Kiss of Death: Al Gore praises Mitt Romney on Global Warming

 Al Gore: Good for Mitt Romney -- though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis.

While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party:

“It seemed like a straightforward question on a second-tier issue: Would Mitt Romney disavow the science behind global warming?”

“The putative Republican presidential front-runner, eager to prove his conservative bona fides, could easily have said what he knew many in his party's base wanted to hear.”

“Instead, the former Massachusetts governor stuck to the position he has held for many years -- that he believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to it.”

Oh boy, talk about the kiss of death. Mitt Romney's conservative bona fides is already suspect by many in the Republican base. How can it not be with so many flip-flops and the creation of ObamaCare's father RomneyCare. Adding to conservatives' suspicion of Mitt Romney is Romney's new support for Global Warming. A support he has stuck to as well. Now the chief charlatan of the Global Warming hoax, Al Gore is giving Mitt Romney a big Kudos!

If conservatives ever need more proof that they should think long and hard about having a President Romney, this is it.

Romney has said: I don’t speak for the scientific community, of course, but I believe the world’s getting warmer. I can’t prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that. I don’t know how much our contribution is to that, because I know that there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past but I believe we contribute to that.

Romney stuck by the words too. At the next debate, I sure wish one of the other candidates would ask Romney just how he squares his comments with news released today that the earth maybe headed towards another ice age.

Seeing Romney explain himself sure would make for an interesting debate.

Via: Memeorandum Via: Al Gore.com
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Via: The Boston Globe
Via: The Register

NEW! Mitt Romney 2012 - Now with Global Warming!

Reuters: (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change.

"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.

"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors." [MORE]

Yesterday, a commenter here berated me for panning Mitt Romney and said I did not know enough of Romney's record to be making such harsh statements about him. Well, my advice to that commenter is to watch this video over and over again until you finally understand that a President Romney might as well be Obama's second term.

I know this sounds harsh, but it is true. Romney, like so many of these weak, effete, mealymouthed RINOs, simply buy into the latest progressive Marxist BS and then try to put a right wing pin on it and call it conservatism. Enough! I am too through with such nonsense.

I think it is time for true conservatives to loudly and clearly tells these useless RINO candidates to go home. Ann Barnhardt is already on board with that idea.

Via: Memeorandum
Via: Reuters
Video h/t: Hot Air

Disturbing Video: 10:10

This is the other disturbing video featured on Glenn Beck’s show yesterday.  The Greenie movement tipped their hand with this one. What is the message here?  Get Green or else?

I cannot image a brainstorming session where the idea of blowing up children would come out a winner.  I think for the Ghia first crowd, the lack of love for the human race is starting to show. Yes, it is wonderful to save the planet, but if there are no human beings there to appreciate it, does it really matter? Chew on that, Greenies!

Via: The Blaze

Lindsey Graham pulls the plug on climate change bill

Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) has thrown a hissy fit and penned a letter stating he is pulling his support for Climate Change legislation.  What has Graham in a snit? Dingy Harry wants to move on immigration legislation before climate change.

I give the old RINO Graham some credit for correctly calling out Reid and the Democrat’s naked political maneuver. 

The Daily Caller: “Moving forward on immigration — in this hurried, panicked manner — is nothing more than a cynical political ploy,” Mr. Graham said. “I know from my own personal experience the tremendous amounts of time, energy and effort that must be devoted to this issue to make even limited progress.”

In 2007, we spent hundreds of hours over many months with President Bush’s Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, and nearly every member of the U.S. Senate searching for a way to address our nation’s immigration problems. Unlike this current “effort,” it was a good-faith attempt to address a very difficult national issue.

Some of the major provisions we embraced in 2007 — such as creation of a Virtual Fence using cameras, motion detectors and other technological devices to protect our borders — have been scrapped for the time. Other issues we found agreement on at the time, such as a temporary guest worker program, have unraveled over the past three years.

Expecting these major issues to be addressed in three weeks — which appears to be their current plan based upon media reports — is ridiculous. It also demonstrates the raw political calculations at work here.

Let’s be clear, a phony, political effort on immigration today accomplishes nothing but making it exponentially more difficult to address in a serious, comprehensive manner in the future.

Graham is correct; the Democrats are not interesting in creating real and lasting immigration reform, their true goal to pass amnesty before election time.  Graham also knows that much of the nation is in no mood for amnesty (which he supported last time) and the Republican base is certainly not in the mood for the higher taxes of climate change legislation. Even though Graham is not up for re-election until 2014, he might be realizing that it would be better to remove his fingerprints from both pieces of legislation.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The New York Times

Via: The Daily Caller

Control Freak Alert: Climate Scientist says humans too stupid to stop climate change

This is a Class A Control Freak Alert!

