Where’s Our Copenhagen Souvenir?

Drudge is pointing to this damning story to proclaim “TRIPS TO COPENHAGEN COST OVER $1,000,000… ” for Congressional trips across the pond. What did you get for it, other than the joy of sending “106 people from the House and Senate” which included “spouses, a doctor, a protocol expert and even a photographer”? Nothing. No climate deal (thankfully). While you gave the shirt off your back, you didn’t even get this:

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Tags: cap-and-trade, Copenhagen Summit
Posted Jan 26th 2010 at 7:33 am in Environment, Political Humor, federal spending | 6519885 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2010/01/26/wheres-our-copenhagen-souvenir/Where%27s+Our+Copenhagen+Souvenir%3F2010-01-26+15%3A33%3A43Bret+Jacobson

ClimateGate: Scientists Behaving Badly

Over at the Weekly Standard, the always impressive Steven Hayward has a good summation of where we are in Climate Gate:

Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.’s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol–collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama’s magical intervention. Cap and trade legislation is stalled on Capitol Hill. Recent opinion polls from Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, and other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused global warming. The climate campaigners continue to insist this is because they have a “communications” problem, but after Al Gore’s Nobel Prize/Academy Award double play, millions of dollars in paid advertising, and the relentless doom-mongering from the media echo chamber and the political class, this excuse is preposterous. And now the climate campaign is having its Emperor’s New Clothes moment.

In mid-November a large cache of emails and technical documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Britain were made available on a number of Internet file-servers for download by the public–either the work of a hacker or a leak from a whistleblower on the inside. The emails–more than 1,000 of them–reveal a small cabal of scientists who, in the words of MIT’s Michael Schrage, engaged in “malice, mischief and Machiavellian maneuverings.” In an ironic twist, one of the frequent correspondents in this long e‑trail (University of Arizona scientist Jonathan Overpeck) warned several of his colleagues in September, “Please write all emails as though they will be made public.” Small wonder why. It’s being called Climategate, but more than one wit is calling them “the CRUtape Letters.”

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Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon caps, carbon emissions, climate change, climate emails
Posted Dec 6th 2009 at 3:21 pm in Environment, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 41870106 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/12/06/climategate-scientists-behaving-badly/ClimateGate%3A+Scientists+Behaving+Badly2009-12-06+22%3A21%3A29Publius

Copenhagen Is The ‘Social Justice’ Moment

Did you know the environmental movement is not just about being a good steward of your environment so that you may, to the best of your ability, pass on an inhabitable planet to future generations? Nope.

It turns out that’s just the sweet sugary frosting on top of the social justice pie.

For a glimpse into the social(ist) justice ideology motivating the Progressive Global Warming Climate Change movement, take a look at the video below, produced by a community organization called smartMeme.

The video promotes turning Copenhagen into a moment for “ecological justice.” Some highlights include:

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Tags: community organizing, Copenhagen, Copenhagen conference, Copenhagen Summit, environmentalism
Posted Dec 3rd 2009 at 10:16 am in Uncategorized | 4009896 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/03/copenhagen-is-the-social-justice-moment/Copenhagen+Is+The+%27Social+Justice%27+Moment2009-12-03+17%3A16%3A22Andrew++Marcus

2010: The Kyoto Election

The New York Times reports this weekend that:

“SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific “politically binding” agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future.”

Read down the article and note the several claims by participants offering the greatest exhibits imaginable at the running absurdity — now in its 18th year! — that is this movable feast of conferences in Rio, Barcelona, Bangkok, Bali, Buenos Aires, Bonn, and next month Copenhagen: We had to declare it a failure in advance in order to ensure its success. Mmm. Yes.

But here’s the far larger point, and Team Tea Party and simpatico coalescences should take note and begin organizing accordingly:

This also makes the Kyoto II, the proposed twenty five-year extension of a five-year plan that was the Kyoto treaty, an inescapable issue for the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections.

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Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 2:07 pm in Environment, Obama, Politics | 3130652 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/15/2010-the-kyoto-election/2010%3A+The+Kyoto+Election2009-11-15+21%3A07%3A13Christopher+C.+Horner