Today's sno-cone of irony courtesy of Bloomberg.
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
“Temperatures will stay low at least the next three days,” Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. “There’s a good chance of a white Christmas.”
While I'm thinking about it, somebody get word out to the airport's ground crew in Copenhagen that there could be a few extra Krones in their stockings this Christmas if they were more than a little stingy with the de-icer for Chavez and Mugabe's planes.
Showing posts with label Copenhagen Conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Copenhagen Conference. Show all posts
Friday, December 18, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Copenhagen Conference Welcomes Aging African Despot; Hot Air Front From Latin America Expected as Well
Seems Old Man Mugabe isn't too welcome in Europe, but was able to exploit a loophole courtesey of the United Nations.
Copenhagen - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe arrived Tuesday in Copenhagen to take part in the final days of the UN climate talks to be attended by some 120 world leaders, Danish television footage showed.
Hugo Chavez also announced yesterday that he will attend the final days of the Copenhagen conference. Chavez says that global warming is to blame for drought in Venezuela, which affected their hydroelectric power supply (as opposed to central government planning being to blame).
I'm touched that Chavez and Mugabe would take time out of their busy schedules of pile-driving their economies into the ground and squelching opposition at home to fly halfway around the world to demand money from industrial nations
Copenhagen - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe arrived Tuesday in Copenhagen to take part in the final days of the UN climate talks to be attended by some 120 world leaders, Danish television footage showed.
Hugo Chavez also announced yesterday that he will attend the final days of the Copenhagen conference. Chavez says that global warming is to blame for drought in Venezuela, which affected their hydroelectric power supply (as opposed to central government planning being to blame).
I'm touched that Chavez and Mugabe would take time out of their busy schedules of pile-driving their economies into the ground and squelching opposition at home to fly halfway around the world to demand money from industrial nations
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Is 'Media Spin' a Renewable Energy Resource?
The latest damage-control the press is trying to utilize regarding the hacked Climate Change e-mails from East Anglia University is 'Petty but accurate'.
The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Is there a turbine to harness the power of all this spinning? Just because they used suspect methodology, withheld information from other researchers and openly ridiculed skeptics doesn't mean their findings are flawed in any way shape or form. I mean, come on- the debate is over! And just in time for bloodthirsty genocidal despotic nations like Sudan to start demanding money from the industrialized nations at this farce in Denmark.
The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Is there a turbine to harness the power of all this spinning? Just because they used suspect methodology, withheld information from other researchers and openly ridiculed skeptics doesn't mean their findings are flawed in any way shape or form. I mean, come on- the debate is over! And just in time for bloodthirsty genocidal despotic nations like Sudan to start demanding money from the industrialized nations at this farce in Denmark.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Developing Nations Represented by Genocidal Totalitarian Islamist State at Copenhagen Conference
As if you needed any more evidence that the Copenhagen Conference was a farce:
What Were They Thinking?
What is difficult for developed countries to understand is the choice of Sudan as a standard-bearer in the first place. The G77 elected Sudan as its chair in September, 2008, when its genocidal campaign in Darfur was already well known. By March, 2009, Omar al-Bashir, the country's president, became the first sitting head of state to be indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, all related to the Darfur attacks that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Mr. al-Bashir is a wanted man, and his attendance at Copenhagen is unlikely; Sudanese leadership cannot be credible.
Maybe Sudan was selected for their uncompromising and hands-on approach to reducing the 'carbon footprints' of all those civilians in Darfur.
What Were They Thinking?
What is difficult for developed countries to understand is the choice of Sudan as a standard-bearer in the first place. The G77 elected Sudan as its chair in September, 2008, when its genocidal campaign in Darfur was already well known. By March, 2009, Omar al-Bashir, the country's president, became the first sitting head of state to be indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, all related to the Darfur attacks that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Mr. al-Bashir is a wanted man, and his attendance at Copenhagen is unlikely; Sudanese leadership cannot be credible.
Maybe Sudan was selected for their uncompromising and hands-on approach to reducing the 'carbon footprints' of all those civilians in Darfur.
Saving the World in STYLE 2.0.....Free Shuttle Buses Provided Are Empty.
FOX News is reporting that even though limos and luxury sedans have to be brought in from adjacent countries to meet demand in Denmark, the free shuttle buses that the conference provided for delegates are making their rounds while mostly empty.
