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IMF Head Calls For Huge Global Warming Slush Fund
International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn today called for a huge global warming slush fund to be established as an interim measure before carbon taxes are implemented in the name of preventing weather disasters related to alleged man-made climate change.
Speaking in Nairobi Kenya today, “Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned about the huge amount of funding needed and the effect that will have on the global economy,” reports the Associated Press.
The IMF chief said that an outline paper would be published later this week which would detail how countries would adopt a quota system “which could bring in money faster than proposals to increase carbon taxes or other fundraising methods”.
Strauss-Kahn said that the measure was merely a stop-gap in anticipation of the longer term implementation of carbon taxes, that is a global levy on the very substance we exhale.
“We all know that (carbon taxes and other fundraising methods) will take time and we don’t have this time. So we need something which looks like an interim solution, which will bridge the gap between now and the time when those carbon taxes will be big enough to solve the problem,” Strauss-Kahn said. “And that is exactly what the IMF proposal is dealing with.”
Strauss-Kahn cited the failed Copenhagen “agreement” in claiming that $100 billion dollars a year would be needed to help poorer countries fight the effects of climate change, which as the Climategate scandal exposed, have been completely exaggerated and even fabricated by the IPCC in pursuit of a predetermined consensus.
However, one of the primary reasons behind the failure of Copenhagen was put down to the leak of the “Danish text,” which revealed how the IMF and the World Bank were using climate change as a smokescreen with which to hide their neo-colonial agenda.
As we reported at the time, the leaked text exposed how funds from climate financing, originally allocated to go to the UN and then be doled out piecemeal to third world nations, would instead be paid directly into the coffers of the World Bank and IMF, organizations that have made a habit out of looting poorer countries with crippling debts that cannot be paid back, forcing such countries to hand over their entire infrastructure to globalist loan sharks.
Leaders of third world countries were horrified to discover that developed nations would take on less of a burden than anticipated and that more would be demanded of poorer countries despite the fact that any further cuts in CO2 emissions would further cripple their flimsy economies and poverty-stricken people.
Billionaire elitist George Soros subsequently told Copenhagen delegates how poorer nations would be forced to take on what he described as “green loans” in the name of combating climate change, a policy that would land the already financially devastated third world with even more debt, payable to globalist institutions such as the IMF.
The creation of revenue streams to bankroll the structure of global governance that will oversee the implementation a “green world order” will again be up for discussion at a series of new Copenhagen process negotiations set to take place in April, May and June.
As we highlighted last month, leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, crush sovereignty while devastating the economy is exposed once again.
Paul Joseph Watson
sursa: PrisonPlanet.com
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Bill Gates Calls for Population Reduction
In a recent TED Talk, Bill Gates has put forward the theory that mankind can reach zero carbon emissions by reducing our population, services, energy and carbon output. And yes, he’s even suggested a trendy, yet totally absurd, equation to legitimatize his eugenicist viewpoint. All I can say is, “What a crackpot!” Maybe it’s because he hasn’t noticed the systematic fraud exposed in the climate-gate debacle or maybe it’s because the mathematics of his equation are so blatantly imbecilic but I can’t help myself from truncated laughter. This guy is a genius? Really?
First and foremost, the summation equation is immeasurably misleading. No one, and especially not a world renowned computer programmer, should make the mistake of multiplying the variables of a summation. And even if you could overlook that magnitude of an inaccuracy, the number of variables that lead to a reasonable projection of a true change in any chaotic system are far more varied and complex than the four presented by Mr. Gates’ second grade presentation. Yet in typical fashion one TED attendee, Laura Trice, stated, “Bills Gates reduced the environmental CO2 issue to a simple math equation I could understand.”
So, assuming you are among the lemurs that have bought into the CO2 bogeyman storyline (during a carbon starved period of history); you still must concede that anything times zero is zero and therefore Bill Gates, even if inadvertently, called for zero human population. And though one could try to fool themselves into believing that he wouldn’t call for the expansion of the depopulation agenda, you didn’t need to wait very long to hear that directly from his own mouth. Soon into his talk he states that the world’s population is rapidly heading toward a staggering 9 billion and that, “if we do a good job on new vaccines, healthcare, and reproductive health services we could lower that by 10-15%.” Yes, you guessed it; Bill Gates is suggesting tried and tested Malthusian population manipulation to achieve the new world order’s nominal depopulation agenda.
He later states that if they can’t achieve the kind of carbon reduction necessary by their standards; then they will consider using current “geo-engineering” methods to change weather patterns and extend their timeline. But the ultimate fumble of the speech came when Gates was asked what he would say to “climate deniers”. After clumsily attempting to make a point for what seems like an eternity, Gates exclaims, “if we can make the alternatives cheaper then they won’t care anymore.” Well I for one disagree with Mr. Gates’ assertations. For one, reproductive health services is an obvious code phrase for sterilization and abortion services, as so cunningly detailed by Obama Science Czar John Holdren in his government eugenics handbook “Ecoscience”. And secondly, I refuse to take anyone serious that still considers CO2 emission standardization to be anything less than the introduction of a new highly mercenary financial exchange instrument.
However, in the typical fashion of a seasoned professional pitchman, Bill Gates does deliver one singular great point that struggles to lend credibility to all of the previously presented non-sense. The productive use of depleted uranium in a newly designed slow-burn reactor is an idea that has been long overdue. After the egregious use of DU on the battle fields of Iraq, it almost sounds like a fairytale to have the potential to steer the toxic psychosis permeated elite war mongers towards a use for DU that may actually benefit mankind. And once the perpetrators of similar War and State crimes (illegal wiretaps, illegal preemptive war, torture, etc) have been tried and sentenced; DU reactors are surly at the top of the to-do-list.
Stephen P. Fuller
sursa: Infowars.com
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Victimele razboaielor politice
Cetatenii sunt de 20 de ani victimele luptelor pentru Putere dintre partidele politice. Obsesia guvernarii - a pastrarii sau a ajungerii la privilegiile conferite de aceasta - a transformat Romania intr-un camp de lupta electoral. Distanta dintre interesele alesilor si cele ale alegatorilor se mareste de la o zi la alta. Realitatea in care traiesc cei multi, napastuiti si ingrijorati de un viitor tot mai incert difera radical de cea in care se lafaie minoritarii de serviciu din politica postdecembrista. Anul 2010 se anunta unul dificil. Mai greu chiar decat cel precedent. Somajul continua sa se indrepte vertiginos spre doua cifre. Justitia se afla in asteptarea unui nou Raport dezamagitor de la Bruxelles, in care inexistenta reformei, coruptia galopanta si influentele politice din actul de judecata vor fi, din nou, aspru criticate.
Sistemul de Educatie este amenintat, la randul sau, cu un nou val de reforme care il au in prim-plan pe proaspatul ministru. Si in Sanatate situatia este una agonizanta, in conditiile unui deficit alarmant de personal si a unei subfinantari ce isi va pune amprenta si in acest an. Administratia publica merge mai departe, impinsa cu brutalitate de la spate de o clasa politica dornica sa isi propulseze non-valorile in fruntea miilor de institutii deconcentrate. Totul se negociaza. Totul are un pret. Totul este posibil in urma negocierilor (a se citi compromisuri) politice. Guvernantii mimeaza, din plin, solidaritatea cu o populatie grav afectata de o criza ce pare a nu se mai termina. Austeritatea razbate din Palatul Victoria doar prin declaratiile alesilor. Guvernantii, intr-o proportie uriasa, aceiasi de anul trecut, stiu ca migratia politica ii poate salva de la inevitabilele motiuni simple si de cenzura. Iar partidele din Opozitie sunt pline de profitori care au descoperit, brusc, divergente de opinie si o incompatibilitate evidenta cu formatiunile din care fac parte. Bancile incomode ale Opozitiei nu atrag, iar ispita includerii tale in angrenajul banos, chiar si pe perioada de criza al unei Puteri ce vrea sa acapereze totul, devine de nerefuzat. Iar guvernatii prind, astfel, tot mai mult tupeu, simtindu-se protejati in fata acuzelor Opozitiei. Se amagesc ca iluzoria majoritate parlamentara, formata din parlamentari cumparati la kilogram, ii protejeaza, automat, si in fata unei populatii dezamagite. Amanarea miscarilor sindicale a fost posibila doar in urma unui nou val de promisiuni lansat de la Palatul Victoria, promisiuni ce vor avea in curand un efect de bumerang asupra aceluiasi guvern iresponsabil. Amagirea populatiei, tehnica supravietuirii de pe o zi pe alta prin imprumuturi disperate si propaganda electorala inutila reprezinta o tactica sinucigasa pentru cei ce cred ca romanii vor accepta la nesfarsit sa fie mintiti si sfidati.
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Lawmaker: Climate change just ruse to control population
Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature’s chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population.
The House Natural Resources Committee then approved a resolution that expresses the Utah Legislature’s belief that “climate alarmists’ carbon dioxide-related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for the current downturn in global temperatures.”
