I was discussing global warming with my cat this morning and came to an unusual revelation. Despite the fact that she sleeps most of the day and acts like she has never eaten every time I walk near her food bowl, she would make a better climatologist than any of the people who attended the UN’s global warming hoedown in Bali… Not to mention the fact that she would be at least twice as honest, which is really saying something considering she is pretty conniving – even for a cat.

I have been keeping a careful watch on the conference over the past two weeks, and can say with some degree of certainty that I have never seen more bullshit before in my life. In fact, this little shindig may rank among the world’s top five greatest scams – right up there with “communism works.”

Let’s look at some of the little nuances…

First off, you had a bunch of morons fly in from around the globe in so many private jets that the little island couldn’t accommodate them all and they had to park elsewhere after dropping off their passengers. Nothing like a little hypocrisy to kick off the party. According to Bloomberg (and Wake Up America), just getting the partygoers to the the conference is equivalent to 20,350 cars driving 12,000Km each. Of course some of the people claimed to be buying some carbon offsets for the event, but the rest of us just aren’t buying it. After all, if planting a couple of trees is all it takes to make living a life of environmental sin ok, the world would certainly be a better place now, wouldn’t it?

But maybe it’s not about environmentalism so much as it’s about money. After all, the stream of headlines that came out of the conference on a daily basis were strangely heavy on the “the developed world must help everybody else” rhetoric. In fact, there was very little question about it. The overarching message from the UN was that it is our responsibility to transfer money and technology to the rest of the world so that they can survive the impending climate change disaster. It was not a message of we should so much as it was a demand that we must.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, one of the less publicized proposals to come out of Bali was that of a “global carbon tax.” This legally binding international tax would levy massive taxes against developed nations and redistribute the money to “countries that are having to deal with climate change.” In other words, the developed world will be pouring money into the developing world through a UN “Robin Hood” mechanism designed to punish the developed world for our “extravagant” lifestyle under the guise of environmentalism. Pretty slick, huh?

And what’s the best way to cover up an insidious plot and get people to blindly go along with you? Guilt. Guilt bolstered through doom and gloom… And Bali offered up the doom prophecies in spades – often with the help of the prophet of doom extraordinare, Albert Gore. But really, how do you say no when the UN chief bellows that mankind faces oblivion if we don’t go along with their plans for salvation? How do you turn away from the “defining challenge of our age?” How do you not feel a little tug in your heart when global warming is called a “human rights issue?”

The UN is pulling out all of the stops when it comes to the bleeding heart rhetoric. And when the bleeding heart act isn’t enough to sway hearts and minds everywhere, the UN pulled out its big gun as Albert landed on the second to the last day and began firing at the United States, speaking as if he was speaking for all of us when he “admitted” that the United States was obstructing climate talks and proceeded to viciously slam his home country to a crowd that included people representing America’s youth who told the crowd that George Bush was not their president; rather Al Gore is. The crowd wet themselves with pleasure at Gore’s scathing words towards the evil United States, proving once again that the talks were much less environmental in nature as they were America hating in nature. Oh, and I think that Albert is still holding a grudge over losing the election.

Sadly, who can possibly stand up to this sort of pressure on the world’s stage and not collapse? While the US stood it’s ground for fourteen days, in “overtime” talks, our delegate, US Under-Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky, caved in to the pressure and agreed to a compromise without even consulting Washington. Her words?

“We will go forward and join consensus.”

We will? We will? I can only imagine how much Gore’s ego swelled when she collapsed and uttered those words. Personally I am furious! Our delegate sat through fourteen days of “the world hates the evil America” banter and was bullied into admitting something that is an all and out lie. We are not part of the consensus. There is no consensus! More and more people are coming out – even members of the all-holy IPCC – and proclaiming that this is a scam, that it is nothing but politics, and that the alarmism is fake. Yet we have now joined the consensus? Excuse me while I cry bullshit here.

While the UN, Al Gore and the media stooges are claiming that we’re doomed and that we may have even gone too far to save ourselves (not to mention the penguins, walruses, polar bears and the Amazon rainforests), others are saying:

• From IBD: [referring to the UN's "oblivion statement] “Not a lot of science in that statement, but it’s just the sort of mystical nonsense that can be expected out of the United Nations.”
• From NOAA and University of Miami scientists: “natural climate variations such as El Niño likely have a larger effect on hurricanes than global warming.”
• From Bjorn Lomborg: [referring to the fact that Al Gore refuses to debate him and the IPCC likens him to Hitler] “It’s true my opponents seem to have won the battle of words, but it seems to me I’ve won the battle of the reality because nations are actually doing very little about climate change.”
• From Lord Monckton (of the IPCC and winner of the Nobel prize along with Gore): “Man is not responsible for global warming and it is also not dangerous.” and from another article: “Even if the Gore/IPCC exaggerations were true, which they are not, the economic cost of trying to mitigate climate change by trying to cut our emissions through carbon trading and other costly market interferences would far outweigh any possible climatic benefit.”
• From Pope Benedict XVI: “It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions…”
• From Adrian Arp, PH.D: “The biased United Nation’s panel and Al Gore are promoting a lie to scare us into a U.N. global government. The bottom line is that we need to produce more energy, not less… There is no scientific reason to limit CO2 production because it is not causing global warming!”
• From Joseph Farah: [regarding the new Christian call to save the planet] “Nowhere in the Bible does God directly or indirectly warn us of the dangers of carbon dioxide, a natural, non-polluting gas as necessary to life on our planet as oxygen”

Get the idea? This is just from one week of collecting articles on global warming. Yet, none of these articles made headlines. None of them made the front page. Yet Gore, the UN and the Bali fiasco made headlines every single day. last time I checked, science allowed for question and dissent. Science is open to debate. Science is a constant learning process. Politics, on the other hand, especially the politics of envy are always closed off and one-sided. Yet the global warming hoedown in Bali was supposed to be about science? Where was the debate? Where were the skeptics? Where was the other side of the argument? The only sides in Bali were the United States and the people against the United States. Science you say? Bullshit.

So what’s next in this fairy tale? Will the UN and Al Gore tell us up here in the upper Midwest that we’re Hitler-esque liars because we’re blanketed in snow and waking up to sub-zero temperatures when we head to work in the morning and question the whole global warming thing? Will I have to start buying carbon offsets to offset the heat I use to keep the ten-below plus windchill out of my home? I’ll tell you one thing, you can’t blame global warming for both hot and cold temperature. It’s a little too convenient of an excuse and is oozing with dishonesty. Dealing with below-zero temperatures in Wisconsin is normal weather behavior, Al! Snow and ice in December is normal weather in Wisconsin, Al! If climate change is happening, it ain’t heppenin’ here, Al. And last time I checked, we’re part of the planet, so unless you want to claim that global warming is only happening in select areas of the globe, I say you’re full of shit, Al.

I am not part of the consensus. We are not part of the consensus. Screw the UN and Al Gore. Let them hate us. Let them whine about us. Let them trash talk us. They may have bullied our delegate into caving in, they won’t bully the rest of us, right?

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