The Copenhagen summit: What happens when


The Copenhagen climate summit begins tomorrow and will run until the end of next week. For the first few days, teams of lawyers and civil servants will negotiate the proposed treaty's legal details. Then, towards the end of the week, ministers from 192 nations will make their way to the city and take over. Britain's secretary for energy and climate change, Ed Miliband, is scheduled to arrive on Friday.

Finally, as the talks proceed through next week, world leaders will, it is hoped, come in to finalise the treaty. Gordon Brown will arrive on Thursday, 17 December, while President Obama has said he will fly in the following day. Their aim is to hammer out an agreement that can limit global warming to a rise of 2C. That needs the following agreements:

• A 40% cut in carbon emissions by developed countries by 2020.

• A 15-30% reduction in emissions by developing nations by 2020.

• An end to deforestation.

• A fund, set up by developed nations, to help developing countries to set up renewable energy and climate-related projects. Europe has suggested £100bn a year. Developing nations want more.

• An agreed legal mechanism that would hold nations to any commitments made at Copenhagen.

Of course, you KNOW where most of that 200,000,000,000 US is going to come from. MASSIVE TAXES, anyone?
Kiss your hopes for your own future goodbye. It's good for the planet! Get a job at Wal-mart and hang on.


In which case You might find this amusing:

• 1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”

• 1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents”

• 1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer”

• 1937: “Continued warm weather at the Pole, melting snow and ice.”

• 1954: “The particular point of inquiry concerns whether the ice is melting at such a rate as to imperil low-lying coastal areas through raising the level of the sea in the near future.”

• 1957: “U.S. Arctic Station Melting”

• 1958: “At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some estimates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years [ago].”

• 1959: “Will the Arctic Ocean soon be free of ice?”

• 1971: “STUDY SAYS MAN ALTERS CLIMATE; U.N. Report Links Melting of Polar Ice to His Activities”

• 1979: “A puzzling haze over the Arctic ice packs has been identified as a byproduct of air pollution, a finding that may support predictions of a disastrous melting of the earth’s ice caps.”

• 1982: “Because of global heating attributed to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fuel burning, about 20,000 cubic miles of polar ice has melted in the past 40 years, apparently contributing to a rise in sea levels …”

• 1999: “Evidence continues to accumulate that the frozen world of the Arctic and sub-Arctic is thawing.”

• 2000: “The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.”

• 2002: “The melting of Greenland glaciers and Arctic Ocean sea ice this past summer reached levels not seen in decades, scientists reported today.”

• 2004: “There is an awful lot of Arctic and glacial ice melting.”

• 2005: “Another melancholy gathering of climate scientists presented evidence this month that the Antarctic ice shelf is melting - a prospect difficult to imagine a decade ago.”

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Just a few notable bits of info....

The first is a map some may find interesting. It is an interactive map, which allows one to choose various places around the globe and take a look at what the Earth's temperature was like during the Mideival Warm Period, which has now been proven to be global, just like the Little Ice Age: [link]

A much more readable map can be found here: [link]

Needless to say, some portions of the Earth were already a full degree warmer durning the global MWP, than the 'tipping point' the climate-change hystericysts are trying to foist off upon us, to the tune of trillions of dollars that could better be spent finding new energy sources and dealing with Real problems, such as fresh water availability, and pollution.

Also of note: A number of nations around the world plan to attend the Copenhagen power grab with NON-Negotiable demands. If the more advanced nations of the world- The US, Australia, the UK, Canada- try to push them to accept ANYTHING that does not fit their agenda, they plan to walk out.
GOOD ON 'EM! Go China, Brazil, South Africa, India, Saudi Arabia!
Walk out. With luck we will Not be handing billions of dollars per year, Every year, to any of you.

Note: the government of India has already rejected the idea that the Himalayan glaciers are melting due to 'man-made' global warming. Several studies, in fact, show them to be advancing, if slowly.

The head of Hadley-CRU, the climate research group which fudged climate data to fit the UN's political agenda, has stepped down pending an investigation of the full 160 years'w worth of data- or at least, that data which was not Destroyed.

Michael Mann of Penn State, the creator of the infamous- and totally bogus- hockey stick of world temperatures, is also under investigation. btw it has been noted that mann took an entire series of data and turned it upside-down in order to hide the Mideival Warm Period.

There is a LOT more. No time to go into it tonight... so here are several sites dedicated to the Climate Fraud known as 'man-made' global warming:

Climate Depot [link]

Climate Skeptic [link]

Gore Lied [link]

Enjoy!

And even worse, there are people stupid enough to support them.

This past summer I had the misfortune to encounter one of those ugly minds directly. A person who's only reason for commenting on my work was to launch an attack upon my thinking, make false assumptions about my beliefs, and generally dismiss my responses as 'butt-hurt,' a phrase which I have come to understand is uttered by some of the ugliest minds on the internet.
A cohort of this scum also commented on that same piece, attacking me for daring to defend myself.

