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COPENHAGEN — A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come "not to talk but to act" on climate change. (Politico)

Saudi Arabia funds terrorists; A bloodthirsty, illegitimate Iranian regime murders its own people (and our troops in Iraq) and spreads terror in Lebanon, Palestine and points beyond; the Darfur slaughter and rape continues; Somali pirates disrupt international commerce...

But dammit!  President Obama is really mad that nations are balking at economically castrating themselves upon the altar of Gaia! 

And now for something completely different...
Gerald Warner turns his British wit on this Copenhagen farce, as only a British sarc-snark can:

When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those pesky polar bears just keep increasing and multiplying – what do you do? [...]

Unfortunately, the response of all intelligent people will be to fall about laughing; but it was worth a try – everybody loves a tryer – and the climate alarmists are no longer in a position to pick and choose their tactics.

The danger of this ploy, of course, is that people might say “If we are going to be chargrilled anyway, what is the point of handing over billions – better to get some serious conspicuous consumption in before the ski slopes turn into saunas.”

If you're as tired as I am of the flatulent cloud of hypocrital sanctimony emanating from Copenhagen, go read Gerald Warner's entire column.  It'll  hit the spot.

Copenhagen Climate Con

Save the planet!  End international climate conferences!

International hucksters are out in full force for the global climatological conclave in Copenhagen, and the gargantuan carbon footprint they produce will not strike any of them as even the least bit ironic.

Don't worry, sensible people will be there too. Film makers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer (two more people Al Gore is afraid to debate) will be twittering away, and Senator James Inhofe will be there to harass and disabuse the gullible warmists.

The elephant in the room will be the climate-gate scandal.  Senator Inhofe says that is the final nail in the coffin.  It's not just an embarrassment, now it's a legal matter, since US Taxpayer money funded these flim flam artists.

The more than 3,000 emails and documents from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have found their way to the Internet have blown the lid off the "science" of manmade global warming.

Their correspondence show a claque of scientists massaging data to make it fit their theories, squelching scientists who disagreed, punishing academic journals that didn't toe the apocalyptic line, and hiding their work from public view. 

"It's no use pretending that this isn't a major blow," glumly wrote George Monbiot, a U.K. writer who has been among the fiercest warming alarmists. The documents "could scarcely be more damaging." And that's from a believer.  (WSJ - Kimberley Strassel)

Beware International Pickpockets 

The New York Post editors have the best take:

here's hoping he doesn't allow America's pockets to be picked totally clean by the shamsters, scam artists and assorted "global-warming" opportunists who also will be in town for the occasion. 

For, make no mistake: The whole point of the exercise is to transfer a trillion bucks from the economies of the world's developed nations to Third World kleptocrats -- with God-only-knows how much cash sticking to the fingers of well-connected UN bureaucrats.

Mr. Obama Goes to Copenhagen

DATELINE:  Europe.  Obama Negotiates World Temperature!

To thunderous world applause, President Barack Obama extended a hand of friendship to Mother Nature and Old Man Winter, hoping to negotiate a 2 degree Celsius drop in world temperatures.

The Belgians, previously thought to be extinct, had tears in their eyes as they cheered Mr. Obama.  The assembled press corps shivered with excitement and collectively piddled down their little hind legs as the great man emerged, smiling, from the negotiations.  Their wagging tails and incessant yapping betrayed their unbridled glee.

Ocean Kings Balk at Negotiations
"But trouble lurks," warned the UN Special High Poobah Rapporteur for Climatological Appeasement.  That triumvirate of the murky depths, Kings Poseidon, Neptune, and Triton, have stubbornly resisted The World's blandishments and continue to hold El Nino and La Nina hostage.

Ocean Receding Vow "a mistake"

Cowering Europeans blame a rare misstep by President Obama for incurring their wrath.  In a fit of election night euphoria, then president-elect Obama needlessly provoked the lords of the deep with his careless vow to make the oceans recede. 

