Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, December 07, 2009 4:12:25 PM
According to this story by Arthur Max of the Associated Press, the charade in Copenhagen is "The Last Best Chance".
If only that were true. It would mean they could stop holding these stupid events.
Even though it isn't true, let's hold the alarmists to that claim. Let's refuse to participate in any subsequent events, telling them that the opportunity has already passed, according to their very own dire predictions.
The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
Run for the hills!!!
At stake is a deal that aims to wean the world away from fossil fuels and other pollutants to greener sources of energy, and to transfer hundreds of billions of dollars from rich to poor countries every year over decades to help them adapt to climate change.
Isn't that what this is really all about? Wealth transfer? Well, that, and greater government intrusion into our lives. The "warming" stuff is just an excuse. Sorry, I don’t want more of money to go to third-world dictators and crime bosses. Enough already. My ancestors came here for liberty and to get away from those corrupt, oppressive, warmongers.
We should use fossil fuels as long as they are cost effective.
Scientists say without such an agreement, the Earth will face the consequences of ever-rising temperatures, leading to the extinction of plant and animal species, the flooding of coastal cities, more extreme weather events, drought and the spread of diseases.
Wait –haven't species gone extinct throughout all of biological time? There were no SUVs when the dinosaurs died out. Let's consider any species dying out to be undergoing a very late abortion.
Free markets can find solutions to any real problem in this area. The problem is, in order for markets to be free, these people have to give up their rackets.
If these people really believed fossil fuels were destroying the planet, they'd all be living in caves without utilities or anything manufactured - certainly not traveling.