Be afraid. Be very afraid.
And to think: those who back in the early days of blogging (myself among them) used to go on about how the entirety of this “green energy” gambit was merely a move by transnational progressives to re-order the world through huge transfers of wealth from “rich” countries to “poor” countries — under the name of “fairness” (and as a way to salve past instances of imperialism and colonialism through which wealthy countries had gained their plunder) — were accused of the worst kind of conspiracy mongering.
Why, such talk was loony! Like arguing that government going after the tobacco industry would one day give rise to bans on salt or transfats or taxes on soda or government involvement in portion sizes or determining menu options.
Cuckoo, cuckoo!
Meanwhile, the “saner” Republicans — crunchy cons and the like, they called themselves — joined with the left and warned us that a failure to heed the growing force of the environmental and sustainability movement’s attractive and “scientifically sound” global protection message would leave us in the political desert; and so it was best for Republicans to jump on board and get involved in how best to plan for the coming tribute we’d be forced to pay for belching out CO2 like dirty dirty little carbon-based earth tainters. Otherwise, the left would have all the control.
Fighting back against bad science and redistributionist schemes? Never even occurred to them. And we were being unhelpful inasmuch as we were sounding like fear-mongering warming deniers.
Nice to see that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Codswalloping zero-summers — damn they’re dumb. Worse than truthers, even.
You would think that the ‘scientists’ being caught repeatedly in lies and cooked data would be enough. Meh.
For me , it’s as simple as follow the money, and it’s a short trip to discrediting the whole scam and seeing it’s main practitioners in prison cells.
And they can start with the ‘Man-Bear-Pig’ himself.
Does Rod Dreher even consider himself “conservative” anymore?
I opt out.
I just want to know how much the waivers are going to cost.
I would, but the result of every global warming conference in the last few years has been an agreement to have another conference. They know the jig is up, but they can bring themselves to accept it yet.
Even Obama isn’t stupid enough to try and sign on to a wealth transfer scheme that stands no chance of ratification 4 months before an election. And there’s always the chance of a meteor strike, so let ’em gather.
“Ratification”?
Are you serious? Are you serious?
Why are we still in the UN?
“Why are we still in the UN?”
This is a very good question, one that needs asking every couple of days or so. It’s long since past the time that the people insist the country leave the charade.
I know, those obscure, 100+ year old words nobody understands anymore, huh?
“Why are we still in the UN?”
The Corleones had a theory about that.
Dude, I knew they were the New Commies back in the late 1980s. The committed ones were always Marxoids.
Bangwagon GOPers are in for a rude fucking shock if they think trying to play that shit is going to get them anywhere, after Obama has spent this past 3 years attacking the energy sector for the exact same reasons and lies.
Let’s take a lesson from the French: Support it loudly, vote for it with gusto, criticize the hell out of the other side, and then after it’s implemented, completely forget it ever existed!
Le transfer paymahn? But Monsieur Secretaire General, we sent ze cheque seece months ago! Pearhaps you have meesplaiced eet?
Same old desired result…new justification for the whip to be taken to hand.