The day the Global Warming death spiral began
…something that caught my eye was the drop in mid 2011 (or precisely — July 29, 2011) when media stories fell by half, a step-change fall from which they never recovered.
Lots more at the link.
The day the Global Warming death spiral began
…something that caught my eye was the drop in mid 2011 (or precisely — July 29, 2011) when media stories fell by half, a step-change fall from which they never recovered.
Lots more at the link.
http://www.canada.com/business/Canada+supports+global+carbon+pricing+government+records/8808253/story.html
Yet our beloved alleged Conservative government still speaks of “climate change” and a carbon market.
Hopefully it dies the death it richly deserves. Too bad some of the ring leaders of this massive fraud will not be joining this death.
The Luddites will have to come up with another scheme to slow the progress of western civilization and to control people’s lives.
Far more instructive is this chart (linked in the comments) tracking reports on climate change or global warming over the last dozen years (2000-2011):
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2012/01/media_coverage_climate_change.jpeg.492x0_q85_crop-smart.jpg
The global warming nonsense was a fad driven by the false prosperity before the global financial crisis. People given cheap bank-confetti to spend thought themselves rich, which made them vain—vain enough to believe that man controlled the weather and not God. The crisis, whatever else it did, taught a few lessons in humility. After the crisis began in earnest in late 2007 and the banksters started calling in their loans on pain of foreclosure, global warming coverage began a decline to which there was no end in sight even in late 2011.
Today, only those who live on the pig’s back on someone else’s money—trust-find troublemakers (such as the Occupy gang), civil servants, banksters and the mistresses of banksters (Mark Carney’s eco-crank wife, for example), still give a tinker’s curse about global warming. People who live in fear of their businesses’ closing down for want of cash to pay taxes and debts, or the bank’s foreclosing on their house and car, have better things to worry about.
The collapse of the carbon market in Europe, where Romanianization continues to proceed apace, was more a symptom than a cause. Who in blazes were the Greeks supposed to sell their “carbon credits” to? The Spaniards? The Teigs, perhaps? Everybody who still had the cash to buy the things had had the sense to stay out of Kyoto in the first place.
Figuring out how to sell ad space has been giving the mainstream press a headache since the rise of the blogosphere. They have at least learned that climate change won’t do the trick any more. Progress of a sort, I suppose.
Never fear, Ken. They will.
As long as the issue of money remains in the hands of bankers who have no God but money, and are loyal only to themselves, not the Queen, her enemies will never lack for financial support for their plots to enslave her subjects and relieve them of their wealth. Usury is the oldest-running scam of them all.
Scams like this are two a penny. We will never be rid of them till we see off the source of the pence.
Don’t think for a minute that they will ever give up on some kind of climate tax on fuel. 10 years ago they figured it was a shoe-in so they have already spent the money they expected to collect. They didn’t expect the whole climategate thing to happen and subsequent exposures, nor that conservatives and moderates would hold so firm on the issue. I expect the CPC to float another announcement saying that in order to build Keystone we must accept the tax or something along those lines. Lorne Gunter sent up a balloon a few weeks ago and it didn’t go over very well, but they will keep trying. All political parties favour such a tax.
The final paragraph of the article linked is priceless.
The “green” activists et al are hoping people forget but are still gullible enough to milk.
There was indeed an apparent change in July 2011, but it’s connected to the very large drop post-December 2009. The big drop in 2009 was the result of the collapse of talks at COP in Copenhagen. Early in 2010, there was a rush of stuff from all the usual government agencies that this would be worked out over the next year, and that a full agreement would be forthcoming.
Now the real action doesn’t happen at the December COP conferences. It happens at the summer meetings among the government bureaucrats. That’s where the documents are generated for approval/adoption by COP. By COP in 2010, it’s still a work in progress. But by the summer of 2011, China has stated emphatically earlier that year that under no circumstances will it adopt any quota on CO2, then or at any time in the future. This announcement was explicit at the 2011 summer meetings, meaning that there would be absolutely nothing to discuss at the COP in December.
And the result in 2011 was a massive falloff in government delegations. Government leaders universally stayed away, and environment minister were only showing up for a couple of days. In short, the failure of COP in 2009 was finally shown to be a permanent collapse of the whole process by July 2011.
I’ve been saying for years that December 2009 was the end of the Kyoto process. By July 2011, what Joanne Nova is showing is that the media became aware that it was the end as well.
Slater, for once I agree with you. Good points.