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December 14, 2009

Y2Kyoto: If You Don't Believe In Global Warming

Just look out your limo window;

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Environmental Responsibilities of the Secretariat

The secretariat is developing a policy aimed at making its offices and use of transport environmentally sustainable. The policy, which will cover a broad range of aspects of ‘sustainability at work’, is being developed in cooperation with other United Nations organizations and is expected to be implemented when the secretariat moves to the new United Nations campus here in Bonn.

Meanwhile, the secretariat has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of its activities. These initiatives have included efforts to reduce paper usage, actions to improve energy-use efficiency, favouring of train travel for short distances, and some ‘greening’ of procurement.

Efforts have been made to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the UNFCCC process. To this end, the GHG emissions inventory for the following bienniums have been prepared:

* (PDF) 2004-2005 GHG inventory
* 2006 GHG inventory to be posted soon

Pass the caviar.

h/t Shaken

Posted by Kate at December 14, 2009 10:12 AM
Comments

do as we say we do
is all i want to say to you

Posted by: puddin n pie at December 14, 2009 10:32 AM

I wonder if those figures include Al Gore's yacht? (And don't forget the Grey Poupon in case Obama visits the Secretariat.)

Posted by: andycanuck at December 14, 2009 10:33 AM

Again. They didn't get the memo.

Posted by: Ghost of Ed at December 14, 2009 10:34 AM

"ClimateGate Research Unit Disables Its Website
Newsbusters ^

The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate scandal has taken down most of the information previously available at its website.

Prior to November's release of controversial e-mail messages and documents from Britain's University of East Anglea, there was a separate website for the institution's CRU that allowed readers to review articles and studies created by and for the Unit.

Now, no matter what link one tries to access via a Google search, it directs you to a page that reads: "Due to the present high volume of visitors to this page, you will shortly be directed to the latest news about CRU on the main University of East Anglia website, or you can go there immediately by clicking on this link [1]."
(more)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407174/posts

Posted by: maz2 at December 14, 2009 10:57 AM

"Hair-shirts for thee, silk shirts for me"

Posted by: tim in vermont at December 14, 2009 10:57 AM

I had to laugh at the irony of the 'protestors' complaining because the police left them out in the 'freezing' cold....and yet they continue to protest!

I think it gives them an idea of what life would be like if they are successful at cooling the planet.

Posted by: Alberta Girl at December 14, 2009 11:08 AM

the "new United Nations campus here in Bonn" has a friendlier, less fascist tone than UN Command & Control HQ - Bonn Division.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/29082850

Posted by: Rob @ dailyrasp at December 14, 2009 11:09 AM

''..Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 C with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard said.

The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, he said.

“To break a temperature by 10 degrees is very exceptional,” said Lessard.

http://www.canada.com/technology/Edmonton+breaks+weather+record/2336491/story.html

Posted by: wilson at December 14, 2009 11:12 AM

Interesting that their study doesn't differentiate economy, business and first class in the co2 numbers. Most of these people probably go bus class and first class on long haul. They used standard carbon footprint numbers but bus class is about 3-4 times standard and first class is 6-8 times standard.

Posted by: skuleman at December 14, 2009 11:17 AM

Breaking News

Fake press release links Canada to major emission reduction targets

A bogus website that went online Monday morning mimics the official Environment Canada website and announces that Canada has promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. The Prime Minister's Office dismissed the website as a 'childish prank.'
Posted by: foobert at December 14, 2009 11:20 AM

They want to impose a socialist dictatorship with our taxes globally.

This is really a joke.

STOP CLIMATE CHANGE NOW!

BAN the Seasons! CO2 is gassing the planet!

Abolish Spring, Summer, Autumn, Fall and Winter!

One Planet, ONE temperature!

1000 Years of Anthropogenic Global Warming!

Und global taxation for all!

Skimmers and fraud artists of the world unite und join ze world wide revolution...Save Ze Planet!

