All About Climate

I think the climate is changing. It's making people coo-coo, coo-coo.

I dunno. We've yet to win the "war on poverty" and that's a human to human problem and now we think we can take on Mother Nature?

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Greenpeace scales the Parliament building. First a couple crashes the White House and now Greenpeace manages to hang some signs from The Hill.

Crazy, but good for them. Not so good for the security community. 

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Thomas Friedman's beeeezar logic.

If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims. One is that the globe has been cooling lately, not warming, and the other is that America simply can't afford any kind of cap-and-trade/carbon tax.

But here is what they also surely believe, but are not saying: They believe the world is going to face a mass plague, like the Black Death, that will wipe out 2.5 billion people sometime between now and 2050. They believe it is much better for America that the world be dependent on oil for energy -- a commodity largely controlled by countries that hate us and can only go up in price as demand increases -- rather than on clean power technologies that are controlled by us and only go down in price as demand increases. And, finally, they believe that people in the developing world are very happy being poor -- just give them a little running water and electricity and they'll be fine. They'll never want to live like us.

Yes, the opponents of any tax on carbon to stimulate alternatives to oil must believe all these things because that is the only way their arguments make any sense.

And so he opens his article. Wow. Talk about all sorts of straw men and projections! Terrible. It's almost as if he doesn't believe there are any legitimate reasons to oppose the topics discussed.

Then there's this interview on Camp-bell Brown:

"But here's my take on it - maybe it isn't 90 percent, like some of the skeptics say," Friedman said. "Maybe it is 80 percent. Maybe it is 50 percent. But you know what that means? There is a 50 percent chance that - when you put that CO2 in the atmosphere, it stays there for about 3,000 years. So, if we keep putting it there and it stays there for 3,000 years and it does start raising temperatures, it is going to be hot here, Campbell, for a long, long time."

Huh? Wha? Pulitzer? That makes no sense to me. None. Please, someone, 'splain to me.

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Rex Murphy is my reason for living. Everyday I fight to find a reason to exist but all I need to do is look at the poster of Murphy over my bed and I find my strength. His take on Climatescam, Climategate, Climatefence or whatever you care to tag a name to it.

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Hopenhagen. Hopenhagen? Hansel? Hossenffer? Hopenfrickenhagen?

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Which country is the most dangerous and destructive on the planet? China? North Korea? Iran? Freedonia? If you guessed any of these you're wrong dipshit. At least according to Monbiot.com:

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.

Imagine if we had Enola Gay and increased spending on the military what would he say!

Look, there's a bunch of things Canada comes up short on but does our misbehavior on the environment justify this argument? 

Anyway, read it for yourself. Seems a tad hyperbolic to me but hey...I'm just THE COMMENTATOR! Autograph session next week at the corner of St. Laurent and St. Catherine. For old times sake - inside Montreal joke.

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This is tooooooo mooooooooch. As the elites drum the "you must change or else we will all die...arghhh!" beat to nauseating levels, it's not hard to begin to wonder about "qui bono."

Most of the stretched vehicles have been driven hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden. Last week, France ordered an extra 42 of them. Only five of the limos are hybrid, the rest are petrol and diesel, the Independent reported.

Among the personal jets will be Air Force One. US president Barack Obama’s £180,000 limousine, known as “The Beast”, will arrive on a separate flight with a fleet of decoy helicopters, up to 500 security staff, six doctors, two chefs and his personal BlackBerry handler.

According to the organisers, the eleven-day meet, including the participants’ travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of “CO² equivalent”, equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough, the Telegraph reported.

Classic case of do as I say and not as I do...because, you know, I have to live it up and keep up my image.

Hey, Gore, here's a stuffed polar bear. You figure out what to do with it.

Anyway, it's too bad. We do indeed need to change our ways. On this note, I agree with Friedman. I believe we're not kind to the environment but these assholes making their way to Denmark are making it hard to take them seriously.