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From the Goracle’s lips…
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To the Chilliwack Progress ear;
It was with embarrassment and sadness that I watched the recent Commonwealth Summit, to see Canada standing alone as the only member unwilling to agree to binding targets in the curbing of climate change and its dire consequences for our children and, for many of us, our old age. Furthermore, our P.M. promotes “aspirational targets”, concocted by the Bush government, further tarnishing the Canadian image rather than becoming a global example.
Imagine our prime minister on a tall building and passively watching a young baby crawling towards the edge. When criticized the P.M. says, ‘Well, the laws of physics say that crawling off the edge will not certainly lead to the death of this baby’. However, the science community says it is almost certain. Would Canadians find his action acceptable? No, and they would be justifiably horrified, probably demanding legal action against him.
Turning this scenario to global warming, the P.M. has decided not to implement a ‘baby-saving’ tax shift away from wages and towards carbon-emission. Logically, this is equivalent to losing all of Canada’s newborns off a tall building. With the subsidies doled out to the oil lobby, it could be suggested that Mr. Harper is giving them a little surreptitious kick as well. Scientists now say there is little uncertainty with their understanding of climate change.
So why would we want to prosecute the P.M. for allowing the death of one infant, when many are unmoved with him allowing the suffering/death of them all?
The difference here is that in the case of the building, we have all seen things fall, so are familiar with the Law of Gravity. Carbon dioxide, however, is odourless, tasteless and invisible, so we have to rely on the knowledge of experts. Do we have a tradition in Canada of believing politicians over our scientists as these experts?
In university, I discovered the comforting fact that scientists question; they question the work of their peers relentlessly and mercilessly. They must be able to unequivocally show that their work is sound and reproducible. Results obtained under these circumstances are accepted by the scientific community, whether they like them or not. This is the closest the human mind comes to objectivity.
The babies are plummeting. There is just time to catch them (with a tax shift to carbon). As a nation, I’d like to see us either save this generation, or at least stop pretending we care about them.
(I’ll refrain from commenting on this, as the writer is university educated and I’m not.)
Sally – apart from the babble, the Bali Document is very specific; it has one and only one agenda. Money transference from the industrial countries to the ‘developing countries’.
Its focus is not on the development of new technology to produce lower emissions, but on the CARBON MARKET, and specifically, on ‘financial support for developing countries’.
The ‘already industrialized countries’ must pay a ‘carbon tax’ to the ‘developing countries’. This will enable these latter countries to industrialize.
The thing is, the document does not provide for any money set aside from this ‘carbon tax’ to develop lower-emitting innovative technologies. Nope.
And, vitally important, the developing countries are exempt from emissions standards. They can put up, as China does, coal factories at the rate of one a week, which spew tons of CO2 emissions as well as pollutants, without the UN Kyoto or Bali Boys batting an eye.
That’s because this project of the UN has zilch to do with combatting carbon emissions and everything to do with getting the West to pay for the industrialization of the ‘developing countries’.
right, john west, the intermediary brokerage firms that handle ‘carbon credit’ money transfers, hope to make billions out of this for their ‘brokerage fees’ in this corrupt money laundering agenda of the UN.
My history may be a bit rusty regarding Galileo and the Church, the Church in its debate with Galileo deferred to the scientific community who formed a consensus that indeed the sun moved around the earth and not the other way around. The Church acted as the UN IPCC and banned the denier. Dion picks the wrong analogy again.
Where are those cribs on fire – I may need to go stand by one to warm up when I’m downtown today freezing my derriere off.
If we do as Gore says, crippling our economies for a non-exisent threat, we’re in for a big surprise on April 13, 2037. Who gives a damn what sea levels are going to be like 100 years from now if all life on earth is wiped out by an asteroid (Apophis) 30 years from now? Let’s concentrate our energies on REAL existential threats.
I think this whole Kyoto thing can be put into perspective with just three lines (no pun), just like a hockey coach, assessing the situation and playing the odds. What’s at stake, what are the chances of it happening and what is the reward.
#1 Is long term, unusual Global warming happening ?? Highly debatable. (10% chance ) Mann’s hockey stick graph a proven fraud.
#2 Is man responsible for a significant part of the warming ? Highly debatable. (20% chance) CO2 conc. has always varied / the sun is the climate driver.
