Sunday, December 13, 2009

Google Translate: Arthur Rörsch finally takes out in Telegraph
Professor Rörsch is shocked: "This Climate Gate-e-mails are in my opinion the evidence of an intent to deceive. This is no longer genuine science.These are politically motivated people, who the truth to try to put their hand. So it is a religion, or something tidier, a belief. From all you taste a disconcerting arrogance. Those who go to work, can not of course claim that thousands of scientists agree with you, and doubt that global warming does not exist. "
Don't expect too much from climate talks - TwinCities.com
Unlike in most other industrialized nations, U.S. citizens remain divided on whether climate change is really occurring. Indeed, the proportion that is skeptical is growing rather than shrinking. And even among those who do see it as fact rather than hoax, many do not support emission-control measures that would either increase taxes or the prices of goods and services.

This is not a lack of consensus, but rather a fundamental division that is not likely to be solved in the foreseeable future. For significant portions of both camps, it has become a matter of faith rather than reason. And the Republican Party is increasingly moving toward betting its future on climate change as a false hypothesis that can cause great economic harm, if not an outright hoax.
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To them, and to many Chinese and Indians, the idea that they should abstain from the path that helped North America and Europe enjoy two centuries of fossil-based economic growth — and that they should do so without compensation — is ludicrous. And they are not going to back elected officials who support such policies. [But wouldn't the Chinese and Indians "abstain" if they truly believed that carbon dioxide might kill their grandchildren?]
Joe Soucheray: OK, it has to be said: There's something rotten in Denmark - TwinCities.com
It is a religious gathering in Copenhagen, nothing more and strikingly pagan in nature, but religious. They might as well be wearing hemp cassocks and green vestments, with a glittering crown of recycled pop-can tops for their spiritual leader, Al Gore, who is trying to pioneer the theological mischief known as plenary indulgences, only this time you can use gasoline to sin in St. Paul if only you plant a tree in Keokuk after first paying a middleman.

Have you ever stopped to wonder about a few things? When did we sign on to be governed by a U.N. climate conference? How can an unelected bureaucrat, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, unilaterally decide that carbon dioxide is a killer? Are we to stop breathing?
[Sparse] Climate rally crowd thinks about the bigger picture | Kelowna.com
Dee Holt, the federal Green Party candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country, warmed up the crowd with a nod to the weather, which showed no traces of global warming.

“It shows that you have the passion for this,” Holt said to those who braved the light snow and subzero temperature.
[Fake global warming allegedly harmful to cartoon polar bears] « Climate Progress

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