Join ze CO2 Polizei today! Vee vill giff you nice boots to leave your carbon footprints all over ze place...


Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

Posted by: Hans Rupprecht at December 14, 2009 11:20 AM

I just came across this news item on CTV:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091214/climate_talks_091214/20091214?hub=TopStoriesV2

Even the usual MSM cheerleaders are making some gloomy predictions about the future of the Copenhagen talks. No doubt if the predictions of failure come true, it will be blamed on sabotage by climate "denialists".

Posted by: Dennis at December 14, 2009 11:22 AM

Check this out . Punked , bogus article made the WSJ , Rutherford has the moron live right now .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 14, 2009 11:31 AM

Even better ,Ugandas' reaction . This one's gonna leave a mark .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 14, 2009 11:36 AM

I don't know why we even bother with those idiots in their accusations.

Eart to warmies, we get winter here, we like to be warm, nuff said.

Lets make a deal with the Danes, we'll jointly hold the activists on that little island in the greenland straits, till they go to court.

Posted by: robins111 at December 14, 2009 11:36 AM

More from the "The Science Is Settled, Damn You!" department:

www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/sunspots-do-not-cause-climate-change-say-scientists-1839867.html

New breakthrough in global warming shutuppery, The Authorities have decided that sun spots have no effect on climate.

"Leading scientists, including a Nobel Prize-winner, have rounded on studies used by climate sceptics to show that global warming is a natural phenomenon connected with sunspots, rather than the result of the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide."

"The researchers – all experts in climate or solar science – have told The Independent that the scientific evidence continually cited by sceptics to promote the idea of sunspots being the cause of global warming is deeply flawed."

Oddly, there is no mention of what the "deep flaws" might be. Just that the research is "deeply flawed". One might almost think the sunspot guys had stuck a thermometer next to an air conditioner or something.

Posted by: The Phantom at December 14, 2009 11:46 AM

They are all concerned about GHG emmisions per participant?

What about the extreme volume of bad ideas emitted per participant? No accounting for that eh?

Posted by: Tax And Svend at December 14, 2009 11:47 AM

Rats leaving a ship!

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2009/12/andy-revkins-last-day/

Posted by: robins111 at December 14, 2009 11:49 AM

Funny, after telling us for at least two decades that the world was going to come to an end because of CO2 emissions, they finally decided to start counting their own CO2 emissions.

The only reason they are doing it at all is because bloggers have pointed out their hypocrisy.

Were it not for people like Kate and others shining a light in dark corners, these creeps would continue to try to restrict our freedom, while ensuring that they are free to do as they please.

The global warming cultists have no shame at all.

Posted by: TJ at December 14, 2009 11:50 AM

It's a good day to be a bureaucrat.

Seems to me France had a period when .gov flunky's
got this arrogant. Now if I remember correctly didn't they have some kinda tool that could do wonders dividing a melon.

Now I know what your gonna say it was the Queen and her penchant for cake, however I do believe that many, many a bureaucrat was introduced to said melon dividing contraption too. Something about taxes and cold and hungry come to mind.

Oh well never mind must just be my imagination acting up again.

Posted by: Jeff Cosford at December 14, 2009 11:54 AM

Bill D. Cat tell me those stories you linked are a spoof.

My God, 5% of our GDP to to a climate debt fund!? Surely not!

Posted by: TJ at December 14, 2009 11:55 AM

Well I'm the idiot today - I didn't even properly read Bill D's initial post that the press release was a spoof.

Time for a second coffee.

Posted by: TJ at December 14, 2009 11:58 AM

robins111:

If the warmies are cold, they can set their cars on fire. I'm sure Al Gore will sell carbon credits.

Chestnuts roasting on a Car-B-Que, Jack Frost nipping at your toes, nose and other exposed body parts...

Greenland is a great idea...

Kap Morris Jesup, Greenland

Friday
Partly Cloudy. High: -21 °C . Wind West 64 km/h . Windchill: -65 °C .


Sorry you can't send them to Hans Island, we are ramping up Christmas Operations!

