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September 9, 2009

Y2Kyoto: If It Rots Like A Duck

BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban Ki-moon...

...standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, "100 billion tons" of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be "ice-free". This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to "floods affecting a quarter of the world".

Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more.

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Why are they all going off their heads like this, in emulation of the "projector" that Gulliver met on his travels, in the Academy of Lagado, who had designed a scheme for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers? It is because they are desperately trying to whip up alarm over global warming before December's planned "climate treaty" in Copenhagen, when all evidence suggests that they are not going to get the successor to the Kyoto Protocol they want.

Posted by Kate at September 9, 2009 10:05 AM
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These people won't stop until they redistribute the wealth of the world to their particular realms.

Posted by: capt_bob at September 9, 2009 10:19 AM

standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN.

Actually, I'd say that making laughable statements is par for the course for a Secretary-General of the UN. It may even be part of the job requirements.

Posted by: Silicon Valley Jim at September 9, 2009 10:19 AM

A category 5 climate porn hurricane will envelope the world in the run-up to the Copenhagen wankfest.

The AGW emperor's lack of clothing is starting to be called out more and more. Reputations and cash are on the line.

The rent seekers*, faced with having to work for their money like everyone else, will not go quietly.

*(Rent Seeking: In economics, rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to earn income by capturing economic rent through manipulation or exploitation of the economic environment, rather than by earning profits through economic transactions and the production of added wealth.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking)

Posted by: Bart F. at September 9, 2009 10:35 AM

The AGW crowd has to stamp their little feet harder and be ever more shrill, as their message is being drowned out by the new chapter unfolding in the economic meltdown.

What is odd is that it would be so simple to shut up the deniers... release the raw data. That raw data holds the irrefutable evidence of AGW, yes??

This fraud has run its course. Nobody I know, of any political stripe, is buying it now. Put a fork in AGW.

Count Igula, are you going to make AGW a big issue in the next election? No? Thought not...

Posted by: shaken at September 9, 2009 10:41 AM

I sure hope somebody is saving up all these predictions so we can have a good laugh in 20 or 30 years.

Posted by: Alex McCusker at September 9, 2009 10:48 AM

...standing on an Arctic ice-floe...

I read that and thought that he was a a old-timer going out for his "retirement" Oh, I sometimes long for the old days!!

Posted by: Frenchie77 at September 9, 2009 10:57 AM

Does anyone find it ironic that he was standing on floating ice and spouting about the sea level rising from the melting of said ice.

Why didn't they go to antarctica, where there is at least some land locked ice. maybe it was because the volume of ice in Antarctica is growing and defeats their theory.

Posted by: trevor at September 9, 2009 11:02 AM

Trevor:

Couldn't agree more. I mean, if 10 million square kilometres of ice melt every year, shouldn't the ocean levels rise and fall dramatically with the change in seasons? What retards.

Posted by: KevinB at September 9, 2009 11:15 AM

"...a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN...It is because they are desperately trying to whip up alarm over global warming before December's planned "climate treaty" in Copenhagen, when all evidence suggests that they are not going to get the successor to the Kyoto Protocol they want."

BUT WAIT! HELP MIGHT BE ON THE WAY FROM THE CEO OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY ORGANIZING HIMSELF:

"Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council...The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament – one of several global challenges that the US now wants to see addressed at a multinational level..."

WHAT OTHER GLOBAL CHALLENGES THE U.S WANTS ADDRESSED?

"UN officials hope a climate change debate on September 22 will give fresh impetus to the search for a global climate deal at Copenhagen in December..."

FUNNY, I SWEAR THE U.S CITIZENS ARE IN MAJORITY OPPOSED TO CAP & TRADE MEANING THEY HAVE SERIOUS RESERVATIONS ABOUT GW/CC IN GENERAL (?)


Source: The Drudge Report
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d0c7a3a-9ca4-11de-ab58-00144feabdc0.html

Posted by: Right Honorable Terry Tory at September 9, 2009 11:17 AM

Celebrity endorsement in the absense of evidence only impresses the crowd that never misses America's Funniest Home Videos and American Idol.

Posted by: sasquatch at September 9, 2009 11:32 AM

Count Iggula wants us to think BIG. Only a Librano knows how to approach India. What the good Count failed to tell us is that we will have to approach with plain brown envelopes..

Posted by: shaken at September 9, 2009 11:42 AM

Out here on the wet coast we get sea levels rising by 10' to 12' several times a MONTH! ;)

Posted by: DaninVan at September 9, 2009 11:50 AM

You bet,DaninVan.And back home on the Bay of Fundy,they rise 40 to 50 feet every 12 HOURS.My God.How come NB and NS haven't disappeared like those Pacific islands??
On simple science,as I've said before,sit these AGW cultisits down with a picther of water.Fill to top with ice and water.Now wait for ice to melt,and see how much overflows.Cripes.Even GR 3 kids would know the answer is ZERO,if they taught actual science in our socialist run schools anymore!

Posted by: Justthinkin at September 9, 2009 12:10 PM

I shall reserve my concern for AGW until such time as ALGORE et al start to buy up the beach front at Pangnertung for their vacation homes or for future development.
Can you just imagine the 'Sandals' ads that will undoubtedly be filmed up at Alert Bay?

Yah, me too!