[Hat tip: Spongebubba103]
[Hat tip: Spongebubba103]
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saving the World in Style! Danish Limo Operators Can't Keep Up With Demand Ahead of Copenhagen Conference
The Telegraph is estimating that this week's Climate Conference in Copenhagen will see approximately 1,200 limousines and 140 private planes converging on the Danish capital:
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.
Guess again!
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number?
"Five," says Ms Jorgensen.
"The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."
The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.
So we learn that hybrid cars are cost-prohibitve in the nation that's hosting the summit that's supposed to save the world.
I also wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn all these government and UN representatives will see to it that they will get to keep their private planes, limousines and town cars while hectoring and browbeating anybody who dares use their own vehicle instead of carpooling or taking public transit.
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.
Guess again!
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number?
"Five," says Ms Jorgensen.
"The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."
The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.
So we learn that hybrid cars are cost-prohibitve in the nation that's hosting the summit that's supposed to save the world.
I also wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn all these government and UN representatives will see to it that they will get to keep their private planes, limousines and town cars while hectoring and browbeating anybody who dares use their own vehicle instead of carpooling or taking public transit.
Friday, December 4, 2009
'Thuggish Petro-state' of Canada in Crosshairs of Self-Righteous AGW Alarmists in Leadup to Copenhagen Conference
Patron Saint of the frothing, sanctimonious climate change scaremongers George Monbiot excoriates the Canucks for having the audacity to access their own natural resources.
Just like the hopenhagen.org page that this blog derives its name from, Monbiot's article had all the earmarks of brilliant satire. Only it turns out Monbiot was being as serious as a heart attack. Which makes his screed even funnier.
So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
"Heeeere I come to save the Day! Mighty Monbiot to save the daaaaay!".
It's as though his 'self imposed ban' on flying is supposed to be as sacrosanct as Batman's 'no-kill' policy, the steely lone hero deciding that the situation at hand is so dire that he has to break on of his long-standing promises on a life-or-death matter. And the end result of Monbiot's going back on his promise to never fly again? Shaking his fist at the Parliament building in Ottawa? Calling PM Stephen Harper a big stinky doody-head? This Guardian column?
And make no mistake about it- if Monbiot had his way, his 'self-imposed ban' on flying would be a self-imposed ban on all of us flying. Except maybe some of the elite and super-rich who can't bear to part with their vacation homes on the French Riviera and will throw money into a poorly-regulated 'carbon offset fund'. The rest of us will just have to walk.
In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. [snip....]
It is now clear that Canada will refuse to be sanctioned for abandoning its legal obligations. The Kyoto protocol can be enforced only through goodwill: countries must agree to accept punitive future obligations if they miss their current targets.
Huh? So if the Kyoto protocol can only be enforced through goodwill, how come China, Brazil, Russia or India aren't being held accountable? Or were they never on board with that particular ponzi scheme to begin with?
Or maybe Canada reversed it's stance on Kyoto because.....oh....I dunno...somebody did the math and realized that complying with the guidelines set forth in Kyoto would kneecap the country's economy? I'm not talking the energy industry either- agriculture, timber, mining, fishing, manufacturing, transportation, utilities.....all cut off at the knees. Sort of like cap and trade in the USA.
Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.
After several indignant, foamy paragraphs, this is what the article boils down to. Canada should stop all fishing, energy exploration and timber harvesting because continuing to utilize those natural resources affects how Monbiot and other AGW alarmists FEEL about Canada.
This is vintage, prototypical left-wing thinking (right down to the 'Tar Barons' strawman and relentless browbeating):
Never mind the real-world implications of what we're proposing: It's all about how people should FEEL about it.
UPDATE: Heather Mallick Prostrates herself before Saint Monbiot of the Frothy Indignation in this embarrassingly puffy and fluffy 'rebuttal'. And in the process, makes it clear that it's all about politics.
Monbiot, a hero of mine, had earlier written a toned down piece for the leaden opinion page of Canada's dullest newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
What? There's a shortage of role-models up there? What about Jimmy Doohan- Scotty from Star Trek? He stormed the beaches of Normandy with the Canadian Army on D-Day. Or Terry Fox? Sure, he didn't make it all the way across Canada, but 'E' for effort. Or any one of the Ice Road Truckers....I mean....talk about chutzpah and moxie! Oh wait- driving carbon-spewing 18-wheelers across the tundra, frozen lakes and even the Arctic Ocean each winter kind of puts lie to the claim that the world is ending, the ice is melting and the seas are rising thanks to things like......exhaust from Alex Debagorski's Peterbilt.