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

Posted by: Hans Rupprecht at December 14, 2009 12:07 PM

Check out: http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php/thebearslairview?art_id=10323

Posted by: PabloNH at December 14, 2009 12:15 PM

Elitism, thy name is enviro-socialists.
As I read about Saskatchewan's deep freeze, I wonder: whither the warming?

Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe at December 14, 2009 12:24 PM

Bill D. Cat - you don't comment often, you don't comment long, but when you do ... kaaboom !!

This fake press release was obviously done to bring attention to Canada.

Question: Considering that Canada is a small bit player in the world scheme of things, why is Canada recieving attention way above what one would expect?

Just who is behind this? The Liberal Party of Canada? But how could they commandeer the United Nations in such a grand plan ? Uncle Mo ?

Posted by: ron in kelowna ∴ at December 14, 2009 12:32 PM

This just keeps getting funnier . Even the Ugandan response is a fake . More here , sorry for the CBC link . Who the hell has the time and money for a stunt like this ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 14, 2009 12:36 PM

Too funny . . what happens when Smarter-than-Us, Holier-than-Us Warmonger Whackjobs get control of the economy . . .

" My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a check for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs. I would now like to join the “not rearing pigs” business….

My friend is very satisfied with this business. He has been rearing pigs for forty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in 1968. That is – until this year, when he received a check for not rearing any.

If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 pigs not raised, which will mean about £240,000 for the first year. As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious, perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not reared in my second year, for which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department….

Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tons of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops. Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to not feed the pigs I don’t rear?"

http://sppiblog.org/news/capitalist-pigs-and-global-warming

Posted by: Fred at December 14, 2009 12:40 PM

Ron ,

What's truly sad is that this hoax will get far more MSM exposure than climategate ever did .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 14, 2009 12:51 PM

Is Briffa the whistleblower? Warning.. only speculative

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11861

Posted by: James at December 14, 2009 12:56 PM

FYI. It was Ralph Klein that said "Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark"

Posted by: kelly at December 14, 2009 1:03 PM

oops, I meant to post that in the next thread...

Posted by: kelly at December 14, 2009 1:05 PM

It may have been the work of the Yes Men.

So, did you hear the one about Canada making a huge splash at the COP15 Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen by completely reversing its climate change policy and setting aggressive new carbon reduction targets?

Well, then you've heard about a high-concept prank, which seems to have been perpetrated by someone willing and capable of going to dizzying lengths to show policymakers what they should be doing to combat climate change.

We're guessing this is probably the work of the Yes Men, obviously!

They did a stunt like this in Calgary too about a year ago at a major oil industry trade show.

Posted by: foobert at December 14, 2009 1:08 PM

For all you stats people with an hour to kill, Iowahawk shows you how to make a hockey stick chart.

Seriously.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html

Warning: not satire, contains mathematical formulas, requires a spreadsheet.

Posted by: James at December 14, 2009 1:09 PM

CBC sure is quick to report fake news .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 14, 2009 1:10 PM

Now I just know all you guy's are worried about this.

ADB chief says climate finance insufficient

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BC14S20091213

Posted by: robins111 at December 14, 2009 1:14 PM

If they are wound down they will reduce the environmental impact of their activities.

Fire Them All (Don't fund them.)

Posted by: rroe at December 14, 2009 1:17 PM

Goreacle Report: Kevin, Gavin, Mike, Help. My limo is ice fogged.
...-

"Ice fog triggers 60-car collision near Ottawa"

http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/738503--ice-fog-triggers-60-car-collision-near-ottawa

Posted by: maz2 at December 14, 2009 1:35 PM

a hoax upon them !!! LOL !!!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091214/canada/canada_us_climate_canada_hoax_1

Posted by: curious_george at December 14, 2009 1:35 PM

Another one that makes you go, Hmmm

Climategate: with business interests like these are we really sure Dr Rajendra Pachauri is fit to head the IPCC?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100019821/climategate-with-business-interests-like-these-are-we-really-sure-dr-rajendra-pachauri-is-fit-to-head-the-ipcc/

Posted by: robins111 at December 14, 2009 1:41 PM

Just send an email to Jim Prentice at Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca

Hon Minister:

A fake press release?

