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The Spectacle Blog
From today’s Telegraph about the Cancun talks to attain Kyoto I, formally kicking off today:
A sense of foreboding is one of the few points of general agreement among the 15,000 participants congregating for the next two weeks on this long thin strip of land, marooned between a wide lagoon and the Caribbean Sea. Jairem Ramesh, the Indian environment minister, sees it as the “last chance” for climate change talks to succeed; Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s climate chief, believes a disappointing outcome would “put the whole process in danger”…
Huh. Now check out last year’s exhortations, on the Copenhagen talks to attain Kyoto II. That was that last chance to save Kyoto II and thereby the planet. That belly flopped, so Cancun is the current last chance.
There is a reason I finally stopped attending these absurdities in December 2005. Several, actually. You’ve seen one ‘last chance’, Euro-teary, document-waving session early on the morning after the confab was slated to end declaring an historic agreement to meet again next year, you’ve seen them all.
And of course this hyperbole is also typical when dealing with a theory that is often described as the ‘greatest threat facing mankind’ which, upon scrutiny means ‘…except for all the others’ (To wit, try this on an alarmist: ‘So, you mean you want more nuclear power?’. ‘Oh. Then how about tree farms to absorb CO2?’ ‘Oh. Then how about dams?’ ‘Oh. Then how about windmills where the wind blows even if it’s where birds fly and Kennedys live?’ ‘Oh. Then how about solar arrays out in the desert?’ ‘Oh.’…)
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owyheewine| 11.29.10 @ 9:39AM
If you believe that to find out about certain acts, that all you need to do is follow the money, you can conclude that there are at least 15,000 leaches out to make a buck out of the last gasps of the global warming fantasy.
Big Java| 11.29.10 @ 9:59AM
And Cancun is a nice place to be right now, lots of good food, good drink and lovely women all on someone elses tab.
Eric Cartman| 11.29.10 @ 10:28AM
No, Mr Horner, you haven't seen them all. THIS is really, really, reallyreally THEE absolute, really-real, super duper last chance, okay? Not like those other just last chance times. This time we really mean it. Really, really - like the ice sculpture melting over by the palapa bar, real. It would be like if I turned off the air conditioner in my hotel room, real (which I'm not, okay?). So quit being so snarky about something so serious. Oh, shoot, it's Limbo Time With Lupe' down by the pool. Thanks for wasting my time answering your global warming skepticism once again. Now I'm late and it will be your fault if I don't win the free deep-sea fishing excursion and trip to Isla Mujeres for lobster. JERK!
Eric Cartman| 11.29.10 @ 10:39AM
Oh, and by the way, Mr. Horner, YOU may not know climate change is happening, but the otters do. They have begun atacking people because of our failure to come to a global warming treaty. Let the otters speak! Show us the way, otters!
http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostp.....ovider=top
Pete| 11.29.10 @ 10:47AM
What a predicament indeed. Socialist countries (US included) have spent all their money on entitlements and fraud and now they have nothing left to save themsleves from spontaneous combustion. So sad.
Mow 'em Down| 11.29.10 @ 12:09PM
Let's see ... it's a twofer for this mob of freeloading climate change Nazis. Congregate (mill about?) in Cancun and avoid the chance of embarrassing street demonstrations ... plus soak up the sun and suds at the same time. What the gamboling climate fraudsters need is a little taste of reality -- like maybe a freestyle drug cartel shootout right in their midst. Wouldn't that be interesting?
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 11.29.10 @ 1:48PM
I wonder if the Spanish babe who says she now owns the sun will be there.