James Lovelock, an “environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory” had this to say in the UK Guardian today: 

"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change," said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. "The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful." 

One of the main obstructions to meaningful action is "modern democracy", he added. "Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while." 

Ah, thank you for your honest Mr. Lovelock. Man caused climate change has always been about control. Saving the planet from certain calamity has always been the cover story. We know from the Climategate emails and from the absolute shoddiness of the IPCC reports that the hypothesis that man’s actions are changing the climate is based on some shaky evidence. The whole idea really is about controlling people’s lives by dictating our energy use or our consumption of goods

Well Mr. Lovelock the stupid masses are on to your scheme. So you, Al Gore and the rest of the fear mongers can go right back to the drawing board, we the people are on to you.

For further discussion, read Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and Wizbang.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The UK Guardian

Via: Gallup Polling

Forget about Earth Hour! How about The Truth Hour?

The World Wild Life Fund has this to say on their website about Earth Hour. 

On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people around the world will come together to call for action on climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. The movement symbolizes that by working together, each of us can make a positive impact in this fight, protecting our future and that of future generations... 

Yeah right, just more collectivist BS. The idea that these folks are acting like Climategate did not happen or that the IPCC reports aren’t shot full of wholes is amazing. It is almost like some daffy parent still trying to sell Santa Claus to their teenage children. In just the last year man made global warming is looking more like a global scam than a global crisis.

I have a better idea, instead of turning off our lights like a bunch of cave dwellers; I say turn on all your lights! Heck, break out the Christmas lights too! We can make our own statement, lets demand for one hour that our world leaders actually start telling us the truth. Tell us the truth about Climate Change, the economy, national security or any other topic where the truth has been in short supply.

So forget Earth Hour and man made global warming! Up with the Truth Hour!

Via: WWF

Via: UK Telegraph

Via: Reuters

Baby survives shooting from parent’s global warming suicide pact

This has to be the craziest thing I ever heard: 

A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother.

Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.

Their son Francisco, two, died instantly after being hit in the back.

But their unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her dad's handgun missed her vital organs.

Paramedics rushed her to hospital covered in blood when police alerted by worried neighbours discovered the massacre three days later.

The youngster is recovering in hospital in the town of Goya in the northern Argentine province of Corrientes, where doctors say she is out of danger.

Her parents said they feared the effects of global warming in a suicide note discovered by police. 

After reading this, one immediately wants to point a finger at Al Gore and the rest of the Global Warming alarmists.  However, I think the problem lies in the fact that too many Global Warming believers treat this junk science like a religion.

Even now in the UK, with the IPCC and the CRU being torn to shreds and exposed as complete frauds, there are people over there who are still fervent believers in Man Made Global warming. For those folks Global Warming has become their substitute for Jesus.

When Global Warming is finally exposed everywhere for the sham it is, I think we are going to have to offer some sort of “Global Warming deprogramming” program for those fervent believers.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: UK Daily Mail 

It’s time to wish Al Gore into the cornfield

As the whole theory of Man Made Global warming is starting to look like the sham of the century, Al Gore, its High Priest, has been rather hard to find these days. Today the New York Times has finally found him and allowed the High Priest to ramble on in a very long op-ed called “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change”.

In the op-ed Gore tries to explain away all the recent evidence that Man Made Global Warming is junk science. Gore scolds us that we cannot wish away global warming and that Some news media organizations *COUGH* Fox *COUGH* are to blame. 

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

[SNIP]

Simultaneously, changes in America’s political system — including the replacement of newspapers and magazines by television as the dominant medium of communication — conferred powerful advantages on wealthy advocates of unrestrained markets and weakened advocates of legal and regulatory reforms. Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment. And as in times past, that has proved to be a potent drug in the veins of the body politic. Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace. 

The man is completely shameless. Gore uses his classic fear mongering that the planet will swallow us whole and he even adds a new touch of shame: 

...We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. 

Instead we should let our grandchildren look back on as the criminal generation that saddled them with needless debt all in the name of junk science.

I think it is about time we take a page from that Twilight Zone episode where the little boy can wish bad people out to the cornfield. Al Gore, you’re a bad man, you’re a very bad man!