Just another in the long line of fakery on the climate change issue.

Please do the right thing and insist the international community pay CANADA to curtail its CO2 emission.

At the very least, have your researchers confirm that increased, yet historically low, CO2 levels have led to increased plant production.

Posted by: set you free at December 14, 2009 1:48 PM
CBC sure is quick to report fake news.

They're talking about the Afghan prisoner crisis?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 14, 2009 1:50 PM

I'd imagine the UN in it's daily business, living in a high cost area like NYC, generates as much CO2 as many small countries.

Consquently I'd like to propose that they all stop emitting CO2 for 1 hour ( stop breathing) in solidarity , and failing that, we can move them to Lagos, Nigeria, a less costly (in every sense) siting area, and ONLY have them move around the world on sailing ships ( as a example to the rest of us.)

Oh, and they can raise their own crops organically there, while they are at it.

Posted by: Fred2 at December 14, 2009 1:50 PM

Sniff .....I was so hoping the Ugandan response was real .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 14, 2009 1:53 PM

Google has a new "Exploring Climate Change" link on it's top page......fires up a nice Al Goracle tribute....

Posted by: jcl at December 14, 2009 2:04 PM

Boy they sure had me fooled. Must have taken their cue from CRU.....

http://en.cop-15.org/news/view+news_newsid=12888.html

I just about posted nasty words towards Uganda, my appologies :)

Posted by: eastern paul at December 14, 2009 2:41 PM

"2006 GHG inventory to be posted soon"

According to the calendar by my computer, it's almost 2010.

I guess in UN terms, "to be posted soon" is pretty
relative.

Posted by: JJM at December 14, 2009 3:13 PM

The real reason Canada is being vilified at Copenhagen, is because the first thing Harper did when elected was SHUT down those Liberal climate foundations...

Go Here...scroll down the page
a blast from the past.. to Ron and Bill D Cat

$10-billion Kyoto implementation plan unveiled
David Akin, CTV Parliamentary Bureau
April 14, 2005 7:34 AM ET

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/20050414/kyoto_canada_050413?s_name=Autos&no_ads=

The Liberals had plans for Copenhagen, even back then.
They were planning to BUY their way into an agreement, with the usual scimming of kickbacks for liberals to use to get re-elected.

The socialists of the world were counting on that money from the Liberals in Canada, they still want that money, it doesn't matter that it was promised by a FORMER government no longer in power.
It really is all about the money!
They will get it one way or the other, with the help of the usual suspects, the media, hollywood, and the ever present usefull idiots.

Posted by: William in Ajax at December 14, 2009 3:43 PM

The real reason Canada is being vilified at Copenhagen, is because the first thing Harper did when elected was SHUT down those Liberal climate foundations...

Go Here...scroll down the page
a blast from the past.. to Ron and Bill D Cat

$10-billion Kyoto implementation plan unveiled
David Akin, CTV Parliamentary Bureau
April 14, 2005 7:34 AM ET

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/20050414/kyoto_canada_050413?s_name=Autos&no_ads=

The Liberals had plans for Copenhagen, even back then.
They were planning to BUY their way into an agreement, with the usual scimming of kickbacks for liberals to use to get re-elected.

The socialists of the world were counting on that money from the Liberals in Canada, they still want that money, it doesn't matter that it was promised by a FORMER government no longer in power.
It really is all about the money!
They will get it one way or the other, with the help of the usual suspects, the media, hollywood, and the ever present usefull idiots.

