“Breaking: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto treaty at Cancun“. Japan, one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases refuses to cut their emissions. Why should they when their trading partner the USA is entering years of Republican obstruction? Make money now, let future generations look after themselves!
Anthony Watts is right that this important, but not for the partisan reasons he is focused on.
“Pelosi’s Global Warming Panel gets the axe“. Anthony Watts is pleased that the Republicans, now the majority in the US House of Representatives, have axed the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The Select Committee was created by the Democrats in 2007.
Not discussing climate change will definitely solve the problem, right Anthony? Excellent Tea Party logic there.
“Telegraph blunders, assumes Wikileaks was responsible for Climategate emails being made available to the public“. Funny, Anthony Watts loved the Telegraph until they were forced to retract denialist climate change statements.
Of course the question that begs asking is why Anthony so concerned about the “damaging impacts” of WikiLeaks but so quick to embrace the Climategate leaks. The answer, surprisingly, is that Anthony is a partisan hypocrite.
“What really goes on at COP16 in Cancun“. Hey, there are amateur environmentalist PR events at the COP16 UN climate conference in Cancun! I though amateurs were the best scientists around. Why is Anthony sneering now?
Of course its politics that really motivate Anthony Watts’ readers, so they dig in with gusto.
“The little conference that can can’t“. Yuck, yuck, yuck. A cartoon of an empty conference room is definitely an honest representation of a less ambitious conference with fewer planned delegates. They’re all gubmint freeloaders don’t you know.
"Josh" forgot to label his lonely hearts! Fixed it.
However X-ray analysis of the ‘under-painting’ reveals that it actually depicts the interest that Monckton and Spencer will receive as they make themselves “available to answer questions”.
“CARB delays proposed “false statements” discussion” California’s Air Resources Board has delayed a meeting! Anthony Watts know that this means they have been caught lying about Global Warming. Or is it that they are trying to stifle “skeptical” denialists? Whatever. It’s a smug conspiracy!
“The workshop scheduled for December 1st to discuss approaches to prohibit dishonest statements or submittals offered to the Board or its staff has been postponed to accommodate numerous requests for more background information about the purpose of the draft proposed rule. The workshop will be rescheduled after the New Year.” – CARB e-mail
So requests have been made for background information about a workshop on ensuring integrity of submissions to CARB, and the workload has resulted in a delay. Anthony is certain that this was designed to scare away denialists trying to submit their bogus assertions, but it sounds more like the delay is more likely the result of an “auditor” style bombardment.
“Climate Craziness Cools In Cancun“. Another irrelevant weather observation from the world’s most simple-minded TV weatherman, Anthony Watts. It’s only 80°F in Cancun! And the Washington Times (you know, the right-wing paper owned by the Moonies with a circulation of 37,000 in a city of 6,600,000) is sure nothing will be accomplished.
Thanks for the expert insights, Anthony.
“Hypocrisy meter pegged at the New York Times“. Anthony Watts is outraged that the New York Times is publishing the “Wikileaks” files of State Department cables but didn’t publish the Climategate e-mails. Declarations of “hypocrisy!” are made, which is comical coming from Anthony whose every post is an exercise in deception and hypocrisy. He even has a darling little animated “hypocrisy meter”, so you know he must be right.
Maybe there’s a difference between communications that give “unprecedented insight into the US Government’s foreign activities” and e-mails that don’t in fact reveal anything at all about the science of climatology?
IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World’s Wealth. This one’s a bit out of order, but Anthony Watts’ world government paranoia is just to classic to pass up. Anthony has received instructions from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a denialist lobby group, that he should suggest to his readers that an IPCC official has admitted that Climate Change policies are really just a way for environmentalists and their cronies to steal money from decent Americans.
But what did Ottmar Edenhofer really say (italics mine)?
Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War.
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.
That sounds like commie talk to me! Or, maybe, it sounds like rationality. There are serious economic implications to attaching the real costs of carbon emissions to the industries and products that generate them. And the transfer he is talking about is from carbon-intensive industries to… humanity. Read some intelligent comments about this at Rabett Run.
Despite hellish summer, Russia says “nyet” to AGW. Russia doesn’t want to bear any of the direct climate change costs, so like many myopic governments, they’re taking an obstructionist position to the UN Climate Conference in Cancun. To Anthony Watts, this is “evidence” that Global Warming is false. After all, it’s not about the science, it’s about public opinion.
Funny how Anthony and his readers accuse Obama and the Democrats of being “crypto-Marxists” but happily embrace the increasingly totalitarian Russian government’s positions on the environment…
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