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The New York Times

Al Gore gets called out at Apple shareholders meeting

I think the jig is up for Al Gore and his shilling the Man Made Global Warming scam.  While present at an Apple Shareholders meeting, one shareholder had this to say: 

At the first opportunity for audience participation just several minutes into the proceeding, a longtime and well-known Apple shareholder--some would say gadfly--who introduced himself as Shelton Ehrlich, stood at the microphone and urged against Gore's re-election to the board. Gore "has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted," Ehrlich said, referring to Gore's views on global warming. "If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn't need to be re-elected." 

I would have paid good money to see that and I would have paid even more for two seconds at the microphone. It is about time frauds like Gore got the public outing they deserve. Let’s hope for more Sheldon Ehrlichs to step up to the plate.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: CNET News

The Jig Is Up! Scientist admits: “No Global Warming Since 1995”!

Professor Phil Jones, who is at the heart of the Climategate scandal, has made some stunning admissions yesterday. He admits that he had trouble keeping track of the data used to produce the “hockey stick”, he admits that there has been no “statistically significant” warming in the past 15 years and biggest admission of them all, Jones admits that the Medieval Warming Period may have been warmer than today.

The last admission is the clincher. If the Medieval Warming Period was warmer than today, then the idea of man made global warming goes right out the window.

From the very start, the entire concept of man made global warming seems to have had many flaws to it. Just the fact that man made global warming was agreed upon by consensus, rather than proven through the scientific method, should have told everyone to remain skeptical.

Now we need to start asking the big questions: When will America’s mainstream media catch up to the UK on this story?  Will this administration put the breaks on spending any more money on Climate Change until the theory can be clearly proven? Finally when this bit of junk science finally collapses (and it is going to), will Climate Change frauds go to jail, and who will pay back taxpayers for the trillions wasted world wide on this sham? I am especially interested in Al Gore’s restitution!

Read the whole story and also follow the story at the Times of London.  For icing on the cake, read about the latest bit of flawed data concerning seal levels.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: UK Daily Mail

Via: Times of London

Via: Reuters

I am enjoying my Global Warming today!

Consider me odd, but I love the snow. I was very disappointed the other day when NJ was told we would get 3-7 inches snow and I woke up to only a dusting.  Today we have SNOW!  Yippee!

Snow deprived Left Coast Rebel asked me to post some pictures of the snow here in my part of New Jersey.  According to Time Magazine I should be thanking all this wonderful snow on Global Warming (yeah, they are still shilling this fraud).  However, Vagina Monologues creator and twit, Eve Ensler, sees all this Global Warming as no laughing matter. For her we should be on the look out for earthquakes and tsunamis.

Actually I wish both Time Magazine and Ensler would swing by here so I could clean their clocks with a good old fashion snowball fight.

Enjoy the pics.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Time Magazine

Via: News Busters

Junk Science Alert: IPCC based its findings on a student paper and a magazine article

With each passing day, the whole Climate Change hysteria is looking like first class junk science. The UK Telegraph reports today that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) based its claims about disappearing ice on mountaintops on a student paper and a magazine article.

From the UK Telegraph: 

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph, have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007.

You must be joking!  How much money have western nations sunk into the IPCC and all these clowns do is crib anecdotal evidence from magazines and term papers? So, basically if I watch a snowman melt, I can write a paper about it and it too could become irrefutable evidence of Climate Change!  This Climate Change has to be the biggest scam ever.

What is really dangerous about accepting junk science like this is that real science gets the short shift. Witness NASA losing funding for man space exploration and for what? So we can waste billions on this fraud science.

Worse yet, it seems like Climate Change is inserting itself into our institutions. The EPA is on board with regulating carbon dioxide, recently the SEC and the CIA have picked up this junk science. Let us also not forget what Obama had to say about Climate Change at the State of the Union: 

I know there have been questions about whether we can afford such changes in a tough economy. I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -– because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation.  

More like the overwhelming evidence that Climate Change is pure bunk! We all really need to start speaking out against the fraud science of Climate Change before America sinks any more of its borrowed money into it.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The UK Telegraph

Via: The Washington Post

Via: The Wall Street Journal

Via: The Dallas Morning News

Via: Central Intelligence Agency

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An Inconvenient Truth: Osama Bin Laden believes in Global Warming too

Sounding like a true disciple of Al Gore, Osama Bin Laden has released another tape to Al Jazeera blaming the United State for Climate Change.

"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," bin Laden said.

"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."

"However, George Bush junior, preceded by [the US] congress, dismissed the agreement to placate giant corporations. And they are themselves standing behind speculation, monopoly and soaring living costs.

"They are also behind 'globalisation and its tragic implications'. And whenever the perpetrators are found guilty, the heads of state rush to rescue them using public money."

