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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 7, 2009

Something smells very fishy in Denmark… the Copenhagen summit for world leaders to decide the planet’s financial fate started today. In a nation that is one of the worst polluters in the world. And these clowns are creating more carbon emissions this month than many of the world’s smaller nations combined. In a year.

Current world-leader mindset: Do as I say, not as I do. If I’m not doing what I say you should be doing, there is a good reason for it. Dissension is not allowed. Debate is over.

Which begs these questions, and so many more: When was there EVER an open forum debate on global warming? When was a legitimate peer review and debate conducted on Dr. Mann’s faulty research and “fudged” raw data? When were FOIA requests to view and analyze Mann’s data or NASA’s data ever fulfilled? When did the IPCC permit opposing scientists to have a voice? When was left-wing politics not mixed into the so-called “science”?

Oh, it isn’t over… not by a long shot.

From Los Angeles Times: Denmark’s green credentials obscure some unpleasant facts:

By Henry Chu
December 6, 2009

Though lauded for adopting wind power, its high recycling rate and its progressive policies, Denmark generates the most waste per capita in the EU and most of its energy still comes from coal.

Reporting from Copenhagen – Something is rotting in the state of Denmark. Lots of things, actually, and it’s a bit of an embarrassment for this Scandinavian nation as it prepares to host a widely anticipated global environmental summit this week.

Denmark is proud of its image as one of the greenest countries in the world; it’s probably why it was chosen as the site of the 15th United Nations Conference on Climate Change. But beneath the gloss lurk some inconvenient truths, including the fact that, pound for pound, Denmark produces more trash per capita than any other country in the 27-member European Union.

The Danes tossed out 1,762 pounds of garbage per person in 2007, the latest year for which EU-wide statistics are available. That’s more than the Dutch (1,386 pounds), the Brits (1,258) and the French (1,190); a lot more than the Greeks (986); and double the Lithuanians (880).

It even surpasses the Americans (1,690 pounds), who are often held up as the boogeyman of heedless, needless consumption. By the numbers, Denmark is one of the most wasteful — in both senses of the term — societies in the world.

…The Danish may lead the world in producing wind turbines, but much of their power still comes from coal-fired plants, major emitters of greenhouse gases.

…Meat consumption has been linked to climate change because of widespread deforestation to create pastureland or to grow feed crops and because of the gases, such as methane, released into the atmosphere by belching, flatulent livestock. In an analysis of worldwide meat-eating trends spanning 40 years, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization concluded that Denmark topped the carnivore list.

In 2002, the last year of the study, the average Dane consumed a whopping 321 pounds of meat — nearly a pound a day. For Americans, the figure was 275 pounds.

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Here in Copenhagen, the Amagerforbraending plant is one of the city’s two principal incineration centers. It receives huge mounds of detritus every day out of dumpsters serving more than half a million residents, garbage that either can’t be recycled or that residents didn’t bother to sort.

Monster ovens burn the stuff at temperatures in excess of 1,700 degrees; cleansing agents remove toxic gases and other chemicals before the smoke billows out of a 500-foot-tall smokestack.

National US headline today: Associated Press: Powerful snowstorm snarls traffic across the West

More on the hypocrisy of the global warming alarmists/money grubbers in Copenhagen…

From Conn Carroll, Townhall, The Copenhagen Climate Comedy:

Imagine an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where all the members showed up drunk and with extra cases of wine, beer, and booze to keep them happy. Now imagine that that same group of drunks was empowered to make trillions of dollars worth of economic decisions for everybody in the world. This absurd scenario swiftly summarizes the United Nations Climate Change Conference beginning today, and lasting through December 18, in Copenhagen.

Despite the fact that the entire conference is founded on the belief that human economic activity, especially flying and driving, is emitting levels of greenhouse gasses that will soon kill us all, plutocrats from around the world have marshaled over 1,200 limos and 140 private planes to travel to and around Copenhagen over the next two weeks. When they are not participating in the world’s oldest profession, conferees will be negotiating over a successor treaty to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which obligated most developed nations to reduce their greenhouse emissions by 5 percent below 1990 baseline levels by 2012.

