By Charles Adler
We begin with an email that a Canadian sent to his Member of Parliament and I have been carbon copied. Hmmm…carbon copied...there’s a term that will have to change in this era where carbon is a leper. Let me start over. Here's an email to an MP and I have been copied on this.
The email says:
I am in your constituency thus am writing regarding the global warming “crisis” that the government of Canada has seemed to embrace. I am 45 years old and have read both sides of the bluster since it reared its ugly head years ago. The conservative government seems to be caught up in the hysteria and I have to wonder why. Especially since the discovery of what seems to be fraudulent science at the CRU labs. Despite emails and documents before us showing that there was some unscrupulous “science” going on, we are marching headfirst into who knows what. My question is this, why hasn’t someone from the Government said “wait a minute, shouldn’t we take a step back before billions of dollars are committed to something that might not exist?” Where is the common sense in this situation? What’s even more frustrating is we seem to follow everything that President Obama does like he’s the second coming...and why? What happened to this country being its own sovereign entity? What happened to Stephen Harper standing up and saying NO, we won’t do it this way. I am so frustrated that at this point I’m ready to back a party that actually has the parts to stand up and take a cautious stance before ponying up my tax dollars for this nonsense. One-hundred-and-fifty gas guzzling Limos, and scores of private jets so that a group of so called experts and leaders can map out my economic future. The hypocrisy is nauseating.
One-hundred-and-fifty gas guzzling Limos? Is this citizen of Adler nation nuts? Or is he just caught up in paying attention to facts like:
Copengahen by the numbers
--1200 limos / France just ordered 42 more on Thursday / they ran out of limos coming from Germany & Sweden / number of electric cars or hybrids: 5
--140 private planes / ran out of room at the airport / planes will drop VIP passengers off and then fly to a regional airport OR to Sweden / And then fly back to pick them up
--15,000 delegates and officials / 5,000 journalists / 98 world leaders / Leonardo DiCaprio / Daryl Hannah / Desmond Tutu / Prince Charles
--1400 LEGIT sex trade workers / union / free sex / you need a climate conference delegate's pass
--Temporary prison in an old brewery not being used and just so nobody thinks I am anti-Danish beer, I am on record as saying Tuborg is one of the best lagers I have ever quaffed. Anyway, the old Danish brewery in Copenhagen contains 37 steel cages, room enough for 370 detainees and the Danes promise not to torture any old protesters, pot dealers, pimps or prostitutes handed over to them and I am not talking about Al Gore. We are now told he is not going.
But back to the citizen of Adler Nation and his charge of hypocrisy.
The estimate for this Copenhagen Carbon Orgy is 41,000 tonnes of "carbon dioxide."
This is estimated to be more carbon than is being emitted by 60 small countries in one full year.
Nobody knows for certain whether Tiger Woods will show up at the Copenhagen Carbon Orgy and if he does we will have to rework the numbers.
A pause now from my not-as-big-as-it-used-to-be GUT perspective to something more cerebral from our friendLorrie Goldstein, national columnist for Sun Media.
The thing to understand about the 12-day UN meeting on climate change starting in Copenhagen today, is it's not an environmental conference. It's an economic mugging.
That it's not about saving the planet. It's about making you poorer.
And finally, that the "solutions" it proposes to "fix" the climate, far from being intended to succeed, are guaranteed to fail.
How do we know? Because they've already failed.
The two major initiatives that emerged out of the UN process that created the Kyoto accord, were the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which is a multi-billion-dollar European cap-and-trade market in carbon dioxide emissions, and several mechanisms to generate carbon credits for industry.
A carbon credit, the basic stock unit of cap-and-trade, entitles the bearer to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, with the daily price set by market trading, as occurs with any stock.
In the five years since Kyoto came into force in 2005, cap-and-trade and carbon credits have proven to be disasters.
The ETS hasn't helped the environment. All it's done is drive up energy costs, making ordinary people poorer, while showering Big Business and speculators with undeserved profits.
The carbon credit initiatives Kyoto established, such as the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), are riddled with profiteering and corruption.
To understand what's going to happen in Copenhagen, what you need to know is this.
The purpose of this meeting is to replace Kyoto, which expires in 2012, with a much larger treaty.
The real-world impact of that will be to expand Europe's cap-and-trade market into a global one, with far more carbon credits, and thus more opportunities for fraud.
But now there's a new twist.
To get developing nations, led by China, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions -- which they aren't required to do under Kyoto -- developed countries like Canada will have to transfer billions of dollars annually to the developing world, ostensibly to help it cope with climate change and lower its emissions.
But based on the actual performance of Kyoto -- particularly the widespread corruption in the CDM, where developed countries invest in developing ones to obtain carbon credits -- there's no reason to think that will happen.
What will happen, based on real-world experience, is Big Business will make even more money -- from us -- without helping the environment.
That's why major U.S. money houses that triggered the global recession with irresponsible lending practices -- and who then received hundreds of billions of tax dollars in government bailouts -- are lobbying fiercely for global cap-and-trade.
They know they will make a fortune brokering carbon trading, at least before the speculative bubbles burst yet again, costing millions more jobs.
As we prepare to endure 12 days of misleading rhetoric, painful self-righteousness and Canada-bashing in Copenhagen, remember this.
The biggest corporate backer of Kyoto in the U.S., which lobbied incessantly in favour of carbon-trading because it saw an easy way to make a killing was...Enron.
Ring any bells?
And now from the cerebral back to my not-as-big-as-it-used-to-be Canadian gut. A reprise of my classic Venus Flytrap Climate Scam which first aired a couple months ago - several weeks before the great email hemorrhage from the Mount Sinai of the Climate Crisis Caper at East Anglia University in Great Britain.
I wrote the words which will some day be carved in high carbon rock.