#3 Would there be any detrimental effects ? Highly debatable, especially for Canada (Brrr) (20% chance) Land of ice & snow.
So, doing the math; 0.10 X 0.20 X 0.20 = 0.004 > a 0.4% chance of something bad happening down the road.
For this 0.4 % risk we are supposed to (according to Al Gore, David Suzuki, Maurice Strong, Stepahane Dion) immediately give up;
Room temperature
The second vehicle
Jetting away to a warm vacation
Dishwashers
The second home, cottage
Pleasure craft
Office air conditioning
Elevators
Steak and chops
Imported fruits and veggies
Cruise ships
Air ambulance
Houses and condos greater than 985 sq ft
Winter vacation homes
Vehicles with more than 140 hp (not a bad idea, actually )
The beer fridge http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313844,00.html
Considering the risks : reward above, how many Canadians would still be in the ‘fanatical’ environmentalist’s camp ??
IMO, too many politicians listened to David Suzuki instead of Patrick Moore. One is a great Canadian the other is a well known Canadian. (thanks to the CBC)
One has a lot of credibility and a good track record —- the other one worships Al Gore.
Well I am university educated and I WILL comment. The author prescribes to the idea that a carbon tax is the ultimate solution to the global warming issue. Unfortunately he/she has presumed a premise to be true on which the entire argument is based, when in fact, as any university educated person should know, you must first SHOW that your premise is true. The alarmist tone of the article also shows how little this writer has taken away from his/her university experience. Always question, never presume. This article is chalk full of odd metaphors and Gore like religious diatribe. If this writer was my student he/she would have received a failing grade, not for the opinion or the subject, but for the poorly constructed argument and perverse choice of prose.
I’m continually amazed at what passes for argument. Gore’s “the planet has a fever” somehow leads to helping babies who are sick; except, the planet does not have a fever. False analogies are the order of the day, it seems. Anyway, how can one make a scientific argument using baby analogies?
ET, the Bali document writer makes their opinion clear that a carbon credit trading system needs to be developed:
“We believe that an enhanced and extended carbon market needs to be part of this framework as it offers the necessary flexibility, allows for a cost-effective transition and provides financial support to developing countries.”
Why financial support if we are the ones doing the cut in production. Are we to take resources from our economies to give to those who’s emissions are growing at much faster rates? Then they will develop clean fuel technologies? China? India? What nonsense. They should be arguing we develop those technologies, given our industrial and R&D infrastructures, so they can be used by developing world. The idiocy of this position is breathtaking. Hypocrisy is another term that comes to mind.
BTW, nobody checks their credentials or objectivity. I noticed AXA (insurance company) is one of the signatories. Won’t they benefit from the climate change scare by charging more for insurance premiums, as Lloyd’s have already done? I personally don’t think such an agenda exists, that this is simply a public relations exercise, but a dangerous one at that.
ET: the Bali Document is very specific; it has one and only one agenda. Money transference from the industrial countries to the ‘developing countries’.
That’s a rather dubious argument, ET, given that this Bali document was produced and signed not by the UN or AGW advocates but by 150 corporate businesses all headquartered in industrial countries. What interest might, say, Shell have in a money transference scheme?
The thing is, the document does not provide for any money set aside from this ‘carbon tax’ to develop lower-emitting innovative technologies. Nope.
Setting aside money for R&D would be a specific policy decision to be made at the national, not global, level of governance. You are blaming the document for failing to specify policy commitments that it neither has the legal jurisdiction nor interest to provide.
The carbon market component is just one (necessary) piece of the pie. Setting legally-binding emissions reduction targets gives businesses reassurance that a future market demand will exist for lower-emissions products/innovation. Clearly, the statement that “a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally-binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low-carbon technologies” is in keeping with private sector interests regarding investing in the development of technological innovations.
I think this whole Kyoto thing can be put into perspective with just three lines (no pun), just like a hockey coach, assessing the situation and playing the odds. What’s at stake, what are the chances of it happening and what is the reward.
#1 Is long term, unusual Global warming happening ?? Highly debatable. (10% chance ) Mann’s hockey stick graph a proven fraud.
#2 Is man responsible for a significant part of the warming ? Highly debatable. (20% chance) CO2 conc. has always varied / the sun is the climate driver.
#3 Would there be any detrimental effects ? Highly debatable, especially for Canada (Brrr) (20% chance) Land of ice & snow.
