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CFACT Observes: “A UN Climate Conference Is An Unrealistic Wonderland”

“We at CFACT continue to be amazed at how people stay on their global warming talking points at UN climate conferences as if no new information had come in,” said CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker. “They pay no heed to real world observational data, or the expense, ineffectiveness, waste, fraud and abuse surrounding the policies being proposed. A UN climate conference is an unrealistic wonderland.”

Quote of the Week – marketing the consensus before it’s ’97% Cooked’ | Watts Up With That?

In the SkS forum discussion about how to create this 97% consensus paper, there was a lot of discussion about how to market it. As far as methodology, quality control, etc. goes, not so much, which just goes to show that Cook et al. 2013 was little more than a marketing ploy under the guise of peer reviewed science.

At least one commenter on the SkS forum thought this “cart before the horse” marketing discussion was strange

Warning Signs: Global Warming Charlatans are Meeting in Bonn

The notion that the United Nations or the entirely of the world’s population could have any effect on the climate is so absurd that it should be dismissed out of hand, but the UN climate program and forthcoming treaty it is fashioning has nothing to do with the climate. It is about the fascist utopia being fashioned by those telling huge lies about the climate.

Warmists: CO2 ‘fertilization’ effect won’t deter climate change | JunkScience.com

But at least the CO2 fertilization effect is actually happening — more than can be said for CO2-driven catastrophic climate change.

UK Climate Minister Slams Media And 'Blinkered' Deniers: 'It’s The Science, Stupid' | ThinkProgress

And how do we know all this to be true?
To coin a phrase, “it’s the science, stupid.”
It’s what the evidence tells us.  [What evidence, specifically?]