The resolution, sent to the House on a 10-1 vote, would urge the Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate the pollution blamed for climate change “until a full and independent investigation of the climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated.”
“We’re at the breaking point,” said Rep. Kerry Gibson, the resolution’s sponsor, who warned that the supply of safe and affordable food is already threatened by over-regulation.
Eleven Brigham Young University scientists defended climate science in a point-by-point rebuttal to parts of the resolution and urged the panel in an e-mail to reject the measure.
“Even if all the political solutions proposed so far are flawed,” they said, “this does not justify politicians attacking the science that indicates there is almost certainly a serious problem.”
The Utah Farm Bureau, a strong backer of the resolution, pressed many of the same scientists, along with LDS Church-owned BYU, to apologize for comments they had made critical of a previous legislative climate discussion and the remarks of one witness who disputes humankind’s role in global warming.
“I would call on Brigham Young University and Summer Rupper to apologize for what they have said,” said Farm Bureau CEO Randy Parker, who assisted Gibson, an Ogden farmer, in presenting the measure.
Both BYU and one of the scientists involved indicated Thursday there won’t be an apology for comments regarding University of Alabama researcher Roy Spencer’s work.
“We attacked some of his positions,” said geochemist Barry Bickmore, who signed both BYU letters. “We didn’t attack him.”
BYU spokesman Michael Smart noted that the scientists who have written to the Legislature have said all along they do not represent the school’s views.
“The faculty have always been clear they are speaking for themselves and not for the university,” he said. “The university doesn’t take a position on this issue, so we don’t have any comment on it.”
Parker, a member of the 2007 Governor’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change, and Gibson told the committee that climate science was motivated by the chase for research dollars, that climatology suffers a “credibility crisis” and that the work of skeptical scientists is being squelched.
They also described devastating impacts on the economy and farmers if the EPA succeeds with proposed regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and if Congress enacts a “cap-and-tax” law.
“It would be crippling to the economy,” said Gibson. “What it comes down to is: Agriculture is being regulated and taxed to death under this kind of mentality.”
Parker said proposed policies would hit U.S. farmers and families hard, putting a $2,000 or greater burden on each family, trigger energy shortages and slash farm income by half. He also said the EPA’s “cow tax” would cost Utah’s farmers and ranchers nearly $104 million, although the agency insists the regulation would not apply to small businesses like farms.
Rep. Phil Riesen, D-Holladay, questioned Gibson about the “conspiracy” wording in the resolution. “A conspiracy?” he asked. “By whom? To what end?”
“I’m not sure we’ll ever know the depths of it,” said Gibson, adding that it was hard to separate the hype because “we only hear one side of the argument.”
Rep. Roger Barrus, R-Centerville, who supported the anti-regulation part of the resolution, called the wording “pretty inflammatory” and counter to the Legislature’s standards of civility.
But Noel defended the “conspiracy” wording, pointing to an out-of-print textbook, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment , written in the 1970s by biologist Paul Ehr - -lich, Ehrlich’s wife, Anne, and physicist John Holdren about the potential hazards of unchecked population.
The Kanab Republican, referring to Holdren as the Obama administration’s “energy czar,” read from passages of the 1,000-plus-page tome about population-control alternatives that included abortion and forced sterilization. He did not share the authors’ conclusion: that voluntary population-limiting methods are “a far better choice.”
“Now, if you can’t see a connection [of a conspiracy] to that,” the legislator said, “you’re absolutely blind to what is going on. This is absolutely — in my mind, this is in fact a conspiracy to limit population not only in this country but across the globe.”
Judy Fahys
sursa: TheSaltLakeTribune
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Mad Scientists Want To Simulate Volcanoes To Block Sun
Even as the very foundation of the global warming fraud collapses as a result of scandal after scandal, and the manufactured link between CO2 emissions and temperature increases is vehemently debunked, mad scientists with sympathetic allies in the White House are proposing to simulate volcanoes in order to block out the sun.
Despite the fact that Climategate, Glaciergate, Amazongate, and a host of other mammoth, caught red-handed examples of global warming alarmists engaging in outright fraud to manufacture a link between CO2 emissions and climate change have been exposed over the last two months, geoengineering nuts are still insisting on the necessity of carrying out their own man-made climate change by loading the atmosphere with sulphuric particles in an effort to block the very source of all life on earth – the sun.
“A geoengineering project to block the sun by simulating volcanic eruptions would be 100 times cheaper than cutting greenhouse gas emissions, climate change scientists said,” reports the Telegraph.
“The environmental scientists, David Keith of the University of Calgary in Canada, Edward Parson of the University of Michigan and Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, were writing an editorial in the journal, Nature.”
“They called for governments to establish a multimillion-pound fund for research into the simulated volcanoes and other solar-radiation management techniques for shielding the Earth against sunlight.”
No, this isn’t a script from V or some tacky alien invasion B movie – esteemed scientists are really proposing to treat the sun – without which all life on earth would perish – as a mortal enemy to the environment.
With no justification whatsoever, and with scant regard for the health consequences, these lunatics actually want to create artificial volcanoes in an attempt to produce global dimming.
No doubt the following benefits that are associated with exposure to sulphur will be enjoyed as an added bonus by the same kind of people who advocate genocidal measures of population reduction.
- Neurological effects and behavioral changes
– Disturbance of blood circulation
– Heart damage
– Effects on eyes and eyesight
– Reproductive failure
– Damage to immune systems
– Stomach and gastrointestinal disorder
– Damage to liver and kidney functions
– Hearing defects
– Disturbance of the hormonal metabolism
– Dermatological effects
– Suffocation and lung embolism
As we have previously highlighted, a prominent supporter of geoengineering proposals is none other than White House science czar John P. Holdren, a key Obama advisor who infamously co-authored a book in which he called for a “planetary regime” to enforce draconian population control measures such as forced abortion, infanticide and mandatory sterilization, as well as poisoning the water supply.
In April last year, Holdren revealed that high-level talks had already taken place to explore the possibility of “geoengineering” the environment by “shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays”.
“It’s got to be looked at,” Holdren was quoted as saying, “We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.” The AP also reported that Holdren said he had raised the concept in administration discussions.
But for some, simply launching gargantuan atmospheric experiments to block out the sun doesn’t go far enough. A new book staunchly advocated by none other than NASA’s James Hansen calls for cities to be razed to the ground, industrial civilization to be destroyed, and acts of sabotage and eco-terrorism in the name of halting whatever invented environmental catastrophe alarmists are threatening this week.
“The only way to prevent global ecological collapse and thus ensure the survival of humanity is to rid the world of Industrial Civilization,” writes author Keith Farnish, adding that “people will die in huge numbers when civilization collapses”.
As we have repeatedly stressed, the innumerable scandals currently rocking the global warming establishment are eating away at whatever credibility the climate change authodoxy had left, but unless we follow through and weed out the systemized detritus that already infests every level of our society in the name of climate change, these sophisticated crackpots are just going to keep pushing ahead with their lunacy.
This starts with a wholesale rejection and noncompliance with any policy, regulation, or mandate instituted in the name of stopping the manufactured fraud that is man-made global warming.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
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Global Warming Fraud Collapses Amidst Deception And Scandal
The multi-billion dollar global warming fraud is truly beginning to crumble, with even vehement man-made climate change advocates like the BBC acknowledging that the credibility of the IPCC is shot.
“The bloggers are all over the UN IPCC 2007 report, the bible of global warming, which predicted all manner of dire outcomes for our planet unless we got a grip on rising temperatures — and it seems to be crumbling in some pretty significant areas,” writes the BBC’s Andrew Neil in an article entitled ‘The dam is cracking‘.
Climategate was merely the opening salvo in a series of seemingly never-ending scandals that have engulfed the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the last few weeks.
The first major blow came when the IPCC had to admit that their 2007 forecast that the Himalayan Glaciers would disappear by 2035 was completely wrong. The absurd claim was first made by a little-known Indian scientist in an interview for an online magazine, invoked by the World Wildlife Fund, and then copied into the 2007 IPCC report with no investigation as to its accuracy.
In reality, even if IPCC estimates of global warming are proven correct, which is severely doubtful in light of their recent track record, the glaciers will be around for at least centuries longer.
“In fact, the IPCC’s 2007 report cites WWF documents as “evidence” at least another 15 times,” writes Andrew Bolt.
“Elsewhere it cites a non-scientific, non-peer-reviewed paper from another activist body, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, as its sole proof that global warming could devastate African agriculture.”
It then emerged that the scientist who first made the claim, Syed Hasnain, is now employed by The Energy Research Institute – headed by IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri. Just two weeks ago TERI won up to $500,000 from the Carnegie Corporation to study Hasnain’s bogus claim.
Pachauri, portrayed as an authoritative scientists by some when in fact he is a railway engineer, only made himself look worse by initially attacking climate skeptics as “arrogant” and believers in “voodoo science” when the glaciers issue was highlighted. Pachauri later had to retract his words but still refuses to apologize. Pachauri’s reputation is in tatters and he is under intense pressure to resign.
