Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen the Copenhagen Cult, Green Religion, and Money Grabs
Unsurprisingly, Hopenhagen is the hot topic of the day. Here is a sample from two of my fav blogs:
The Copenhagen Cult, Green Religion, and Money Grabs
In 1982 Professor Robert Nisbet wrote a book called Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary. In his section on “Environmentalism” he said this: “Environmentalism is now well on its way to becoming the third great wave of the redemptive struggle in Western history, the first being Christianity, the second modern socialism.”
He went on to describe the religious and messianic nature of the environmental movement. We are now seeing the full-blown expression of this in the Church of Climatology and the current religious ritual known as the Copenhagen Summit.
The Green zealots and the true believers in man-made climate change have all the fervour and devotion of any religious believer. And we are seeing this all played out big time this week in Copenhagen. And of course the mainstream media choir are following right along with all this.
The MSM is as agog with the Copenhagen Cult as it is silent on Climategate. Fortunately the alternative media has been performing brilliantly as the MSM blackout continues. Melbourne columnist Andrew Bolt for example reports that his blog has gone from 1 million hits a month to 2 million. The upturn came last month, when he started extensively covering the Climategate scandal.
And as the Climategate scandal becomes more and more well known to the general population, we see evidence of a backlash. For example, after the heady week for the Australian Liberals just recently, many predicted a big swing against them at Saturday’s two bye-elections.
We were told that Tony Abbott’s hardline stance on climate change and an ETS would cost him dearly at the ballot box. But nothing of the sort has occurred. The two liberal candidates in Melbourne and Sydney easily won their seats. And the latest Newspoll survey found that Kevin Rudd dropped by 5 percentage points as preferred Prime Minister, while Abbott gained 9 points on Turnbull.
So a spirited fight back against the new Green religion and the Copenhagen Cult seems to be well underway, thanks to the alternative media and Climategate. And the more ordinary people hear about Green hypocrisy, the more they are ticked off with this new religion.
And:-
Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen
The Copenhagen Climate Summit is yet another absolutely last chance for the salvation of all mankind; another final opportunity to save the planet from an apocalyptic catastrophe and to stop the Maldives from sinking. It is just ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation‘, and so today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial:
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.
As it was in the days of Noah.
But with 20,000 delegates descending on Denmark – representatives of 192 countries with entourages of dozens, a myriad of 5000 mesmerised journalists and 45,000 Greenies all jetting in for a jolly – the Copenhagen carbon footprint will take years to undo. The UN has confirmed flights, rail and bus travel, food and energy from the conference will generate at least 41,000 tons of carbon dioxide. That’s more greenhouse gas than produced by Malawi, Afghanistan or Sierra Leone over the same period.
From the four corners of the earth they come to kiss this shrine of global governance, but they are propagating the biggest money-making scam since the invention of indulgences. In fact, by contracting to limit carbon dioxide emissions through the purchase of ‘carbon credits’, Copenhagen is nothing more than a (post-)modern version of the ‘credits for heaven’ hocus pocus which kept millions in poverty throughout two millennia.
Just as the salvation of the individual was believed to be facilitated through putting pence into the pockets of St Peter, so the national guilt of the developed nations is assuaged through purchasing carbon credits to put pence in the pockets of the developing countries. There may be grand utopian objectives to cap emissions, but in the here and now of economic reality, the rich man in the G20 continues to emit and pollute exactly as he wishes while the poor man in the LDCs rakes in the offsets and adaptation funds so he can drink clean water.
Cranmer wishes to make clear that he is not a ‘climate change denier’. He cannot deny what may indeed be true, and planet earth may indeed be warming. But it appears to him that it has always changed: the earth’s climate is as mutable as time and matter. Yet it is not clear to him that mankind is to blame for this, though it is very clear to him that it is neither moral nor credible to limit the oil and coal usage of the poorest nations on earth while fossil fuels remain the cheapest forms of fuel.
The Copenhagen Summit is the Ecumenical Council for the religion of the age. But instead of being concerned with such weighty issues as finalising the Canon of Scripture or debating how much of a god was the man Jesus, the objective is to determine Gaian orthodoxy: to tax and redistribute trillions of dollars; to change lifestyle hearts and minds, and to teach recalcitrants to venerate Mother Earth.
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