So, doing the math; 0.10 X 0.20 X 0.20 = 0.004 > a 0.4% chance of something bad happening down the road.
For this 0.4 % risk we are supposed to (according to Al Gore, David Suzuki, Maurice Strong, Stepahane Dion) immediately give up;
Room temperature
The second vehicle
Jetting away to a warm vacation
Dishwashers
The second home, cottage
Pleasure craft
Office air conditioning
Elevators
Steak and chops
Imported fruits and veggies
Cruise ships
Air ambulance
Houses and condos greater than 985 sq ft
Winter vacation homes
Vehicles with more than 140 hp (not a bad idea, actually )
The beer fridge
Considering the risks : reward above, how many Canadians would still be in the ‘fanatical’ environmentalist’s camp ??
IMO, too many politicians listened to David Suzuki instead of Patrick Moore. One is a great Canadian the other is a well known Canadian. (thanks to the CBC)
One has a lot of credibility and a good track record —- the other one worships Al Gore.
Sounds good Sally. There’s only one problem, AGW is balderdash. Making carbon trading a get-rich-quick scam. Call me crazy, but I just don’t want to contribute any tax money to something like that.
Why not let it sink or swim based on the collective conscience of the global citizenry? If its such a great thing everybody should be climbing all over themselves to get some, no need to jam it down our throats at gun point.
Can Sally or anyone else explain how carbon credits remove even a molecule of CO2 from the atmosphere. Not in theory, in reality; not a hope, but in certainty (after all isn’t science supposed to search for this?). Any takers?
A hundred and fifty corporations —- out of what ? a hundred and fifty ‘thousand’ !!??
About the same ratio as fanatics to normals 🙂
“The babies are plummeting?”
About damn time, if you ask me.
Shamrock: Then they will develop clean fuel technologies? China? India? What nonsense. They should be arguing we develop those technologies, given our industrial and R&D infrastructures, so they can be used by developing world. The idiocy of this position is breathtaking.
Don’t be so sure of that. I’m not defending China’s environmental record, which is dismal overall, but neither should it be said that they are unwilling or unable to voluntarily initiate more sustainable practices. Dongtan is one small example.
Hypocrisy is another term that comes to mind.
Also hypocritical would be industrialized Western nations saying to China, India, and other emerging economic powers: “Yes, it’s true that we were able to build up our massive levels of infrastructure, economic capacity, and wealth throughout the late-19th and 20th centuries without our industries being constrained by any emissions standards, but now that you guys are on the cusp of a similar industrial/economic transformation, we are going to force you to play by a different, harder set of rules.”
A carbon market is not perfect. No policy ever is. There are always winners and losers. But China and India will grow their economies no matter what. Telling them that they can’t grow them in the same manner that we did (a manner that worked out really well for us, but less so for the environment and everyone else) would be, as I said, rather hypocritical. Plus, they’ll just tell us to bugger off, which would all but guarantee even higher levels of pollution coming from those regions. A carbon market gives these emerging nations an incentive to proactively reduce their emissions, even though our nations never did at that earlier, crucial stage of economic gestation, without sabotaging their prospects for long-term growth and prosperity. It gives them enough of a carrot for them to come on board with the global community, even if it isn’t in their absolute economic self-interests to do so.
I work with Engineers (University “Edjucated”)
Of course University means you know more than anyone else and are better.
Just ask those pack of retards……………
More proof that BC produces the most potent drugs.
Kate, I notice that the article carries today’s date. How do you pick up on stuff like this in the most obscure rags while it’s still “fresh”?
Kate, I notice that the article carries today’s date. How do you pick up on stuff like this in the most obscure rags while it’s still “fresh”?
Sally,
The big oil and other companies are lined up to get government largess (stolen from us) to pad their R&D budgets while they continue with business as usual. Can you not connect dots?
As soon as there is no more conventional energy to make a lot of money with, they will perhaps release their findings.
I live in Mexico City…it was 5*C this morning and nearby there was frost on the ground. Here the people of MXC are wondering what the down side of warming is.
I avoided a university education and thereby am still able to think for myself.
Without a university education, I didn’t feel owed a government job, so I started a business and I now pass those savings along to my customers.
Irwin says..
**I think if the writer was attempting to make a point, he might at least have used facts rather than metaphor.
Obviously he has no facts.**
Modus operandus Librano$ eh?