EU Parliament members have taken to wearing flippers and have outlawed seafood consumption in an effort to appease the angry gods of the deep, but so far to no avail.

As the US president works through his long list of apologies, it is rumored that a mea culpa to the wrathful sea titans is in the works.

Bush, Cheney to blame for ignoring, disrespecting the ocean kingdom

In a face-saving move, the apology will be couched in criticism of the last administration.  Dick Cheney showed total disregard for the Oceanic kings by never once having visited the beach. 

And it is alleged that President Bush urinated upon their abode during various sailing jaunts off the coast of Kennebunkport, Maine.  While in the very act, the former president is rumored to have said, "what's the ocean ever done for me?  Heh heh heh!"

Obama's Peace Prize, Global Warming, and Other Fantasies

Obama's Peace Prize is really about getting the US to pass cap and trade and then sign on to a disastrous climate change treaty this December

Here come the scolding mommies from Europe, demanding we "Do Something!" in response to their incomprehensible fairy tales about global warming making Mother Earth hot and mad ...

Delegates wrap up two weeks of talks in Thailand tomorrow in an effort to replace or extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, whose emission limits for industrialized nations expire in 2012.

Failure (of the US) to have a new law in time for Copenhagen’s final round of negotiations would raise question marks over what commitments the U.S. can make, Falkenberg said.

Note the arch, scolding, passive/aggressive tone these internationales use:

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Barack Obama faces “more than an embarrassment” should his nation fail to lead international negotiations to complete a new climate-protection treaty by December, a senior European climate negotiator said.

“Obama and his administration are very committed, and it will be more than an embarrassment for them if at Copenhagen they would have to admit they are not ready,” Falkenberg said late last night in Bangkok, where more than 180 nations are meeting for talks.

“We can just help, but helping them also means directly telling them that the world has an expectation.”

I don't like the pompous tone from these little pissant busybodies!  Nobody talks to the US President like that, and we sure as hell don't care about "the world's" expectations.

I was getting really angry reading this piece, until I came across this laugher:

The UN is pushing for a deal that would limit the rise in world temperatures since industrialization began to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

A deal on limiting the earth's temperature?  Who do they propose to negotiate this with?  Old Man Winter?  Mother Nature? The sun?  

The International House of Scandal and Corruption and the polyglot dingleberries who cling to it can't even agree on a what constitutes terrorism or a human rights abuse.  Yet they propose to turn down the earth's thermostat?  

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Finally, the article hints there is hope:

Obama’s scope is limited because the U.S. Congress may not approve a domestic law to control emissions before the December deadline for signing an international climate accord...

Bloomberg - Climate Change Nonsense

Can You Believe It? The Age of Unreason

Credulity [kruh-doo-li-tee] –noun:
Willingness to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist and editor of the humor magazine "Punch". He found Christ late in life and turned his acerbic wit on the ignorant, materialistic culture he saw taking root in Western Christendom. To make his point, he famously pondered the result of bringing an African witch doctor to a modern Western country and subjecting him to television advertising. He posited that the shaman would be green with envy.

In Africa, he had to peddle his dubious potions to a poor, skeptical public by going door-to-door and town-to-town. Here in the Western world, the most highly educated, the most progressive, the most advanced part of the earth, there is a reservoir of credulity beyond his wildest dreams.

So true. Back in the old days, people were much more skeptical. If someone leveled an allegation or posited a point of view without proof or reason he would be laughed out of town and marginalized.

Nowadays, it's a 24/7 party in Kooksville, where crackpots on 500 channels and multifarious media outlets peddle unsubstantiated drivel to a gullible public:

Obama is a Muslim, Hillary is a lesbian, Sarah Palin had an affair, George Bush was in on the 9/11 conspiracy, Bush-Cheney-Halliburton invaded Iraq to steal their oil...

Each of these could be true, but there is no credible supporting evidence.

A related malady is the global warming hysteria. There is still credible scientific disagreement on this issue. Regardless, our government is willing to bet trillions of taxpayer money that Al Gore is right.

I'm incredulous...

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