Posted by: William in Ajax at December 14, 2009 3:49 PM

GooGooracle Report: "'More will be revealed tomorrow,' climate prankster says Globe and Mail (blog)"
...-

"Fake news release links Canada to major emission reduction targets
Canada.com - Kelly Cryderman - ‎1 hour ago"‎

"A bogus website that went online Monday morning mimics the official Environment Canada website and announces that Canada has promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent below"

"'More will be revealed tomorrow,' climate prankster says Globe and Mail (blog)"

"Extreme cold in Prairies; snowstorms in BC
National Post - ‎1 hour ago‎"
(via google)

Posted by: maz2 at December 14, 2009 4:29 PM

Gaia’s Worshippers: “45,215 people”; cold butts warming.
…-

“Hundreds queue in cold for global warming talks

(AFP) – 8 hours ago

COPENHAGEN — Hundreds found themselves waiting in near-freezing cold on Monday to collect passes for the UN climate talks, as the sheer volume of people overwhelmed staff at the conference venue.

Police set up cordons to marshal the huge queue at around 10:00 am (0900 GMT) and temporarily closed the metro station next to the Bella Center, police spokesman Henrik Moeller Jakobsen told AFP.

“The police told us there would be around a six-hour wait to reach the accreditation desks,” an AFP journalist reported after joining the queue at around midday.

A police officer on duty at the conference centre said: “There are too many people and we can’t get them inside at the moment, that’s the problem.”

The temperature in Copenhagen just after midday (1100 GMT) was zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), with cloudy skies.

Negotiations for a new global agreement to combat global warming entered their second week on Monday, prompting an influx of new arrivals — notably from ministerial delegations. The conference ends Friday.

In total, 45,215 people — including delegates, journalists, lobbyists and campaigners — have registered for the conference, more than double the Bella Center’s maximum capacity of 15,000, the UN organisers told reporters.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5je1GYFERKjmaVvyKr5Qrc4HOOflg

Posted by: maz2 at December 14, 2009 5:22 PM

As we read this I have it on reliable source Fat AlGore, Jim Prentice and our own Rob Renner are sequestered in a private meeting discussing which one of them holds the record for the most wedgies in school. Fat Al thought he was in the lead until Renner added in grade 5 which was a brutal wedgie winter for him, this has no doubt contributed to their desire to tax anything and anyone who was mean to them in the past. Hard to believe that anyone smart enough to wipe, can believe in this nerdfest in Denmark. Edmonton hits -48, unreal level of global warming. Meanwhile E.D. our Alberta leader is moving quickly to build carbon dioxide pipelines at a huge expense to Albertans, to hide Co2 deep in the ground so after a few more winters of -48 he can say, "We'll open the taps and rerelease the nasty Co2 to warm up the planet for a Meeellion dollars. What has happened to intelligence?

Posted by: bartinsky at December 14, 2009 5:31 PM

CBC (ride home from work...ugh!) claims Canada is taking all kinds of flack and is an embarassment at the talks.

Makes me smile.
I've never been a crowd follower.

Posted by: bluetech at December 14, 2009 5:48 PM

You really must ponder this logically.....
Canada is 2% of the alleged emissions....
This sort of thing could only benefit the troika by damaging the CPC image.
The image of the UN Secretariat moving to Brussels is plausable.....and safer when the emotional event erupts in the US.
The UN would be just too tempting a target for the patriots......
A critical mass of the US supports cutting UN funding and expelling the UN.....
This press release hoax just could have the result of inspiring such a move.
What is truly amazing is this brazen attempt to plunge on, brazen it out and attempt to stampede the entire world despite the reality that "the science" is exposed as a total fraud/hoax.

Posted by: sasquatch at December 14, 2009 6:18 PM

Lying signs and wonders.

When the Gaia-worshippers (essentially Satanists under a different name) invoke Biblical imagery to make their distorted points (the four horsemen indeed), it reminds us that such events were foretold two thousand years ago (read 2 Thes 2 and see if it doesn't provide a more accurate commentary on Copenhagen than the CBC or Global).

Now there's one prediction covering two thousand years that we can trust. The later ones? Not so much.

Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at December 14, 2009 8:39 PM
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