Conservative Musings

Hypocrisy Galore

Gee, where do we start?  Here's some quotes from an article about the Copenhagen climate summit:

• Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.

• "We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention.  But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report."

• "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand.  We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."
  
• And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."
  
• The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

All this to save the environment.  I'll remember that as I drive myself to work tomorrow.  Without a limo or plane.

-Colonel Steve

"My patriotism has gone out of the window" says one British serviceman of the World War 2 era. One British writer received 150 responses to his request of what World War 2 vets think of their country now. Almost across the board, they are completely disillusioned with the 21st century version of their country. I wonder if the same is true of America?

Anyone else run across salesperson problems today like Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds? I'd be as seriously bugged as he was if salespeople did the same to my kids.

Climate Change is Inevitable???

I received in the mail today the December 2009 printed edition of Wired Magazine.  Spencer Reiss has an article entitled "RISING TIDE, Face it: Climate change is inevitable.  Luckily, we know how to adapt." (Titled a little differently online).  He goes on to say things like this:

As many of the participants—certainly the scientists—are only too aware, the global war on carbon has not gone well for the atmosphere. The really inconvenient truth: We’re toast. Fried. Steamed. Poached. More so than even many hand-wringing carbonistas admit. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, C0² that’s already in the air or in the pipeline will stoke “irreversible” warming for the next 1,000 years. Any scheme cobbled together in Copenhagen for slowing—forget reversing—the growth of greenhouse gases will be way too little, way too late. In the apt jargon of industry, a hotter planet is already “baked in.” James Lovelock, the British chemist who redubbed Mother Earth as “Gaia,” tells the ungilded truth: Can we hit a carbon Undo button? “Not a hope in hell.”

Rather interesting this comes out in the midst of the British Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, climate-gate.  I'm guessing those NOAA guys based their "no going back" conclusions on this same scandalized data.

I can't help but play on 2 sets of Spencer's words: adapt, and "baked in".  I'm not sure it's us, the common culture, that's going to adapt in the future.  It's the junk science propagating already "adapted" data, to suit their own predestined conclusions.  And those conclusions?  Half-baked at best.

By the way....do you think we'll be hearing more about this in the dead-tree Main Stream Media?  Doubtful. 

-Colonel Steve