Remember 1975? I don't--a little hard to reminisce about a moment in time in which you're not even alive. But apparently, during this year, the United States government was predicting .....you ready for this, but they were telling us to prepare for the next Ice Age. If you feel confused, don't. For the past century, scientists and media haven't been able to make up their minds as to whether the Earth is warming or cooling (see pages 8-10). Obviously, this indecisiveness is not anything new, but at the same time, this is what happens when you need an ideology to fill the secular vacuum of the Leftist world. Green is the new red, what can I say?
That's why it's so annoying that people are paying heed to this new religion. Does anybody else find it hypocritical that people who are oh-so worried about carbon emmissions are going to end up emitting 40,000 tons of the stuff just to gather in Copenhagen? I guess it's OK when they do it, versus the rest of us mere mortals.
The overall purpose of this conference is to try to agree on emission reductions that are similar to those of Kyoto. Let's see--effectiveness of Kyoto.....hmmmmm....European nations on average increased their emmissions by 0.1%, while ironically enough, the United States, who didn't even sign on, saw a 3% reduction. Why are Western efforts made moot? Because developing nations like China and India, whose combined populations exceed two billion, won't halt their economic growth for anything, whether real or imaginary. I exepct Copenhagen to be a stroking of the Left's ego while simultaneously, surprise surprise, getting nothing productive accomplished.
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