James Hansen may be at NASA and may be a poster child for the Armageddon crowd. But just because he is at NASA doesn't make him a rocket scientist.
He is not. James Hansen won't get you to the Moon. James Hansen won't get you to North Bay. James Hansen we are told, is an expert on radiative transfer models and attempting to understand the Venusian atmosphere.
This we are told led him to the same computer codes being used to understand the Earth's atmosphere.
Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology. And he is Al Gore's hero. What do you know today that you may not have known yesterday?
You know that James Hansen, the all time darling theoretician of Evil Man Made Climate Change is an expert on Venus. If the Climate catastrophe crowd has its way, Earth will become just like the planet Al Gore's hero is intimate with--Cold and in hospitable to human life - no humans messing with Venus - never have been never will be - No humans, No Suv's, No Oil Sands. He understands radiative transfer on Venus.
Now I am not going to waste much time in discussing why if I trust a dude who creates a vaccine and a doctor who administers it more, than I trust Captain Venus.
The climate crowd is all about creating a giant Venus Flytrap --it's what Kyoto was about and what Copenhagen is about.
The Venus Fly trap is a carnivorous plant that catches prey, usually insects. Kyoto and Copenhagen are catch basins for your wealth, which gets put into a fed ex plane to be transferred elsewhere.
It's transferring wealth from your pocket to someone who deserves it more than you.
Remember all you did to accumulate your wealth was to work for it. The person who is without your wealth did not have the opportunity you had to work for it. So you are morally bound to hand your money over to them.
I know what you are thinking. You're thinking that this is no different than being mugged or having your home invaded.
You would be right. But these home invaders aren't on crack. They're on climate ideology, and I think I should let the cat out of the climate bag at this point and point you in the direction of Copenhagen, Denmark where some of our scientists and government officials will be eating cheese and drinking wine and signing away some of your current and future wealth.
The head of the United Nations climate office says richer nations must come to Copenhagen pledging funds to poorer nations to make progress on a new agreement to curb global warming this year.
“Finance is the key to a deal in Copenhagen,” said Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
"Money, in fact, is the oil that encourages commitment and drives action,” he said in a conference call with journalists.
Essentials of a deal would include finance, emissions cuts by rich countries, pledges by poorer countries to reduce the rate of growth of their emissions, and a structure to monitor those commitments.
In the realm of finance, a number of poorer countries are demanding that richer nations collectively pay hundreds of billions of dollars each year to help them cope with an already changing climate.
Mr. de Boer said he had been encouraged by a call from Britain on the E.U. to contribute funds from public sources totaling about $15 billion annually.
But he said that “the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand — all industrialized countries need to provide clarity on the financial support that they are willing and able to provide,” and he stressed that “until they do that, it is impossible, or almost impossible, to expect developing countries to make significant moves either.”
Mr. de Boer acknowledged that it would be “physically impossible, under any scenario” to finalize a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen.
But he said the meeting of more than 190 nations “must see the end of negotiation and the beginning of technical process to work out all the details.”
Those details should be concluded during 2010, he said, so that it is ready to take effect in 2012, when parts of the Kyoto Protocol expire.
The head of the United Nations climate office said Wednesday that richer nations must pledge funds to poorer nations to make progress on a new agreement to curb global warming this year.
“Finance is the key to a deal in Copenhagen,” said Yvo de Boer , the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, who was referring to the Danish capital where a global climate summit takes place in December. “Money, in fact, is the oil that encourages commitment and drives action,” he said in a conference call with journalists.
European Union nations are divided over whether to come forward first with a pledge of public money to unlock stalled negotiations. Mr. de Boer’s comments appeared partly aimed at pushing nations like Germany and Poland to settle differences over the matter, and to allow European leaders to put money on the table by the end of this week.
But the battle over funding within the E.U. reflects the broader difficulties in reaching agreements on what Mr. de Boer termed “four essentials” that would make up a global deal. Those essentials include finance, emissions cuts by rich countries, pledges by poorer countries to reduce the rate of growth of their emissions, and a structure to monitor those commitments.
In the realm of finance, a number of poorer countries are demanding that richer nations collectively pay hundreds of billions of dollars each year to help them cope with an already changing climate.
Mr. de Boer said he had been encouraged by a call from Britain on the E.U. to contribute funds from public sources totaling about $15 billion annually.
But he said that “the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand — all industrialized countries need to provide clarity on the financial support that they are willing and able to provide,” and he stressed that “until they do that, it is impossible, or almost impossible, to expect developing countries to make significant moves either.”
Mr. de Boer acknowledged that it would be “physically impossible, under any scenario” to finalize a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen. But he said the meeting of more than 190 nations “must see the end of negotiation and the beginning of technical process to work out all the details.”
Now you might be asking yourself the question, "How much money is Canada willing to turn over under such a scheme?”
I don't know.
You might be asking will the Canadian people be consulted before someone strokes a cheque on your behalf.
You might be asking, well since we have a nominally conservative government - and I say nominally conservative because their actions are always predicated on soothing the jangled nerve endings of the wombats, whippets and wing nuts who will be only too happy to tell the media that Canada is not doing its part to help mother earth.
Our nominally conservative government will mother these parasites as always, not wanting to risk yet another minority government or even worse - loss of government - first you lose the PR war and then you lose your government.
Does anyone have any clue as to how expensive it is to run a country where the government is intimidated by Suzuki Sycophants and Al Gore Groupies and Venus Fly traps?
And that is the question I have for the citizen of Adler Nation who wrote his Member of Parliament asking the very honest question, “Why do the Tories have to go along with this climate scam?” This warming swindle, this Ponzi scheme for limo riding, rapacious Rasputins who treat the rest of us rubes like we deserve to have our pockets and bank accounts drained of everything we honestly earned.
