Washington Post
Cancun talks start with a call to the gods
By Juliet Eilperin
With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it's no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."
She called for "a balanced outcome" which would marry financial and emissions commitments from industrialized countries aimed at combating climate change with "the understanding of fairness that will guide long-term mitigation efforts."
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres places a building block in a miniature Mayan pyramid at the site of climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. The "Pyramid of Hope" monument was erected by the TckTckTck climate awareness campaign to symbolize the many building blocks needed for a new climate agreement. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)"Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads," said Figueres, who hails from Costa Rica and started her greetings in Spanish before switching to English. "I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel."
Delegates from 193 countries are gathered in Cancun for the two-week meeting, which kicked off today at 10:20 a.m. local time, or 11:20 a.m. Eastern. Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a major proponent of action on climate change, attended the opening.
Two weeks from now, we'll have a sense of whether Ixchel -- and the delegates -- were listening to Figueres's appeal.
Who do you think should be taking the lead on climate change? Join the discussion here.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."
She called for "a balanced outcome" which would marry financial and emissions commitments from industrialized countries aimed at combating climate change with "the understanding of fairness that will guide long-term mitigation efforts."
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres places a building block in a miniature Mayan pyramid at the site of climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. The "Pyramid of Hope" monument was erected by the TckTckTck climate awareness campaign to symbolize the many building blocks needed for a new climate agreement. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)
Delegates from 193 countries are gathered in Cancun for the two-week meeting, which kicked off today at 10:20 a.m. local time, or 11:20 a.m. Eastern. Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a major proponent of action on climate change, attended the opening.
Two weeks from now, we'll have a sense of whether Ixchel -- and the delegates -- were listening to Figueres's appeal.
Who do you think should be taking the lead on climate change? Join the discussion here.
By Juliet Eilperin | November 29, 2010; 12:11 PM ET
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Aside from GE, does anyone else know of any other Fortune 500 companies who are going to make money off of the current global warming scare? While my sympathies are with the masses, there is no sense in losing out on a once in a lifetime investment opportunity. If the rubes are willing to pay to assuage their greatest fears by opening their checkbooks, I think it is someone's bounden duty to help them.
I say, let the massive redistribution of wealth begin. For my part, I am only asking for a modest slice of the "vig." All I want is my fair share.
I say, let the massive redistribution of wealth begin. For my part, I am only asking for a modest slice of the "vig." All I want is my fair share.
Posted by: pgould1 | November 29, 2010 1:15 PM | Report abuse
Aside from GE, does anyone else know of any other Fortune 500 companies who are going to make money off of the current global warming scare? While my sympathies are with the masses, there is no sense in losing out on a once in a lifetime investment opportunity. If the rubes are willing to pay to assuage their greatest fears by opening their checkbooks, I think it is someone's bounden duty to help them.
I say, let the massive redistribution of wealth begin. For my part, I am only asking for a modest slice of the "vig." All I want is my fair share.
I say, let the massive redistribution of wealth begin. For my part, I am only asking for a modest slice of the "vig." All I want is my fair share.
Posted by: pgould1 | November 29, 2010 1:16 PM | Report abuse
U.N. climate summit opens in Mexico
......Well like the Obama Administration, the UN is focused on the WRONG issues.....sad.
......Well like the Obama Administration, the UN is focused on the WRONG issues.....sad.
Posted by: allenridge | November 29, 2010 1:19 PM | Report abuse
AH, our hardworking global bureaucrats...roughing it in Cancun while assiduously working to save us all. Are the hookers providing freebies there as they did in Copenhagen?
Posted by: silencedogoodreturns | November 29, 2010 1:47 PM | Report abuse
Decades of hysterical fear mongering and out right science fraud concerning global warming and climate change have created a sort of “green fatigue.” Climate has become a goldmine of scary propaganda to fatten eco-group fundraising. Al Gore would become the world’s first “carbon billionaire.” Global government regulators have spent (or proposed to spend) hundreds of billions of dollars to control climate based primarily upon U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and policies.