The credibility of the IPCC was further devastated when it was revealed that their predictions on the Amazon rainforest were also lifted wholesale from WWF propaganda with no independent verification whatsoever.
Amidst all this scandal, new peer-reviewed studies have emerged to confirm the obvious – the world had ice age activity even when levels of greenhouse gases were four times higher than the level of our pre-industrial times.
Global warming is heading to the same dustbin of history as Y2K, SARS and swine flu – another manufactured scare peddled primarily to make vast profits for corrupt elitists at the expense of the general public. The entire fraud is collapsing under the weight of its own lies as new revelations of IPCC deception and bias emerge on an almost daily basis thanks to the sterling work of climate skeptics who have had their convictions vindicated.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
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NASA Global Warming Alarmist Endorses Book That Calls For Mass Genocide
Prominent NASA global warming alarmist Dr. James Hansen has endorsed an eco-fascist book that calls for cities to be razed to the ground, industrial civilization to be destroyed and genocidal population reduction measures to be implemented in the name of preventing climate change.
Hansen, who was back in the news today commenting on a NASA press release that claims the last decade was the warmest on record, said that Keith Farnish, author of a new book called Time’s Up, is correct in calling for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to the agrarian age.
Hansen is a key figure in the global warming movement, for it was his 1988 with testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore that really got the ball rolling for the elite in their mission to hijack the environmental movement and promote apocalyptic fears of climate change as a means of seizing absolute power over humanity.
Author Farnish “believes – as the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt does – that mankind is a blot on the landscape and that breeding (or for that matter, existence) should be discouraged,” writes James Delingpole.
“The only way to prevent global ecological collapse and thus ensure the survival of humanity is to rid the world of Industrial Civilization,” writes Farnish, adding that “people will die in huge numbers when civilization collapses”.
Farnish echoes similar talking points to those featured in White House science czar John Holdren’s Ecoscience textbook, which called for a “planetary regime” to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures, as well as drugging the water supply, in an effort to cull the human surplus.
Farnish explains his desire to see rampant population reduction in the name of saving the planet.
“In short, the greatest immediate risk to the population living in the conditions created by Industrial Civilization is the population itself. Civilization has created the perfect conditions for a terrible tragedy on the kind of scale never seen before in the history of humanity. That is one reason for there to be fewer people,” he writes.
And how is the collapse of industrial civilization to be achieved? By indiscriminate acts of sabotage and eco-terrorism.
“Unloading essentially means the removal of an existing burden: for instance, removing grazing domesticated animals, razing cities to the ground, blowing up dams and switching off the greenhouse gas emissions machine. The process of ecological unloading is an accumulation of many of the things I have already explained in this chapter, along with an (almost certainly necessary) element of sabotage,” writes Farnish.
But surely the respected and authoritative individuals we have been told by the media to trust when it comes to the science behind global warming would rebuke such outlandish, deranged and extreme methods of addressing climate change?
“Keith Farnish has it right: time has practically run out, and the ’system’ is the problem,” wrote Dr. James Hansen on the Amazon website. “Governments are under the thumb of fossil fuel special interests – they will not look after our and the planet’s well-being until we force them to do so, and that is going to require enormous effort.
It has also come to light that Hansen wasn’t even asked to comment on Farnish’s book, he freely volunteered his opinion. “Just to put the quote into context, it was indeed spontaneous from James and surprised me a little at first,” wrote author Farnish on the Yahoo Answers website.
“It’s an important thing to remember when we talk about AGW: many of the activist-scientists pushing it passionately want the earth to be getting hotter and it for it to be largely man’s fault. These watermelons certainly don’t want the opposite to be true, because then they wouldn’t have the excuse they so desperately need to destroy the capitalist system and take us all back to the agrarian age,” comments Delingpole.
The entire climate change takeover is being spearheaded by self-hating psychotics who want to impose a global one child policy in the name of curbing overpopulation. As we have vehemently proven, the overpopulation hype is a debunked myth with no basis in reality. The real reason global eugenicists want to implement such policies, along with taxing the life-giving gas carbon dioxide, is because it would give them absolute control over every single aspect of our lives – a control freak’s utopia.
The propagandistic method of depicting humans as the enemy is perfectly tailored to this agenda, because it elicits the response of making people call for their own kind to be regulated, controlled, and even killed under the contrived pretext of preventing an ecological apocalypse.
This approach was again evident in a recent United Nations sponsored poster campaign which depicted humans as evil horror movie monsters intent on slaughtering wildlife and killing the earth.
The global elite resolved to take this approach back in 1991 when the Club of Rome, a powerful globalist NGO committed to limiting growth and ushering in a post-industrial society, said in their report, The First Global Revolution, “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. All these dangers are caused by human intervention… The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Genocidal psychotics are now trying to obtain the power to carry out the kind of nihilistic blueprint for terror Farnish outlines in his book in pursuit of their “post-industrial society”. What makes it all the more galling is that these eco-fascists present their lunacy in such a reasonable and sober tone. In reality, although they try to characterize humanity as a virus upon the planet, the only real cancer upon the earth is their virulently neo-fascist doctrine of warped environmentalism and population control.
The only real threat to humanity’s survival is not climate change, which has naturally occurred for eons since the very incarnation of planet earth, but the insane, self-destructive and monstrous plans to “solve” the issue being proposed by eco-fascists like Farnish and endorsed by people in prominent positions of influence like Hansen.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
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The Great Global Warming Swindle - Marea escrocherie a incalzirii globale
Marea escrocherie a încălzirii globale ‘ este un film documentar ce se opune consensului ştiinţific ce spune că încălzirea globală este “foarte probabil rezultatul unei creşteri observabile a concentraţiei de gaze cu efect de seră cauzate de om ‘. Filmul, efectuat de producătorul de televiziune britanic Martin Durkin, prezintă oameni de ştiinţă, economişti, politicieni, scriitori, şi alţii care sunt sceptici cu privire la teoria ştiinţifică a încălzirii globale antropogene. Materiale publicitare ale programului afirmă că încălzirea globală antropogenă este ‘o minciună’ şi ‘cea mai mare înşelătorie din timpurile moderne’. The Great Global Warming Swindle is a documentary film that argues against the scientific consensus that global warming is “very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations”. The film, made by British television producer Martin Durkin, showcases scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who are sceptical about the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming. The programme’s publicity materials assert that man-made global warming is ‘a lie’ and ‘the biggest scam of modern times’.
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Human civilisation ‘will collapse’ unless greed culture is stopped, report warns
Human civilisation would “collapse” and efforts to tackle global warming will fail unless the world curbs its culture of greed and excessive consumerism, a report has warned.
The world’s population is burning through the planet’s resources at such a reckless rate – about 28 per cent more last year - it will eventually cause environmental havoc, said the Worldwatch Institute, a US think-tank.
In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate change could be wiped out by the cult of consumption and greed unless changes in our lifestyle were made.
Consumerism had become a “powerful driver” for increasing demand for resources and consequent production of waste, with governments, including the British, too readily wanting to promoted it as necessary for job creation and economic well-being.
More than £2.8 trillion of stimulus packages had been poured into economies to pull the world out of the global recession, it found, with only a small amount into green measures.
But the think tank warned that without a “wholesale transformation” of cultural patterns the world would not be able to “prevent the collapse of human civilisation”.
The think tank found that over the past decade consumption of goods and services had risen by 28 per cent to $30.5 trillion (£19bn) - with the world digging up the equivalent of 112 Empire State Buildings of material every day.
The average American consumes more than his or her weight in products each day, many US two year-olds can recognise the McDonald’s “Golden Archers” sign, although they cannot read the letter, and an average western family spends more on their pet than by someone trying to live in Bangladesh.
A cultural shift from consumption to valuing sustainable living was needed because government targets and new technology were not enough to rescue humanity from ecological and social threats.
Without action, humans faced problems including changing climates, obesity epidemics, declines in wildlife, loss of agricultural land and more production of hazardous waste.
Consumerism it said had “taken root in culture upon culture over the past half-century … (and) become a powerful driver of the inexorable increase in demand for resources and production of waste that marks our age”.
Erik Assadourian, the institute’s project director, said it was “no longer enough to change our light bulbs, we must change our very cultures”.
At current consumption rates, 200 square metres of solar panels a second and 24 wind turbines every hour were needed to be built to satisfy energy levels.
The think tank said it was not just the United States that was guilty of a culture of excess with other developing countries such as Brazil, India and China adopting greed as a success symbol.
China, one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emissions producers, recently overtook the US as the world’s top car market.
“More than 6.8 billion human beings are now demanding ever greater quantities of material resources, decimating the world’s richest ecosystems, and dumping billions of tons of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere each year,” the report said.
This number will only increase as people in the developing world aspire towards a Western-styled consumer lifestyle.
Mr Assadourian added: “Until we recognise that our environmental problems, from climate change to deforestation to species loss, are driven by unsustainable habits, we will not be able to solve the ecological crises that threaten to wash over civilisation.
“We’ve seen some encouraging efforts to combat the world’s climate crisis in the past few years.