I later discovered that this person had been 'ermanently banned' from DA. Which, I suspect, is impossible to do in fact. I am sure they have a new account by now.
But that is not the point. They were banned, but their activitiy was still available to be tracked... and I discovered that they had gone after quite a few people, literally driving children away from posting on DA, with their demeaning, demonizing, filthy attacks upon those and many others. And laughing about it.
And they had the GALL to call it 'critiquing'!

Since then I have run afoul of a number of such ugly minds. People who's only thought is to destroy for amusement. And who believe they have the Right to do so!

What I find even harder to stomach, is people who DEFEND such thinking! People like werewolf*****water. People who engage in moral equivocation, attempting to compare the righteous, angry responses of those attacked, to the deliberately destructive 'commentary' of the worthless Bastard attacking! People who are so confident in the 'rightness' of their thinking, that they cannot even begin to comprehend the difference.

Sickening bastards, the lot of them. May they all rot in the hell their thinking will bring to their lives.
'tis unfortunate that such people will likely drag down the rest of us.

...and two hours after the initial posting of this, this person is still trying to win the argument. I am slowly refusing to respond. And of course, they are trotting out the usual justifications of their 'I am always right' thinking.
So..... bored of small minds.

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Just my little rant for the morning. I hope later to post more about ClimateGate, which is rapidly expanding. I suspect it is too late to stop the Copenhagen power grab, but Saudi Arabia, Brazil, China, India and South Africa appear ready to derail things for us.

Earth Day predictions of 1970 (made in and around Earth Day, 1970):

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“opulation will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” (my note: that would be 1980)
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions…. By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist


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I will note in passing, that some of these same people can today be found quoting global-warming bullshit.

This weekend I'll put together a good listing of all the things that have come out since ClimateGate began two weeks ago.
One last thought: they claim that man-made global warming pretty much begins with the Industrial Revolution in or about 1850.
Oddly enough, the Little Ice Age ended, in or around 1850. And the world was several degrees cooler at that point in time. Funny how that works, eh?

Climategate continues to expand and the agw cockroaches are scrambling for darkness.

First: The premiere IPCC research team, Hadley-CRUT, has been manipulating data about climate change for the past 12 years, if not longer.

Second: it now appears the whistleblower who put the emails and data from Hadley-CRUT on the internet, did this A MONTH AGO. At least one journalist in the BBC knew this, but ignored it. And for some odd reason, the team only went to police over it last week.

Third: It has just been discoverd that the NIWA, New Zealand's climate advisory unit, has been cooking the data also, deliberately editing out cooler temperatures, adding in inflated heating temperatures, to make it look like there was strong global-warming growth over the past century.

Government officials in England, the US and, I believe, Australia, are now calling for investigations.

This is being a VERY good week! But I'm going to continue to hope this is all legit and not some kind of 'gotcha.'

Oh, while we are at it, here's a neat little video about climate change: [link]

I have also seen a time-lapse image of the north polar ice cap covering 2000-2009, which is quite interesting... especially in showing the MASSIVE growth of the ice cap after it reached its smallest extent in 2007. Just can't seem to find my way back to it...

Our little pet business is attempting to have a growth spurt. Which sort of points out the odd ways small businesses tend to grow: in the wrong direction at the wrong time with little or no choice in the matter.

Thunderwing is diving deeper into the breeding of fancy rats - hoodies, rexes, dumbo-rexes, caps... hairless rats, rats with curly fur and whiskers, Siamese rats...

Getting things going to where they Need to be, when breeding animals, takes a couple of years. And LOTS of room.
But we live in a tiny house, with a tiny back yard. The pet room is pretty much full, the shed is pretty much full, there are pets in the basement... I could go Dr. Zeuss on yas here but I'll leave that to someone with more time

Well. We plan to move to a bigger house and property, hopefully next year or early 2011 at the latest... come to think of it, with a certain friend possibly getting married next summer, 2011 might be better.... anyway! The rat breeding program can't wait two more years, or it will be a good four years until it is in full swing.

And we need a couple more shops to sell to.

So we gots to reorganize things a bit. Means more work for me each week, but I am willing.

In other pet news:

No luck with Sugar-glider kids yet.
No luck with new hedgies yet. Like the gliders, they seem to have their own schedule.
Spiney mice and lemmings, on the other hand, breed like.... lemmings! And are fast approaching the population level we need to be able to sell them on the market, also.
One of our baby snakes died last night. It appears some snakes are quite finicky, even possibly to the extent of not wanting to eat! They just don't have the instinct... that seems strange but we have verified it. He basically starved himself to death.

And so it goes.