Last year’s “climategate” scandal began with the publication of thousands of U.N. climate scientist e-mails that revealed their eco-biases. These biases may be mitigated by the Inter Academy Council (IAC) reforms that would end the chronic exaggerations about global warming coming from the U.N.
What remains as disturbing about the U.N.’s climate culture is the socialist governance that has now been openly advocated by members of the IPCC. Several members meeting this week in Cancun at the annual conference to replace the 2012-expiring Kyoto Protocols have spoken in pure Marxist-socialist principles – wealth redistribution.
A Chinese member said that multi-billion dollar Western developed-nation payments would be the key to success of the Cancun meeting. And, co-chairman of the IPCC's third working group, Ottmar Edenhofer, has stated, "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy.... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy."
The IPCC meeting in Cancun is not expected to accomplish much more than to subtly shift the operative regulatory language from “climate change” to “global biodiversity,” and attempt to shakedown developed countries for billions in order to fund underdeveloped countries under the guise of environmental and social justice. Karl Marx would be most proud.
It is clear that socialist ideologies and cultish environmentalism have replaced prudent science and economics in U.N. climate policy. Militant environmentalism and green-obsessed bureaucrats have become an “axis of antagonism” that we can no longer afford.
Last year’s “climategate” scandal began with the publication of thousands of U.N. climate scientist e-mails that revealed their eco-biases. These biases may be mitigated by the Inter Academy Council (IAC) reforms that would end the chronic exaggerations about global warming coming from the U.N.
What remains as disturbing about the U.N.’s climate culture is the socialist governance that has now been openly advocated by members of the IPCC. Several members meeting this week in Cancun at the annual conference to replace the 2012-expiring Kyoto Protocols have spoken in pure Marxist-socialist principles – wealth redistribution.
A Chinese member said that multi-billion dollar Western developed-nation payments would be the key to success of the Cancun meeting. And, co-chairman of the IPCC's third working group, Ottmar Edenhofer, has stated, "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy.... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy."
The IPCC meeting in Cancun is not expected to accomplish much more than to subtly shift the operative regulatory language from “climate change” to “global biodiversity,” and attempt to shakedown developed countries for billions in order to fund underdeveloped countries under the guise of environmental and social justice. Karl Marx would be most proud.
It is clear that socialist ideologies and cultish environmentalism have replaced prudent science and economics in U.N. climate policy. Militant environmentalism and green-obsessed bureaucrats have become an “axis of antagonism” that we can no longer afford.
Posted by: PAULTAYLOREXAMINER | November 29, 2010 1:48 PM | Report abuse
Amusingly, while we in America fiddle away, other nations are leading the charge and reaping the increased GDP rewards of new tech exports for carbon emission reduction.
Every time a global warming doubter in America buys an import, there's carbon tax in it.
Because the EU and Australia and New Zealand and most other countries already have it - but since we aren't signatories to any treaties, we pay full fare instead of a discounted rate for it.
Every time a global warming doubter in America buys an import, there's carbon tax in it.
Because the EU and Australia and New Zealand and most other countries already have it - but since we aren't signatories to any treaties, we pay full fare instead of a discounted rate for it.
Posted by: WillSeattle | November 29, 2010 2:01 PM | Report abuse
Palin will fix this.....drill-baby-drill....in the Gulf Coast and all around Florida!!
While we're at it, why not drill on Bush's Texas ranch in Crawford.....right on his front lawn.
310 million Americans.....our biggest problem is over population and no one's talking about it. Screw-baby-screw.....and then burn-baby-burn. We have the resources to sustain just under 200 million people....and we're 310 million and growing. What a country!...the mormons and their belief in large families will save us - NOT! Mitt Romney for President.....you've got to be kidding me.
While we're at it, why not drill on Bush's Texas ranch in Crawford.....right on his front lawn.