“But making policy and technology changes while keeping cultures centred on consumerism and growth can only go so far.”
He said such measures such as banning incandescent light bulbs and steering children away from consumerism through toy libraries would help.
Andrew Hough
sursa: telegraph.co.uk
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Summitul de la Copenhaga – o conferinţă unde fiecare a luptat să „sacrifice” cât mai puţin pentru „salvarea planetei”. Ce ar putea “câştiga” România de pe urma încălzirii globale
Prin preşedintele Traian Băsescu, România a făcut act de prezenţă, susţinând necondiţionat poziţia UE privind finalizarea unui “document politic extrem de constrângător pentru statele ONU” în privinţa reducerii emisiilor de dioxid de carbon.
“Suntem de acord că sunt necesare reduceri profunde ale emisiilor de gaze cu efect de seră (…) cu o perspectivă de reducere de până la 50% până în 2050, comparativ cu 1990″ - acesta era obiectivul “generos” menţionat în varianta finală a unui aşa-numit “Acord de la Copenhaga”, citată de agenţiile Associated Press, Reuters şi cotidianul britanic The Guardian.
Cei 193 de şefi de stat şi de guvern prezenţi la Summitul ONU de la Copenhaga s-au arătat cu toţii de acord că temperatura planetei nu trebuie să crească mai mult cu 2 grade Celsius de acum într-o sută de ani. Însă, în ceea ce priveşte mecanismele precise de atingere a acestui obiectiv şi de constrângere a statelor pentru îndeplinirea obligaţiilor asumate, negocierile au eşuat.
“Nicio ţară nu va primi tot ce îşi doreşte”, a mărturisit, ieri, preşedintele Barack Obama - omul de care se legau speranţele că îşi va putea folosi puterea de convingere pentru a se ajunge la un acord.
Câtă vreme, potrivit preşedintelui Traian Băsescu, “noi suntem susţinători necondiţionaţi ai obiectivelor Comisiei Europene”, orice eşec al UE ar putea fi privit şi ca un eşec al României. Un “document politic extrem de constrângător pentru statele ONU”, după a descris preşedintele român ambiţia UE, la plecarea spre Copenhaga, nu a putut fi atins.
Pentru ca delegaţii la nivel înalt să accepte, totuşi, să semneze un document comun, din “Acordul de la Copenhaga” a fost eliminată referirea ca anul 2010 să fie termenul-limită pentru încheierea unui tratat constrângător. Or, înaintea etapei finale a negocierilor, purtată ieri, premierul britanic Gordon Brown considera că un termen-limită de şase luni este “maximum acceptabil”. În plus, de-a lungul ultimelor săptămâni, alţi lideri europeni calificau Summitul din Danemarca drept “o ultimă şansă” de a salva planeta de încălzirea globală.
Singura concesie pe care documentul o face liderilor UE, convinşi că fără limitatea emisiilor de dioxid de carbon (CO2) omenirea nu va putea evita un dezastru este promisiunea unei “revizuiri” a obiectivelor sale în 2016. Potrivit Reuters, proiectul final de acord nu conţinea un cuantum exact al reducerilor de CO2 pe care trebuie să şi-l asume ţările dezvoltate până în 2020.
Ce ar putea “câştiga” România de pe urma încălzirii globale
Numeroase studii, ale căror date au fost îndelung reluate în ultimele zile, conţin avertismente despre ceea ce fiecare ţară a lumii ar putea pierde din cauza creşterii temperaturii medii cu 2-5 grade Celsius, până la sfârşitul secolului. Nici România nu ar face excepţie de la fenomene precum avansarea deşerificării (din Oltenia până în Dobrogea şi sudul Moldovei), combinată cu înmulţirea zilelor secetoase şi a inundaţiilor.
De pildă, un studiu al Centrului reunit de cercetare al UE (JRC) plasează ţara noastră în zona “central-sudic-europeană”, alături de Austria, Cehia, Franţa, Ungaria şi Slovacia. În aceste state, pierderile economice puse pe seama încălzirii globale s-ar situa între 0,1 şi 0,6% din PIB. În ciuda acestor pierderi, mai multe zile călduroase ar aduce, celor şase state aminite, venituri suplimentare din turism care vor totaliza 10 miliarde euro.
Pe de altă parte, România poate câştiga circa 2,5 miliarde euro din vinderea părţilor din cota de dioxid de carbon la care i-a dat dreptul Protocolul de la Kyoto (1997), dar pe care nu a folosit-o. Suma a fost estimată de ministrul Economiei, Adriean Videanu, cu prilejul Summit-ului Iniţiativei Central Europene de la Bucureşti, din noiembrie 2009.
Românii, “vinovaţi” pentru 0,4% din emisiile mondiale de dioxid de carbon
“Amprenta carbonică” a României reprezintă 0,4% din totalul emisiilor de dioxid de carbon - gaz inofensiv, în lipsa căruia plantele nu pot creşte, dar pe care ONU, UE, alte organizaţii internaţionale şi principalele puteri industriale ale lumii (G-20) îl consideră vinovat, în baza unor pretenţii ştiinţifice departe de a fi unanime, pentru creşterea temperaturii atmosferei.
Cu 98,480 de tone de CO2, ţara noastră ocupa locul 37 (din 210 state şi teritorii), în clasamentul “Millennium Development Goals indicators”, realizat de Divizia statistică a ONU cu date colectate în 2006.
Cota României este infimă în comparaţie cu cea a Chinei (locul 1), care degajă 21,5% din cantitatea de CO2 nou apărută în atmosferă în fiecare an, respectiv SUA (locul 2) - 20% şi totalul celor 27 de state UE (locul 3) - 13,8%.
INFO: 50% reprezintă reducerea emisiilor cu efect de seră până în 2050, faţă de nivelul anului 1990, care era cuprinsă în ultimele variante ale unui aşa-numit “Acord de la Copenhaga”, deşi documentul se arăta lipsit de măsuri de “constrângere” a statelor pentru atingerea acestei ambiţii.
Bogdan MUNTEANU
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This sea, that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not – Great God! I’d rather be
A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus, rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
William Wordsworth (scris in 1802, publicat in 1807)
Acest poem, scris acum mai bine de doua secole, pare a-si conserva o actualitate fara cusur. Ar putea, de pilda, sa functioneze foarte bine ca motto al Conferintei mondiale privind degradarea conditiilor climaterice – conferinta gazduita la Copenhaga din 6 decembrie 2009 – si sa fie, in acelasi timp, un obiect de reflectie pentru participanti.
Daca ar fi sa dam crezare argumentelor si cifrelor prezentate in diverse cotidiane si saptamanale ori in eseurile mai substantiale publicate in reviste de specialitate, de cativa ani buni incoace, ar insemna – nici mai mult, nici mai putin – ca planeta se gaseste pe buza prapastiei, zguduita de catastrofe climatologice, geografice si agricole ireversibile; pe de o parte unele regiuni (zone de joasa altitudine, coaste, delte etc.) ar fi inghitite de apele oceanelor, pe de alta parte, ne-nghite desertul, seaca marile continentale (marea Aral, lacul Ciad) si fluviile – in China si in peninsula indochineza (din pricina anuntatei disparitii a ghetarilor din Himalaya, nivelul fluviilor Yang-Tse-Kiang si Mekong ar risca sa scada la cote fara precedent, cu consecinte importante pentru supravietuirea populatiei din zona).
Sa nu uitam insa de dezastrele imputabile procesului de urbanizare fara limite: pe de o parte, zone ca Dubai – paradisul unui hybris financiar nemaiintalnit –, pe de alta parte infernul mizeriei supreme – in Calcutta, Cairo sau Lagos. Nimic straniu insa; nu spunea oare Marx ca „Pe bogati ii fabrica saracii”?, asa ca, iata, pentru a obtine niste super-bogati nu e nevoie decat ca, in alta parte, sa existe niste foarte-multi-super-saraci. In acest sens, „The world is too much with us” ilustreaza astazi, dupa ce altadata fusese sumbra profetie a unui poet romantic speriat de zorii masinismului si ai epocii industriale, o realitate evidenta pentru toti cei care sunt dispusi sa caste ochii si sa scruteze cotidianul in care traiesc. Negurosul si foarte conservatorul romantic Wordsworth imi aduce aminte de alt romantic, unul social liberal (in sensul avut de acest termen la inceputul secolului al XIX-lea in Anglia – astazi i-am spune mai potrivit un „social-democrat”), un ins mai sclipitor si mult mai optimist – e vorba de Shelley – care clama in The Ode of the West Wind [„Oda vantului de Apus”]: „The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, /If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?”Astazi insa, ultimul vers al acestui magnific poem ar trebui rescris astfel: If Spring comes can Winter be far behind and for ever… Acest inghet va fi un desert fara satiu, o iarna a pustiurilor nemarginite si o iarna-metafora a spiritului desertificat al indivizilor, al popoarelor si al elitelor stapanite de vesnica inconstienta si frenetica nesimtire asociate obsesiei consumerismului si grijii de a cloci profit.
