CANCEL THIS COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE FARCE RIGHT NOW
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
The UN Copenhagen Climate Change summit was in disarray yesterday (above) after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations. The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita CO2 emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals. The so-called “Danish Text”, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as “the circle of commitment” – but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark – has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week. Or at least it had been, until yesterday.
So the climate change farce continues. Last week there was “ClimateGate”, which exposed the eco-fascists as a bunch of opportunistic, tax-obsessed liars and charlatans - then the Copenhagen junket itself, an expensive freebie for thousands of 3rd rate politicians, civil servants, journalists and associated camp followers and hangers-on. And now the “Danish Text”, which has exposed the summit as a front for the usual carve-ups and seedy politicking in order that the economic status quo can be maintained. The summit is supposed to last 2 weeks. They’d be just as well cashing in their carbon credits and flying home this week, because the issue is so discredited in people’s eyes that to go on would be futile and a waste of money.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above) is trying to persuade European leaders to commit to deeper cuts in CO2 emissions in an attempt to seal a global deal, as representatives of 192 countries began negotiations at the climate change summit in Copenhagen. The PM reportedly said he hoped that the EU would agree to cut its output of greenhouse gases by 30% on 1990 levels by 2020 – a cut 10% deeper than Europe is currently offering. So far, the EU has said it will cut by 30% only if an ambitious global deal is reached. Brown said: “We’ve got to make countries recognise that they have to be as ambitious as they say they want to be. It’s not enough to say ‘I may do this, I might do this, possibly I’ll do this’. I want to create a situation in which the EU is persuaded to go to 30%.” Which roughly translated means : “I want to come back from Copenhagen and hit the UK with yet more rip-off green taxes”.
And in that connection, the era of cheap flights (like the EasyJet one above) for millions of British holidaymakers is over, the Government’s most influential climate change advisers warned yesterday. The Committee on Climate Change – ironic that this body should produce so much hot air – says green taxes will have to rise to curb the growing demand for fuel-guzzling air travel. Without “tough measures”, the committee claims that demand for flights could more than double over the next 40 years - releasing “dangerous” amounts of carbon dioxide. Of course exempt from any such taxes or these kind of flying restrictions will be our eco-gauleiters, travelling the world to regular junkets on our behalf as they seek agreement on ways to find a final solution to the “climate denier problem” which doesn’t involve emisssions of gas. Unless Zyklon B is deemed to be atmosphere-friendly, of course.
Britain’s Channel 4 TV station was criticised last night by victims of IRA atrocities over the last 40 years for inviting Gerry Adams (pictured above) to present a television programme about Jesus. The Sinn Fein leader, reportedly a former Provisional IRA commander, is being filmed on a “personal journey to discover the real Jesus”. He will also examine Christian teachings on “love, forgiveness and repentance”. And presumably if that’s a success, they’ll follow it up with another programme featuring Osama Bin Laden investigating gay and women’s rights. Pity Adolf Hitler is dead – Channel 4 could have asked him to do a feature on kosher cuisine. You couldn’t make it up.
Hapless UK Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth (pictured above) yesterday joined the head of the army in calling for the British public not to judge the conflict in Afghanistan by casualties alone as he arrived to visit troops in Helmand province. After the death of the 100th British soldier in that country this year, General Sir David Richards said that such a judgment “undervalues the tremendous efforts” of British troops. And Mr Ainsworth said during his visit to Afghanistan: “There is a sense of very real progress in this mission that we are putting things where they need to be. The mission is of vital importance to our national security back in the UK and people have to understand that’s the reason we are here.” Bollocks – and Mr Ainsworth knows it. British troops in Afghanistan won’t stop a single home-grown Islamic terrorist from taking murderous action here, if that’s their intention. And even deploying a strategic genius like Mr Ainsworth back here won’t stop that from happening as long as we don’t even know who crosses our borders with impunity because immigration officials are scared of doing their job properly in case their career is wrecked by an accusation of racism.
Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law was reportedly rushed to hospital (pictured above) after collapsing at his home in the early hours of yesterday morning. Paramedics arrived at the scandal-hit golfer’s Florida mansion after receiving an emergency call at 2.35am. They treated Barbro Holmberg at the scene before taking her to the Health Central Hospital, in Ocoee, on a stretcher. Medics at the centre, where Woods was treated after his car crash on November 27th, said she was in a stable condition. She had complained of severe stomach pain, prompting the emergency call. She should cheer up – after all, she’s about the only woman on the planet who the tabloid newspapers haven’t considered as a potential bed-mate for the world’s no.1 golfer. So far.
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Ah CC, I see you’ve picked up on the latest buzz word regarding Afghanistan. ‘Mission’. Gordon Brown used it 5 times in a few sentences and everyone’s friend, with the exception of the MoD, used it 4 times in a short statement yesterday. So it’s not a conflict anymore, it never was a war and now it’s a mission. Sounds far prettier doesn’t it.