Now, say it again, in your best BBC accent.

h/t Biff’s Place

The bottle genie works its magic;

A Compas poll, carried out Nov. 28 and released last week, showed — remarkably — that among Canadians with an opinion on a Copenhagen treaty, 73 per cent favoured postponing a decision or not signing on at all.
Respondents’ reasons related to concern about economic recovery following the recession as well as lack of confidence in the science behind climate change. That confidence has been shaken of late by a controversy over manipulation of data at a British research institute. It’s noteworthy that Conservatives have not suffered any significant drop in poll numbers as a result of their cautious approach on climate change.

And that, despite a full court press by an ideologically invested Canadian mainstream news media to ignore, spin and dismiss the content of the released documents.

Climate activists also experienced a setback last week when the Calgary-based Canada West Foundation warned that a national unity crisis could result from letting the West bear the brunt of greenhouse-gas emission cuts.
The warning came in response to a document released last October by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute. Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity asserted Canada’s economy could handle significant emissions cuts, with most damage confined to Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The two environmental groups had hoped the document would convince people the task at hand is doable. Instead it pulled the curtain on simmering tensions in the federation.

Suzuki, Pembina, the CBC, and other leftist dinosaurs in media share common traits – they understand even less about average Canadians than they do the environment, and at their core, care little for either.
It’s the Marxism, stupid.

Are the mainstream media capable of surviving their sidelining of the number one global scoop? Are they finally committing suicide? Are they, in fact, any longer mainstream? Every historian knows that any significant trend in society will show warning symptoms over a long period; but the final catastrophe will usually be triggered by a single event. For the moribund MSM that decisive blunder may well be Climategate.
Another feature of any doomed institution is that it signals its imminent demise by behaving in a manner that is contrary to its nature and purpose. Every city in the developed world contains news rooms in which cringing journalists struggle to satisfy the imperative demands of editors for a scoop. Yet the obvious scoop – the BIG ONE of journalistic mythology – is consigned to the waste basket. This is the journalism of Isvestia and Pravda, with all the commercial viability that attached to that school of news reporting.

And like all Marxists, they’d run the planet like they run their conferences.

“People around the world [are] actually expecting something to be done from us,” red-faced Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen lectured delegates from nearly 200 nations.
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BBC video showed truncheon-bearing Danish police shoving the crowd backward as protesters gasped and covered their faces to avoid breathing tear gas.

Since we last checked in on our favourite self-vindicating Climategate character, Associated Press “science” writer Seth Borenstein has taken to hanging out with the cool kids in Copenhagen;

With U.N. security letting in only those cleared last week, hundreds of accredited delegates, journalists and NGO representatives were left to stand for hours in near-freezing temperatures before being let through. “It was crazy,” AP’s Seth Borenstein said. “You couldn’t leave the line. You couldn’t go to the bathroom, you couldn’t eat. Then snowflakes started falling. One woman even said, ‘if lightning strikes me, would they take me out of line?'”
People started handing out food — one gave out tangerines, another croissants. A man screamed “I don’t need food. I need socks! I’m freezing my ass off out here.” At one point, a U.N. official announced the wait would be longer, prompting the crowd to boo and chant “Let Us In!” […]
Seth himself stepped into the line at 7:55 a.m. and was through at 3:15 p.m., but only after another AP reporter, John Heilprin, “saved my bacon” by persuading a U.N. security guard to go out and fetch him. “John was afraid to go out himself in case they wouldn’t let him back in … the first thing I did when I saw him was give him a big hug. I have never been so grateful to be indoors.” Seth’s neighbors in line? “Oh they’re still out there.”

And just in the gloal warming nick of time!
Indeed – “This entire circus would be funnier if not for what is at stake: trillions of dollars in regulatory actions and billions of dollars in aid to developing nations. And, if there were to be some miracle and nations in attendance did sign an agreement, who would be in charge of monitoring all these agreed to carbon reductions and oversight of all that development aid? The same entity that can’t even figure out that 45,000 people won’t into a 15,000 person building; the United Nations.”