Prin interviuri, declaratii solemne si prin intensificarea calatoriilor oficiale pregatitoare, presedintele Sarkozy incearca sa convinga cele mai insemnate dintre statele emergente (Brazilia, India, ca sa dau numai doua exemple) de necesitatea obtinerii unui consens in ideea unui moratoriu pentru scaderea emisiilor de gaz cu efect de sera. Mai mult. Statele Unite si China sunt dispuse sa avanseze, pentru prima oara, date si cifre privind reducerile de gaz pe care le-ar putea accepta.
Intentii laudabile si marturii pioase stau in asteptarea reactiei populare, intr-un halou de incertitudini. Pe de o parte, oameni de stiinta seriosi, „ajutati” de gazetari aflati in cautare de senzational, profetesc ce e mai rau, pe de alta parte, alti oameni de stiinta, mai putin numerosi, ce-i drept, dar nu si mai putin influenti, ne pun in garda asupra, zic ei, „nazarelilor scornite de pseudo-savanti si sarlatani”. Pe cine sa mai creada bietul om de pe strada? Sunt oare aceia care locuiesc undeva la cateva zeci de metri deasupra nivelului marii, ori chiar mai sus, si departe de litoral, dispusi sa creada in pericolul ridicarii nivelului marii, pericol la care se expun, in fiecare zi, locuitorii din zonele de tarm? Sau, invers, cei care traiesc in tari europene temperate sunt oare dispusi sa priceapa pericolul desertificarii, asa cum sunt aceia din inima continentului, confruntati deja cu experienta secarii albiilor?
Ghetarii din Mont-Blanc se retrag, aceia din Himalaya, de asemenea; mai rau, ghetarii din Groenlanda – care acopereau odinioara intreaga peninsula, mare cat un continent – s-au strans ca pielea de sagri. Asupra Europei occidentale se abat, de la o vreme, ciclic, furtuni care seamana tot mai mult cu tornadele tropicale, iar realitatea dovedita a cresterii nivelului oceanelor va duce in Franta, peste aproximativ 50 de ani, la disparitia regiunii Camargue, zona de coasta a celebrului Marais poitevin, si a jumatate din L’Ile de Ré (1).
Cu toate acestea, dragilor, odata ce se linistesc furtunile si se repara distrugerile masive si exaltarea provocate de ele, totul revine la normal; uscaciunea din timpul verii si cufundarea tot mai adanca a panzei freatice nu-l prea intereseaza pe cetatean. Cat despre cetateanul roman, prada a isteriilor electorale si a unui discurs politic in care esentialul nu e niciodata abordat, de cate ori a auzit el spunandu-se ca Delta Dunarii e amenintata sa dispara de pe fata pamantului, ca regiunea Camargue sau ca zona dintre Gange si Bengal?
Cunosc oare romanii faptul ca sudul tarii lor e serios amenintat de pericolul desertificarii? Daca poporul e inconstient, in parte, vina ii apartie; insa o mare parte din vina o poarta elitele, sfintii democratiei de parada si anticomunistii de salon, apostolii liberalismului, pretinsii critici ai unei pseudo-stangi la fel de crapuloase ca pseudo-dreapta… Cu ce se ocupa acesti distinsi domni? Cu asanarea ideologica: cu libertatea! Care libertate insa? Libertatea hotilor nepedepsiti, a pradatorilor din avutul public! Sau libertatea unui asa-zis „creator” manat in lupta doar de gustul banului… si, last but not least, cavaler al anticomunismului fara comunism (2), combatantul unei baricade fara risc (poate doar cu „riscul” primirii de pomeni de la cutare maestru public sau privat in serviciul caruia e primit…). Un circ in toata legea, asortat cu savantlacuri grotesti.
Sa spunem lucrurilor pe nume. Dubai-ul, vitrina unei fantezii financiare desprinse de orice lest de rationalitate, e pe cale sa-si declare falimentul. Pe parcursul unei singure generatii, fostii beduini au topait, de pe spinarea dromaderului si din corturile plantate in desert, pe creasta zgarie-norilor de 800 de metri si in insule artificiale devenite in scurt timp o piata a turismului de mare lux. In mai putin de treizeci de ani, s-au transformat in niste diriguitori megalomani, furati de aburii hybris-ului capitalist fondat pe creditul nelimitat (garantat prin renta petroliera a Emiratelor) si prin speculatie funciara iresponsabila – un tip de capitalism foarte apropiat de cel care a incurajat proliferarea americanelor subprimes, fara ca vreunul dintre ONG-urile ecologice sau dintre guvernele pretins ingrijorate de soarta planetei sa protesteze. Ideea unui capitalism „islamic”, temperat de preceptele economice ale Charia s-a dovedit, o data in plus, o impostura a marelui „biznis”, unul de foarte inalt nivel, dincolo de religie si de alte marunte principii ca acesta. Aflati pe lista statelor cu cel mai nociv impact ecologic asupra marii (devansand Statelor Unite si China!), „beduinii” de mai ieri consuma apa dulce in masa (aproape 2 000 de litri pe zi pe cap de locuitor!) si doua milioane de litri pe saptamana pentru fiecare dintre cele sapte golfuri din jurul orasului-stat plantat in mijlocul desertului lui Rub al-Khali, intins pana spre Golful Persic! (3)
Evitand sa se spuna lucrurilor pe nume, afacerea pare sa fi inceput prost… Summit-ul de la Copenhaga risca sa semene cu o farsa, jucata spre pentru intretinerea publicului; din pacate insa, consecintele nu vor intarzia sa se arate. In realitate, daca vorbim de gazul cu efect de sera, de ravagiile chimice si agronomice de pe terenurile agricole (efecte ale utilizarii intensive a ingrasamintelor chimice, ale despaduririlor si ale practicarii monoculturii); sau daca vorbim de abuzul fara limite al pomparii de apa din panzele freatice si risipirea ei nerationala, daca vorbim de desertificarea zonelor continentale – consecinta a celor de mai sus – in toate aceste conditii, nu modificarile tehnice ale tehnicilor de productie intelese prin sintagma „dezvoltare durabila” vor fi solutia capabila sa preintampine iminenta catastrofa planetara. Criza ecologica de la inceputul secolului al XXI-lea dezvaluie ceva mai mult decat a facut-o criza economica, chiar daca aceasta din urma, efect pur al capitalismului globalizat, e doar un simptom printre altele; aceasta criza ecologica, transformata, in timp, intr-un real dezastru planetar, dezvoltat pe fondul economiei de piata globalizate, reveleaza un impas ontologic, falimentul, esecul felului-de-a-fi-in-lume al omului modern.
Nu e vorba aici de comunismul sau de anticomunismul primar, secundar sau tertiar; e vorba pur si simplu de acest fel-de-a-fi, care include si experienta depasita a socialismului real si aceea prezenta a capitalismului ajuns la ce-a de-a treia revolutie tehnica, numita modernitate tardiva… Acest fel-de-a-fi arata ca un Janus bifrons: in acelasi timp un capitalism financiar in orizontul sau indepasabil – profitul ca Weltanschauung si telos al trecutului, prezentului si viitorului, si proliferare a tehno-stiintelor ca obiectivare totala, in care toate activitatile umane si ordinea lucrurilor naturale se transforma in cunoastere ca posibilitate a producerii indefinite… Or, ceea ce propun oamenii politici, cercetatorii si diversi agitatori ecologici nu sunt decat jalnice paliative sau, mai rau, tehnici de substitutie care mai degraba ele distrug natura decat cele pe care trebuie sa le inlocuiasca (pentru fabricarea noilor serii de dispozitive electronice, a computerelor, telefoanelor celulare s.a. e nevoie de metale rare si foarte rare sau de aur, pentru a caror exploatare se distrug hectare intregi de paduri virgine – vezi exemplul padurilor congoleze); ori instrumente care uratesc peisajul, in loc sa procure cine stie ce beneficii (vezi exemplul instalatiilor eoliene).
De buna seama, la Copenhaga se va ocoli esentialul; un esential pe care l-a sintetizat, insa, in introducerea unei remarcabile lucrari semnate de ea, fiziciana indiana Vandana Shiva – o militanta pentru drepturilor agricultorilor si pentru diversitate biologica: „Cultura mercantila se afla in conflict cu diverse culturi ale partajului, prin care apa e oferita si primita ca dar. Cultura plasticului, aceasta productie non-viabila, non-reciclabila si poluanta, e in conflict cu civilizatiile pamantului si ale humei, cu renasterea naturii si cu intinerirea perpetua. Sa ne imaginam ca traditia oferirii de apa prin Piyaos (4) se pierde, ca un miliard de indieni trebuie obligati sa consume apa din sticle de plastic. Ce vom face cu muntii de deseuri rezultate? Cata apa va trebui sa poluam in consecinta?” (5) Or, la Copenhaga nu se vorbeste decat de gazul cu efect de sera si de incalzirea climei, iar nu, dupa cate stiu eu, de raul deja facut si ras-facut. Lucru prevazut, pentru cine a avut urechi de auzit, acum cincisprezece ani de presedintele Bancii Mondiale (institutie putin suspectata de marginalitate intelectuala!), Ismail Serageldin:
„Daca razboaiele din acest secol [secolul al XX-lea] s-au purtat pentru petrol, razboaiele secolului urmator vor fi pentru cucerirea apei”. Intr-adevar, totul este pregatit pentru declansarea acestui tip de razboaie; vulgata politico-jurnalistica are insa obiceiul sa o prezinte sub aparenta razboaielor tribale, generate de extremismul religios sau de terorism. Nicidecum: e vorba pur si simplu de apropriere, de furt pentru dominarea zonelor cu surse de apa (fluvii, rauri, torenti) care traverseaza mai multe tari. Textul cercetatoarei Vandana Shiva militeaza pentru un fel-de-a-fi-in-lume fondat pe consumul moderat al resurselor naturale prin tehnologii locale reciclabile, care, in atatia ani de convietuire cu mediul, au invatat sa-i respecte echilibrul.
