{"id":1528,"date":"2009-12-19T00:57:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2010-07-19T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T05:23:54","slug":"copenhagen-conference-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Conference Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s happened.  The Copenhagen climate conference has concluded with a three-page fig-leaf over its naked failure that even the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/19\/science\/earth\/19climate.html?_r=1\">can&#8217;t spin as good news for the AGW alarmists<\/a>.  It&#8217;s kind of entertaining to watch them try, actually, but the glum tone of the report is palpable.<\/p>\n<p>The best laugh line from the article is that President Obama left before the vote on the document because he wanted to get back to Washington <em>ahead of a major snowstorm<\/em>.  Yeah, I know, weather not climate, but it&#8217;s still funny.  Good thing Al Gore cancelled or they&#8217;d probably be trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/04\/the-gore-effect\/\">dig out from under record accumulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say this was the <em>best<\/em> possible outcome from Copenhagen; the best possible outcome would have been an outright PR disaster that wrecked the careers of everyone even remotely connected with this boondoggle. And yes, on a sane planet the fact that they invited Robert Mugabe,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez to speak would have <em>been<\/em> that PR disaster; cripes, were they trying for the thug-tyrant trifecta? But having all that sound and fury add up to a big fat nothing is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s excellent because, by the time the kleptocrat gang at the UN can wind up for another try, the likelihood is that the &#8220;scientific&#8221; support for their AGW scam will have been entirely exposed as a tissue of fraud.  That&#8217;s the way things seem to be heading, anyway.  Faster, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s happened. The Copenhagen climate conference has concluded with a three-page fig-leaf over its naked failure that even the New York Times can&#8217;t spin as good news for the AGW alarmists. It&#8217;s kind of entertaining to watch them try, actually, but the glum tone of the report is palpable. The best laugh line from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1528\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Copenhagen Conference Crashes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}