The Cancun climate con

As conference delegates shivered in Cancun during its coldest weather in 100 years, power-hungry elitists labored behind the scenes to implement the real goal of this “global warming” summit, this sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16), this clever political con job. That the Cancun summit was never a climate conference at all has become increasingly obvious. Even before it began, IPCC Working Group III co-chair Ottmar Edenhofer said, COP-16 is actually “one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War…. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.” In fact, it has [...]

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|2012-11-13T14:53:54-05:00December 29th, 2010|Comments Off on The Cancun climate con

Hype versus reality on Indian climate change

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5-star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the “threat” of “dangerous” climate change. Indian Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh nevertheless praised the summit. Rich countries will finance global warming adaptation measures in poor countries, he announced, invoking the good will of “goddesses” of Mexico to achieve some degree of public relations success. (At least they promised, again, to provide some financing … someday … from somewhere.) Meanwhile, the Northern [...]

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|2013-10-15T16:07:15-04:00December 24th, 2010|Comments Off on Hype versus reality on Indian climate change

Do you believe in magic . . . climate numbers?

Average annual global temperatures have risen a degree or two since the Little Ice Age ended some 150 years ago. Thank goodness. The LIA was not a particularly pleasant time.Prolonged winters, advancing glaciers, colder summers, more frequent storms and extended cloudiness reduced arable land, shortened growing seasons, rotted grain in wet fields, and brought famine, disease and death. Coming after the prosperous Medieval Warm Period – when farmers grew wine grapes in England and Vikings raised crops and cattle in Greenland – it must have been quite a shock.The LIA underscored how much better a warmer planet is than a colder [...]

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|2012-10-23T09:12:29-04:00December 14th, 2010|Comments Off on Do you believe in magic . . . climate numbers?

Cancun endgame: Kyoto II or climate talks of the living dead?

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.------------------------------ COP16 has come and gone. Every COP drags through two weeks of impotent spectacle while the real activity takes place behind closed doors. COP16 was no exception. Deals are struck and then rushed before the plenary session at the 11th hour. In Cancun the real action started 7 PM Friday night and lasted until 3 AM.On Thursday, the metaphor of the day was the climate talks zombie - an animated corpse which staggers along producing nothing, yet feasts upon the flesh of anyone constructive who blunders into its path. This was [...]

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|2012-11-13T14:53:55-05:00December 13th, 2010|Comments Off on Cancun endgame: Kyoto II or climate talks of the living dead?

What to do about Wikileaks & dwindling support for warming? Ramp up the fear!

Developed countries, deep in debt, are no longer chomping at the bit to pay $100 billion a year in climate reparation and adaptation penalties. Fast-growing nations like China and India refuse to curb the hydrocarbon use that is fueling their development, thereby ensuring that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will continue to rise. Wikileaks reveal that U.S. diplomacy under President Obama has been geared towards bribing and bullying countries to support climate deals.  These countries are not buying the global warming scare on the merits (or lack thereof).  It takes cash and arm twisting to keep them in line. What to do? [...]

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|2012-09-16T23:49:07-04:00December 7th, 2010|Comments Off on What to do about Wikileaks & dwindling support for warming? Ramp up the fear!

Climate realism for the developing world

By David Rothbard & Craig RuckerThis article originally appeared in The Washington Times opinion section. ------------------------------------ The Cancun, Mexico, climate summit had barely begun when the topic du jour became how much "climate debt" the developed world "owes" developing countries for emitting carbon dioxide. The developed world stands accused of causing "imminent global climate disruption," or whatever the politically correct term is this week. The facts are quite different.The developed world is healthy and prosperous primarily because it created legal, political and economic systems, entrepreneurial opportunities and technologies that enabled it to develop. Poor countries aren't poor because we have emitted [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:51:55-04:00December 7th, 2010|Comments Off on Climate realism for the developing world

Climate of absurdity: Illegal immigration caused by warming?

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.------------------------------ Cancun, Mexico--Just when you think you've heard everything, we're told that impoverished Mexicans are fleeing north to escape global warming.Despite the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), vast natural resources and bright, hard-working people, the host country for the Cancun climate summit remains impoverished. Wealth and power are still concentrated in relatively few powerful Mexican families.  Employment and economic opportunities are few.  The government is plagued with corruption.  The state-owned oil company Pemex cannot keep even its best fields operating efficiently.  Remittances from the US remain a major part of Mexico's economy.  Impoverished millions [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:51:56-04:00December 5th, 2010|Comments Off on Climate of absurdity: Illegal immigration caused by warming?

A Cancun Christmas Carol

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.------------------------------ Kyoto was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Japan announced it. And Japan's pronouncements are good for anything they choose to put voice to.Old Kyoto was dead as Jacob Marley, which is to say, as dead as a door-nail.Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a [...]

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|2012-11-13T14:53:58-05:00December 3rd, 2010|Comments Off on A Cancun Christmas Carol

No bright prospects for deadlocked treaty

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.--------------------------------- Cancun, Mexico--At last year's COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen delegates were greeted with snow and frigid temperatures. This year Europe is already in the grip of an early freeze that closed London, Gatwick. The UN did well in choosing the more inviting Cancun as a venue to discuss global warming. This year's conference is basking in temperatures already reaching 80 degrees on its third day. The sunshine that usually marks this beautiful resort getaway has been missing during the first few days of the conference. Perhaps symbolically, looming storm clouds and occasional [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:51:56-04:00December 2nd, 2010|Comments Off on No bright prospects for deadlocked treaty

Exclusive CFACT interview: UN climate chief Pachauri ignorant of 15 years without warming

Cancun, Mexico--At COP16, the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, CFACT had the opportunity to interview the chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri. When asked about the fact that there has been no statistically significant global warming for the past 15 years, Pachauri became evasive. Even Phil Jones, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia and a prominent global warming alarmist, admitted this fact in the wake of Climategate. A year after Climategate, however, the IPCC's Pachauri still refuses to face reality and clings to the deeply flawed 4th Assessment Report, which has been [...]

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|2012-10-19T17:34:21-04:00December 2nd, 2010|Comments Off on Exclusive CFACT interview: UN climate chief Pachauri ignorant of 15 years without warming

From Cancun: Leadership is the courage to say no

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.   Cancun, Mexico--Ed Markey wonders, “Where do we go from here?” With any luck, COP 16 will be the last UN sponsored Climate conference, and we can all just go home, to spend time with our families and do something worthwhile with our hard-earned money. Maybe Canadians can process a bit of tar sands as well – and enjoy ever so slightly warmer Januaries, if the Earth would just warm a bit more, instead of continuing to cool and snow.After the fears of “global cooling” passed in the 1970s, alarmists quickly [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:51:56-04:00December 1st, 2010|Comments Off on From Cancun: Leadership is the courage to say no

CFACT to feature prominent experts at UN climate conference

CFACT, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun.

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|2012-10-19T17:46:05-04:00November 24th, 2010|Comments Off on CFACT to feature prominent experts at UN climate conference
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