Or, pentru marile puteri economice ale lumii, nici nu se pune problema contestarii capitalismului, dimpotriva, se depun mari eforturi pentru intarirea si protejarea lui. Motto-ul sau ramane acelasi: mai multa productie, mai mult profit. Esentialul acesta este; curba catastrofica a somajului in Occident nu ingrijoreaza decat in masura in care ar veni la pachet cu potentiale tulburari sociale. Insa, asa cum s-a putut deja constata, marea criza economica din toamna lui 2008 n-a schimbat nimic in conceptia economica a statelor. Pierderile au fost absorbite de guverne, sume consistente din bugetul public au fost livrate cu dobanda cvasi-nula bancilor, in vreme ce acestea continuau sa dea credite cu dobanzi ridicate particularilor si intreprinderilor industriale si comerciale. Astfel, dupa un an, capitalismul tertiar a razbit ca un Phenix din propria cenusa, regenerat in asa fel incat bancile peste care trecuse uraganul stiutelor subprimes s-au trezit mai puternice si mai solide decat inainte (6).
Cu riscul de a-i leza pe saracii cu duhul sau pe amantii unui „idealism de vis” (dupa expresia lui Nietzsche), o sa spun totusi, fara inconjor, ca nimic serios nu se va intreprinde la Copenhaga si nimic nu va fi facut de aici inainte pentru salvarea planetei din fata unui dezastru previzibil, dezastru pe care romanul lui Cormack McCarthy, The Road, il sugereaza si il ilustreaza intr-o maniera mai pesimista (adica mai realista) decat cartea lui Huxley The Brave New World.
In plus, solutiile propuse de Vandana Shiva nu sunt adecvate decat unor tari ca India, unde populatia rurala reprezinta 50% din populatia activa, sau China, unde populatia rurala exprima cca 55% din populatia activa, si poate pentru inca doua-trei mari tari cu un cuvant de spus in viitorul industrial si financiar (Brazilia, Indonezia). Insa trebuie sa amintesc aici ca, de mai bine de 15 ani, o majoritate din ce in ce mai accentuata a populatiei globului traieste in orase devenite niste megapoli monstruosi si ca, pentru o asemenea majoritate, solutiile armoniei consumeriste rurale sau pararurale nu rezolva nimic: Tokyo (33 de milioane de locuitori), Bombay (22 de milioane), New York (21 de milioane), Seul si Mexico City (20 de milioane), Delhi (19 milioane), San Paolo (18 milioane), Shanghai si Lagos (17 milioane), Cairo si Calcutta (15 milioane) plus inca ale peste patruzeci de orase cu peste 5 milioane de locuitori ne infatiseaza o cruda realitate… Cum sa furnizezi energia necesara acestor oameni cand aproape toate activitatile lor presupun un imens consum de electricitate? Cum sa le procuri alimente fara sa apelezi la mijloace si plante selectionate care distrug solul? Cum sa le asiguri apa potabila fara a consuma rezervele de apa ale Terrei? Daca, de exemplu, s-ar ajunge la solutia desalinizarii apei de mare, consumul de energie implicat ar fi atat de mare, incat am ajunge rapid la ruina.
Acestor realitati concrete, discursurile ecologiste nu le raspund decat prin simulacre de solutii; sau nu raspund deloc – fiindca asta ar insemna sa puna sub semnul indoielii viitorul dominatiei economice globale. Doua teme sunt in mod special evitate: problema apei, pe de o parte, si, de cealalta parte, problema deseurilor medicale exportate de tarile occidentale in tarile lumii a treia europene (Romania si Bulgaria) sau problema deseurilor electronice expediate fara remuscari in Africa, unde devin o sursa de intoxicare a copiilor (7). Nimic din toate acestea nu se discuta la Copenhaga. Se vorbeste doar de emisiile de dioxid de carbon, fiindca, pentru moment, e singurul aspect de ecologie care poate fi partial corijat, deschizand in acelasi timp noi orizonturi sectorului industrial… si profitului.
Felul in care e inteleasa azi ecologia evidentiaza o crasa contradictie, o contradictie care insa nu supara creierele lobotomizate de publicitate si conformism. Pe de o parte ne intretinem unii altora plansul la gandul incalzirii globale, al poluarii aerului si al disparitiei anumitor specii de animale, pe de alta parte insa luam masuri fiscale pentru mentinerea si cresterea productiei si deci a consumului pe piata de automobile. Mai mult: se prevede ca, la anul, Campionatul Mondial de fotbal din Africa de Sud va fi de noua ori mai poluant decat precedentul, din Germania, din cauza curselor mai lungi de avion presupuse de participarea la acesta (8). Alt simulacru: profitul imens obtinut din producerea accelerata de obiecte si actiuni zise ecologice/ ecologiste, al caror cost si impact asupra mediului nu sunt recunoscute! Ceea ce in engleza se numeste „green business” ameninta sa devina, precum bla-bla-ul agriculturii bio, un foarte profitabil biznis. Un articol publicat in „Le Temps”, la Geneva, de Luis Lema, corespondentul sau la New York, sub titlul „Le green business sera le moteur de l’économie de demain” [„Green business va fi motorul economiei de maine”] (9) da tonul: „Pentru profesorul american Daniel Kammen (10), energiile neepuizabile vor constitui marile oportunitati economice intr-un viitor nu foarte indepartat.” Simtiti, nu-i asa, marile mize economice in dosul lacrimilor de crocodil ale incalzirii globale (11)… E purul adevar: imediat ce dezvoltarea ecologica si „durabila” se va coagula in jurul centrului sau mercantil, ceea ce va domina nu va fi grija preintampinarii efectelor negative ale mijloacelor de productie (fie ele si „ecologice”) asupra mediului, ci tot tentatia profitului maximal. Nu de grija planetei va suspina omul postmodern in habitatul sau terestru, ci de grija banilor.
Sigur, in ajunul summit-ului, jurnalele relatau despre optimismul care anima delegatiile (12), insa, in contrapunct, pe aceeasi pagina se putea citi un titlu care spune mai bine adevarul: „Beijing-ul considera prioritara cresterea sa economica”. Dar cum nu numai Beijing-ul e pe lumea asta, ci si New Delhi sau Brasilia… intelegem ca optimismul scontat nu e decat o poza, un artificiu fara fond.
Contradictiile ecologice dindaratul discursurilor politice si gazetaresti nu ataca insa niciodata problematica singulara care implica natura abisala si revolutionara a solutiilor reale in acest caz. Ceea ce astazi pune sub semnul intrebarii viata omului pe pamant nu e nimic altceva decat felul sau de a-fi-in-lume, care de fapt se confunda cu felul-de-a-produce si a-se-produce – un mod al cantitatii, fiindca ea singura asigura profitul. Or, a inlocui a produce, asa cum e el inteles azi, cu un a produce „ecologic”, dar fondat tot pe un principiu cantitativ va reactiva, cu timpul, resortul luptei impotriva scaderii profitului (sau ceea ce a reprezentat, in anii 90, investirea in telefonie si in computere portabile); in inima sistemului capitalist nimic nu se va schimba insa in mod esential. Din cate stiu eu, tot de capitalismul (privat sau de stat) e vorba; capitalismul ca fabrica-a-lumii, dotat cu acelasi motto: mai mult, mai nou… Or, ceea ce se intampla azi reprezinta mai mult decat rezultatul unei Weltanschauung, este materializarea formei ultime a metafizicii (cf. Heidegger, „Intrebare asupra tehnicii” si „In legatura cu intrebarea asupra fiintei”), care determina orizontul sperantelor: „buna guvernare” si „etica pozitiva” a oamenilor.
Atata timp cat nu va fi altfel, putem sa asteptam linistiti sa ni se pravaleasca lumea in cap, cu consecinte de nimeni prevazute, dar si cu unele preabine stiute: violenta feroce si barbaria eternei naturi umane in cautare de hrana. Homo homini lupus.