Or is your idea of a hero only somebody who advocates that other people make sacrifices and forfeit their freedom of choice and money to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who lord over them? And would likely be exempt from such sacrifices themselves....
We love the Kyoto protocol, we want to prostrate ourselves in Copenhagen next month, but until we make our mind up about whether to make Michael Ignatieff prime minister, we can't.
May I humbly beg for patience with my country, which is stuck like a beaver in a dam of its own making.
Harper is determined to turn Canada into America-lite. He doesn't mean the America of Obama. He means the America of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, with its private affluence and public squalor.
Good thing- granted it's only 10 months, but the 'America of Obama' doesn't seem to be working out too well so far.
Don't forget the double-digit unemployment! Oh...wait....that too is the 'America of Obama'. Or Carter.
Hell- I'd settle for Harper turning Canada into the America of Clinton. And if Harper does indeed succeed in sabotaging the Copenhagen conference like all the frothy, self-righteous greens insist, I'll be the first to buy a Labatt and raise it in a toast to PM Harper before singing The Maple Leaf Forever.
Just like the hopenhagen.org page that this blog derives its name from, Monbiot's article had all the earmarks of brilliant satire. Only it turns out Monbiot was being as serious as a heart attack. Which makes his screed even funnier.
So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
"Heeeere I come to save the Day! Mighty Monbiot to save the daaaaay!".
It's as though his 'self imposed ban' on flying is supposed to be as sacrosanct as Batman's 'no-kill' policy, the steely lone hero deciding that the situation at hand is so dire that he has to break on of his long-standing promises on a life-or-death matter. And the end result of Monbiot's going back on his promise to never fly again? Shaking his fist at the Parliament building in Ottawa? Calling PM Stephen Harper a big stinky doody-head? This Guardian column?
And make no mistake about it- if Monbiot had his way, his 'self-imposed ban' on flying would be a self-imposed ban on all of us flying. Except maybe some of the elite and super-rich who can't bear to part with their vacation homes on the French Riviera and will throw money into a poorly-regulated 'carbon offset fund'. The rest of us will just have to walk.
In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. [snip....]
It is now clear that Canada will refuse to be sanctioned for abandoning its legal obligations. The Kyoto protocol can be enforced only through goodwill: countries must agree to accept punitive future obligations if they miss their current targets.
Huh? So if the Kyoto protocol can only be enforced through goodwill, how come China, Brazil, Russia or India aren't being held accountable? Or were they never on board with that particular ponzi scheme to begin with?
Or maybe Canada reversed it's stance on Kyoto because.....oh....I dunno...somebody did the math and realized that complying with the guidelines set forth in Kyoto would kneecap the country's economy? I'm not talking the energy industry either- agriculture, timber, mining, fishing, manufacturing, transportation, utilities.....all cut off at the knees. Sort of like cap and trade in the USA.
Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.
After several indignant, foamy paragraphs, this is what the article boils down to. Canada should stop all fishing, energy exploration and timber harvesting because continuing to utilize those natural resources affects how Monbiot and other AGW alarmists FEEL about Canada.
This is vintage, prototypical left-wing thinking (right down to the 'Tar Barons' strawman and relentless browbeating):
Never mind the real-world implications of what we're proposing: It's all about how people should FEEL about it.
UPDATE: Heather Mallick Prostrates herself before Saint Monbiot of the Frothy Indignation in this embarrassingly puffy and fluffy 'rebuttal'. And in the process, makes it clear that it's all about politics.
Monbiot, a hero of mine, had earlier written a toned down piece for the leaden opinion page of Canada's dullest newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
What? There's a shortage of role-models up there? What about Jimmy Doohan- Scotty from Star Trek? He stormed the beaches of Normandy with the Canadian Army on D-Day. Or Terry Fox? Sure, he didn't make it all the way across Canada, but 'E' for effort. Or any one of the Ice Road Truckers....I mean....talk about chutzpah and moxie! Oh wait- driving carbon-spewing 18-wheelers across the tundra, frozen lakes and even the Arctic Ocean each winter kind of puts lie to the claim that the world is ending, the ice is melting and the seas are rising thanks to things like......exhaust from Alex Debagorski's Peterbilt.
