Cancun Will Be A Schadenfreude Symphony « SOYLENT GREEN

So, let me get this straight. A bunch of gringo, elitist, professional activists are going to give impoverished Mexican Indians a couple pesos and some beans to protest the international Kleptocrats in $2,000 suits to make sure they extort trillions from the U.S. for “Climate Justice?” Yeah, that’s really going to lift those indigenous peoples out of poverty

First snowstorm of the season batters Minneapolis

Minneapolis has already declared a snow emergency in what will likely be the largest pre-Thanksgiving snowfall since 1991.

I Believe I Can Fly - [More idiocy from high-flying, mansion-dwelling Tom Friedman] - NYTimes.com

If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can think you’re flying. It’s the sudden stop at the end that tells you you’re not.
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Closer to home, America’s climate-deniers mounted an effective disinformation campaign that made “climate change” a four-letter word in the Republican Party. This undermined efforts to get a clean energy bill — the sort that might break our addiction to oil and take money away from the people our soldiers are fighting in the Middle East. And all of this happened in 2010, which is on track to be the Earth’s hottest year on record. So here’s the math: 98 climate scientists out of 100 will tell you that man’s continued carbon emissions pose the risk of disruptive climate change this century. Two out of 100 will tell you it doesn’t. And “conservatives” today tell you to bet on the two. If the climate-deniers are right — but we combat climate change anyway — we’ll have slightly higher energy prices but cleaner air, more renewable energy, a stronger dollar, more innovative industries and enemies with less money. If the deniers are wrong and we do nothing, your kids will meet the sudden stop at the end.