Traducere din franceza de Teodora Dumitru
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Global Consumerism and Human Cooling
Scholars of UFRJ, USP, UNICAMP, and Embrapa (Brazil) sent a warning: if the conditions of the current economic model continue, by the end of this century the Amazon will suffer a 40% loss of forest cover in the area south-southeast-east, which will turn into savannah. The Amazon River will reduce its flow up to 30%, the Parana River by 53% and the Sao Francisco River will wane 70%.
In the Northeast, the temperature will increase up to 8 degrees, providing for a decrease in rainfall between 2 and 2.5 mm per day until 2100! This will affect the whole of Brazil - home to one fifth of the planet’s species, the biggest biodiversity space on the planet.
At the opposite of this warming, that will certainly happen if we do not radically change the model of productive organization in effect today, there also is a cooling of human values.
An environmental crisis is on the agenda and never has there been so much debate about the illness of the planet. For the argument to be elevated, however, it must be raised to worldwide awareness, concerning the fate of humanity…what kind of human being do we aspire to?
It is urgent to question the stimuli of daily urban life. We are constantly seduced by consumerist individualism, by the culture of vanity and celebrity, by the logical, the ephemeral and the novel, by the desire for financial compensation. Each one must be a “winner” inside the new code of the soul, which is “tell me what you buy and I will tell you who you are”. We are drowning in a polluted sea of artificial needs.
There is a human pattern formed by the denial of the existence of the public sphere and politics. This is increasingly a technology-dependent activity, predictable, scheduled, no dynamism, prisoner of the business environment and the campaigns of the millionaires. Not magnetized, it attracts, fascinates and does not feed the desires of the common person, the homo-consumericus. ”Television creating consensus” in the successful definition of Joel Rufino dos Santos, fills the void of the present and future. The great ideologist of today is advertising, which enhances the illusion of having.
In this dramatic picture, the urgency of a new society is reiterated, topical and utopian, without a divorce between idealized values and the practical and concrete of today. We must forge new paradigms of thinking, promoting the “decolonization of the imaginary,” retiring dogmas. Marx and Lenin, with their formulations that assist us in the analysis of class society, lived in a time when nuclear power, television, the cultural industry, the unions of mass, plastic and the computer … were non-existent. The proletariat of that time, and even half a century ago, is not the same as now.
The sectors are mobilized for social change, from the perspective of a healthy egalitarian society, on one hand, they are now broader and more diverse. And they are more dominated by another, the subtleties of operation, the symbolic energy of the forces of alienation. The signal for conformism is the electronic and massive: neofatalism. The permanent immorality of capital is the exploitation and alienation of labor, the reproduction of inequality (under the farce of the “equality of competition”), the commercialisation of everything in the ” paid ethics of trade ” in systemic corruption - according to Transparency Brazil, 70% of Brazilian companies spend up to 3% of their annual revenues on bribes.
What social forces and individuals want, in fact, do they seek new directions for humanity?
Chico Alencar is Professor of History and Federal Deputy (PSol-RJ).
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Lisa KARPOVA
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Globalist Hypocrites Arrive In Copenhagen For Summit
Record numbers of stretch limos and private jets are descending on Copenhagen as thousands of CO2 belching, caviar scoffing, prostitute molesting, hypocritical climate crooks prepare to orchestrate the next round of mass raping in pursuit of their much cherished world government and its handmaiden, a global tax on carbon emissions.
In another stark reminder that these globalists couldn’t give a damn about CO2 emissions, only eviscerating economies and the middle class, their own behavior is completely at odds with how they are indignantly demanding other people live their lives.
A London Telegraph report reveals how the combined CO2 footprint of the conference will amount to no less than 41,000 tons, equal to that produced by an African country over the same period.
Despite the fact that the climate crooks constantly berate and browbeat Joe Public about not driving hybrid vehicles and taking two holidays a year via commercial airliners, the Copenhagen criminals are arriving in luxurious private jets before whizzing around town in gas-guzzling stretch limos.
“We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company told the Telegraph. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
“Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
“And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen.”
While readying speeches about how the middle class will be forced to lower their living standards, pay higher taxes on all forms of travel, and make personal sacrifices in order to save the planet from the alleged menace of CO2, Copenhagen globalists will be relaxing on the 140 extra private jets that are being forced to drop off attendees in Copenhagen and then fly back to other airports and even other countries just to park due to the lack of spaces.
Elitists will scoff scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges, while lecturing the general public about how eating meat is harming the earth.
And while the climate crooks wag their finger at you for having the audacity to own an SUV, they will be running up a bill of over $200 million dollars, and guess who is going to be picking up the tab?
“According to an analysis by the Taxpayer’s Alliance, a conservative cost of Copenhagen is £130million.
It includes £6.3million on flights, £20million on hotels and £3.3million on food,” reports the Daily Mail.“The figure also includes the salaries for delegates and the contribution from the Danish government of £37 million. Most of the money will come from taxpayers.”
Meanwhile, eco-fascism has proven it’s still very much alive and well with the news that “56 major newspapers in 45 countries are today publishing a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change.”
Of course, behind the contrived grandstanding on behalf of such publications that they are somehow speaking with one united voice in the interests of humankind, all this really shows is that the same establishment attempting to bang the last few nails in the coffin of freedom, by taxing carbon dioxide, the life-giving gas that humans exhale and trees absorb, also happen to own and control the vast majority of the global media.
Far from being an upstanding act of benign advocacy, as it is being framed, the fact that 56 major world newspapers are all spewing the same propaganda, especially in light of the Climategate scandal that most of them have failed to even acknowledge in any depth whatsoever, smacks of the kind of editorial control the Nazis exercised in 1930’s Germany or Joseph Stalin enjoyed in Communist Russia.
Meanwhile, according to an article in Spiegel Online, prostitutes are preparing for globalists to descend on Copenhagen by offering free sex. The Mayor of Copenhagen attempted to limit the expected deluge of summit attendees enjoying the use of prostitutes by sending a letter to hotels across the city urging delegates and guests at the conference, “Be sustainable, don’t buy sex.” Prostitutes responded by offering free sex to any Copenhagen attendee who produces the Mayor’s letter.
Summits of this size are routinely accompanied by a huge spike in the sex trade in whatever city they happen to be taking place. While servants of the global elite and their masters lecture us about our moral imperatives, half of them are out committing adultery on a nightly basis during the same global conferences at which they habitually pose with righteous indignation.
Make sure you have plenty of vomit bags on standby over the next couple of weeks, because you are going to be endlessly lectured by a gaggle of amoral, money-grubbing, control freak thugs who couldn’t care less about the environment unless they can invoke it as a pretext for taxing you out of existence while declaring the very particles that you breathe to be a deadly poison.
Paul Joseph Watson
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Big Oil Behind Copenhagen Climate Scam
The big irony behind top globalists descending on Copenhagen in luxury private jets and stretch limos is not just the fact that their own behavior completely contradicts their self-righteous hyperbole about CO2 emissions, but that their propaganda is vehemently supported by the very same big oil interests they accuse climate skeptics of pandering to.
Probably one of the most flagrant examples of climate cronyism to emerge from the climategate scandal were emails in which CRU scientists, the body that provides much of the foundational global warming data for the UN IPCC, discuss how they conducted meetings with Shell Oil in order to enlist them as a “strategic partner” while getting them to bankroll pro-man made global warming research.
The emails reveal that the CRU was also trying to get money from oil giants British Petroleum and Exxon-Mobil, under its former identity as Esso.
“Now who is the shill for Big Oil again?” asks Anthony Watts. “Next time somebody brings up that ridiculous argument about skeptics, show them this.”
A “Copenhagen Communiqué” put out by leaders of over 500 global corporations in advance of this week’s summit calls for drastic measures on behalf of developed countries to “de-carbonise their economies” – a move that would completely devastate living standards and lead to gargantuan levels of unemployment.
The communiqué also demands that a global carbon tax be implemented via a carbon trading system. Bear in mind that the very people calling for such a system are the same people who will benefit from it to the tune of billions, as we shall explore later.
The statement calls for, “Measures to deliver a robust global greenhouse gas emissions market in order to provide the most effective, efficient and equitable emission reductions. It would be comprised of a growing series of national or regional “cap-and-trade” markets linked together, in which the “caps” are brought down in line with the
targets that have been adopted for emission reduction.”
The document also states that CO2 emissions need to be reduced by a staggering 50-85% by 2050, a process that would return humanity to a near stone age level of development.
And who are the radicals calling for such severe measures in the name of fighting the evil life giving gas that humans exhale and plants breathe? Greenpeace? Al Gore?
Namely – James Smith, chairman of UK Shell Oil, Tony Hayward, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum, along with hundreds of other global corporate giants, many of whom are directly tied in with big oil, and central banks who, far from bankrolling climate change skeptics, are directly invested in the scam of human-induced global warming.
A common charge leveled against global warming skeptics is that they are on the payroll of transnational oil companies, when in fact the opposite is true, oil companies are amongst the biggest promoters of climate change propaganda, emphasized recently by Exxon Mobil’s call for a global carbon tax.
