“I’m in the egg-laying business,” Henny-Penny said, “but the
world champions are the members of the college of cardinals of
global warming meeting in Durban South Africa right now. They came
to drum up a successor to the Kyoto Accord and will go home with
nothing.”
Ms. H-P knows everything there is to know about the global
warming religion, having been until recently the founder and
recording secretary of The Holy Order Of The Sky Is Falling
(THOOTSIF). Having seen that its dire prophecies have not been
coming true, she is now a leading skeptic.
She continued: “Have your noticed that it’s springtime in
Durban, South Africa? Nearly every one of the several hundred
delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
conference is on some government’s payroll — or the UN’s — and
they came by airliner without noting the irony of the thousands of
pounds of carbon they were pumping into the air by doing
so.”
ME: Tell me about their goal at this meeting.
H-P: The same thing they’ve had at all these meetings.
They want a legally-binding agreement between the world’s “rich”
nations to put $100 billion a year into a fund to help “poor”
nations cope with global warming. You can imagine how that would be
spent.
The U.S. isn’t a party to Kyoto, and Canada is withdrawing
from it. They and Japan and Russia have signaled they won’t sign on
to this new pact. China and India will stand aside unless the
others sign. Result: a giant goose egg (many times the size of the
ordinary eggs I lay every day in the hen house).”
ME: There was a strong note of desperation in the
conference statement released by one Virginia Dandan, the UN
Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity.
Among other things, she called for “old and new polluters to
confront the massive, irreversible damage that has already been
caused.” She appealed to the “Global Village” that the Durban
negotiations “are a make or break for humanity.… Failure in Durban
would impact on the three pillars of the UN, namely, peace and
security, development and human rights.”
H-P: It’s just more scare talk. Note that she mentioned
three UN “pillars,” but named four. She needs to go to a
remedial arithmetic class. The global warming cardinals pulled out
all the stops to hype this event. They had the International Energy
Agency issue a report that global warming would become
“catastrophic and irreversible” by 2017 if the world’s nations
didn’t buy into their proposed carbon restrictions. This is as
believable as that minister in California who predicted the end of
the world on a particular day last spring.
ME: No doubt the scientists who talk up “global warming”
and “climate change” are sincere in their beliefs. Yet, they crank
into their computers data about increased temperatures here and
there and come out with hard-and-fast predictions about future
temperatures, rising sea levels and melting glaciers.
H-P: Yes, and they defend their theories fiercely.
Remember in 2009 just before the big Copenhagen conference, there
was a revelation of many e-mails among them, conspiring to besmirch
skeptical scientists and repress contrary data? Michael Mann, a
Penn State professor, and that fellow who runs the East Anglia
climate center in England were among the worst. There was a new
exposé of e-mails by this pair and others just prior to the Durban
conference. They haven’t changed their ways.
Even the Associated Press buys into their theories. As the
conference opened, it wrote, “As if to illustrate the effects of
global warming, a fierce storm on the eve of the talks flooded
shack settlements…” Really? It could as easily have been a sign
of God’s ire at the foolishness of the global warming enterprise,
telling its cardinals to pack up and go home.
ME: What of Al Gore in all this? He was the Pontiff of
your THOOTSIF.
H-P: He turned out to be 100 percent hot
air.
ME: Since the global warming cardinals have not come up
with a way to meet the world’s need for energy in place of
hydrocarbons, I’m tempted to think that the underlying motivation
of the climate change movement is that of the pure ecologists who
believe that humans are despoiling the planet and producing too
many children and that the remedy is draconian birth control and
sharply reduced standards of living.
H-P: You may be right.
Mr. Hannaford first met Henny-Penny when she
founded The Holy Order Of The Sky Is Falling. Recently, she
concluded that it is not falling.