So how did those Kyoto emissions reduction pledges turnout? According to U.N. data, between 2000 and 2006, the 27 European signatories actually increased their emissions by 0.1%. Canada even saw a 21.3% emissions rise. Meanwhile, the U.S., who was not bound by the treaty since the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 not to subject our economy to costly regulations that China and India were specifically exempted from, actually reduced our emissions by 3% over the same time period.

One key reason Europe failed to meet their Kyoto obligations was the tremendous cost of reducing emissions, estimated at $67.75 billion to $170.84 billion through 2008. Because of the high costs of reducing emissions, Copenhagen is seen, especially by Europeans, as an opportunity to force the U.S. to join the other developed countries required to reduce emissions. The economic stakes are huge. Nick Main, global managing partner for climate change and sustainability at the consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, tells the Los Angeles Times: “One of the reasons that this negotiation is difficult is it really does involve issues of competitive and comparative advantage between countries. This is really an economic debate of, ‘How do you pay the costs?’”

And the costs to our economy would be huge. A Heritage Foundation analysis of Waxman-Markey found that this energy tax would have serious implications throughout the economy. For a household of four, energy costs (electric, natural gas, gasoline expenses) would rise by $436 in 2012 and by $1,241 by 2035, averaging $829 over that period. Higher energy costs would increase the cost of many other products and services. Overall, Waxman-Markey would reduce gross domestic product by $393 billion annually and by a total of $9.4 trillion by 2035.

And for anyone over the age of 50, here is a reminder of what all the smart “climate scientists” wanted us to believe 30-plus years ago. For those under 50, here is one of the many reasons why there is so much cynicism over “global warming.” The scientists want it both ways, and neither side, then or now, have/had any empirical proof of warming or cooling caused by mankind. Peachy.

From Gary Sutton, Forbes.com: The Fiction Of Climate Science – Why the climatologists get it wrong:

Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed “the coming ice age.”

Random House dutifully printed “THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age.” This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported “many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age.”

OK, you say, that’s media. But what did our rational scientists say?

In 1974, the National Science Board announced: “During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age.”

You can’t blame these scientists for sucking up to the fed’s mantra du jour. Scientists live off grants. Remember how Galileo recanted his preaching about the earth revolving around the sun? He, of course, was about to be barbecued by his leaders. Today’s scientists merely lose their cash flow. Threats work.