According to Exxon Mobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, the cap and trade nightmare being primed for passage in the Senate doesn’t go far enough – Tillerson wants a direct tax on carbon dioxide emissions, essentially a tax on breathing since we all exhale this life-giving gas.
In a speech earlier this year, Tillerson brazenly called out the cap and trade agenda for what it was, an effort to impose a carbon tax camouflaged only by a slick sales pitch and deceptive rhetoric.
“It is easier and more politically expedient to support a cap-and-trade approach, because the public will never figure out where it is hitting them,” said Tillerson. “They will just know they hurt somewhere in their pocketbook,” he added, pointing out that he disagreed with this convoluted method of introducing a carbon tax, arguing instead that it would be more successful to openly propose a straight carbon tax.
Tillerson firmly expressed Exxon’s support for climate change alarmists in stating, “I firmly believe it is not too late for Congress to consider a carbon tax as the better policy approach for addressing the risks of climate change.”
Exxon’s push for a carbon tax was subsequently restated by its vice president for public affairs Ken Cohen, who told a conference call that he wants a climate policy that creates “certainty and predictability, which is why we advocate a carbon tax.”
Exxon Mobil and their ilk are not concerned about a carbon tax eating into their profits because they know they won’t have to pay it – the tab will be picked up by the ignorant taxpayer at the fuel pump at an inflated cost which if anything will hand the transnational oil cartels an even bigger cut.
Ideologically, Al Gore and Exxon Mobil are on exactly the same page – the only difference between the oil companies and global warming alarmists is the squabble over who will get to sink their teeth into the taxpayer and reap the dividends of the climate change scam.
Whereas parasites like Al Gore and Maurice Strong, the people who own the very carbon trading systems they claim will save the earth from CO2 emissions, want to enrich themselves to the tune of billions under a cap and trade scheme where they take a percentage of each transaction, the oil companies want to bypass this completely by simply imposing a direct CO2 tax. The consequence for the taxpayer under either scenario will be exactly the same, and the profits under both schemes would go towards filling the coffers of the global government that will enforce the whole scam.
Emphasizing again that oil companies are firmly behind the idea of man-made climate change and the introduction of a CO2 tax, in 2007 the Trilateral Commission, one of the three pillars of the new world order in alliance with Bilderberg and the CFR, met in near secrecy to formulate policy on how best they could exploit global warming fearmongering to ratchet up taxes and control over how westerners live their lives.
At the confab, European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberger and chairman of British Petroleum Peter Sutherland, gave a speech to his elitist cohorts in which he issued a “Universal battle cry arose for the world to address “global warming” with a single voice.”
Echoing this sentiment was General Lord Guthrie, director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, member of the House of Lords and former chief of the Defense Staff in London, who urged the Trilateral power-brokers to “Address the global climate crisis with a single voice, and impose rules that apply worldwide.” Rules that no doubt will benefit the Rothschild family empire due to their personal ownership of a huge chunk of the carbon trading market.
Allegations that skeptics of the man-made explanation behind global warming are somehow doing the bidding of the elite are laughable in the face of the fact that Rothschild operatives and the very chairman of British Petroleum are the ones orchestrating an elitist plan to exploit global warming fears in order to achieve political objectives.
During the 2007 meeting, elitists along with oil industry kingpins called for imposing a $1 dollar per gallon tax at the fuel pump under the justification of fighting pollution and climate change.
Globalists love global warming. Oil industry kingpins, Bilderbergers and Rothschild minions have all put their weight behind it. This is a fraud conceived, nurtured and promulgated by elite, and to castigate individuals for merely questioning the motives behind climate change fearmongering by accusing them of being mouthpieces for the establishment is a complete reversal of the truth.
Claims by climate change alarmists that “deniers” are all funded by oil companies is yet another crudely contrived hoax. In reality, oil companies are the most vocal proponents of man-made climate change and the most aggressive in pushing to tax CO2 emissions.
The clips below, taken from Alex Jones’ new documentary Fall Of The Republic, expose how Al Gore serves as the front man for the global carbon tax cap and trade scheme, which is designed to bankrupt the United States and drastically lower the living standards of the American people, while introducing nightmare levels of regulation and bureaucracy into their everyday lives. Get the full DVD here.
Paul Joseph Watson
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Climategate Outrage Explodes As Carbon Tax Agenda Collapses
Outrage surrounding the climategate scandal is increasing as desperate apologists for the crooks caught manipulating data to “hide the decline” in global warming attempt to distance themselves from the perpetrators, burning a few scientists to save the larger carbon tax gravy train in a cynical damage limitation exercise.
The potential for the climategate scandal to derail the gargantuan agenda to exploit fraudulent fearmongering about global warming in order to ram through a new carbon tax is growing after the ringleader of the scam, Phil Jones, the head of the Climactic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, temporarily stepped down pending an investigation.
In addition, Michael Mann, a professor in the meteorology department at Penn State University, whose emails were included in the climategate leak, is also the subject of an investigation into his work.
The UK Met office was also forced to go on the offensive and issue a statement which highlighted the 2007 IPCC report as evidence that their data was solid, despite the fact that the very scientists involved in the climategate scandal engaged in intimidation tactics and academic witch hunts to ensure data which they politically disagreed with was blocked from appearing in the IPCC report, as well as manipulating data that appeared in the IPCC report to “hide the decline” in global warming.
The subject will also be aired in a hearing today convened by the U.S. Congress’s select committee on global warming. Warmist advocates are set to testify but they will undoubtedly be grilled by skeptics, so expect sparks to fly.
Meanwhile, warmists like Lord Stern are admitting that climategate could jeopardize a deal at Copenhagen on CO2 emissions that was already in doubt before the scandal broke.
The climategate apologists seem to have settled on two approaches in dealing with the crisis that the scandal represents. On the one hand, a majority have simply sought to downplay the whole issue as if the fact that the very scientists who produced the foundational data for the contention that global warming is man-made were caught manipulating the evidence is no big deal. This has largely backfired, with even the usually obedient establishment media acknowledging that the story has huge consequences.
For example, a CBS News report today concedes that, “The leaked files show that prominent scientists were so wedded to theories of man-made global warming that they ridiculed dissenters who asked for copies of their data, plotted how to keep researchers who reached different conclusions from publishing, and concealed apparently buggy computer code from being disclosed under the Freedom of Information law.”
This accurate description is a far cry from how the apologists have tried to frame the whole issue as mere “rancor” between scientists. In addition, citing the notion that the emails were obtained illegally by a hacker in an attempt to somehow absolve the scientists of any suspicion has also evaporated as a defense, since it is now widely accepted that the data was not hacked, but rather leaked from the inside.
A new tactic on behalf of warmists is to accept that Jones, Mann et al are guilty of malfeasance but then glibly claim that the debate is still over on global warming. Fellow warmists are distancing themselves from the climategate crooks in an apparent effort to burn just a handful of scientists, thereby using damage limitation to prevent the scandal from curtailing the wider global warming agenda.
Declan McCullagh summarizes how global warming advocates are busy trying to extricate the climategate crooks from the UN IPCC agenda, despite the fact that they produced the data that the IPCC used in its 2007 report.
“Some mainstream academics working in the area have distanced themselves from Mann, Jones, and other researchers whose correspondence has drawn allegations of impropriety. Aynsley Kellow, a professor at the University of Tasmania who was an expert reviewer for a U.N. global warming report, told ABC Radio there was evidence of a “willingness to manipulate raw data to suit predetermined results, you’ve got a resistance to any notion of transparency, an active resistance to freedom of information requests or quite reasonable requests from scientists to have a look at data so that it can be verified.”
“Hans von Storch, director of the Director of Institute for Coastal Research who was assailed by Mann in one e-mail message, calls the CRU axis a “cartel” and suggests that Jones and others avoid reviewing papers. A colleague, Eduardo Zorita, went further and said Mann and his allies “should be barred” from future United Nations proceedings and warned that “the scientific debate has been in many instances hijacked to advance other agendas.”
Watch out for a biased investigation to amount to nothing more than a slap on the wrists for people like Jones and Mann, while still refusing to acknowledge that “consensus” presumptions about global warming have been challenged as a result of climategate.
Since the investigation into Jones and the CRU will likely be conducted by Lord Rees of the Royal Society, who is a staunch warmist, it will undoubtedly be a complete whitewash. Indeed, a source cited by the Telegraph’s James Delingpole says that the British government and the foreign office has already made it clear to the University of East Anglia and Rees that they will need to “keep a lid on everything lest it destabilises Copenhagen.”
This is precisely why we need to keep the pressure up and never let climategate slip away quietly by allowing the establishment to exonerate the crooks involved and the true significance of the whole issue.
A major new salvo has arrived in the form of Lord Monckton’s comprehensive report on climategate, which needs to go viral in the days before next week’s Copenhagen summit at which elitists will attempt to push through binding agreements on CO2 emissions that will bankrupt economies and lead to more poverty and devastation that any warming of the earth, be it natural or man-made, could ever accomplish.
Paul Joseph Watson
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