310 million Americans.....our biggest problem is over population and no one's talking about it. Screw-baby-screw.....and then burn-baby-burn. We have the resources to sustain just under 200 million people....and we're 310 million and growing. What a country!...the mormons and their belief in large families will save us - NOT! Mitt Romney for President.....you've got to be kidding me.
Posted by: go2goal | November 29, 2010 2:03 PM | Report abuse
Climate change is a hoax! Scientists are involved in a worldwide conspiracy to falsify data to keep their jobs,...and I'm an idiot (and a proud Republican)!
Posted by: drobbins1 | November 29, 2010 2:28 PM | Report abuse
Ya know...
If you want to be taken seriously, don't start off by appealing to the Jaguar goddess.
Anothet gov't, sponsored kook fest.
If you want to be taken seriously, don't start off by appealing to the Jaguar goddess.
Anothet gov't, sponsored kook fest.
Posted by: drjcarlucci | November 29, 2010 2:51 PM | Report abuse
I pray to the jaguar goddess every day. She's one bad kitty!
Posted by: nuke41 | November 29, 2010 2:58 PM | Report abuse
Where'd the message in the bottle come from? East Anglia?
Posted by: hammeresq | November 29, 2010 3:25 PM | Report abuse
Two weeks in Cancun? Paaaaaaarty!!!! How do I get this gig?
Posted by: FulhamDC | November 29, 2010 3:52 PM | Report abuse
The elite of the chicken-little envio-left fly to Cancun....carbon spewing in their jet's wake
Posted by: georgedixon1 | November 29, 2010 4:06 PM | Report abuse
The failed theory of Climate Change was a business for the greedy, and intellectual fodder for the ignorants and ideologues and is now laughingly known to history as the era of environMENTAL Disco science.
Meanwhile, the UN had allowed carbon trading to trump 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education for just over 25 years of climate control instead of population control. BIG MISTAKE!
Meanwhile, the UN had allowed carbon trading to trump 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education for just over 25 years of climate control instead of population control. BIG MISTAKE!
Posted by: paulmerrifield | November 29, 2010 4:07 PM | Report abuse
I suppose that what nobody would do at Cancún is to look at the actual climate measurements. They show nothing unusual whatsoever.
Instead there would be a lot of talk about our children and grandchildren.
Here is a rough idea of what they are ideally aiming for. People would be allocated an emissions quota, essentially an energy quota since 90% of the energy comes out of fossil fuel now.
Say your daughter goes to college to become a doctor or engineer or scientist. She is using energy, flying there, air conditioning - she needs to concentrate for exams, etc. So she would be penalized for exceeding the emissions quota.
Some other kid not willing or not able to be equally productive would naturally have a smaller carbon footprint, so he would be rewarded with carbon credits which he could sell to your daughter for a profit.
The transfer would be done not directly but through the same financial whizz-kids who securitized mortgages (a whole cohort was ready to start trading if the energy bill was approved and are now looking for something else to do.)
The fact that this year is almost as warm as the warmest year ever, 1998, which MEANS PRECISELY THAT that temperatures have been going down for 12 years, nowhere accelerated by CO2 as the IPCC and Hansen predicted, wouldn't matter a bit.
The fact that the sea level rise rate has not changed for 150 years and glaciers are melting at the same rate as 60 and 120 years ago wouldn't matter a bit, and the discussion of actual measurements would be brutally suppressed.
All this when in the last few years the US found enough natural gas for 100 years of cheap use at least, enough to keep our children and grandchildren in schools and make their lives productive rather than stunted...
As a reference - I didn't make any of this up - read the very recent interview of Ottmar Edenhofer, one of the IPCC sectional chairs, in the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
QUOTES:
"That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there."
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."
"There must be penalties and incentives: global CO 2-tariffs..."
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/schweiz/klimapolitik_verteilt_das_weltvermoegen_neu_1.8373227.html
Instead there would be a lot of talk about our children and grandchildren.