More on ClimateGate and the criminal global warming scam:
JunkScience: Feature: Checking their homework and Are we really sure the world is too warm? and Welcome to a Short Course on “Junk Science Judo”
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: I Can’t Copenhagen
Wizbang: Einstein and Climategate
GOP Exiles: IPCC Climate Change scientists lied
Watts Up With That?: American Thinker: Understanding Climategate’s Hidden Decline
Per Strandberg, Global Warming And The Climate: The causes of global warming and climate change and Facts About Global Warming!
Politiken.dk: Parliamentary Speaker: Climate debate derailed?
DoomDaily: 12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal
Reason Magazine: We-Don’t-Want-To-Talk-About-It-Gate
Weasel Zippers: Copenhagen Climate Summit: 1,200 Limos, 140 Private Jets…Only 5 Hybrid or Electric Vehicles….
Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama: Climate Change Is a National Security Issue and Junk Scientist Al Gore Takes On “Denier” Sarah Palin and Danish Speaker Warns About Global Warming Junk Science and Sarah Palin Tells Obama to Boycott Copenhagen in Light of Climategate and Man Crashes TV Shot to Call on Media to Cover Climategate (Video) – Winter Storm Dumps Snow In Houston and Climategate: Mann Throws Jones Under the Bus and Barbara Boxer: “You call it Climategate — I Call it E-Mail-Theft-Gate” (Video) and White House Still Believes In Non-Existent Global Warming and “Hockey Stick” Graph Creator Mann to Be Investigated by Penn State and Obama to Attend International Junk Science Meeting on Non-Existent Global Warming and Media Ignores Climategate Even as NASA Is Dragged Into the Scandal and Senator Inhofe Will Call For Investigation Into Global Warming Email Scandal
EUReferendum: The Tiger Woods Index
The Foundry, Heritage.org: Climategate: From Skepticism to Investigation
Small Dead Animals: How Important Is CRU Data?
Planet Gore, National Review: Tipping Point for the Climate Horror Show?
Another Black Conservative: Sarah Palin To Obama: Boycott Copenhagen
Green Hell Blog: Skeptics winning in UK and India rejects global warming junk science and Electricity projected to skyrocket in Georgia under carbon law
John A, Watts Up With That?: A devastating response to “There’s nothing to see here, move along”
World Climate Report: Where Are All The Drowning Polar Bears?
FOX News: Copenhagen Climate Conference to Create ‘Huge’ Carbon Footprint
GayPatriot: Ma’am Tries to Change Climategate Narrative and Hide the Decline
Frugal Café Blog Zone: “It’s My Nation’s Carbon Footprint, and I’ll Enlarge It if I Want To…” Copenhagen Attendees Ignore ClimateGate Scandal, Will Negatively Impact World’s Environment & Don’t Care and Uh, Oh… Jon Stewart Mocks Al Gore and ClimateGate Liars (video) and Shaky House of Cards… Australia Parliament Has Voted “NO” on Global Warming/Cap and Trade Bill and ClimateGate Fraud Phil Jones Slinks Away in Disgrace from CRU… Should Be Tossed into Jail for His Global Warming Hoax and ClimateGate’s Lies and Deception to Hide the Decline: The Heat’s On, Dump the Data! and Global Warming Scam: Scientific Data in “Hockey Stick” Graph Bogus, Uh, ‘Fudged’ (video) and The Embarrassing Global Cooling Cover-up… Obama & “Climate Gurus” Still Going Full-Speed Ahead (video) and Climategate: Rush Limbaugh on Global Warming Hoax & Three Siberian Tree Rings… There Is No Global Warming
Energy Tribune: The End of Global Warming

Times Online: Climate change data dumped
Climate Change Fraud: Climategate: how the Copenhagen Grinches stole Christmas
Mark Steyn, NRO: The Dog Ate My Tree Rings
Climate Skeptic: A Total Bluff and Missing the Main Arguments and
Cognitive Dissonance
Daily Mail: Scientist in climate change ‘cover-up’ storm told to quit
P.J. Gladnick, NewsBusters: Polar Bear Testimony Suppressed Due to ‘Inconvenient’ Truths and U.S. Media Ignoring About Face by Leading Global Warming Proponent
Motor City Times: Overwrought Editorial: Fourteen Days To Seal History’s Judgment On This Generation and Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs Say’s “There’s No Real Scientific Basis” Refuting Global Warming
Andrew Marcus, Big Government: ClimateGate Is Not The First Time Progressive Scientists Have Lied To The World
Chris Horner, American Spectator: Pass the Gravy and Hide the Baloney
Media Research Center: NYT Tackles Damning Global Warming Emails, But Reveals Own Hypocrisy
Andrew Bolt, PA Pundit International: IPCC Too “Politicised” To Survive
Palin Twibe Blog: Phil Jones Says Warming Not Based on Temperatures
Christopher C. Horner, Big Government: Lindsey Graham: For Cap and Trade, Except When He’s Not and AstroTurfing and Global Warming: The Testimony You’re Not Supposed to Hear and What’s It All About, Albert? and First They Came For the “Climate Criminals” and Climate Change: The ‘Planned Recession’ Strategy
New American: IPCC Researchers Admit Global Warming Fraud
Climate Realists: The Realists Take on Climate Change

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