My opinions are only valid until someone better informed corrects them. Then I offer thanks, not curses.
Consider that ExxonMiobile Chevron and Shell are the most powerful of corporations.
They contribute to ALL political parties and so have great lobby power.
They have a few multi-Billion$ refineries in place and aside from some loose talk about a new one in Alberta, have not built a new one since the eighties.
There is no shortage of oil, only a mildly limited refining capacity.
We have mining claims with tags carrying the name * Standard Oil* here on Vancouver Island. There are oil slicks in the swampy tundra like areas here.
With gas and diesel pumps from coast to coast in North America laying golden eggs in the Billion$ every day and every bomb or busted pipe line swelling the price of gas, one can understand how electric and compressed air vehicles are advancing so slowly. Dynasty and Zenn NEVs just now licensed for sale in British Columbia.
This is only one facet. I did say the picture was vastly complex.. eh?
Dr.Soozookifly and Allgory never mention PRIORITY ONE.. Retrofit Coal-gen plants with carbon collection clean coal tech.
It is expensive, but why do these Ivory Tower University educated idiots have no focus,… no clear priority?= TG
John West says “Sally,
The big oil and other companies are lined up to get government largess (stolen from us) to pad their R&D budgets while they continue with business as usual. Can you not connect dots?
As soon as there is no more conventional energy to make a lot of money with, they will perhaps release their findings.”
Right….and Che Guevara was a great military strategist and saviour of the little guy.
the only CBC’r worth the money
hmmmm.. two tier global warming !!
http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/rex_murphy/bali_logic.html
I had a friend once who despite being a successful businessman, despised free enterprise; who owned 3 properties but hated property rights; who obsessed on “global warming” but bought a $80K 8-cylinder gaz-guzzler; who fiercely defended public education and attacked vouchers, but sent his two sons to expensive private schools.
At the end of a e-mail correspondence he presented a case-closed link to a story about a group of high-profile CEOs supporting climate change legislation. Strangely the ONLY common ground we achieved was our shared contempt for corporate-government consumer-screwing collusion.
Re: Kate’s parenthetical comment: I think most of you missed her intended irony.
I find it interesting that people used to go to university to develop some ability to think and reason. It used to be an imperative that students learn the art of ‘critical thinking’. To enable the connecting of dots and not take everything at face value.
Now the university indoctrination teaches that no critical thinking is allowed, only a chanting of the mantra of collectivist ideals. This is what leads sheep to slaughter … with a blank smiley face to boot.
Anyone still able to think knows this.
Now that Gore has explained it to me at a level I can understand — man, we are in trouble! Hey, did he call me flame retarded?
What kills me is the absolute refusal by the AGW crowd to do even the most basic research. For example, Honda has ads promoting their fuel cell car, saying that it only emits water vapour. It takes about five minutes on Google to find out that of all the supposed “green house gases”, water vapour is by far the biggest culprit. Not only is there more of it in the atmosphere than CO2, it traps radiant energy at more points in the spectrum than CO2 does. Idiots.
So is this the new harp of the Left, the Right of the spectrum are out killing babies? Bill Blaikie made that charge about George Bush some time ago in our very own House of Commons re the Irag war.
Let’s say Al Gore is a bloated ignoramus, buffoon, windbag and add mental midget. He is ripe for getting his big fat ass sued making such accusations with no foundation. Calling people murderers on such a topic as Kyoto is beyond the pale and well over the top.
He should be forced to apologize and beg forgiveness.
Further there’s no sign of global warming in these parts, gotta be setting record lows, he can come visit and chill out, dangling parts will need woollies.
Have a look at these four videos of a lecture that Prof Bob Carter presented to the Australian Environmental Foundation (each clip is about nine minutes). He gives a great overview of the history of the world’s climate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN06JSi-SW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCXDISLXTaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQQGFZHSno
AGW alarmists will be shocked, shocked, outraged by what Carter says.
H/T to Speller on the western standard blog.
Out here in the Left Coast a number of small “News Papers” have been appearing over the last few years. There are several print versions handed out on the transit systems and a few that find their way into restaurants and coffee shops. Some are disguised as “seniors advocacy” papers. It seems the NDP and supporters are trying to get their message out in a subtle manner. In one paper, supposedly a seniors advocate, they upheld the great gift of universal health care granted us by our greatest Canadian, TD.