Here is a rough idea of what they are ideally aiming for. People would be allocated an emissions quota, essentially an energy quota since 90% of the energy comes out of fossil fuel now.
Say your daughter goes to college to become a doctor or engineer or scientist. She is using energy, flying there, air conditioning - she needs to concentrate for exams, etc. So she would be penalized for exceeding the emissions quota.
Some other kid not willing or not able to be equally productive would naturally have a smaller carbon footprint, so he would be rewarded with carbon credits which he could sell to your daughter for a profit.
The transfer would be done not directly but through the same financial whizz-kids who securitized mortgages (a whole cohort was ready to start trading if the energy bill was approved and are now looking for something else to do.)
The fact that this year is almost as warm as the warmest year ever, 1998, which MEANS PRECISELY THAT that temperatures have been going down for 12 years, nowhere accelerated by CO2 as the IPCC and Hansen predicted, wouldn't matter a bit.
The fact that the sea level rise rate has not changed for 150 years and glaciers are melting at the same rate as 60 and 120 years ago wouldn't matter a bit, and the discussion of actual measurements would be brutally suppressed.
All this when in the last few years the US found enough natural gas for 100 years of cheap use at least, enough to keep our children and grandchildren in schools and make their lives productive rather than stunted...
As a reference - I didn't make any of this up - read the very recent interview of Ottmar Edenhofer, one of the IPCC sectional chairs, in the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
QUOTES:
"That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there."
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."
"There must be penalties and incentives: global CO 2-tariffs..."
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/schweiz/klimapolitik_verteilt_das_weltvermoegen_neu_1.8373227.html
Posted by: adrianoc | November 29, 2010 7:08 PM | Report abuse
IPCC NEEDS A MANAGER
The IPCC fellows, media figures as much as any, are in urgent need of a Hollywood type manager. Nobody is paying any attention to them anymore.
They meet in Cancún and the Wikileaks take the headlines.
Now imagine if a dashing bandido would take a few key delegates. After talking to them he would have an epiphany and would accept as ransom carbon credits...
Lede articles, movie deals, high CO2 romance....
The IPCC fellows, media figures as much as any, are in urgent need of a Hollywood type manager. Nobody is paying any attention to them anymore.
They meet in Cancún and the Wikileaks take the headlines.
Now imagine if a dashing bandido would take a few key delegates. After talking to them he would have an epiphany and would accept as ransom carbon credits...
Lede articles, movie deals, high CO2 romance....
Posted by: adrianoc | November 29, 2010 7:44 PM | Report abuse
The Climate Cartel is meeting in Mexico to shake-down the United States. This international cartel of climate crooks is greedier than the Zetas and other Mexican cartels.
Every December we have another drive-by holdup and hijacking by the Global Warming Conspiracy. Enough is enough.
Every December we have another drive-by holdup and hijacking by the Global Warming Conspiracy. Enough is enough.
Posted by: alance | November 29, 2010 9:36 PM | Report abuse
Every article on global warming in the Post or Times has a comments section so riddled with deniers that I have to wonder --- how many of these "posters" are on the Exxon or BP payroll?
Posted by: kris_in_nc | November 29, 2010 10:08 PM | Report abuse
I've written a number of articles on this issue, but I'd like to direct you to my most recent: The Top Ten Crazy Things Progressives Say about the End of Civilization as We Know It. Just follow this link:
http://americasright.com/?p=6744
http://americasright.com/?p=6744
Posted by: brad333 | November 30, 2010 2:50 AM | Report abuse
Insanity.
Don't the world's current religions do enough damage?
"Goddess of reason" is oxymoronic.
Don't the world's current religions do enough damage?
"Goddess of reason" is oxymoronic.
Posted by: andrew23boyle | November 30, 2010 4:48 AM | Report abuse
WHO NEEDS A JAMES BOND VILLAIN
to say "VEE SHALL TAKE OVAH ZAH VAARLD!"?
Who needs conspiracy theories?
