The talks ended in failure with Greenpeace and others calling Copenhagen a "crime scene" drive by narrow self-interest. Master of deceit and orator supreme, Barack Obama hailed the "unprecedented break" through at Copenhagen and asserted he would act "boldly and decisively". Power words will certainly help bolster confidence the Obama is yet again saving the world.
Obama's statements are certain spin, hollow and empty. However, there is a great deal of rationality in not committing to destroy the US economy for the sake of a crisis that is based upon conjecture:
When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those pesky polar bears just keep increasing and multiplying – what do you do?
You stop and do nothing… you commit no resources. The climate change radicals will decry such action but it is hard to take such blatant hypocrisy seriously:
Not many people understand climate change. But they can recognise hypocrisy when they see it, and are also likely to count their spoons whenever wild-eyed politicians invoke the impending end of the world.
On Tuesday, Prince Charles flew to Copenhagen to attend the climate change summit, where he delivered a keynote speech.
He informed his audience that 'the world has only seven years before we lose the levers of control'. Not at all long, then.
Of course the Prince, who last year said we have only 50-days to save the world, flew a private get that generated an estimated 6.4 tons of carbon dioxide (5.2 tons more than if he had used a commercial flight). Stephen Glover describes the fear mongers:
Show me a climate control zealot and I can often show you a hypocrite, and a hypocrite, moreover, who speaks in apocalyptic terms about the world coming to an end – at a time not long hence and usually implausibly specific – if the rest of us do not immediately curb our lifestyles so as to produce fewer greenhouse gases.
The double standards and the grotesque exaggeration go hand in hand.
Updated: here's the spin:
