Battle of Copenhagen
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Before President Obama even landed at Andrews Air Force Base, returning from his mission to Copenhagen to win the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago had been voted off the island.
Many shared the lamentation of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, “What has become of America, when Chicago can’t steal an election?”
A second and more serious battle of Copenhagen is shaping up, in mid-December, when a world conference gathers to impose limits on greenhouse gases to stop “global warming.” Primary purpose: Rope in the Americans who refused to submit to the Kyoto Protocols that Al Gore brought home in the Clinton era.
The long campaign to bring the United States under another global regime — the newest piece in the architecture of world government — has been flagging since 2008. Then, it seemed a lock with the election of Obama and a veto-proof Democratic Senate.
Why has the campaign stalled? Because global warming has stalled. The hottest year of modern times, 1998, came and went a decade ago.
As BBC climate correspondent Paul Hudson writes: “For the last 11 years, we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though manmade carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.”
What this powerfully suggests is that what man does and does not do is far less responsible for climate change, if it is responsible at all, than other factors over which he has no control.
Consider. Though the emissions of carbon dioxide rose constantly throughout the 20th century — with the industrialization of the West, Japan, Southeast Asia and, finally, China and India — global temperatures have not risen steadily at all. They have fluctuated.
John Sununu, writing in the St. Croix Review, says the Earth underwent “cooling in the 1920s, heating in the 1930s and 1940s, cooling in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s, warming in the 1980s and 1990s, and cooling in the past decade.”
But if there is no crisis, why are we even going to Copenhagen? And if there is no causal connection between carbon dioxide and global warming, what is the true cause of climate change?
Some scientists say that 98 percent of the Earth’s temperature can be explained by the sun. When the sun’s energy increases, a matter over which man has zero control, the Earth’s temperature rises. When the sun’s energy diminishes, the Earth’s temperature falls.
One solar scientist, Piers Corbyn, claims to have found a link between solar charged particles hitting the Earth and global warming and cooling.
Others, like professor Don Easterbrook of Western Washington University, contend that the oceans explain climate change. As they heat and cool cyclically, the Earth heats and cools. And where the oceans were cooling for 40 years before the 1990s, they have lately been heating up. Easterbrook says these cycles tend to last for 30 years.
As Hudson notes, there are scientists who claim they have taken all these factors into consideration and insist that the Earth, over the long haul, is warming. But Hudson cites Mojib Latif of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who says we are in the fist stage of a long-term cooling trend that will last another 10 to 20 years.
The anecdotal evidence almost daily contradicts Al Gore and the end-of-times environmentalists. Lately, there have been record-breaking cold spells in the Midwest and West. Snow came to Colorado this October, postponing a baseball playoff game. The hurricane season turned out to be among the mildest on record. Contrary to predictions, the polar bear population seems to be doing fine.
While the ice cap at the North Pole is receding, the Antarctic ice cap, which contains 90 percent of the world’s ice, is expanding.
Moreover, receding ice in the Arctic is opening up a northwest passage from Europe to Asia. The Russians believe the immense mineral resources of the Arctic may soon be accessible. While we wring our hands, they are rushing to get them.
The mounting evidence that global warming has halted and man is not responsible for climate change has thrown the Kyoto II lobby into something of a panic. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry are re-branding the Senate cap-and-trade bill as a national security measure.
If, however, cap-and-trade, which the Congressional Budget Office says will be another blow to economic growth, can be stopped before the Copenhagen summit in December, the Republic may have dodged another bullet. And the goal of the globalists — an end to the independence and sovereignty of the United States, and the creation of a world government — will have sustained yet another welcome postponement.
Patrick Buchanan is the author of the new book Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War,’ now available in paperback.
COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM
Filed under: Politics, environment
It is so important to remember that under the Al Gore model, of 1 degree per century, that we here in Oklahoma have less than 500 years before our weather is similar to that of Texas, which scientists rightly predict will bring the end of civilization as we know it.
We will have only 500 years to bring football coaches from Texas, to modify our methods of fall training at high schools and middle schools, or face dehydration and mass casualties among our football playing children.
Under such catastrophic conditions, the number of jobs that “americans just won’t do” will have risen by 10%, and this is why our caring liberal brothers have provided for pathway to citizenship of all South America.