Who needs email leaks?
Here you have an IPCC leader saying in his own words, in the Swiss NZZ interview:
***************************************************************
…
Q: Until now, many think of aid when they hear development policies.
A: That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there. This will have enormous implications for development policy. And it will raise the question if these countries can deal responsibly with so much money at all.
Q: That does not sound anymore like the climate policy that we know.
A: Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. Why? Because we have 11,000 gigatons of carbon in the coal reserves in the soil under our feet - and we must emit only 400 gigatons in the atmosphere if we want to keep the 2-degree target. 11 000 to 400 - there is no getting around the fact that most of the fossil reserves must remain in the soil.
Q: De facto, this means an expropriation of the countries with natural resources. This leads to a very different development from that which has been triggered by development policy.
A: First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.
...
***************************************************************
The man is Ottmar Edenhofer, Professor of the Economics of Climate Change in Potsdam, cochair of the IPCC group on mitigation.
An unassumingly looking accountant like bureaucrat, the man is a conspiracy theory all by himself.
http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/typo3temp/pics/5/575bbec734.jpg
http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/a70100710/Fotos/Pressestellenarchiv/TUB-AntrittEdenhofer04.11.08__18_.jpg
to say "VEE SHALL TAKE OVAH ZAH VAARLD!"?
Who needs conspiracy theories?
Who needs email leaks?
Here you have an IPCC leader saying in his own words, in the Swiss NZZ interview:
***************************************************************
…
Q: Until now, many think of aid when they hear development policies.
A: That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there. This will have enormous implications for development policy. And it will raise the question if these countries can deal responsibly with so much money at all.
Q: That does not sound anymore like the climate policy that we know.
A: Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. Why? Because we have 11,000 gigatons of carbon in the coal reserves in the soil under our feet - and we must emit only 400 gigatons in the atmosphere if we want to keep the 2-degree target. 11 000 to 400 - there is no getting around the fact that most of the fossil reserves must remain in the soil.
Q: De facto, this means an expropriation of the countries with natural resources. This leads to a very different development from that which has been triggered by development policy.
A: First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.
...
***************************************************************
The man is Ottmar Edenhofer, Professor of the Economics of Climate Change in Potsdam, cochair of the IPCC group on mitigation.
An unassumingly looking accountant like bureaucrat, the man is a conspiracy theory all by himself.
http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/typo3temp/pics/5/575bbec734.jpg
http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/a70100710/Fotos/Pressestellenarchiv/TUB-AntrittEdenhofer04.11.08__18_.jpg
Posted by: adrianoc | November 30, 2010 9:42 AM | Report abuse
CLIMATE TALKS IN CANCUN: A POEM
they went
to Cancún
to feel the pain
of our warming
they went
to Cancún
to feel the pain
of our warming
Posted by: adrianoc | November 30, 2010 5:56 PM | Report abuse
NewsBusters: Global Warming Summit in Cancun Opens with Prayer to Pagan Goddess Ixchel
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/12/02/global-warming-summit-cancun-opens-prayer-pagan-goddess-ixchel
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/12/02/global-warming-summit-cancun-opens-prayer-pagan-goddess-ixchel
Posted by: StewartIII | December 2, 2010 8:41 PM | Report abuse
Why aren't those lying AGW thieves in jail yet. They are all in one place it would be easy to round them up, toss them in jail and throw away the key.
Posted by: peterp22 | December 3, 2010 10:28 AM | Report abuse
Sounds to me like they started this conference off at Senor Frogs. I will bet money more than one attendee was seen taking shots off her belly.
Posted by: kemasabe | December 3, 2010 10:58 AM | Report abuse
Just because others have bought into this fraud does not mean the US has to. The West has a stellar enviornmental record compared to China or the formally Eastern bloc countries not to mention India or other almost third world nations. This is just a scam to loot America and homegrown enviornmentalists are in league with these thieves by trying to starve this abundant land of its indigenous natural resources.