Surprisingly; one of these “news papers”, is produced by one of millionaire Jimmy Pattison’s companies. An editorial page article in Jimmy’s “24 Hours” was entitled: “Harper: Canada’s gift to Bush”.
Yep they’re out there and they have computers and e-mail.
It’s going to be a cold winter. The baby is more likely to freeze to death than die in a house fire.
Now hold on there… if the goracle wants to take away my beer fridge he is in for the fight of his life!
I though the babies were spinning out of control into the void along with the Earth. Now I’m told they’re plummeting. I wish the experts would make their minds up.
Why do you read this stuff, Kate.
If the Leftards want to to do something about reducing consumption, overpopulation, etc., they should all get together, drink their cyanide laced kool-aid and become one with whatever it is they believe in.
When you are bored one day, go to any university website and peruse the degree subjects on offer, then come away smiling. The time will be well spent and will confirm your suspicion that “university educated” or even “university degree” may mean very little.
In this case, we can guess that maybe the Chilliwack writer attended a university in BC, possibly Simon Fraser – well known as Margaret Trudeau’s alma mater – do I need to say more?
-2 and snow in C-wack today. Probability of Falling Baby Index (PFB) 0.00%
Get those plants covered.
Sally – I’d like you to look up “rent seeking”.
Brrrr!
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071130/cold_winter_071130/20071130?hub=TopStories&s_name=
John West says, “Now the university indoctrination teaches that no critical thinking is allowed, only a chanting of the mantra of collectivist ideals. This is what leads sheep to slaughter … with a blank smiley face to boot. Anyone still able to think knows this.”
John, I encourage you to stand back from yourself just a little bit. Just enough to realize just how unoriginal and predictable your own thoughts and opinions often are, and the extent to which they appear to outsiders as nothing more than self-reinforcing recitations of a merely different, but no less collectively echoed, constellation of pre-formed ideologies. Maybe then you’d be a little less smugly self-assured of your own critical faculties, and a little less dismissive of those of everyone you disagree with. Or maybe not.
Oops, the link was in the next item. (blush)
KevinB……. bingo, you win the prize:-)))))
sally….. any astute business person will prepare themselves ( business wise)for future changes and opportunities. Also the people who sit on their BOARDS sit on many boards and thusly have a personal financial stake in this “game”, and that would be in more than one way. The carbon credit scheme is one, cheap and unrestricted manufacturing opportunities in “developing” nations is another, “political” power is another (yes they came play politics from a corporate position). So think about what ALL the possible motives could be, not just one motive!!!
Sally is ignorant of third way socialism.
“John, I encourage you to stand back from yourself just a little bit. Just enough to realize just how unoriginal and predictable your own thoughts and opinions often are, and the extent to which they appear to outsiders as nothing more than self-reinforcing recitations of a merely different, but no less collectively echoed, constellation of pre-formed ideologies. Maybe then you’d be a little less smugly self-assured of your own critical faculties, and a little less dismissive of those of everyone you disagree with. Or maybe not.”
Rory,
You make my point in more than one way. Firstly you are hurt that you have paid so much money for the overly sophisticated and unnecessary vocabulary you used to thwart me.
Secondly, you end your comment with a ‘ or maybe not’. That tells me you have completely absorbed into your psyche that nothing can be certain … the moral relevance thing haunts you even in your insults to others.
Thirdly, you have made no reference to what it is you are upset with me about other than that I am apparently not part of your particular collective, whatever that may be.
So, speak in plain terms the way your mama tried to teach you (for I am a mere high school drop out) or go get back to the Globe and Mail editorials where you can do your bobble head routine uninterupted.
Now an asteroid,,thats it I’m outta here.
Be careful folks,theys talkin bout climate change ,one way or tuther,thattaway theys covered
This is all so simple really . Gaia’s a woman , no ?
There is only one man on this planet who can solve mankind’s current AGW crisis ….Hugh Heffner . When it comes to talking the fairer sex into any thing , Heff’s the guy .
Think about it . Invite her over to the mansion , pour a few cocktails in her ……and bam ! They make their way down to the grotto . Go for a dip . Heff charms the thong off her , and voila ! Gaia does what every chick in these circumstances invariably does , falls madly in love with the old perv , and starts babbling incoherently about these ” hot flashes ” she gets from time to time .