Was it Rahm Emanuel, or Heidi Fleiss, that said “in the US, people will swallow almost anything”? So Acorn will begin setting up desert watering stations as far north as Montana, at a nominal cost of $30 billion.
So many jobs will have been created or saved by then, that we will be importing Airport Laborers from Guantanimo, and health care Administrators from Cuba.
So much money will be available to Government, by then, that the need for politicians will have reduced the population of our nations prisons to zero.
President Obama pledged that he was ready to fight against anyone standing in the way of his priorities saying, “I want everyone to know who’s standing in the way of progress, I’m not tired. I’m just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me. Keep it coming. We’re going to get this done.”
In 500 years, think of how much of America will be done by then.
Oh how I wish Al Gore had won the presidency. I really liked the man and his policies. How could I say that as a republican and a conservative? Easy! Al Gore would have been a very well liked president but he, like Clinton, would have never put on the table the big government changes and programs that Obama is managing to put on the table. Clinton got a few and then the republicans managed to rope him to the center.
I blame George Bush…the patriot act war hawk for putting this leftwing fascist/communist Obama in office to supposedly undo Bush2.
I hated Bush2 and I hate Obama. This nation wants a Gerry Ford or an Eisenhower or a Truman. They dont want the left or the right. They just want jobs and the government to work. Thats it! They dont want the US as world government and world policeman, they dont want socialism and communism, not even in public schools, they just want to get on with their lives. Oh for a german/scandinavian government that doesnt do anything big…but just works.
Most people thing big changes to domestic policy, left or right, are just code for we are to incompetent to fix it and run it so we are going to change it so that it has a new baseline and you cant blame us.
Most people think foreign policy just means to incompetent for domestic policy.
Lou,
What’s is your definition of work?+
The eleven hottest years on record, out of 150 or so, are 1998-2008. Every year since 1998 has been extra proof of global warming, and only a completely dishonest hack would pretend that the eleven hottest years on record, in a row, were evidence that global warming has “stalled”.
In 1998 the New York Yankees won 114 games and lost 48. Since then they’ve averaged about 100 wins a year, but they still have, by a wide margin, the best record in baseball over that time. Same thing: random year-to-year fluctuations mean far, far less than a powerful trend.
Oh, and every secondary indicator of warming — from the rapid collapse of the ice sheets to alarming methane trends in the tundra — shows that the global warming models had erred mainly by being too optimistic: we’re seeing a steady lineup of worst case scenarios coming true.
Global warming is real. The patterns we are seeing now are precisely those which scientists have, for decades, predicted: In the early stages, we see warmer weather in traditionally-cooler geographies, and colder weather in usually-mild climes.
But, sadly, you are correct in the central thrust of your argument, Pat: China and India, regardless of any rhetoric they might spout, shall take no substantive measures to reduce their “carbon footprint,” a term which I utterly detest. There is no point whatsoever in the U.S. damaging its already-battered economy in pursuit of an unattainable pot of gold, at the end of a rainbow that doesn’t exist.
Earth will get hotter. Hundreds of millions will die. But, of course, those unfortunates will overwhelmingly be the poor of the world. Wealthy people shall survive quite nicely, thank you very much.
Consider it a cull of which Darwin would heartily approve. Dating myself, I personally anticipate it to be an ecological Gramm-Rudman. Not to worry, though: You and I will be long dead before the direst consequences accrue.
On the other hand, an overheated planet might still be substantially cooler than the location where we spend eternity.
The conference in Copenhagen is likely to be a very important one historically. This might well be our last chance to turn things around.
http://watching-history.blogspot.com/2009/10/copenhagen.html
“So much money will be available to Government, by then, that the need for politicians will have reduced the population of our nations prisons to zero.”
What a line! I wish I had written that myself.
Conservatives, should stand for conserving things. Even if global warming is a hoax (it isn’t), why should we be hell bent on consuming every drop of oil at the expense of generations to come. Come on Pat, your just exposing yourself as a member of the greediest generation.
If someone believes that “global warming” is real in the sense that MAN caused it, then you are not reading anything but the New York Times or watching CNN. The facts say different and there are legions of real scientist that are standing up to the “hoax of all times” and decrying the fabricated situation so that the wealth of the United States of America can be transferred to all the “poor little countries” that have been hurt by our big SUV’s. It’s time to stop the insanity and stop the political mush heads from stealing any more of the money from the US and giving to the mush heads that are even more corrupt and never created anything but a crisis.
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