Osama Bin Laden sounds like your typical lefty radical who has not bother to read the ClimateGate emails. There is little difference in what he says and your typical Berkley student, including the gratuitous Bush bashing. What Bin Laden’s latest tirade says to me, is that Al Qaeda will latch on to anything to bash America. This is why Obama and much of the left are wrong about Gitmo being a recruiting tool. Even if they could close Gitmo, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda would latch on to something else to bash America with, including the phony science of Climate Change.

I wonder how Al Gore feels about his new Climate Change disciple?

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Al Jazeera

Obama’s speech in Copenhagen

From Politico: 

COPENHAGEN — A visibly angry Barack Obamathrew down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come "not to talk but to act" on climate change.

Emerging from a multinational meeting boycotted by Chinese Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Obama warned delegates that U.S. offers of funding for poor nations would remain on the table “if and only if” developing nations, including China, agreed to international monitoring of their greenhouse gas emissions.

"I have to be honest, as the world watches us... I think our ability to take collective action is doubt and it hangs in the balance,” Obama told the COP-15plenary session as hope for anything more than a vague political in agreement faded.

“The time for talk is over, this is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward. We can do that and everyone who is in this room will be part of an historic endeavor or we can choose delay,” he said. MORE

This is comical. Would someone please tell Obama that we are China’s bitches now?  Lets put aside the fact that Obama is willing to waste billions we don’t have on junk science. Trying to force China into an agreement by pledging money we have to borrow from them in the first place, has got to be the worst bluff in the history of man.  The Chinese government is probably still laughing their asses off over that one.

If this is all Obama has, he had better prepare himself for another Rio episode. The Chinese are firmly in control at Copenhagen and trying to ply them with their own money was a fool’s errand.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Politico

Hillary pledges untold billions to fight climate change at Copenhagen

From The New York Daily News:

Just as the Copenhagen climate summit appeared to be on the verge of unraveling, the United StatesThursday announced its support of an annual $100 billion climate protection fund, the Associated Pressreports.

“The US is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 to address the climate change needs of developing countries,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

[SNIP]

While she would not disclose how much the U.S. would be contribution to the climate fund, Clinton said there would be a fair amount contributed to the pot that would be made available in 2020. The finances will reportedly be raised partially by taxing aviation and shipping, as proposed by the European Union

This is the kind of irresponsible actions that boils my blood. Here it is, the United States is borrowing trillions from China to pay for all kinds of crazy foolishness and now we have damn fools like Obama and Clinton pledging untold billions to other countries based on "snake oil science".  If Democrats are puzzled as to why the public is souring on their brand, they need look no further than these actions.


Did it ever occur to Obama and the Democrats to pause on climate change at least to make 1,000% sure the climate change scientist are not FOS? Did it ever occur to the Democrats that these untold billions they are pledging must be paid with interest by future generations that are too young to vote for or against their actions?


As I sit here like most Americans tightening my belt and curtailing my holiday spending, I sincerely hope that the Democrats damage their brand beyond repair, for they have really and truly earned that fate.


Via: The Drudge Report
Via: The New York Daily News

Copehagen: Cheers Hugo Chavez;s socialism and a blizzard to boot

From the Herald Sun:

President Chavez brought the house down.

When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation.

As we always suspected, all this climate change nonsense has very little to do with saving the planet and everything to do with gaining control of the masses. Thankfully, ClimateGate is getting bigger and skepticism is gaining with the public.  The latest Rasmussen poll shows that 50% of the public believes that climate change is caused by long term planetary trends and not man. Rasmussen's poll also found the exact opposite among the political class. 

In a great sense of irony, Copenhagen received a 4 inch snow fall yesterday with temperatures predicted to stay low  for the next 3 days. How's that for Global Warming?

Via: The DrudgeReport

Via: Herald Sun

Via: Bloomberg

Via: Rasmussen 

Sarah Palin’s Washington Post Op-ed: Copenhagen’s political science

Sarah Palin’s new Op-ed in the Washington Post is a more fleshed out version of her recent Facebook note calling for Obama to boycott the UN’s climate change summit in Copenhagen. Palin once again calls our attention to Climategate and all the questions that arise from it.

Palin points out the common sense in waiting for solid answers to the questions raised by Climategate, before America agrees to anything in Copenhagen. By doing this, Palin makes Obama’s decision to attend Copenhagen look naive at best or nefarious at worst.

