As the growing “Climategate” scandal continues to call into question the scientific veracity of the theory which is the supposed raison d’être for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, it appears that the delegations of 192 nations are supposed to carry on as if nothing has changed. In the words of Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): “The time for formal statements is over. The time for restating well-known positions is past.... Copenhagen will only be a success [if] it delivers significant and immediate action."

According to the Associated Press, the UNFCCC head was not the only one sounding the “shut-up-and-vote” theme:

Conference president Connie Hedegaard said the key to an agreement is finding a way to raise and channel public and private financing to poor countries for years to come to help them fight the effects of climate change.

Hedegaard — Denmark's former climate minister — said if governments miss their chance at the Copenhagen summit, a better opportunity may never come.

"This is our chance. If we miss it, it could take years before we got a new and better one. If we ever do," she said....

"The evidence is now overwhelming" that the world needs early action to combat global warming, said Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an U.N. expert panel.

Rajendra Pachauri’s name may not be as well-known in the United States as Al Gore’s, but the two men share one very significant thing in common: They were corecipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. (Technically, the IPCC received the prize, but Pachauri has chaired the IPCC since 2002.)

Now, after the seemingly-endless global warming hype and hysteria which has propelled countless thousands of press releases from the pens of ideologues right onto the teleprompters of the anchors who read us the evening news, the time for talk is over. It appears that even a very fat paycheck cannot get former Vice President Al Gore to keep a speaking engagement in Copenhagen. Pachauri is apparently reduced to simply repeating stock phrases like some sort of mantra.

Now that the truth about “Climategate” is getting out at a most inconvenient time, the only thing to be done, if — as Hedegaard concedes — you’re not going to get another chance at playing the “climate change” conference again anytime soon to establish the New Environmental Order is to “go for broke.” Given that environmentalism has often substituted emotional appeals in the place of reason and science, the logical course of action presents itself, as the AP reports:

The conference opened with video clips of children from around the globe urging delegates to help them grow up in a world without catastrophic warming.

Of course, the same children could have been led to urge the conference to protect the world from space aliens and unicorns if so prompted by adults whom they trust. With the double-think which is now part of the standard mental condition of our self-designated elites, there’s no contradiction between, on the one hand, telling a skeptical public to shut-up and listen to the scientific experts and, on the other hand, manipulating the masses with teary-eyed appeals from manipulated children.

But for Hedegaard it is not only the environment which is at stake; democracy is also endangered by foot-dragging. As she proclaims on the official conference website: 

“If the whole world comes to Copenhagen and leaves without making the needed political agreement, then I think it’s a failure that is not just about climate. Then it’s the whole global democratic system not being able to deliver results in one of the defining challenges of our century. And that is and should not be a possibility. It’s not an option,” Connie Hedegaard tells cop15.dk in an interview.

She calls Copenhagen a “window of opportunity” which should not be missed, arguing that it may take years to rebuild the momentum.

“If we don’t deliver in Copenhagen, then I cannot see when again you can build up a similar pressure on all the governments of this world to deliver. So I think we should be very, very cautious not to miss the opportunity,” says Hedegaard, adding that “it would be irresponsible not to use the momentum now.”

There’s so much that’s laughably wrong with such a declaration that it’s almost hard to know where to begin.

First, what “global democratic system” is she talking about? The assembly of butchers and thugocracies which make up much of the United Nations? Second, where are the “democratic” nations which make up the “global democratic system”? It is far from pedantic to observe that actual “democracy” is a vanishingly rare form of government and that nations which are often called “democratic,” such as the United States, are actually constitutional republics, and are supposed to be characterized by the rule of law, not the demands of 50 percent, plus one.

It is not uncommon for feel-good words such as “democracy” to be thrown into debates where the connection is tenuous, at best. Besides, if the revered “democratic process” yields a result that Hedegaard and others don’t like, how is that a “failure” of democracy? Is democracy only “democracy” if it yields the results the self-appointed elites demand that it yield?

Copenhagen is not about saving the environment; it’s about rewiring the world economy. A scheme to transfer hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the industrialized world to less developed nations must be central to any agreement in Denmark. Thus the lobbying over the respective sizes of "slices" of the "pie" has already begun. First in line is Bangladesh, a nation which is supposedly threatened by the loss of large amounts of territory if sea levels rise as dramatically as the IPCC is threatening.

And what does Bangladesh want from the nations of the world? Fifteen percent “cut” of the “take.”

That’s right: Not a dollar figure; there’s not an itemized assessment of what it would theoretically cost to relocate part of the nation’s population, or make up for lost farmland. No, Bangladesh wants 15 percent, regardless of whether the shakedown totals $100 billion a year or $1 trillion a year. According to the conference website:

"The population of our one coastal district is bigger than the entire population of all island countries and in that consideration at least 15 percent of any climate fund should come to us," State Minister of Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud told a news conference, according to Reuters.

Hasan Mahmud emphasized that Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country in the world to climate change, Reuters reports.

"We are not begging any mercy from anyone. Rather we want justice as the worst victim of climate change," said Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, a leading economist, who is also part of the Bangladesh climate negotiation team.

Such a demand is complete gibberish from any reasonable economic perspective — it is a demand for money which has no measurable connection to costs. It is, therefore, the perfectly logical deduction drawn from the increasingly data-free ideology of manmade climate change.

Rt. Rev. James Heiser has served as Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church in Malone, Texas, while maintaining his responsibilities as publisher of Repristination Press, which he established in 1993 to publish academic and popular theological books to serve the Lutheran Church.  Heiser has also served since 2005 as the Dean of Missions for The Augustana Ministerium and in 2006 was called to serve as Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA). An advocate of manned space exploration, Heiser serves on the Steering Committee of the Mars Society. His publications include two books; The Office of the Ministry in N. Hunnius' Epitome Credendorum (1996) and A Shining City on a Higher Hill: Christianity and the Next New World (2006), as well as dozens of journal articles and book reviews.

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rprew said:

It's about CONTROL! Just like the Europeans in the European Union, we are being force fed a system in which we have had no say, and from which they may be no hope of escape save measures which could prove equally destructive. You can be sure that while the world suffers, the ones who enforce the "necessary" suffering and oversee the "common good" will be in no wise suffering! Ah, to be one of the elite, the privileged few, who selflessly give of themselves their immense knowledge and leadership skills to save the world from itself. Surely, they are deserving of some special accommodation and luxury. YEAH! RIGHT! It's all about CONTROL of the people, CONTROL of the wealth, CONTROL OF THE WORLD! It's all about arrogant demagogues who want to be gods!

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DDW said:

	Control That's what I said way back in the '70s when the "crisis" was global cooling. I can't even begin to express the utter contempt I have for the Eco Fascists. We can always pray that a real and true natural disaster will happen and wipe them all out when they all meet in Copenhagen.
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Pat Henry said:

"Democratic system" Social democracy has long been (think, Tom Hayden) the new buzz word for communism. I was led to think this was the best system of government in a filmstrip in public school over 30 years ago. The Founders feared democracy (read "mob-ocracy", thus needing control by dictators/Caesars) more than the king from whom they Declared Independence at the risk of their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Great exposure.

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