Posted by: freods | December 3, 2010 11:01 AM | Report abuse
Why not hold this summit in Europe where they are being buried in snow? Case closed.
Posted by: aquaroyale | December 3, 2010 11:07 AM | Report abuse
That does it for me.
I will not spend another dollar in Cancun.
If this is what the "United" Nations call modern thought, than they can shove it.
Why is America still paying for these morons and the immense amount of time they are wasting on "global Warming"?
Sick
Rowdy Boots
I will not spend another dollar in Cancun.
If this is what the "United" Nations call modern thought, than they can shove it.
Why is America still paying for these morons and the immense amount of time they are wasting on "global Warming"?
Sick
Rowdy Boots
Posted by: gormanjohn11 | December 3, 2010 11:07 AM | Report abuse
If the left could get more STUPID, KOOKY AND DUMB it would be a miracle.
Let's start by saying: Why Cancun? A: It is sunny, warm, nice beaches and great drinks. Also, why not have a great vacation paid for by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
THE LEAST THEY COULD DO IS GO TO THE GULF COAST--LIKE OBAMA DID...OOPS, MY BAD!
HE WENT TO SPAIN! OR WAS IT SHE? DAMNED IF i KNOW BUT THEY DID NOT GO TO THE GULF COAST EXCEPT FOR A TOKEN 34 HOURS!
CREEPY UNITED NATIONS...WHY ARE WE AMERICANS PAYING FOR THIS CRAP?
ROWDY BOOTS
Let's start by saying: Why Cancun? A: It is sunny, warm, nice beaches and great drinks. Also, why not have a great vacation paid for by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
THE LEAST THEY COULD DO IS GO TO THE GULF COAST--LIKE OBAMA DID...OOPS, MY BAD!
HE WENT TO SPAIN! OR WAS IT SHE? DAMNED IF i KNOW BUT THEY DID NOT GO TO THE GULF COAST EXCEPT FOR A TOKEN 34 HOURS!
CREEPY UNITED NATIONS...WHY ARE WE AMERICANS PAYING FOR THIS CRAP?
ROWDY BOOTS
Posted by: gormanjohn11 | December 3, 2010 11:12 AM | Report abuse
How appropriate that a bunch of moon bats would pray to a moon goddess. Their theory is after all little more than a religion the only difference being that they want to make it mandatory that everyone chips in when the donation plate is passed.
Its high time that we drive a stake through the heart of this farcical theory and see it for what it really is, a power and money grab.
Its high time that we drive a stake through the heart of this farcical theory and see it for what it really is, a power and money grab.
Posted by: mogar | December 3, 2010 11:18 AM | Report abuse
Exquisite. New age moon battery meets pseudoscience all in pursuit of Western money. This whole thing is comedy gold! Thank you, thank you United Nations.
Posted by: masonjahr | December 3, 2010 11:25 AM | Report abuse
"Amusingly, while we in America fiddle away, other nations are leading the charge and reaping the increased GDP rewards of new tech exports for carbon emission reduction.
Posted by: WillSeattle"
Exactly, like Spain creating thousands of "green" jobs; and once they rant the numbers they found themselves only losing 2.2 jobs per "green" job created.
We need that here, if we created say 10% "green" jobs we could have 30% unemployment instead of 10%; which clearly is a good plan. Oh and energy and transportation costs would go up so you'd pay more for everything.
But who doesn't want fewer jobs and higher prices? Oh wait, that might be me...
Posted by: gekkobear | December 3, 2010 11:29 AM | Report a
Posted by: WillSeattle"
Exactly, like Spain creating thousands of "green" jobs; and once they rant the numbers they found themselves only losing 2.2 jobs per "green" job created.
We need that here, if we created say 10% "green" jobs we could have 30% unemployment instead of 10%; which clearly is a good plan. Oh and energy and transportation costs would go up so you'd pay more for everything.
But who doesn't want fewer jobs and higher prices? Oh wait, that might be me...
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