CLIMATE [HOAX] SPECTATOR: Cancun calling – Night of the long knives | Giles Parkinson | Commentary | Business Spectator

There were reports of numerous walk-outs. US negotiator Jonathon Pershing was said to have stormed out of a crucial meeting on transparency, threatening to reconsider his country’s Copenhagen pledges if India did not offer more on monitoring and verification. Bolivia was also said to have stormed out of talks on forestry (they don’t like market mechanisms) and the UN and the US both cancelled scheduled press conferences at the last minute.

One exhausted negotiator, back from a near all-night session on adaptation blamed all sides and complained: “They are just seeking to provoke each other. There is a complete lack of trust. There are blockages everywhere and I don’t know how they're going to produce a document at the end of this.”

“A typical Thursday,” noted Artur Runge Metzger, adding that the landmark Kyoto Protocol was concluded after a similar 48 hours of apparent mayhem. Although he conceded, “No one is quite sure how it’s going to fit together.” One optimistic negotiator from the Alliance of Small Island States observed that the spate of extreme weather events across the globe – fires, cold and floods – were making some negotiators realise that it was not simply about numbers.
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In the appropriately named Desierto press conference room, the good Lord and Dr Roy Spencer told a small audience of 12 people and a man dressed in a polar bear suit that man-made activities had contributed to global warming, they just didn’t know how much, but suspected it was small. Monckton then changed his mind and declared there had been no global warming at all, at least for the last 15 years, that the recent cold weather in the UK showed there was a greater threat from global cooling, and that we should burn as much fossil fuel as we possibly could to alleviate energy poverty.
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“We know climate change is real, we know it is significant, and we need to deal with the uncertainty of its impacts,” Rear Admiral David Titley said. Brigadier General Juan Ayala pointed to mass migration, natural disasters and the threat to democratically elected government as particular threats of climate change. They’ve even got solar – providing up to 20 per cent of energy on some of their bases.