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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Top 10 Bad Developments For Global Warming Alarmists
by Kenneth Hanner
12/19/2010
Things keep getting worse for global-warming alarmists. Last year, saw the
collapse at Copenhagen, Climategate and the death of cap-and-trade. A recent
spate of bad developments added to their woes:
1. Cancun Play-Day: Following last year’s Copenhagen climate conference
which turned into a farce, another meaningless UN climate conference was
held this year in Cancun, Mexico. While little to nothing was accomplished,
at least the well-dressed delegates picked a nice locale to pollute with
their jets and limos.
2. Globe Stopped Warming: According to the UK Daily Mail, buried in a new
British Meteorological Office report is data that shows there has been
virtually no global warming for the past 15 years. A very inconvenient truth
for the alarmists.
3. Invoking Ixchel: Christiana Figueres, a UN climate official, didn’t
help the kooky image of global warming alarmists when she addressed
delegates gathered at the UN’s climate conference in Cancun. Figueres
invoked the ancient Mayan jaguar goddess Ixcehl, saying she hoped the
goddess of weaving would inspire the delegates “to weave together the
elements of a solid response to climate change.” Where is the ACLU and
their church-state separation wall when you really need it?
4. Cold Weather: With the East Coast gripped by bitter cold, Paris paralyzed
by snow and a headline in the UK’s Daily Express exclaiming, “Britain is
Freezing to Death,” global warming alarmists will again have to fall back
on their “climate change” sleight of hand to explain away the cold.
5. WikiLeaks: Secret cables among the Wikileaks trove of leaked documents
include accounts that the Danish climate minister floated financial
assistance for small island nations to gain their support for the Copenhagen
climate pact and put pressure on developing nations like Brazil and India
to go along. Why are bribes needed if these nations are so imperiled by
rising oceans?
6. Global One-Child Policy: Economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s
National Center for Atmospheric Research presented a study in Cancun which
concluded that a rising global population is contributing to emissions
growth, and that family planning could counter the trend. Media mogul Ted
Turner followed up with a plea for a global one-child policy and proposed
that fertility rights be sold so that poor people could profit from their
decision not to reproduce.
7. Ted Turner Touts Cap-and-Trade: Speaking of Ted Turner, the CNN founder
said at the Cancun climate confab that President Obama made “a big mistake
” by not making his cap-and-trade energy legislation his “top priority”
ahead of healthcare. You know you are in trouble when you have to out-flank
Obama from the Left to make your case.
8. Gore Group on Last Gasp: The Alliance for Climate Protection had to
drastically scale back its operations with the collapse of climate change
legislation in Congress. The group was aligned with Al Gore in 2008 in a
massive advertising and lobbying campaign to pass climate legislation. With
cap-and-trade all-but-dead, the group has cut the number of states having
field offices from 25 to seven. Funny how a midterm election can bring about
change.
9. Climate Committee Axed: With Republicans taking back the House of
Representatives in January, expect changes in how various committees are run
. None will be greater than the fate of the Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming. Incoming House Speaker John Boehner has
already announced that the panel, a pet project of Nancy Pelosi, will be
dismantled.
10. Pachauri Proclaims: Dr. Rajendra Pachauri is the head of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which has been under fire for its
report stating Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 with no scientific
evidence to back up the claim. Now he is back in the news, lecturing climate
delegates in Cancun on the eminent dangers of global warming. Let’s hope
he has some science to back up his claims this time.
Kenneth Hanner is former national editor of The Washington Times and former
managing editor of HUMAN EVENTS. |
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