Why shouldn’t we wait to see what those climate scientists were up to? Why should we be damn sure there isn’t a hidden agenda behind man made global warming? These are the very questions this administration seems loathed to answer or to even be asked. Palin’s op-ed will clearly add pressure to have these questions answered.

Copenhagen's political science

By Sarah Palin

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.

"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.

The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals. What's more, the documents show that there was no real consensus even within the CRU crowd. Some scientists had strong doubts about the accuracy of estimates of temperatures from centuries ago, estimates used to back claims that more recent temperatures are rising at an alarming rate.

This scandal obviously calls into question the proposals being pushed in Copenhagen. I've always believed that policy should be based on sound science, not politics. As governor of Alaska, I took a stand against politicized science when I sued the federal government over its decision to list the polar bear as an endangered species despite the fact that the polar bear population had more than doubled. I got clobbered for my actions by radical environmentalists nationwide, but I stood by my view that adding a healthy species to the endangered list under the guise of "climate change impacts" was an abuse of the Endangered Species Act. This would have irreversibly hurt both Alaska's economy and the nation's, while also reducing opportunities for responsible development.

Our representatives in Copenhagen should remember that good environmental policymaking is about weighing real-world costs and benefits -- not pursuing a political agenda. That's not to say I deny the reality of some changes in climate -- far from it. I saw the impact of changing weather patterns firsthand while serving as governor of our only Arctic state. I was one of the first governors to create a subcabinetto deal specifically with the issue and to recommend common-sense policies to respond to the coastal erosion, thawing permafrost and retreating sea ice that affect Alaska's communities and infrastructure.

But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs. And those costs are real. Unlike the proposals China and India offered prior to Copenhagen -- which actually allow themto increase their emissions -- President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions. Meeting such targets would require Congress to pass its cap-and-tax plans, which will result in job losses and higher energy costs (as Obama admitted during the campaign). That's not exactly what most Americans are hoping for these days. And as public opposition continues to stall Congress's cap-and-tax legislation, Environmental Protection Agency bureaucrats plan to regulate carbon emissions themselves, doing an end run around the American people.

In fact, we're not the only nation whose people are questioning climate change schemes. In the European Union, energy prices skyrocketed after it began a cap-and-tax program. Meanwhile, Australia's Parliament recently defeated a cap-and-tax bill. Surely other nations will follow suit, particularly as the climate e-mail scandal continues to unfold.

In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to "restore science to its rightful place." But instead of staying home from Copenhagen and sending a message that the United States will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices, the president has upped the ante. He plans to fly in at the climax of the conference in hopes of sealing a "deal." Whatever deal he gets, it will be no deal for the American people. What Obama really hopes to bring home from Copenhagen is more pressure to pass the Democrats' cap-and-tax proposal. This is a political move. The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs -- particularly when the push for such legislation rests on agenda-driven science.

Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans should be wary about what comes out of this politicized conference. The president should boycott Copenhagen.

Via: Memeorandum   

Via: The Washington Post

Obama changes date for Copenhagen: Mighty Mouse is on his way

From The Swamp: 

President Barack Obama will push back his visit to the international climate change treaty negotiations in Copenhagen from the first week of the conference to its final scheduled day, a senior White House official said this afternoon.

The move comes in response to greenhouse gas emissions reduction pledges made in recent days by China and India. It will put Obama at the conference at the same time as dozens of other heads of state, and it immediately raises expectations anew for some type of climate agreement to result from the talks.

By switching his visit from Dec. 9 to Dec. 18, Obama appears to be betting that his presence can - as he has expressed hope for several times in the past - push the negotiations "over the top" toward an agreement.

This also will mean two Scandanavian journeys for the president: He will fly to Oslo for the Dec. 10 awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize and was going to pair that with his stop iin Copenhagen. Now, he will have to return to Denmark the following week. MORE

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this the same line of thinking that lead to his embarrassing epic fail with the Olympics?  Someone really needs to tell Obama that on the world stage he ain’t all that. Nations do not cling to his every word, they are not feeling all Kumbaya and quite frankly after all that bowing and scraping they may not even respect him.

If Obama is determined to play Mighty Mouse, then I hope he has a repeat performance like the Olympics. He should take Palin’s advice and boycott Copenhagen until we can get to the bottom of Climategate. To go to Copenhagen and make all sorts of US promises and concessions in the middle of a developing scandal is the height of foolishness and irresponsiblity.

Oh, and don’t think I didn’t notice the complete waste of our tax dollars by flying to Copenhagen twice!  The man is beyond irresponsible.

H/T to Chuckman’s Cartoon Comments for the Obama as mighty mouse graphic

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Swamp