As IF Times

link UN process in danger unless world agrees on climate change – Telegraph.

Talk about flogging a dead horse.  Someone is paying too much money for these guys to continue pushing an agenda that has been entirely discredited.  This is reminiscent of the penultimate scene in the classic movie Trading Places with Eddie Murphy when a scheme to manipulate markets is exposed and the two manipulators are undone.  In the movie, the two individuals are screaming and pleading to have the traders come back after the markets have closed and their personal financial doom is sealed.

How pathetic that money is still being funneled into an agenda that has been exposed to have no merit, dubious science and shrinking public support.  However, closer inspection will reveal the real reason this charade continues to live.

The wives want to go shopping.

Yes, the real reason that these junkets are held is so that the wives can visit new and exotic places.  Copenhagen isn’t the hottest of places to shop and undoubtedly, the spouses complained.  “Why don’t you have the next conference somewhere warm and tropical.  If global warming is so pervasive, take me somewhere warm!’

By sheer coincidence, the next great summit of intellectual hand wringing (talk about mixed metaphors) is planned for Cancun Mexico because Palm Springs was sold out.  Really? Not Greenland or Inuvik?  For that matter, why not just do a skype teleconference? It’s a bit more credible to bleat about global warming if you’re  not using barrels of jet fuel, gasoline for limos, paying for fancy hotels and eating cows, which as we’ve discovered, don’t contribute to warming.  I’d be more convinced if the poobahs came to a conference via viking rowboats wearing only hemp garments and meeting in a public square under candlelight.

I’m not really sure who this crowd is catering to when they issue dire and dark warnings, as if the public will continue to take them seriously.  This plea from Yvo de Boer, the head of some goofy committee at the UN,

“… the world cannot afford another failure.  Copenhagen was the last get-out-of-jail-free card and we cannot afford another failure in Cancun,” he said.  “I think if we see another failure in Cancun, that will cause a serious loss of confidence in the ability of this process to deliver.”

How could Copenhagen be the last stand if they have to go to Cancun for the final, final last stand?  I think after Mexico, the wives will want to go to Hong Kong for the final, final, final last stand.  What would be nice is if they at least not call these meetings Climate Conferences but Climate Frauds, or CF’s.  There has been suggestion that they be really called Cluster…. well, never mind.

Update, December 2014  Carbon Footprint in Lima