The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

The Hot Air over Copenhagen this week may be more of a threat to the climate than the supposed danger they are there to solve. Let's see ...

• 140 Private Planes are scheduled to land


• 1,200 Limos have been ordered for the delegates (only 5 are "green" because Denmark taxes new technology so highly that nobody is encouraged to build or import "green" vehicles.)


• 15,000 Delegates


• 5,000 journalists


• 98 World Leaders

What happened to video-conferencing to save the planet?

There is such an influx of people into Copenhagen that the "Sex Workers Union" -- yes, such activity is unionized over there (imagine a government bailout hearing on that one where "too big to fail" takes on a whole new meaning) -- has promised free sex to anyone with a Conference Pass; the Sex Workers Union is banking on repeat business, I guess. Video-conferencing does have its limitations.

While this is really all about the US and China coming to an agreement, the developing countries of Africa are demanding 8 billion a year to help them offset their costs till they are "developed." I'm certain that any money earmarked for that purpose will all be spent for that purpose, aren't you?

Al Gore has cancelled his visit -- too busy, I guess, to save the world at Copenhagen, or maybe he is concerned about the pollution his private jet would emit. Those concerns are not shared by a list of celebrities headed to Copenhagen on their planes -- Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles -- all there to be photographed...

...uhh help...

the delegates save the world...

...uhhh issue a statement of intent to save the world by ...

...uhhh 2050, yeaaahh 2050, that's it...

(when none of them will be alive to answer for their actions.)

Mr. Gore will sit back and wait for his Carbon Trading Company to benefit from all of the "Cap and Trade" activity, soon to begin in the US and then the world; no need to attend a conference now.

There should be conferences like this, but they should be organized by Scientists, whose motives are supposedly purer than politicians. The Climate Change Industry is the next financial bubble to be thrust upon the world by the political class.

In the meantime, there will be no progress despite the nightmares being predicted (and the polar bears being killed by you and me by driving our Civics and Priuses.) Next, an international plea will be raised by the politicians, requiring "one currency," followed by the need for a "one world government" promising "peace in our times."

Lock your billfolds up, now. These politicians know best how to protect the climate and harness the power of "scientific consensus," such as they did in 1975-76:

"... seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."

~ Newsweek Magazine, April 28, 1975 -- "The Cooling World," article by Peter Gwynne