are right, such a delay would be tragic for all humanity.
The difficulty is that economic and climatologic systems are very complicated. They are not like celestial mechanics, which involves only the interaction of gravity and centrifugal force, and efforts to construct computerized models to describe these complicated systems simply cannot include all the factors that are influential in the evolution of these complicated systems.
All this does not necessarily indicate that the alarmist climatologists are not right. But it really means that if global warming is occurring, we cannot know exactly what will be the average temperature of our atmosphere in the year 2100 and what will be the average sea level of the world’s ocean in that year.
It also means that we cannot be confident that efforts by the industrialized countries to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere will have a significant influence on the evolution of the world’s climate.
Alas, the reduction of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would be very costly and would greatly change the lives of all the inhabitants of our planet–with the possibility (perhaps even the probability!) that all these efforts will be completely useless.
Harleigh Kyson Jr.
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