CRB

Posted by: CRB at September 9, 2009 12:55 PM

I wonder if the Secretary General understands that when sea ice melts, it makes almost no change to the sea level. The water displacement of the ice is nearly the same as the volume of water that the melted ice produces. A melting Greenland ice sheet, however, would make a difference since it's on land.

At any rate, here's my favourite graph of arctic sea ice extent.

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

Posted by: rabbit at September 9, 2009 1:05 PM

BBC news: LONDON, Sept. 7 -- A British court on Monday convicted three men of plotting to kill more than 1,500 people by smuggling bombs made with flammable liquid aboard at least seven transatlantic airliners, including one bound for Washington, in a case that changed the way millions of air passengers travel worldwide.

///www.america.gov/st/webchat-english/2009/May/20060828133846esnamfuaK0.2676355.html

The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories:
1) The World Trade Center (WTC) twin towers were destroyed by controlled demolitions.
2) No plane hit the Pentagon on September 11. Instead, it was a missile fired by elements “from inside the American state apparatus.”
3) United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, was shot down by a missile.

4) World Trade Center building 7 was destroyed by a controlled demolition.
5) The planes that hit the World Trade Center towers were remotely controlled.
6) Insider trading in the stocks of United Airlines and American Airlines just before September 11 is evidence of advance knowledge of the plot.

7) Four thousand Jews failed to show up for work at the World Trade Center on September 11.
The “4,000” figure apparently came from an early statement by the Israeli Foreign Ministry that some “4,000 Israelis” were believed to be in the New York and Washington areas, where the attacks occurred. This figure was apparently seized upon by conspiracy theorists, in an attempt to bolster the false rumor Ariel Sharon is an Israeli general and statesman, former Israeli Prime Minister. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006 he was motivated to fight Muslim in world and hated Palestinian.

8) Al Qaida is not responsible for the September 11 attacks but owner of twin tower who is Jewish got 7 billion money from his insurance for destruction of his building using demolition and conspiracy to blame to Muslim and increase hate in world.
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Glen Beck said he was alcoholism and now he came out of it and planed to tell the truth of he is owner of small business and hated of health plan for damage his future small business and
Also he is clean of drug and alcohol
Glen Beck also said he is sorry for his past mistake but Van Jones is has no way we can forgive his Marxism idea ask us to pay black free money and all national are not one family come from Mr. Adam then all of us is not brother or sister and need to help each other. Glen Beck all public can forgive him for his past because he is white but not Van!

And also
Actor Charlie Sheen Adopts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Also he said he is clean of alcohol abuse as well ,But even USA is agreed with above now: we can not convince England yet and Nobody can stop BBC news and all with god knows wrong defamation of Muslim made up story of Scotland Yard: as we hear BBC if we can trust BBC news for Sep 11 and other news god knows what those English are thinking all people are dump and they are smart

Posted by: new at September 9, 2009 2:35 PM

My recent hospital stay resulted in an overdose of BBC channel drivel. The pathetic efforts to find an AGW slant on everything they spewed was amateurish and blatant.

Posted by: Sgt Lejaune at September 9, 2009 2:57 PM

Sgt Lejaune - must have been awful, with all that anti-muslem islamophobic propaganda you'd have been subjected to.

Posted by: Black Mamba at September 9, 2009 3:24 PM

Can we start putting the socialists on the ice floes now?

Posted by: OMMAG at September 9, 2009 6:12 PM

For anyone who thinks the green fascism of Kyoto and AGW has burned itself out, one need only look at the 'sustainability' regulating being done in your own local municipality. UN Agenda 21 is the blue print for regulating virtually everything by unelected committee under the save-the-earth junk science cover of the UN and their global collectivism agenda.

Never forget to a green fascist sustainability is code for regulating private property out of practical existence, rationing food, water, fuel and energy and depopulating the planet.

http://green-agenda.com/sustainabledevelopment.html

Posted by: Jim at September 9, 2009 6:51 PM

Pssst mister.

Wanna buy some carbon?

Carbon Credits for sale cheap - 25 cents

Posted by: foobert at September 9, 2009 8:32 PM

"...it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN..."

It's the times we live in. Look at the child-king running the US, and he was elected.

Posted by: Arty at September 9, 2009 8:51 PM

Somebody should sit Mr. Ban ki-moon down in front of the TV and get him to watch Ice Road Truckers for awhile. Hell...let him hitchhike a ride in the North he thinks is warming so much.

Posted by: The Glengarrian at September 9, 2009 8:56 PM

Related,sort of; I watched a cbc newsworld piece on some yutes ,five of them,that did a preliminary version of the Copenhagen Cruefest. Of course ,there was one from Canada.I think he was the kid that thought he used to band the rabbits with a scientist. No,wait a minute, that was a transgendered type named Steffi,who I think was once leader of the liberal party.Whatever happened to him anyways?...Sorry,I strayed. One of the yutes was from the Maldives. I didn't see anything of him,but it is noteworthy that he is from the only island that is seriously threatened by global warming. The Maldives are special,so special. This little piece of dirt is being sucked down to Davy Jone's locker,while the neighbouring islands and the rest of the world is not.Now think about it,if that doesn't prove global warming,what does?

Posted by: wallyj at September 9, 2009 10:03 PM

wallyj@10:03 ...This little piece of dirt is being sucked down to Davy Jone's locker,while the neighbouring islands and the rest of the world is not...

It just goes to show, you can only pile Sh!t so high!

Posted by: Frenchie77 at September 10, 2009 9:21 AM
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