Heff : ” Hot flashes ? Sounds like menopause .”
Gaia : ” I get them every ten thousand years or so , make me a total bitch .”
Heff : “Hmmmm , you don’t look a day over six thousand .”
Gaia : ” Kiss me you fool , all I wanted was some loving .”
Heff : ” You should think about doing a lay out for the magazine .”
Gaia : ” Kinda like the fold out maps in National Geographic ? ”
Heff : ” Yeah , kinda . So , I add you to my stable , you’ll cool it for a while ? ”
Gaia : ” Of course , Hugh . Any thing … any thing for you . ”
Global crisis averted , all thanks to the smartest man on earth ….. Hugh Freaking Heffner .
Better hurry tho , he ain’t getting any younger .
“Re: Kate’s parenthetical comment: I think most of you missed her intended irony.”
(MND, 2:54PM)
I spent 4 semesters in university, but not in any one of the faculties (Law, Commerce, Medicine, Engineering, a few others… arts NOT being one, for example) from which I could have learned anything of a truly practical nature. I worked on a loading dock for 10 months prior to enrolling in university; frankly, I learned considerably more in 10 months on that dock than I learned in 2 years on the campus.
terrence (3:13PM)… just watched your 1ST link. That speaker, Bob Carter, is a hoot! Very engaging, as well. I’m off to watch 3 other links. Good find.
The Global Warming Benefit Dinner
Emcee: Attention, attention, everyone! I want to thank such a wonderful and warm and celebrated group for attending our benefit dinner to assist in the very grave cause of global warming.
Later in the evening, we will hear from Ambassador Kwanzaa who will explain the horrible consequences of global warming on his small African country, and I can only hope that all of you will be as moved as we have been and dig deeply into your checkbooks.
We deeply appreciate the attendance of Congressman Wrangler from Harlem and our beloved Senator Schumann for their attendance. Let’s give them both a huge hand.
Audience: [enthusiastic applause]
Emcee: Naturally, this whole gala dinner would not be possible were it not for the vision, the compassion, of one wonderful man who is responsible for all of us being here today, and of course I’m talking a personal friend of so many of us, and the man I play squash with every Thursday, Winston Niles Rumingford III.
Audience: [applause, as a distinguished, white-haired gentleman in a tuxedo rises unsteadily to his feet, inebriated, beaming beneficently at the socially prominent and politically well-connected socialites gathered in the room]
Emcee: Winston, I know I speak for so many of your friends when I say to you that your years as someone who has distinguished himself sitting on boards of many corporations, that this benefit on behalf of the really wonderful people of this country, to help strike out against the scourge of global warming, may be the pinnacle of your career.
When we had difficulty importing European craftsmen to work on yachts, you instantly swung into action with a benefit dinner, alerting our politicians, and as a consequence we came home with the cup that year.
When we needed a benefit dinner to fight the scourge of Epstein-Bar, you were in the lead.
When someone had to alert the world of carpal tunnel syndrome, Winston Niles Rumingford III stood in the breach.
When no one would bid high enough for that Rubens at Sotheby’s 3 years ago, you came forward.
I think since we are all among friends here that it will be no secret that when Leonoado di Caprio in that bit of trouble with the studio a couple of years ago, Winston Niles Ruminford III was the man who strode forward, back straight, to rectify the problem.
I could go on and on , but before I turn the floor over to Muffy Carrington, I just want to point out that Liz van der Hoot is in the audience.
[A matronly woman, dripping with diamonds rises to her feet with a martini in one hand and waves to the assembly with the other, and she is paying close attention to the contributors who write checks for over $100,000.]
I think we’ll soon know who’s going to be on the list for her weekend at her lovely compound in Martha’s Vineyard next year.
[Genial laughter, signifying the understanding of seasoned veterans of society ripples across the crowd.)
Emcee: And now, I’ll ask Muffy Carrington to come up and offer a few words before Ambassador Kwanzaa takes the stage and gives us a heart-wrenching presentation and film on the depredations of global warming on his small African country, so rich in arts, crafts, and culture. I know that the wonderful people in this room and all our wonderful friends in Newport, Bermuda, and other places in America can truly be depended upon to demonstrate our open heart and our vast caring that is the signature of our compassion and our absolutely passionate refusal to allow cthonic forces to keep global warming in its horrible advance.
Muffy? …