Or is your idea of a hero only somebody who advocates that other people make sacrifices and forfeit their freedom of choice and money to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who lord over them? And would likely be exempt from such sacrifices themselves....
We love the Kyoto protocol, we want to prostrate ourselves in Copenhagen next month, but until we make our mind up about whether to make Michael Ignatieff prime minister, we can't.
May I humbly beg for patience with my country, which is stuck like a beaver in a dam of its own making.
Harper is determined to turn Canada into America-lite. He doesn't mean the America of Obama. He means the America of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, with its private affluence and public squalor.
Good thing- granted it's only 10 months, but the 'America of Obama' doesn't seem to be working out too well so far.
Don't forget the double-digit unemployment! Oh...wait....that too is the 'America of Obama'. Or Carter.
Hell- I'd settle for Harper turning Canada into the America of Clinton. And if Harper does indeed succeed in sabotaging the Copenhagen conference like all the frothy, self-righteous greens insist, I'll be the first to buy a Labatt and raise it in a toast to PM Harper before singing The Maple Leaf Forever.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Denmark to Pay Tribute to Tom Cruise, 'Minority Report' With Pre-Crime Legislation
Recently-Passed Danish Law Allows for 'pre-emptive' Arrest and Detention:
In a move that environmental activists and civil libertarians are describing as "deeply worrying", the Danish parliament yesterday passed legislation that gives police the power of 'pre-emptive arrest' ahead of the UN climate talks which begin in Copenhagen on December 7. The new measures will allow officers to arrest and detain anyone for up to 12 hours who they believe is liable to break the law in the near future.
Hmm....now if the world is supposed to be saved at Copenhagen and a new era of peace, civility and unicorns is supposed to be ushered in by the industrialized nations forfeiting their sovereignty this month, what dastardly, black-hearted villain could be opposed to the Danes giving police the power to pre-emptively arrest?
Maybe groups like Climate Justice Action, who fear that the Copenhagen Conference won't do enough to cripple the developed and developing nations.
In a move that environmental activists and civil libertarians are describing as "deeply worrying", the Danish parliament yesterday passed legislation that gives police the power of 'pre-emptive arrest' ahead of the UN climate talks which begin in Copenhagen on December 7. The new measures will allow officers to arrest and detain anyone for up to 12 hours who they believe is liable to break the law in the near future.
Hmm....now if the world is supposed to be saved at Copenhagen and a new era of peace, civility and unicorns is supposed to be ushered in by the industrialized nations forfeiting their sovereignty this month, what dastardly, black-hearted villain could be opposed to the Danes giving police the power to pre-emptively arrest?
Maybe groups like Climate Justice Action, who fear that the Copenhagen Conference won't do enough to cripple the developed and developing nations.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Brazil's Lula to USA and Europe on Emission Cutbacks: 'You First- We're Too Busy Drilling For Oil'
This is what the President of Brazil had to say back in July:
"The United States has more responsibility than China; Europe has more responsibility than South America or Africa," Lula said.
China has replaced the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases because of its fast-growing economy and dependence on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Brazil also has large emissions due to extensive, albeit falling, destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Burning or decomposing trees emit carbon dioxide.
Of course, no mention of Brazilian energy company Petrobras and their commitment to drill offshore in Brazil.
Also keep in mind that the Brazilians were considered pioneers in ethanol refined from their vast reserves of sugarcane. Petrobras going after oil and natural gas deposits in their own reigon is an about-face from Lula's own statements and the accolades bestowed upon Brazil for it's sugarcane-based ethanol production.
But then again, the fossil fuels PetroBras has committed to extract are probably much more reliable than their hydroelectric power sources.
"The United States has more responsibility than China; Europe has more responsibility than South America or Africa," Lula said.
China has replaced the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases because of its fast-growing economy and dependence on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Brazil also has large emissions due to extensive, albeit falling, destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Burning or decomposing trees emit carbon dioxide.
Of course, no mention of Brazilian energy company Petrobras and their commitment to drill offshore in Brazil.
Also keep in mind that the Brazilians were considered pioneers in ethanol refined from their vast reserves of sugarcane. Petrobras going after oil and natural gas deposits in their own reigon is an about-face from Lula's own statements and the accolades bestowed upon Brazil for it's sugarcane-based ethanol production.
But then again, the fossil fuels PetroBras has committed to extract are probably much more reliable than their hydroelectric power sources.
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