The Day of the Flakes is Coming To An End.

The Flakes being all the New Agers, the EUtopians, the Troofers, Obama and his followers, the Global Warmists and of course Flake in Chief Oprah. I won’t be a flake and think it’s anything but coincidence that Obama and Oprah both begin with O for Overrated big fat Zero’s but it’s interesting nonetheless, the sort of thing that if found in a novel would be called simplistic or beyond the bounds of willing suspension of disbelief like the real Cardinal from the Philipines whose name was Sin. Here’s a reason I say their time in the sun is coming to an end, almost literally as it happens as Global Cooling seems more in the cards at the moment than their fantasy of taking control of every human activity on the planet, an article in The Telegraph about two conferences on the climate:

Nobody listens to the real climate change experts
The minds of world leaders are firmly shut to anything but the fantasies of the scaremongers, says Christopher Booker.

The first in Copenhagen, billed as “an emergency summit on climate change” and attracting acres of worldwide media coverage, was explicitly designed to stoke up the fear of global warming to an unprecedented pitch. As one of the organisers put it, “this is not a regular scientific conference: this is a deliberate attempt to influence policy”.

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Thus the name of the game last week, as we see from a sample of quotations, was to win headlines by claiming that everything is far worse than previously supposed. Sea level rises by 2100 could be “much greater than the 59cm predicted by the last IPCC report”. Global warming could kill off 85 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, “much more than previously predicted”. The ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica are melting “much faster than predicted”. The number of people dying from heat could be “twice as many as previously predicted”.

The hysteria of the Warmists grows as the earth cools and they see their dream fading. They know their time is short.

None of the government-funded scientists making these claims were particularly distinguished, but they succeeded in their object, as the media cheerfully recycled all this wild scaremongering without bothering to check the scientific facts.

What a striking contrast this was to the second conference, which I attended with 700 others in New York, organised by the Heartland Institute under the title Global Warming: Was It Ever Really A Crisis?. In Britain this received no coverage at all, apart from a sneering mention by the Guardian, although it was addressed by dozens of expert scientists, not a few of world rank, who for professional standing put those in Copenhagen in the shade.

Led off with stirring speeches from the Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the acting head of the European Union, and Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, perhaps the most distinguished climatologist in the world, the message of this gathering was that the scare over global warming has been deliberately stoked up for political reasons and has long since parted company with proper scientific evidence.

If the US could swap Presidents with the Czechs what a wonderful world it would be. It is truly astounding that in a country of around 300 million people you can end up with a sick narcissist as President, I give him six months before the only followers he has left are the Marxists, the fools and the deranged. It will be interesting to watch even if painful not to mention dangerous on many levels.

Update.

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.” — from the Oregon Petition, signed by over 31,000 scientists

That is the preamble to a post at American Thinker on the New York conference.

California Congressman Tom McClintock offered examples of just how global warming is damaging his state — all in the form of radical construction blocking, agriculture crippling, resource wasting legislation the warm-mongers have gotten through to fight it. Here’s a beauty — a homeowner can be fined $1000/day for refusal to cut down his trees if they block a neighbor’s solar panels, but also faces fines if he cuts them down or clears brush for fire preventive purposes. And Gov. Schwarzenegger – who just proposed the largest tax increase in history to make up for funds lost by his failed green policies — wants Cal-E-Fornia to be “an example to the country.”

Bennie Peiser, founder and editor of the fabulous CCNet, explained the political backlash European greenies are experiencing. And it’s pretty bad — Labor and Green parties are seeing the amalgamation of the recession and failed Kyoto-inspired energy policies driving their core voters away. Lawrence Solomon offered more examples of overseas carbon regulation disasters, declaring Kyoto the greatest single destroyer of the environment, especially in the third world.

The mostly lefty Global Warmists summed up: Some are born idiots, others achieve idiocy and yet others have idiocy thrust upon them.

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